Andrew Cuomo Knows What Must Be Done About School Shootings: Something
None of the usual gun control proposals seems relevant to the massacre at Santa Fe High School.
None of the usual gun control proposals seems relevant to the massacre at Santa Fe High School.
Politicians, activists rehash calls for increased security, regulation of guns.
The city council's unanimous support for the new ban does not make up for its lack of logic and legality.
More Second Amendment setbacks in the Golden State when the Supreme Court declines to take a case about city zoning
How a scary name for an arbitrary group of firearms distorts the gun control debate
Golden State gun owners may soon be an endangered species, and no one is talking about why.
Self-defense rights need to be a cause in themselves, not just a totem of political tribal identity.
When it comes to the Second Amendment, the president is all talk.
The outrage at a Florida newspaper reveals a deep antipathy toward all forms of gun ownership.
Peashooter prohibitions are on the rise.
In a politicized environment, getting on the wrong side of regulators can be dangerous. Don't be surprised if banks and insurers cave.
Having failed to thwart crime with gun bans, British officials now want to restrict what may be the most useful tool ever invented.
Assault weapon ban proposals are more and more popular, but the facts about American gun violence show they'd have little positive effect.
On another National School Walkout day, 57 percent of teens are worried about dying in a school shooting. They shouldn't be.
The therapists would be mandatory in middle and high schools.
London's got a homicide problem, but leaders insist it's being caused by the tools.
A plain reading of the text suggests that Deerfield's new law covers all semi-automatic rifles that can hold more than 10 rounds.
London's murder numbers now exceed New York's. But the new murders teach old lessons: Drug wars are bad and weapon laws don't stop crime.
His obsession with Justice Scalia's aside in Heller about "weapons...most useful in military service" ignores Scalia writing of weapons "typically possessed by law-abiding citizens for lawful purposes."
Deerfield would fine residents up to $1,000 for owning one of a dizzying array of firearms.
A Florida case highlights the due process issues raised by gun violence restraining orders.
The gun control policies student activists favor are just as dubious as the school security measures they mock.
Get ready for ever-more-intrusive mental-health measures.
Looking for political or cultural calls to action in this act of violence is a fool's errand.
"My school is starting to feel like a prison."
Stinging insects kill more Americans than mass shooters do.
Youth opinion on firearms is far from monolithic.
Corporations are being asked to take sides in a gun control debate that has very little to do with them.
"There cannot be two sides," say the adolescent activists, tarring their opponents as NRA puppets.
Students say your right to own a gun conflicts with their right to feel secure.
The retired justice wants to claw back parts of the Bill of Rights.
The attorney general pretends to discover that the controversial rifle accessories are already illegal.
"Certain guns, like AR-15s, shouldn't even be accessible to the public."
In 2000, the Million Mom March brought hundreds of thousands of people together to demonstrate against guns.
How much evidence should be required to suspend people's Second Amendment rights?
The measure, which Congress may be on the verge of enacting, aims to improve enforcement of misguided rules.
I sent a FOIA request to the lab that processes guns seized by police in the nation's capital. Here's what I found out.
Recent events such as the student walkout to promote gun control raise the issue of how much credibility we should give to the political views of the young, and victims of crime. At least as a general rule, there is no reason to give those views any special credence.
"Would that be allowed by the administration?"
He "let the American people down and also the citizens of Florida," according to Sen. Chuck Grassley.
"It's about keeping people safe."
Raising the purchase age for guns won't stop mass shooters but will hurt law-abiding Americans.
Sloppy thoughts, sloppy policies.
The foul ups by the Broward County Sheriff's Office don't inspire confidence.
Politicians love to find scapegoats for mass shootings, especially if it lets them exonerate law enforcement and the social welfare state.
Pedantry may be annoying, but sloppy firearms legislation is a lot worse.