CDC surveys in the 1990s, never publicly reported, indicate nearly 2.5 million defensive uses of guns a year. That matches the results of Gary Kleck's controversial surveys, and it indicates more defensive than offensive uses of guns.
On another National School Walkout day, 57 percent of teens are worried about dying in a school shooting. They shouldn't be.
The U.S. Supreme Court had rejected the Massachusetts court's earlier arguments for why stun guns aren't covered by the Second Amendment, but had sent the case back for the Massachusetts court to consider other arguments.
Fatal shootings in Portland and Brooklyn demonstrate how fear pushes officers to escalate encounters.
"I do not believe that the American public wants banks to decide which legal products consumers can and cannot buy."
Students say your right to own a gun conflicts with their right to feel secure.
"Certain guns, like AR-15s, shouldn't even be accessible to the public."
Cody Wilson fears that major private institutions are trying to make gunmakers non-persons.
The companies likely must make exemptions for those states that ban the merchants from discriminating based on age.
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.
The anonymous plaintiff offers a pretty compelling factual story -- but the legal analysis is surprisingly unsettled.
Michigan public accommodations law bans discrimination based on age by businesses open to the public, including retailers.
Oregon law generally bans discrimination in selling goods based on age, so this lawsuit looks like a winner.
Age restrictions, body armor bans, and constitutional carry.
Progressives push their luck with their totalitarian insistence that everybody is with them or against them on guns and so much else.
Cody Wilson on his war against power, the irreversible course of the 3D-printed gun, and America's Weimar moment
A look into a more restrictionist future for the Second Amendment.
Australia's lauded 1996 gun buyback also likely had no real effect on its gun death rates.
Depends on what state, city, and county they're in.
No adults seem embarrassed by this reaction. They should be.
"The offense is akin to joking about a bomb in the airport," Ledyard High School's principal said. "One simply doesn't do it."
Some pundits want school security to be as pointlessly intrusive as airport security.
The Florida school shooting is horrific, but making sure such tragedies never happen is no simple matter.
The Florida school shooting is horrific, but making sure such tragedies never happen is no simple matter.
The trial of two Gun Trace Task Force members sheds light on a deeply dysfunctional department.
Excellent advice from Prof. Glenn Harlan Reynolds (InstaPundit), in USA Today.
Their attempts on the dark web had a less than 25 percent success rate
In the Huffington Post, not usually a source of positive views on guns.
A false sense of security is worse than no sense of security at all.
Hint: It's the same way you should talk to them about kidnapping.
We have to do something about mass shootings. This is something. Therefore, we must do this. Or something.
Nick Gillespie talks with National Review's Robert VerBruggen about the Texas church shooting.
Confirmation bias is one of the great obstacles to making the practical case for liberty.
Reason's Jacob Sullum talks about making effective policy in the wake of tragedy.
The president offered condolences, federal law enforcement assistance.
As guns proliferated in movies, accidental gun deaths and violent crime fell dramatically.
"The Second Amendment erects some absolute barriers that no gun law may breach."
University of Texas at Austin professors claiming guns on campus have a chilling effect.
The New York Times shamefully-and stupidly-ties yesterday's shooting to...an old Sarah Palin ad?
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