Beware Simplistic Solutions to Mass Shootings
Tougher gun controls didn't help in California.
Tougher gun controls didn't help in California.
Words are words and bullets are bullets. You'd expect journalists to understand that.
Five ways to respond better.
Expect their murders to spur rash of useless laws to restrict everything from guns to immigration to refugee status.
From Mother Jones to the Mass Shooting Tracker: where activists and reporters get their stats
Is San Bernardino the new normal or a non-representative event?
Firearms played a key role in the Civil Rights Movement.
God didn't reduce gun-violence rates to their lowest levels in 20 years. People and smart policies that liberalized gun laws did that.
Who watches the watchmen? Whoever is doing deals with them, off the books.
Three dead, 12 injured in biggest abortion-clinic attack in years.
Expect new calls for gun control from mayors, Hillary Clinton.
High Bridge Arms, founded in the mid-1950s by Olympic shooter Bob Chow, shuts down rather than give local police its customer list.
Inside the emotion-fueled politics of Planned Parenthood and school shootings
High Bridge Arms gun shop refused to handover customer information to police.
High Bridge Arms, founded in the mid-1950s by Olympic shooter Bob Chow, shuts down rather than give local police its customer list.
There's little chance of Australia's model coming to the states.
The major political parties both push policies that endanger our most basic liberties.
What should have been a peaceful encounter with an officer ended in man's death.
About that National Journal gun chart…
Despite continuing declines in gun violence, Fred Hiatt says enough is enough.
Clinton wants to make gun manufacturers financially liable for misuse of their products and require background checks for all gun transfers.
What The New Yorker gets wrong about guns and the Constitution.
School is supposed to teach kids to think critically. Instead, they encounter instead a system that is arbitrary, harsh, and ineffective at teaching.
The only defender guaranteed to be present at any attack against you is you.
In Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
During the Miss America contest, the contestant said no to banning "military-style assault weapons."
Do less than 1 percent of crime victims defend themselves with firearms?
At stake: Possessing a firearm during a "crime of violence" adds five extra years to a felony sentence.
"I've been a human powder keg for a while....just waiting to go BOOM," said Flanagan.
Very few people are victims of workplace homicide-and the ones who are are mostly men.
A novel fellowship program seems to be reducing crime.
In New York City, you can't even wield a fake gun on TV... unless you're making anti-gun propaganda.
One criminologist's reaction: "This report should calm the fears that many people have that these numbers are out of control."
"Something has to be done" is generally an indicator of a bad, reactionary policy.
People demand "gun control" while grieving over the racist massacre in Charleston, but gun rights have proven pivotal to black Americans' safety and freedom.
SAFE Act widely ignored, New York state is forced to admit.
The absence of yet another law that somebody could have ignored just means that you have one legal violation instead of two.
Petition denied in Jackson v. San Francisco.
A left-wing pundit attacks the Vermont socialist for being insufficiently anti-gun.
If you ban it, they will come
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