California Wants to Tax Gun Sales to Pay Therapists to Watch for School Shooters
The therapists would be mandatory in middle and high schools.
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.
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."
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.
"Let's get the conversation to where people are talking not about limiting gun rights but expanding them."
"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."
Cody Wilson fears that major private institutions are trying to make gunmakers non-persons.
In 2000, the Million Mom March brought hundreds of thousands of people together to demonstrate against guns.
The companies likely must make exemptions for those states that ban the merchants from discriminating based on age.
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."
Rallying to call for restrictive laws is a whole lot easier than getting people to submit to them.
Raising the purchase age for guns won't stop mass shooters but will hurt law-abiding Americans.
Can public housing authorities strip you of your Second Amendment rights?
The anonymous plaintiff offers a pretty compelling factual story -- but the legal analysis is surprisingly unsettled.
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.
Michigan public accommodations law bans discrimination based on age by businesses open to the public, including retailers.
Pedantry may be annoying, but sloppy firearms legislation is a lot worse.
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.
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