Supreme Court Ruling Means More People Who Plead Guilty Can Appeal
A self-proclaimed "constitutional bounty hunter" is unlikely to be freed, but his case sets a significant precedent for criminal appeals.
A self-proclaimed "constitutional bounty hunter" is unlikely to be freed, but his case sets a significant precedent for criminal appeals.
No adults seem embarrassed by this reaction. They should be.
Unless crafted carefully, the proposal could set up more standoffs between armed citizens and police.
A screening system can be "comprehensive" without being smart, fair, or effective.
He'd also like everyone to trim their hair so it doesn't touch their ears.
The gun-control consensus that is forming should be particularly troubling to "mentally ill" Americans and skeptics of unrestrained police power.
The president showed empathy, engagement, and leadership in a way that will surprise many of his critics and supporters alike.
Are "gun violence restraining orders" the answer?
The benefits and flaws of policy disputes get sidelined when activist movements adopt kids as human shields.
The president may want to act, but he may need Congress to go along.
The once obscure device may not be long for this world.
Since the mid-1990s (and despite mass shootings), popular opinion in favor of gun rights has increased. It's unlikely the Parkland massacre will change that.
Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman, Robby Soave and Nick Gillespie talk gun violence, immigration politics, Russian electoral interference, and Black Panther.
"The right to keep and bear arms is apparently this Court's constitutional orphan."
Such orders can easily be used to take away innocent people's Second Amendment rights.
Looking back a few years after hypothetical new restrictions on semiautomatic weapons in private hands, we see a country grown more divided, but no less armed.
Young Americans don't fit into dying 20th-century culture-war tribes.
The Fox News host offers good-faith ideas worth engaging.
There are no plausible options that offer more than the faintest prospect of preventing the next massacre.
Even a narrower approach, focused on purported risk, deprives many innocent people of their constitutional rights.
"The offense is akin to joking about a bomb in the airport," Ledyard High School's principal said. "One simply doesn't do it."
Policies favored by both experts and the public would not have prevented the Florida shooting.
Congress can't "stop the killing...by changing the law."
Shooting revives deliberately misleading talking points about a bad regulation both the NRA and the ACLU opposed.
California's gun registration program is a mess.
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.
His Ghost Gunner and 3D printing are destroying the concept of gun control.
The state's 1,000-foot rule made accidental felons out of people carrying firearms for self-defense.
Just because something looks like a gun doesn't mean it needs to be regulated like one.
The former California attorney general has a long history of hostility to Second Amendment rights.
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.
Given the arbitrariness of federal criteria for gun ownership, the public safety benefits of background checks are dubious.
The reaction has shifted to fixing the government's flawed background check system.
The bill dramatically liberalizes concealed carry laws nationwide.
Putting yourself on a registry of people who engage in activities, or own goods, that are even mildly controversial makes you vulnerable to abusive officials.
Citing state law, Honolulu's police chief tells them to turn in their guns.
The legislation mostly reminds federal agencies to follow the laws already on the books.
In a politically polarized America, gun control is destined to be obeyed primarily by its advocates.
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.
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