A Cure for Mass Shootings Doesn't Exist
There are no plausible options that offer more than the faintest prospect of preventing the next massacre.
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.
A 2014 animal cruelty charge prevented the Texas church shooter from obtaining a concealed handgun license.
We have to do something about mass shootings. This is something. Therefore, we must do this. Or something.
The New York Times columnist's irrelevant gun control proposals are now accompanied by snazzy graphics.
Politicians have too much faith in background checks and extreme vetting as defenses against terrorism and mass shootings.
Nick Gillespie talks with National Review's Robert VerBruggen about the Texas church shooting.
His conviction for domestic violence legally disqualified him from buying guns.
So, too, have the politicians who said they really, really wanted a ban on the firearm accessory.
Rights are theoretical unless you can defend them.
Robert Bork, majority rule, and District of Columbia v. Heller
The ATF has no legal authority to restrict the controversial firearm accessory.
The leader of the Congressional Second Amendment Caucus explains why prohibiting the suddenly notorious gun accessories is rash and dangerous.
America needs a completely different approach based on building multiple defense lines.
Current owners of newly prohibited devices could go to prison for keeping them.
The bill, sponsored by both Republicans and Democrats, would ban much more than just bump stocks.
The video hosting website falls prey to a hysteria.
If you strip away legal protections for rights valued by millions of Americans, you're just going to make them angry to no good end.
Prohibiting the accessory used by Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock will require new legislation.
Confirmation bias is one of the great obstacles to making the practical case for liberty.
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