The president seeks to encourage psychiatric treatment while increasing the likelihood that it will result in the loss of Second Amendment rights.
President Obama's urgency on gun control is at odds with what people are really worried about.
The misleading uses, flagrant abuses, and shoddy statistics of social science about gun violence
Purchases would be limited to twice a weapon's capacity every 90 days.
Public murders committed with guns are used to try to drive gun policy, even though gun policy is powerless to prevent them.
Criminals, terrorists, and madmen with guns-how fears of violence reshaped American politics
The number of gun-related officer deaths was not unusually high this year or last.
A society that valorizes victimization will get more victims. One that champions heroism will get more heroes.
In 1 out 8 reported police shootings this year, an officer had previously used deadly force.
Like the president, Hillary Clinton assumes we can identify mass shooters before they strike.
Hateful Eight star explains that gun rights are particularly important in an age of terrorism.
Tyler Cowen makes a fascinating but wanting argument.
The numbers don't justify the outrage and fear.
The Assault Weapons Ban of 2015 covers guns with lethal features like threaded barrels and folding stocks.
Massie's brief argues State Department claiming powers to halt speech related to 3D weapon printing that the relevant law does not, and cannot, give.
Why are avowed civil libertarians so eager to abandon due process and the Bill of Rights?
A response to Tyler Cowen
Gun controllers advocate the imposition of laws that have already failed on people who won't obey them, to address crimes already decreasing in prevalence.
The libertarian acting legend stands up for self-defense.
No-gun zones like the one in effect where the San Bernardino shooting took place are not only unconstitutional but also an invitation to disaster.
Who those people are depends on your partisan affiliation.
Unlike Obama's gun control proposals, armed citizens can stop mass shooters who are invisible until they strike.
Over one-third of the 680,000 suspected terrorists have "no recognized terrorist group affiliation."
You don't have to be a gun-lover to be worried about the vagueness of the language.
A Vox post about Australia highlights declines in suicide, a subject that a post about Japan does not even mention.
Rep. Justin Amash says no-fly list, gun restrictions both wrong.
How mangled terminology impairs America's gun debates
You'd think our constitutional expert of a president would have a better grasp of 'due process.'
Justice Thomas faults his colleagues for "relegating the Second Amendment to a second-class right."
The category has no meaning except through legislation.
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.
A perfect storm for the policy agendas of gun grabbers and Muslim bashers, of right-wing and left-wing statists.
Expect their murders to spur rash of useless laws to restrict everything from guns to immigration to refugee status.
Two of President Obama's favorite gun control solutions did not prevent this week's massacre.
As usual, none of the piggybacked proposals would have affected the tragedy, even if you believe laws are unbreakable.
From Mother Jones to the Mass Shooting Tracker: where activists and reporters get their stats
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