No, the Post-9/11 Response to Terrorism Is Not a Good Model for Gun Policy
Gun control advocates don't seem to realize they are making the case against their push.
Gun control advocates don't seem to realize they are making the case against their push.
If only politicians were so open to contradiction by reality.
The Las Vegas attack does not strengthen the case for all the usual gun control ideas.
The accessories, which are legal and widely available, sacrifice accuracy for speed.
Don't combine an authoritarian president with a disarmed populace.
Anti-gun activists are pushing for a crackdown in the wake of the Vegas shooting. That's understandable but wrong.
Laws aren't the solution you're looking for to crimes like the massacre in Las Vegas.
No clear motive or explanation is readily available for the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, which left 58 dead and more than 500 injured.
Reason's Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Matt Welch on the Las Vegas shooting, Trump's Twitter rage at Puerto Rico, and the Jones Act.
As usual, the policies pushed in response to a mass shooting have little or nothing to do with it.
Stephen Paddock was seven years old at the time of his father's arrest.
Reluctance to use the T-word after mass killings can be routinely found whether perpetrators are white or brown.
The president offered condolences, federal law enforcement assistance.
Police say a 64-year-old Nevada man, Stephen Craig Paddock, opened fire on a crowd of more than 20,000 people from hotel balcony. They believe he acted alone.
Resist "grotesque urge to immediately transform all human tragedies into a political agenda."
The ruling shows how carelessly the paper peddled nonsense about Republican rhetoric and mass murder.
The New York Times shamefully-and stupidly-ties yesterday's shooting to...an old Sarah Palin ad?
The senator's Jared Loughner/James Hodgkinson hypocrisy is all too common.
A gunman opened fire on a practice game outside of Washington, D.C., this morning.
Updated with more information on suspect Esteban Santiago, age 26; once allegedly claimed he was being forced to fight for ISIS.
Ohio State student and Somali immigrant Abdul Razak Ali Artan, 18, was named as the now-deceased perpetrator of Monday's attack.
Did the authorities contain a hysterical crowd Sunday night, or did they spread the hysteria?
But not for long, I bet.
Tarring opponents as accomplices to murder is deadly to debate.
Another police officer also reported injured.
The modern-day massacres are proof beyond a doubt that the government cannot protect us.
WaPo now: "Assault weapons" are "the gold standard for mass murder."
Would it matter if they were?
Rule 1: Don't use early moments to advance your longstanding grievances against immigrants, Muslims, or guns.
"When will this stop? When will we get tough, smart & vigilant?" tweets Trump.
Background checks do not affect murderers who are legally allowed to own guns.
How mass shootings joined a "series of sensational crime categories that have been granted the media's intense spotlight"
Why background checks won't stymie ordinary felons or mass shooters
The president boldly proclaims that good intentions matter more than results.
Obama's announcement today uses public mass gun murder to buttress irrelevant policies, with vague promises of "more."
Public murders committed with guns are used to try to drive gun policy, even though gun policy is powerless to prevent them.
Like the president, Hillary Clinton assumes we can identify mass shooters before they strike.
The Assault Weapons Ban of 2015 covers guns with lethal features like threaded barrels and folding stocks.
Unlike Obama's gun control proposals, armed citizens can stop mass shooters who are invisible until they strike.
The category has no meaning except through legislation.
Tougher gun controls didn't help in California.
Five ways to respond better.
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