The FBI Is Undercounting Firearm Self-Defense Incidents
"A couple million times a year, people use guns defensively," says economist and author John Lott.
"A couple million times a year, people use guns defensively," says economist and author John Lott.
Google's ad model also targeted by suit, which tries to hold the communications entities responsible for how its users use them.
Are we really seeing a culture shift or a new marketing strategy for the war on terror?
The Orlando massacre shows the folly of fighting a decentralized terrorism model with centralization.
Three-headed podcast argues amongst itself over race, terrorism, and...infrastructure?
Attempt to expand unwarranted FBI surveillance authority fails (barely) in Senate.
Their arbitrariness lets them pass constitutional muster while paving the way for broader gun control
Feinstein's bill would affect hundreds of thousands of people, not just suspected terrorists.
Prohibitions have a long history of stumbling over people's unwillingness to obey. This time won't be any different.
Two bills to restrict "terror watchlist" people from getting guns, two to strengthen federal background check system in general, all fail to garner needed 60 votes in Senate. Sen. Rand Paul angers some Second Amendment activists by voting for one of the terror suspect bills.
Here are your unintended consequences for demanding media censor info about mass killers.
What the historical evidence says about the Second Amendment and individual rights.
The Senate will soon consider her proposal and two others aimed at stopping "suspected terrorists" from buying firearms.
Violence leads to parade of bad or useless policy proposals.
Cable news at its cable-newsiest
Giving more draconian powers to intelligence bureaucracies will make us less free, not more safe
Yet all sides seem to support one really terrible solution.
He's against it, because he thinks government watchlists can never be free of people who shouldn't be on them.
Correcting the record about guns and the Constitution.
'You can't waive the Fourth Amendment just because it's not convenient,' says Massie.
The modern-day massacres are proof beyond a doubt that the government cannot protect us.
'I thought I'd take a moment to list out some facts that many of you probably don't know because you're white.'
After Orlando, Trump wants to meet with NRA to convince the organization to support denying guns to people on the no-fly list, terror watch list.
We don't need a 'broader database.' And have we already forgotten about fusion centers?
WaPo now: "Assault weapons" are "the gold standard for mass murder."
Department of Homeland Security
More ignorance from the anti-gun left.
Americans should not lose their Second Amendment rights without due process.
Your favorite libertarian podcast tackles the nation's deadliest mass shooting
Matt Welch talks Orlando and more on Red Eye
Police can't defend every gathering, so the people in attendance must take that task on themselves, with or without legal sanction.
Gun free zones and providing free recruiting services to ISIS by overly crediting Orlando shooting to foreign terror both condemned by Gary Johnson in interview this morning.
But no plan for Congress to vote on a declaration or authorization
Would it matter if they were?
Lots of politicians are conspiracy theorists, but Trump brings his own style to the game.
Tom Shillue asks, Matt Welch answers, on Fox News' Red Eye at 3 a.m.
Matt Welch talks terrorism and the political instinct to control & clench on tonight's Kennedy
Terrorist attacks bolster turnout, but that doesn't tell you whom voters will support
Don't succumb to the fear that U.S. followers of Islam are time bombs waiting to explode.
An important Supreme Court decision on the right to self-defense involved the fear of anti-LGBT violence.
One need only be suspected of an ineffective "feel-good law" to be deprived of rights.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee exaggerates both the number of immigrants and the number who pose a domestic threat.
Trump is once again indulging in paranoid conspiracy theories about the president's background.
Restrictions favored by the president, including a ban on gun purchases by people on "watch lists," are ineffective, unconstitutional, or both.
Edward Snowden's reply to Orlando Pulse shooting is perfect.
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