Would More Gun Control Lead to More Crime? A Debate
Criminologist Gary Kleck debated Paul Helmke, the former president and CEO of the Brady Center, at the Soho Forum.
Criminologist Gary Kleck debated Paul Helmke, the former president and CEO of the Brady Center, at the Soho Forum.
Masked Antifa agitators told Welch, a Hillary voter, to hand over the flag. He resisted. They attacked.
Gaps in Connecticut's self-defense law lead to 18-month sentence.
Probably nothing. Which doesn't mean libertarians shouldn't be having a serious conversation after Santa Fe, Parkland, and other tragedies.
Restricting guns-or vans, knives, or planes-won't make the world safer. The Toronto van attack reminds us peril lies in people with bad intent, not with how they get it done.
Having failed to thwart crime with gun bans, British officials now want to restrict what may be the most useful tool ever invented.
Disney allegedly lobbied against the bill behind the scenes.
No, Call of Duty is not making kids shoot up schools.
Attacking violent video games is useless political theater.
Are "gun violence restraining orders" the answer?
There are no plausible options that offer more than the faintest prospect of preventing the next massacre.
A year after fiery political protests erupted on campus, we visited to find out when students think it's OK to respond to words with violence.
Porter's record of domestic abuse elicited scant notice or concern from his superiors.
Celebrities and sitting legislators prefer physical violence to fiscal restraint.
He was one of the world's greatest theorists of nonviolent revolution. But don't call him a pacifist.
Journalists continue to claim that the Causeway Cannibal was under the influence of synthetic cathinones.
A false sense of security is worse than no sense of security at all.
His conviction for domestic violence legally disqualified him from buying guns.
We all knew the 'punch Nazis' thing would inevitably end up here.
Preliminary estimates for 2017 show small drops in violence and murder.
The possibility of violent reactions should not be used to call for censorship.
The thug's veto, this time from the far left.
This is about punishing people the government says are disruptive, not fighting bigotry.
"It wasn't slowing down at all. It was just going straight through the middle of the crowds."
Plus: Notes from a man who recently interviewed Alex Jones yet generated very little controversy
The senator's Jared Loughner/James Hodgkinson hypocrisy is all too common.
As politics takes over more of everyone's every day life, the debates become increasingly high-stakes.
For the millionth time, there's no "hate speech" exemption.
Dumping Trump isn't enough to make Americans battle less in a high-stakes political environment.
Law enforcement has room to make humane changes, without putting their lives in peril.
Author of Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration-and How to Achieve Real Reform talks about why ending the drug war isn't enough.
When people aren't safe asking for protection from violence, bad consequences are sure to follow.
For people, unlike rats, the human 'behavioral sink' seems to be greater creativity, not pathological collapse.
It's tough being a heroic anti-Nazi street fighter when you're the closest thing to a Nazi around.
A Denver man who shot his wife after eating cannabis candy agrees to a sentence of 25 to 30 years.
Justice Department data says just 2.2 percent of U.S. women experience even mild stalking behavior each year.
Hate crimes against persons decreased in 2015 over the previous year. Anti-black, Jewish, and gay-male sentiment was most common.
Please stop spreading unsubstantiated stories of Trump-induced terror.
Officers frequently "use the power of their badge to prey on the vulnerable," finds AP analysis.