Tunisian Mass Murderer Counted On Gun Laws and Culture for Success
Revising earlier reports that two attackers were involved, authorities are now saying only one man was responsible for killing dozens of tourists and wounding dozens more at a Tunisian beach resort. Reportedly armed with a...
Blame Cultural Rot for Mass Shootings
Reader JD writes:
I used to be on the board of a regional mental health services provider and have been thinking about mass shootings and their cause. It's pretty clear that we are dealing with the...
President Obama’s Angry Projection on Guns
In a podcast with far left comedian Marc Maron, President Obama put forward a typical "first step" toward further infringement of Americans' Second Amendment rights. Building on the existing, ineffective Brady Bill background check...
Racism, Violence, Prejudice and Why I Feel the Need to Own a Gun
By Charles Romano, Co-Founder; Legislative Oversight & Knowledge Initiative
Another week, another incident of violence in the United States. By no means do I wish to trivialize the deaths of those in the Charleston church with anything...
Sara Tipton: The Importance of Open Carry
Like most of you, I've had a lot of annoying conversations with hoplophobes. People who'd love nothing more than to see the government ban all guns from all civilians, and take them away from those who already have...
Lessons On Truth From the Twisted Mind of James Holmes
Time and again we've been told that active shooters choose to attack certain places over others because those targets are either posted as "gun-free zones" or fall within the definition of a "gun-free zone"...
Gun Deals Gone Bad: Patience is a Virtue
A funny thing happened on my way back from lunch this afternoon. Ted Clutter from ATF's NFA branch left me a voicemail. He didn't sound happy with me at all. I'm usually a pretty...
Why Can’t The ATF Be More Like the FAA?
As big a gun nerd as I am, I'm just as big an airplane nerd. If I weren't spending all my time blogging about guns, I'd be doing the same thing for airplanes. Which...
Salon’s Firmin Debrabander on Gun Control: More Opinions, Less Facts
Gun control advocates have attacked John Lott's More Guns, Less Crime since the work first appeared. None has taken it down. No surprise there. To do so would require an advanced degree in statistics. So Lott's detractors...
What I Learned When I Took Some Folks for a Ride
October 27th, 1995. My cousin was getting married in New York City and my whole family was heading north from Louisiana for the occasion. Unfortunately, we had to connect in Charlotte which was fogged...
Random Thoughts on Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s Death Sentence
I'm with Bronze Star recipient and TTAG contributor Jon Wayne Taylor: the government should not be in the business of killing U.S. citizens. Capital punishment sets a bad precedent. Puts a death-dealing bureaucracy in place. Makes me, the son of...
Random Thoughts About “Room to Destroy”
When the Mayor of Baltimore told a justifiably panicked public that she was giving "protesters" "room to destroy" she was speaking truth to powerlessness. Once again, the Mayor of a city abandoned law-abiding citizens to rampant criminality. Once again,...