Kendi: The Fight for Gun Rights is the Fight for the Freedom to Enslave
There is a link between the “freedom to enslave” and the “freedom to have guns,” according to Boston University Professor Ibram Kendi.
Kendi...told host Margaret Brennan that “throughout the nation’s history, there’s been two perspectives...
Twitter: Eric Greitens’ ‘RINO Hunting’ Ad is So Bad It Needs to be Seen
Greitens, a former Navy SEAL, opens the ad by saying he's "going RINO hunting." "RINO" is short for "Republican in name only," a phrase hard-right Republicans sometimes use for those they deem insufficiently conservative.
"I'm...
Wehle: To Do Something About Guns, We Need the Courts to Ignore the Law...
One way to address negative externalities is for the government to intervene through subsidies, taxes, or legal constraints on the producer. But when it comes to guns, Republican legislators are overwhelmingly unwilling to take...
Boot: The Republican Gun Cult Is What’s Infected America’s Culture
s if denying that heavy rain causes flooding, Republicans continue to insist that the prevalence of guns has nothing do with the prevalence of shootings. They blame doors, video games, mental illness, “emasculated” men,...
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf Makes a Great Case Against Red Flag Laws
Red flag laws allow us to take action when someone who has a gun begins to act erratically.
Red flag laws still require due process, and any removal of weapons is temporary. pic.twitter.com/IVPHgbrvhD
— Governor Tom...
Amanda Marcotte Tells Us She Doesn’t Understand How the Law Works Without Telling Us...
Among the many decisions where the court will likely go full Infowars is New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, a challenge to New York's law requiring people seeking a concealed carry license to demonstrate...
Norton: I’m Homeschooling My Kid Until the Government Buys Back The Guns That Are...
“To just send my child to school day after day and just cross my fingers day after day?” said Tracy L.M. Norton, who lives in East Islip, New York. “That’s no way to live.”
Norton...
Timms: America’s Disarmament Advocates Revere the Australian Model Even as it Erodes Down Under
Like America, Australia was a European settler colony, founded in the blood of massacred Indigenous people, and has a frontier myth in which guns and conquest have played a historically important cultural role. America...
Scalise: We’re Not Having the Tough Conversations We Need to Have About School Shootings
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) pointed to a lack of school prayer when talking about gun violence.
“We had AR-15s in the 1960s. We didn’t have those mass school shootings,” Scalise said during a press...
Trinko: Only Political Violence Aimed at Targets on the Left Can Be Attributed to...
ost outlets covered the news of the arrest of man who, in the early hours of Wednesday morning, arrived at Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home, armed with a “tactical knife, a pistol with two magazines...
Jonsson and Robertson: We’re Where We Are Now Because Some Have Sacralized Guns
...Bishop Daniel Flores of the Brownsville Diocese in Texas recently wrote on Twitter that Americans “sacralize death’s instruments, and then are surprised that death uses them.”
The good of the whole community gets left out...
Dix: These Are The 6 Deadly Lies Told By The Gun Industry
The most pervasive lie is that guns are a good means of protection. But compared to people without firearm access, those with access to firearms are about twice as likely to die in homicides,...