Why Should They Be Any Different?: The Biden Administration Has Been a Disappointment to...
“I think the biggest thing to highlight here is that the president has been a friend to the gun violence prevention (GVP) movement this year and we’re thankful, but frankly, he hasn’t really been...
New Jersey: Where More Gun Control Isn’t About Reducing Crime, It’s About Reducing Gun...
Some gun-control advocates have considered Sweeney an obstacle to tougher laws. When Sweeney lost re-election last month, Fred Gutenberg, a gun-control advocate who is the father of a Parkland, Florida, shooting victim, tweeted...
Anti-Gun Big Banks Were the Big Losers After Texas Law Upended Municipal Bond Underwriting
The lucrative Texas municipal-bond market, second only to California in terms of issuance, has been turned on its head since a law took effect Sept. 1 that bars state entities and local governments from...
After Smash-And-Grab Thefts, Chicago Mayor Rips Businesses For Not Hiring More Private Security
A necessary complement to legal gun ownership is legal recognition of the right to use them, both de jure and de facto. The wide discretion and unpredictability of district attorneys in their decisions to...
Don’t Blame Guns for the Spike in Violent Crime, Blame George Soros’s ‘Legal Arsonists’
Soros prosecutors refuse to enforce laws against shoplifting, drug trafficking, and entire categories of felonies and misdemeanors. In Chicago, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx allows theft under $1,000 to go unpunished. In Manhattan,...
The Media are Working Hard to Whip Up Talk of Armed Insurrection Ahead of...
Many Republicans are increasingly coming to see themselves less as citizens represented by the federal government, and more as tyrannized victims of that government. More than three-quarters of Republicans reported "low trust" in the...
A Law Professor Rewrites the Second Amendment…And Eliminates All Those Pesky Guns
The Second Amendment’s idiosyncratic and anachronistic focus on militias and “arms” degrades the concept of self-defense. The right to safeguard one’s life should not be conflated with or reduced to the right to use...
With Its Anti-Gun ‘Nuisance’ Law Designed to Punish Gun Makers, New York Reconvenes Its...
New York is not done with its circular firing squad on gun control.
The New York nuisance law was crafted after a series of failures of similar such nuisance laws in areas ranging from paint to,...
Kautzer: The Heller Decision and The NRA Are Part of a Campaign to Legitimize...
The Heller decision fueled the growth of a kind of homegrown authoritarianism that understands “militia” to include self-appointed “patriots” with the sovereign power to take life not in defense of self or law, but in support...
OMG! A White Kid With Two Toy Guns! OMG!
Former actress Mia Farrow called out Disney over posters of its “Home Alone” reboot featuring a “white, male kid” holding two toy guns.
“In the age of mass shootings in schools-why two huge guns?” she tweeted on...
THIS Time It Will Work: Lightfoot Throws Another $400 Million at Failed ‘Gun Violence...
The budget drafted by Lightfoot and approved by the City Council contains $411.6 million to implement “Our City, Our Safety.”
$85 million on violence intervention, including victim...
Jackson: We Should Discuss ‘Gun Violence’ the Way We Used to Discuss COVID
COVID-19 has taken 800,000 American lives, and at the beginning of this pandemic, when the death toll was much lower, each death was discussed with care, reported and chronicled with a richness that brought...