Bower: No One Needs Guns Today Because We Have Police and the National Guard

Republicans won’t vote for gun control legislation for three main reasons: They receive hefty campaign contributions from NRA and gun manufacturers. They’re afraid of being voted out of office by their gun-loving constituents. They honor Second Amendment rights above all other Constitutional rights. …The Constitution was written at a time when there was no police … Read more

Young: The Founding Father’s Biggest Misfire Was the 2nd Amendment

America is a country-size arsenal. … And the obscene ubiquity of firearms in the U.S. explains much about why the country is a killing field without parallel in the developed world. Anyone who has studied the matter arrives at a simple conclusion: More guns means more death. “Most countries do not have a problem with fatal mass shootings,” … Read more

Keep Your Dreams of Gun Control Out of the Mouths of our Founding Fathers

By Cody Wisniewski Amid rambling incoherence, USA Today columnist Carli Pierson tries to blame “people like Rep. Lauren Boebert” for “the gun violence and trauma we are constantly cycling through as a nation.” It’s an embarrassment to the publication and the kind of rant I would normally ignore. Unfortunately, Pierson also wants to drag the … Read more

Did the Founding Fathers Blow It?

By Dennis Petrocelli, MD I write this on the occasion of President Biden’s executive order regarding “gun” “control”.  I anticipate that my readers would expect me to excoriate him and his ilk and denounce them as tyrannical, ill-informed, and a threat to our nation’s foundational principles. All of these points are true, but they aren’t … Read more