Gun Control

"So more gun control basically comes down to confiscation of handguns, which gun control's more honest advocates acknowledge as their objective. But of course this would disarm only the law-abiding even as the country...

"There is a long ethos of individualism, the idea that citizens really need to take care of their own problems, not rely on the government. That feeling has also contributed to the idea that...

Kevin Jersey of the Los Angeles Valley College Valley Star has decided to grace us with his thoroughly researched, amply foot-noted fact-based analysis of campus shootings and the broader question of "gun violence". Or...

  I am not a racist. I believe everyone should be treated equally regardless of their race, religion, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, able bodiedness, love of action figures and any other category you...

Are there any gun control laws that true gun-control advocates don't like? I've been asked this question several times, usually by people inferring that I'm biased in my gun control attitudes. I honestly don't...

When a Michigan legislative committee submits a bill to the Senate, they provide both supporting and opposing arguments. In the case of S.B. 29 (S-2), 30 (S-1), & 93 (S-1)---allowing Great Lakes State residents to...

Over at the New Yorker, Jill Lepore seems to think that struggle for gun rights began in the 1960s. "The debate over the Second Amendment has been fierce and terrible, with bad arguments on...

As he was editing my post yesterday, our <begin gratuitous suck up> esteemed, heavily overworked and vastly underpaid editor, Dan Zimmerman </end gratuitous suck-up> noted my comment about how loaning an NFA item might...

  "Livery drivers would be able to pack heat — like kooky cabbie Travis Bickle in 'Taxi Driver' — if an industry group gets its way." An entire city is disarmed by its own stupidity and all...

http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_416x234_embed.swf?context=embed&videoId=living/2012/04/17/pkg-tuchman-pippa-celebrity-burden.cnn It's pretty revolting isn't it? The independent press in a country founded on overthrowing the English monarchy treating a demi-royal like a demi-god. Truth be told, Pippa Middleton hung out with a louche Frenchmen who was...

"(T)here is a difference between a hunter whose cabinet contains a couple shotguns, a .30-06, a muzzleloader, a .22 and a hand-me-down .44 revolver and a thug whose arsenal consists of a couple pistols...

  Yesterday's The New York Times ran a piece in their Education section entitled Second Amendment and Beyond: Pondering Gun Rights, Laws and Culture. Bloggers Holly Epstein Ojalvo and Katherine Schulten offered readers five ways to use the Times...