The WaPo Explains What City Dwellers Don’t Get About Gun Ownership in Much of America

From the halls of democracy dying in darkness comes a quote that reminds us all how guns aren’t (and have never been) the problem. Our culture is. The guns haven’t changed, we have . . . Montezuma County Sheriff Steve Nowlin (and many other older county residents I talked with) remembers bringing his gun to … Read more

Guns Aren’t Causing America’s Violent Crime Problem, Single Mothers and Boys Without Fathers Are

[This article originally appeared at Handwaving Freakoutery and is reprinted here with permission. To subscribe to HWFO, click here.]  By BJ Campbell, Handwaving Freakoutery Repeatedly in the press, we see “it’s the guns, it’s the guns, it’s the guns” as the explanation for homicide in the United States, but this rhetoric only serves to obscure the actual homicide problem. … Read more

TTAG Daily Digest: Israeli-Level School Security, Pelosi’s Flummoxed and ‘We Don’t Want to Take Your Guns’

To stop school shootings, use Israel’s approach to fighting terror: Texas attorney general An idea so crazy, it just might work! . . . Recent news reports detail other incidents where school resource officers stopped potential shooters before they could inflict extensive damage. Even so, arming resource officers and teachers must be viewed as a … Read more