The White House rebuked comments [House Speaker Rep. Mike] Johnson made to Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday night, a day after 18 people were killed in two mass shootings in Maine, in which Johnson said that guns are not the cause of America’s unique mass shooting crises. Saying that it was “not the … Read more
The crucial variable in mass shootings is not ideas but weapons. We cannot control ideas or speech and should not attempt to do so even if we could. But we could reduce access to the weaponry that converts ideology into atrocity. At least, other advanced countries find themselves able to do so. Almost every country … Read more
By Joe Bartozzi The senseless homicides of six in Sacramento are tragic. It is a shocking and sober reminder that criminals have no respect for the law or for human life. That’s why it’s appalling that politicians immediately leaped to calls for more gun control without knowing even the basic facts of what transpired. President … Read more
Everything old is new again, eh? From Seneca some 2,000 years ago: A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman Stoic philosopher, 4 B.C. – A.D. 65
The quote of the day is presented by Guns.com. It may seem baffling that a father’s response to his daughter being killed in a mass shooting would be to oppose gun control and run for office on that idea. After all, the most prominent mass shooting survivors-turned-activists in America are the students from Parkland, Florida, who … Read more
“Sic quemadmodum gladius neminem occidit; occidentis telum est,” or “Just as a sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.” –Lucius Annaeus Seneca in Epistle LXXXVII [via loebclassics.com] [h/t John Dingell III]
“If the solution to pervasive problems with sexual harassment and rape is to raise people who understand that these things are wrong, then the solution to mass shootings is to raise people with the simple understanding that it is never okay to murder another human being. To give up on the idea that human action … Read more
So States Ban Bump Stocks. Now How Do They Enforce the Law? Bump stock owners tell their legislators to FOAD . . . Under New Jersey’s new bump-stock ban, which was approved in January, residents were supposed to destroy or turn in their bump stocks by mid-April. So far, New Jersey State Police say, they … Read more
The problem isn’t guns, it’s men . . . My Turn: Men, we can, and should, do better The NRA considers most men tacit supporters, and unless they hear otherwise, they have us right where they want us — silent. If the politicians won’t wake up, and the media keeps missing the story, men must … Read more
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