[Ayala Ben-Gvir, wife of Israel’s National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir] noted that some 100,000 people had applied for weapons in the last two weeks since the October 7 Hamas attack. She asked for “patience” given the massive load on the firearms licensing department. “Itamar and the Defense Ministry are doing everything to speed up the … Read more
By Rob Morse Lots of us own guns. Many of us carry those guns legally in public. That’s critically important because concealed carriers save a lot of lives. You knew most of that already, but there are a few you don’t hear about as often and they bear repeating. Every day there are over 17 … Read more
By Thomas E. Gift, MD A recent report published in the American Journal of Public Health examines whether laws restricting the right to keep and bear arms have effects on homicides and suicides not caused by guns. They found no increase or decrease in non-gun homicides associated with changes in gun-related homicides, and the data regarding … Read more
By Mark PA “Majority rules.” So those of us were taught when, once upon a time, civics was part of public school curriculum. But what of the legitimate rights of minorities? As a practical matter, they no longer exist. Perhaps they never did. E pluribus unum — ”out of many, one”. Our nation’s Constitution was … Read more
Virginia gun owners and their allies have shown the rest of 2A Nation how to engage in ambush political warfare against the tyrannical impulses of Mini-Mike Bloomberg, a man who has pledged his personal fortune to strip Second Amendment rights from all Americans. The scene was a Northern Virginia college campus this week, where Fox … Read more
By Jay Chambers There are those who are entirely against the use of guns because they could cause violence in the wrong hands. On the other hand, there are people in favor of using guns as a means to protect themselves from criminals. But there are also self-identified non-violent people who have guns. Why do … Read more
By Dr. LateBloomer We’ve all heard the adage “Physician Heal Thyself”. This ancient proverb was originally intended as an admonition to mind one’s own problems rather than advising others on theirs. Physicians (even ancient world ones) have always been notoriously bad at taking care of others’ “business” before their own. Physicians’ own needs often come … Read more
By Robert B. Young, MD Let’s crunch some numbers, and ponder the economic cost of ‘gun violence.’ Mother Jones did in 2015 and concluded that the cost to society of shootings in 2012 was $229 billion, or over $700 per American (of 314 million of us back then). They parse this as each firearm-related death costing $6.2 … Read more
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