As gun-ban advocates (and even some pro-gun voices) gloat over the announcement of National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre’s resignation, they’re leaving out some important facts. Despite some of NRA’s more recent challenges and criticisms, what they aren’t telling you is that the NRA, under LaPierre’s leadership, has outfoxed them at nearly every … Read more
After watching Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, my daughters and I left the theater laughing and crying. But lingering in my mind was a scene that plagued me with reminders of how dystopic America has become in contrast to the dolls’ utopia. And it has to do with guns. In the film, when the CEO of Mattel, played by … Read more
Addressing the media favorite gun owner who supports gun control, Ryan Busse, Velshi led not with a question, but a statement: Ryan, you come from an industry, and I’m an avid consumer of the publications that come out from the industry, because they are so interesting to understand how the psyche comes around, that has built the psyche over years, that … Read more
We’ve been reliably told by some of the smartest people in America — just ask them — that defensive gun uses are few and far between. That the idea of the “good guy with a gun” is just a myth perpetuated by rabid gun nuts. But whatever the number of defensive gun uses actually occur … Read more
By Larry Keane Foes against U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett lined up this week to disparage only the fifth woman nominated to the nation’s highest court. The test balloons have been floated, including attacks on her faith, her family and now, predictably, her view on gun rights. Her foes don’t fear Judge … Read more
[I]f Barrett wins Senate confirmation, the court’s approach to the Second Amendment could be in for a big shift. Kris Brown, president of Brady United Against Gun Violence, said she has “grave concerns” about that prospect. “There’s a whole host of public safety bills and laws that we’ve had in effect for a quarter century, … Read more
As Ian Fleming opined, once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. What we have here is now clearly enemy action aimed at restricting the right to keep and bear arms. The gun control industry has been suspiciously quiet over the last few months as millions of Americans have crowded gun stores, … Read more
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