There is nothing funny about murder and banning the Second Amendment is not a laughing matter. Comedian Michael Ian Black didn’t wait for facts after one innocent American was killed, and several others injured, by a murderer using a handgun in an Atlanta medical facility. He wasted little time in calling for the Second Amendment … Read more
Teachers union boss @rweingarten calls for repealing the 2nd Amendment & enacting a total ban on private gun ownership: “How many lives will be shattered before we have the courage to do what Scotland did, what Australia did, what New Zealand did?” pic.twitter.com/owwhKQojeD — Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) March 28, 2023 It’s an epidemic that our … Read more
It is time to talk about repealing the Second Amendment. Too many gun safety advocates take precisely the wrong approach by tiptoeing around the Second Amendment, meekly reassuring that they only seek very limited reforms. This cautious approach defines the margins of public debate, and therefore the range of possibilities, far too narrowly. Rather, the … Read more
Anti-gun people are having a difficult time coming to terms with the NYSRPA v. Bruen decision. It’s a crippling loss that they’re unlikely to ever fully recover from. Some of them are going through the full Kübler-Ross five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. A recent blog post by Michael Moore — who’s … Read more
By Mike McDaniel Many readers are, I’m sure, familiar with the Tuelller Drill. In 1983, police officer Dennis Tueller conducted research that revealed that an assailant armed with a knife can close 21 feet and inflict deadly wounds on a police officer before he can draw, fire and hope to stop the attacker. Obviously, an attacker … Read more
The Second Amendment’s idiosyncratic and anachronistic focus on militias and “arms” degrades the concept of self-defense. The right to safeguard one’s life should not be conflated with or reduced to the right to use a weapon, especially a weapon that is so much more likely to inflict injury and death than to avoid it. Far … Read more
This upcoming book from American University distinguished professor of history Allan J. Licthman will have members of the Civilian Disarmament Industrial Complex camped out in front of book stores and repeatedly hitting the ‘BUY NOW’ at Amazon in anxious anticipation of having their world view reinforced. Why has America lagged behind the democratic world in … Read more
Presented without comment: While wise men crafted what many today consider as a brilliant and enduring blueprint for a new nation, they were products of their times with individual human shortcomings and biases. Just coming off a war of independence against one of the world’s great colonial powers, it was reasonable to expect the leaders … Read more
Earlier today we asked what you think the Civilian Disarmament Industrial Complex’s reaction would be after Santa Fe, given that the murderer didn’t use anything that they can reasonably characterize as a “weapon of war.” The Santa Fe shooter managed to kill or wound 20 people using two “ordinary” guns; a shotgun and a revolver. … Read more
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