Wilmette Injustice
The good citizens of Wilmette, Ill., have a problem. Just before Christmas in this leafy, upscale Chicago suburb, homeowner Hale DeMar used his handgun to shoot a burglar. Trouble is, Wilmette years...
View ArticleDocs Gun For a Ban
The gun-control movement’s stock has tanked. Violent crime overall has continued to drop, leaving partisans to fret over the much smaller problem of accidental gun injuries. Most of the holdout states...
View ArticleAssault-Weapons Ban, R.I.P.
The 1994 federal assault-weapons ban officially dies tonight. It was a bad job from the beginning, a fraudulent piece of legislation pushed through by hard-line gun-control advocates during the glory...
View ArticleThere's A Reason They Choose Schools
Wednesday’s shooting at yet another school has a better outcome than most in recent memory. No one died at Cleveland’s Success Tech Academy except the perpetrator. The two students and two teachers he...
View ArticleOne for the Second
It was the moment in high Court jurisprudence that gun banners everywhere have long been dreading: The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear District of Columbiav. Heller. D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty, and...
View ArticleThe Ancient Right
The U.S. Supreme Court D.C. v. Heller decision now makes it clear to all — the Second Amendment affirms an individual right to own firearms for the purpose of self-defense. Even though the Court’s...
View ArticleObama Directs His Executive Power at America’s Gun Owners
We knew President Obama would use the security of a second term to maximize gun-control measures that otherwise wouldn’t pass Congress. Today he didn’t disappoint. Of the wide-ranging 23 actions, these...
View ArticleGun Registration Remains the Third Rail
As the national frenzy of anti-gun sentiment wanes, as it inevitably must, the calculus of legislative concession sets in. The more extreme gun-control proposals in Congress have failed, but there...
View ArticleWhat Next for Gun Policy?
President Obama was incredulous at the speed of his gun-control agenda’s demise this week. Seemingly still in campaign mode, he posed in the Rose Garden flanked by gun-crime victims and denounced the...
View ArticleReviving the CDC’s Gun-Factoid Factory
In 1863 President Lincoln signed a congressional charter creating the National Academy of Sciences. Now, 150 years later, President Obama is enlisting NAS to implement an item in his January 16 plan to...
View ArticleGuns as Evil Talismans
Gun-control activists sound desperate. They are now reduced to recycling failed old arguments to persuade Americans to give up their guns. The New York Times has dredged up depositions from a...
View ArticleAssault-Weapons Ban, R.I.P.
The 1994 federal assault-weapons ban officially dies tonight. It was a bad job from the beginning, a fraudulent piece of legislation pushed through by hard-line gun-control advocates during the glory...
View ArticleThere's A Reason They Choose Schools
Wednesday’s shooting at yet another school has a better outcome than most in recent memory. No one died at Cleveland’s Success Tech Academy except the perpetrator. The two students and two teachers he...
View ArticleOne for the Second
It was the moment in high Court jurisprudence that gun banners everywhere have long been dreading: The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear District of Columbia v. Heller. D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty, and...
View ArticleThe Ancient Right
The U.S. Supreme Court D.C. v. Heller decision now makes it clear to all -- the Second Amendment affirms an individual right to own firearms for the purpose of self-defense. Even though the Court’s...
View ArticleThe Wickedness Inside All of Us?
NBC sportscaster Bob Costas brought the sports world some unexpected controversy this weekend: As every NFL fan and a lot of others now know, Costas used the lofty perch of NBC’s Sunday Night Football...
View ArticleObama Directs His Executive Power at America’s Gun Owners
We knew President Obama would use the security of a second term to maximize gun-control measures that otherwise wouldn’t pass Congress. Today he didn’t disappoint. Of the wide-ranging 23 actions, these...
View ArticleGun Registration Remains the Third Rail
As the national frenzy of anti-gun sentiment wanes, as it inevitably must, the calculus of legislative concession sets in. The more extreme gun-control proposals in Congress have failed, but there...
View ArticleWhat Next for Gun Policy?
President Obama was incredulous at the speed of his gun-control agenda’s demise this week. Seemingly still in campaign mode, he posed in the Rose Garden flanked by gun-crime victims and denounced the...
View ArticleReviving the CDC’s Gun-Factoid Factory
In 1863 President Lincoln signed a congressional charter creating the National Academy of Sciences. Now, 150 years later, President Obama is enlisting NAS to implement an item in his January 16 plan to...
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