If we are ever going to significantly reduce America’s homicide rate, the solutions have to focus heavily — perhaps almost exclusively — on treating the violence crisis faced by young black males.
It’s dishonest to use suicide statistics to inflate “gun violence” statistics in order to pass more gun control laws precisely because only a small amount of gun control does anything to address the problem of suicide.
Politicians who continue to attack gun owners with endless anti-carry legislation are dangerously ignorant of the data that’s available. Or worse, they’re aware of the data but would rather punish a disfavored group that doesn’t vote for them.
To utterly joyless Everytowners (and others just like them), I’d like to say…calm the hell down. If someone says something you disagree with at the Thanksgiving dinner table, you’ll be just fine.
There is no shortage of gun control talking points in the American gun rights debate, and if you spend enough time on this issue, you start to see the same ones repeated again and again. That’s not an accident.
Democrats’ support for a handgun ban has now dropped to the lowest level Gallup has ever measured, 33% (it was 49% last year). Anti-gun groups are now too extreme even for their core constituency.
Justice Burger was ignorant of (or lied about) an overwhelming number of historical sources from before 1900 that confirm the Second Amendment was always understood to recognize an individual right to keep and bear arms.
Note that when antigun politicians like endangered incumbent Bob Casey, Jr, in Pennsylvania, talk about the “gun lobby,” they mean you, not big corporations or gun rights orgs.
Paired with her constant new refrain that she and her running mate Tim Walz are gun owners, the Harris campaign wants to send the message to swing state voters that their gun rights are safe. Pardon me if I’m skeptical.
The Bloomberg anti-gun group Everytown for Gun Safety has posted a defense of the impracticable microstamping technology on its The Smoking Gun web site. The article has enough glaring errors and omissions that a response is warranted.
