There has long been a detrimental mismatch between perception, proportion, and actual data that has distorted firearm policy discussions. Don’t expect that to change any time soon.
One thing the city’s gun and crime control policies are not delivering for Chicago’s most vulnerable residents is reliable protection.
Beware the rhetorical shift and media narrative to flip the script and make an established national policy package appear more locally grounded and politically palatable.
These aren’t trivial changes. They affect how easily Americans can exercise a fundamental right.
New York’s legislators apparently see villainy in every gun. Their solution, naturally, is to regulate or ban them all.
The final rule eliminates reputation risk as a means of injecting politics into banking regulation by prohibiting examiners from using this subjective assessment to pressure or penalize banks.
As courts grapple with both Second and First Amendment challenges to 3D printing regulations, it was only a matter of time before the laws began collecting additional dissenters along the way.
Ultimately, these latest actions reflect a broader federal willingness to treat the RKBA as a core civil liberty demanding affirmative protection through policymaking and the courts.
Much of social science is of dubious value, even when its practitioners aren’t politically or financially-biased (which, in the real world, is rarely ever the case).
Frequent horror stories serve as testament to the NYC Subways’ decidedly insensitive character and the need for the law-abiding to have access to the means of self-defense.
