Updated: So-called “Comprehensive Background Check” (CBC) laws passed in Washington and Colorado have had little effect, and that may be because “citizens simply decided not to comply and there was a lack of enforcement,” according to a story in The Guardian. The report appears in Injury Prevention, a medical journal. A third state, Delaware, did […]
FBI Data on Police Fatalities Adds Perspective to Seattle Police Shooting
Of the 118 police officers killed in the line of duty last year, 66 were felonious slayings and four of those officers were “killed intentionally with vehicles,” the FBI reported Monday. That just might add a new perspective to a story involving Seattle police that has been unfolding since last week. Two SPD officers opened […]
‘Regulate Guns Like Cars’—You Mean, National Reciprocity?
Over the weekend, an independent student newspaper at Georgia State University called The Signal ran a piece that declared, “Guns need to be regulated like cars,” as if this was some new concept, but it really isn’t and offering this as a solution to violent crime actually should make gun control advocates shudder. Nowhere in […]
Joke’s On Pollsters: Civil Rights Not Subject to Popularity Contests
In the two weeks since the “unspeakable” mass shooting in Las Vegas, a lot of people have been speaking about it, with several different polling outfits, and the popular opinion is that stricter gun control would be a good thing. There’s just one problem with this, say some gun owners on social media: The Second […]
Antis Erroneously Blame Campus Carry Law for Texas Tech Slaying
Texas anti-gunners may be eating a little crow for their attempt to blame the Lone Star State’s year-old campus carry law for the slaying of a Texas Tech University police officer Monday, according to the Washington Post, although some academics maintain the law is wrong. The Texas Democratic Party issued an apology Tuesday for a […]
Can a Genuine Dialogue on Guns Ever Happen?
Writing in Crosscut Wednesday morning, veteran Seattle conservative talk host John Carlson has offered three suggestions to open a dialogue between constitutional rights advocates and gun prohibitionists, insisting, “there is common ground between gun rights and gun control supporters on this issue, but it is missed because each is tilling a different part of […]
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