Wednesday’s investigation of fatal shootings in Maryland and Delaware and the subsequent arrest of the suspect and revelations about his criminal background unintentionally demonstrate yet another failure of gun control laws and the court system. Various news agencies have reported that the suspect, 37-year-old Radee L. Prince, had a criminal history that included burglary convictions […]
Weekly Standard Throws down Gauntlet: ‘Let’s Debate on Guns’
Editors at The Weekly Standard this week threw down the gauntlet and challenged the gun prohibition movement to a discussion on guns, and so far, nobody has stepped up to accept. “If progressives insist on engaging in the joyless ritual of arguing about guns after every inscrutable act of mass murder,” The Weekly Standard double-dog […]
Research: Background Check Laws Had ‘Little Effect’
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 […]
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