Those "common-sense gun safety laws. Two days after the massacre in San Bernardino, Marco Rubio said something that most gun control supporters probably thought was outrageous. The Florida senator, who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination, told CBS News "none of the major shootings that have occurred in this country ... MORE
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Showing posts with label gun control. Show all posts
Jacob Davidson: A Criminologist’s Case Against Gun Control
A law professor explains why he is skeptical. In the wake of the recent mass shooting at a Colorado Planned Parenthood
that claimed three lives, President Barack Obama called the incidents
of gun violence in America “not normal.” “Enough is enough,” Obama said.
According to one count,
there have been 351 mass shootings in the United ... MORE
John Stossel: The Left Smears Inconvenient Truths
Like more guns mean less crime. This week my TV show is on gun control. I interviewed activist Leah Barrett, who wants stricter gun laws. I pointed out that after most states loosened gun laws to let people carry guns, 29 peer-reviewed studies examined the effect. Eighteen found less crime, 10 found no difference and only one found an increase. ... MORE
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crime,
deception,
dishonesty,
government,
gun control,
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politics,
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David Kopel: The Costs And Consequences Of Gun Control
Weighing good and harm. Today the Cato Institute published my monograph “The Costs and Consequences of Gun Control.”
The policy analysis examines several gun control proposals which have
been promoted by the Obama administration and the gun control lobby:
bans on so-called assault weapons; bans on standard magazines;
confiscation; ... MORE
John Stossel: Self-Defenseless
Ask the French if they need a 2nd Amendment? What might have happened if a few of the 1,500 concert attendees in Paris' Bataclan theater had guns? The terrorists had time to kill, reload and kill again. The police unit didn't come for more than a half hour. If a few people in the theater were armed, might they have killed the killers? We'll ... MORE
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firearms,
France,
gun control,
gun rights,
ISIS,
protection,
regulation,
self-defense,
terrorism
Bridget Bowman: Rand Paul Takes Aim At D.C. Gun Laws
Protecting oneself in the nation's capital. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is once again drawing the ire of the District of Columbia’s congresswoman by taking aim at D.C.’s gun laws. On Thursday, the libertarian presidential candidate announced he plans to introduce the “Defend Our Capital Act,” which would dismantle some of the District’s gun laws and ... MORE
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concealed carry,
government,
gun control,
gun rights,
protection,
rights,
security,
self-defense
John Nolte: Why CNN Is Dying - The Network Shamlessly Used The Paris Bloodbath To Push For More Gun Control
CNN is collapsing. After a bit of a resurgence under chief Jeff Zucker,
the left-wing cable news network’s ratings are falling back to earth.
After a year of trumpeting ratings wins over third-place MSNBC (while
still getting beat like a drum by Fox News), there are fewer and fewer of those wins,
and not because MSNBC is doing all that much better. ... MORE
Poll Shows NRA Is 50% More Popular Than Hillary Clinton
Maybe the people are not-so dumb. We’ve been hearing a lot about this subject in the last few weeks. Among the list of the “enemies”
that Hillary Clinton is most proud of having made, the National Rifle
Association is right near the top of the list. This led one of her
prominent supporters to declare that the demise of the organization was ... MORE
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firearms,
gun control,
gun rights,
Hillary Clinton,
liberty,
NRA,
politics,
poll,
popularity
Thomas Sowell: The 'Gun Control' Farce
Another crack down on law-abiding citizens. President Obama's intrusion into the mourning community of Roseburg, Oregon, in order to promote his political crusade for stronger gun control laws, is part of a pattern of his using various other sites of shooting rampages in the past to promote this long-standing ... MORE The 'Gun Control' Farce: Part II.
Poll: Gun Control Far Scarier Than ‘Mass Shootings’
by Awr Hawkins. On October 13, Chapman University released its Survey of American Fears and revealed that more than twice as many Americans fear gun control than fear “mass shootings.” While those on the left may scratch their heads to wonder how this could be, the facts are that gun control leads to gun-free zones, which, in turn, appear ... MORE
Why 'Universal Background Checks' Are A Bad Idea
by Jacob Sullum. Ineffective, unjust, and unenforceable. Senate Democrats plan
to ingratiate themselves with voters by introducing a new package of
gun controls. In a letter to fellow Democrats, Sens. Chuck Schumer
(D-N.Y.) and Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) said they hope gun control
advocacy "will be a rallying point for a public that is ... MORE
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background check,
crime,
government,
gun control,
incentives,
regulation,
shooting,
violence
John Lott: Would-Be Killers Target Gun-Free Zones
Enough with the 'defenseless victim zones.' There has been another horrible crime committed and once again it is followed by calls for so-called universal background checks on private transfers of guns. Hillary Clinton vows, if she becomes president, to use executive action to enact such rules. She is angry that Republicans “refuse to do anything” ... MORE
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concealed carry,
gun control,
gun-free zones,
guns,
Hillary Clinton,
Obama,
restrictions,
shooting
Andrew Napolitano: The Natural Right To Self-Defense
A confirmed liar's assault on the Constitution. While the FBI continued to analyze the emails Hillary Clinton thought she deleted and her advisers pressed her to hire a Republican criminal defense attorney in Washington, a madman used a lawfully purchased handgun to kill a professor and eight students at a community college in Roseburg, ... MORE
Yes, The Second Amendment Protects Individual Rights
by Damon Root. What the New Yorker gets wrong about guns and the Constitution. In 2008 the U.S. Supreme Court recognized
what numerous historians and legal scholars have been saying for many
decades: Namely, that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
secures an individual right—not a collective one—to keep and bear arms.
Yet despite ... MORE
Ending Gun Violence: Common Sense Versus Magic
by Sheldon Richman. Only you are guaranteed to be present at an attack against you. What passes for thinking about the prevention of gun violence is not thinking at all. Thinking (as problem-solving) is a search for means that can be reasonably expected to achieve a given end. By reasonably I mean that supporting arguments can be provided to ... MORE
Jacob Sullum: Obama's Empty Gun Control Promise
A plea to sacrifice freedom for the empty promise of safety. President Obama is tired of calling for more gun control after every mass shooting, and I am tired of explaining
why that knee-jerk reaction is illogical. But he feels duty-bound to
continue ("each time this happens, I'm going to bring this up," he
says), and I guess I do too. Last night ... MORE
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gun control,
gun rights,
individual liberty,
Obama,
politics,
propaganda,
regulation,
safety
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