by Brian Doherty. "There is a gun for roughly every man, woman, and child in America," President Barack Obama proclaimed after the October mass shooting that killed 10 at Umpqua Community College in Oregon. "So how can you, with a straight face, make the argument that more guns will make us safer? We know that states with the most gun laws tend ... MORE
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Showing posts with label gun control. Show all posts
You Know Less Than You Think About Guns
by Brian Doherty. "There is a gun for roughly every man, woman, and child in America," President Barack Obama proclaimed after the October mass shooting that killed 10 at Umpqua Community College in Oregon. "So how can you, with a straight face, make the argument that more guns will make us safer? We know that states with the most gun laws tend ... MOREGun Sales Peak As Obama Demands New Gun Restrictions
by Christopher Ingraham. New federal data shows 2015 was a record-smashing year for the American firearms industry, with gun
sales appearing to hit the highest level on record. Background checks
for gun purchases and permits jumped 10 percent last year to 23.1
million, the largest number since the federal background check system ... MOREThomas Sowell: Showman-In-Chief
The king of blather takes the stage again. Those who have been marveling at Donald Trump's political showmanship were given a reminder of who is the top showman of them all, when President Barack Obama went on television to make a pitch for his unilateral actions to restrict gun sales and make a more general case for tighter gun control laws. ... MORE2015 Gun Politics: Murders With Guns Are Used To Drive Gun Policy, Even Though Gun Policy Can't Prevent Them
by Brian Doherty. The politics of guns in 2015 was largely shaped by a series of
newsmaking horrible multiple-casualty murders in public places. Each one
inspired Democratic Party politicians, including President Obama and frontrunning 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton,
to call for a similar set of what they now call “common sense gun
safety” ... MORE
Obama Executive Actions To Push Anti-Gun Agenda
by Juliet Eilperin. President Obama will press ahead with a set of executive actions on guns next week despite growing concerns in the United States over terrorism that have dampened some Americans’ enthusiasm for tighter firearms restrictions. The president will meet Monday with Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch to finalize a ... MORE
Jacob Sullum: Mass Shooting Delusions
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 ... MOREJacob 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 ... MOREJohn 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. ... MOREDavid 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 ... MOREBridget 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 ... MOREJohn 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. ... MOREPoll 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 ... MOREThomas 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 ... MOREJohn 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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