William A. Levinson: Never Let A Dead Child Go To Waste

Let's act quick, before their heads clear.    Barack Obama, Dianne Feinstein, Michael Bloomberg, Andrew Cuomo, and their cohorts followed Rahm Emanuel's advice to "never let a good crisis go to waste" when they used the Sandy Hook shooting to renew their assault on the Bill of Rights. Former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell added, in effect, that    ... MORE

Washington State Prepares Gun Control Nullification Bill

by Mikael Thalen.     As the call for more gun control continues, governors, lawmakers, sheriffs, and citizens across the country are taking a stand. After the tragic Sandy Hook shooting, gun control advocates immediately jumped on the opportunity to dust off old gun control legislation, specifically advocating for a ban on "assault weapons." ... MORE

Harry Biswanger: The Nature Of The Anti-Gun Campaign

A need to switch the national conversation. Whatever your views on whether or not there should be controls on guns, the anti-gun control movement needs discussion, because it is extreme. For instance, Monday morning on CNN, the news at 10a.m. ET opened with the issue of gun control and was of course unrelievedly slanted to the anti-gun ... MORE

You Can't Trust Obama On Pot, Why Trust Him With Guns?

By Debra Sanders. My Sunday column tells the story of Matthew Davies, 34, a medical marijuana dispensary owner, who is facing a minimum of seven years in prison because he believed that President Obama would direct his Justice Department not to prosecute people who use or distribute medical marijuana in states where it is legal. Sending  ...  MORE

Jacob Sullum: The Threat Posed By Gun Magazine Limits

Another measure that could endanger victims.      A limit on magazine capacity is emerging as a leading contender for the something that supposedly must be done in response to last month's massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. A ban on "large-capacity ammunition feeding devices" is one of the new gun    ... MORE

Walter E Williams: Are Guns The Problem?

Moral values, not laws, make a civilized society.      When I attended primary and secondary school — during the 1940s and '50s — one didn't hear of the kind of shooting mayhem that's become routine today. Why? It surely wasn't because of strict firearm laws. My replica of the 1902 Sears mail-order catalog shows 35 pages of firearm               ... MORE

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Jeffrey T. Kuhner: Why The Left Hates Guns

Armed citizens a bulwark against state power.     Liberals have declared war on gun rights. Following the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., gun-control zealots have seized on the murder of 20 children and 6 adults to push their longtime goal of rolling back the Second Amendment. The bodies of the victims  ... MORE

Steven Greenhut: California Lawmakers Target Gun Rights

An opportunity to tangle gun rights with red tape.     It took only days before California’s lefty legislators reacted to the horrific Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy with a fusillade of bills designed to take California closer to Democratic leaders’ unstated but obvious goal: making it essentially illegal for citizens to own firearms in    ... MORE

NRA Membership Has Increased Since Newtown Shootings

by Alexander Abad-Santos.   You would think, after a 20-year-old with legal guns killed 20 first-graders in Newtown, Connecticut, that the National Rifle Association wouldn't be doing too well — what with the initial outcry over its silence and the ensuing outcry over the gun lobby's brief statement late Tuesday. But you would be wrong. Fox News ... MORE

Steve Chapman: Wrong Answers For Mass Shootings

Rounding up the usual suspects.      The film "Casablanca" has many famous lines, but none more immortal than Capt. Renault's order after seeing a Nazi officer shot by Humphrey Bogart's character, Rick Blaine: "Round up the usual suspects." He issues that command to give the impression he's trying to solve the crime. In the aftermath of the Newtown massacre, the   ... MORE

What If Nothing Or Nobody Is To Blame For Adam Lanza?

by Ron Fournier.  What if there is nobody or nothing to blame for Adam Lanza's heinous acts? Other than Lanza, of course. What if school security and the school psychiatrist kept an eye on Lanza since his freshman year? The Wall Street Journal has a compelling narrative about the red flags addressed. What if he had a form of autism that has little or no    ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Invincible Ignorance

A knee-jerk is not an enlightened response.    Must every tragic mass shooting bring out the shrill ignorance of "gun control" advocates? The key fallacy of so-called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm law-abiding citizens, while people bent on violence find firearms readily available.       ... MORE

Jacob Sullum: The Magical Thinking Of Gun Controllers

Obama showcases it at Sandy Hook memorial.  On Sunday night, speaking at a memorial service for the 26 victims of Adam Lanza's horrifying shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Connecticut, President Obama provided a window onto the magical thinking of people who think such appalling crimes could be prevented if only we     ... MORE

4 Awful Reactions To Sandy Hook School Shooting

by Nick Gillespie. Horrific events such as the mass shooting at Newtown, Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School are terrible enough in showcasing the evil that men do. But they also regularly bring out the worst in observers, commentators, and pundits who will never let a lack of knowledge or expertise stand in the way of making grand           ... MORE

Charles C. W. Cooke: Words Don't Pull Triggers

People do.    On Wednesday morning of this week, a malcontented volunteer from an LGBT community center in Washington, D.C., walked into the lobby of the socially conservative Family Research Council. Along with a handgun and a box of ammunition, he was carrying a backpack that contained 15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches — an obvious if peculiar   ... MORE

Ted Nugent: Nut Control, Not Gun Control

Failure to deal with mental illness leads to massacres.   In the wake of the massacre in Aurora, Colo., the left has once again resorted to clamoring for further restrictions on the right of law-abiding citizens to own guns and defend ourselves — even in the face of inescapable evidence that such restrictions are at the root cause of such slaughters.     ... MORE

Charles C. W. Cooke: Our Odd Focus

It's not about the guns.   What happened in Colorado in the early hours of this morning was not a “tragedy” but a willful act of mass murder. Beyond his age, name, and ethnicity, nobody yet knows who the shooter is, or why he chose to do what he did. In my view, this is a blessing, albeit a temporary one; for, as has been the way in     ... MORE