Showing posts with label guns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label guns. Show all posts
Saturday, March 12, 2022

Only People Threatened by Russia May Bear Arms

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Pundits and politicians who routinely deny that Americans have the natural right to keep and bear arms nevertheless are thrilled by the scen...
Thursday, March 01, 2018

How Trump Interprets the Second Amendment

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Take the guns first, go through due process second. -- President Donald Trump
Friday, November 10, 2017

TGIF: Real Common Sense on Gun Control

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Here’s how to judge the pragmatic case for gun control: if the pro-control lobby managed to have each of its favorite restrictions enacted, ...
Friday, October 06, 2017

TGIF: Overcoming Confirmation Bias on Guns

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Confirmation bias is one of the great obstacles to making the practical case for liberty. People see in events what they want to see. I thin...
Thursday, September 22, 2016

Trump's Stop-and-Frisk Policy

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I suppose Trump intends stop-and-frisk for the nation of Chicago only. Update: Trump now says that under his stop-and-frisk policy, the p...
Monday, January 18, 2016

MLK Day

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"Visiting Martin Luther King, Jr. at the peak of the civil rights movement, the journalist William Worthy almost sat on a loaded pistol...
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Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Clinton or Sanders?

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If we have to have a president, whom would you prefer: someone who voted for the Iraq war or someone who voted against holding gun manufactu...
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Friday, October 23, 2015

TGIF: Gun Control and Immigration Restrictions Are Enemies of Liberty

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What's a liberty lover to do? Democrats want the government to restrict the right of self-defense, even if it means considering the conf...
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Wednesday, October 07, 2015

Realism and Utopianism in the Gun Debate

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After an atrocity like the shootings at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, what’s needed is hard-headed realism, not pie-in-the-s...
Friday, October 02, 2015

TGIF: Ending Gun Violence: Logic versus Magic

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What passes for thinking about the prevention of gun violence is not thinking at all. Thinking (as problem-solving) is a search for means t...
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Friday, August 28, 2015

The Self-Serving News Media

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The gross TV over-coverage of the murders of the Virginia TV news people is patently self-centered, self-serving, and even self-flattering. ...
Thursday, April 18, 2013

Demagogy on Manchin-Toomey

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The Manchin-Toomey expansion of background checks to private gun sales was reasonable legislation, its advocates insist, because it would h...
Friday, December 14, 2012

Shooting in Connecticut

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I am deeply saddened by the shooting of children and adults at the school in Connecticut. My heart goes out to their loved ones and to the w...