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April 1, 2019|Gun Control, Sandy Hook, Second Amendment

The Connecticut Ruling: Another Attempt to Blame the Gun for Gun Crime

by Joyce Lee Malcolm|

Lie-in gun control demonstration at the White House, February 19, 2018 (bakdc / Shutterstock.com).
The Second Amendment has been incorporated and, whatever the Connecticut Court would like to believe, it protects the right of Americans to bear arms.

February 1, 2019|Elizabeth Warren, Frederic Bastiat, Gun Control, Kamala Harris, Medicare for All

How Populist Progressives Ignore the Unseen

by John O. McGinnis|

Senator Kamala Harris (D-Ca.) speaking at her 2020 presidential campaign announcement rally in Oakland, California on January 27, 2019 (Image: InFootage / Shutterstock.com).
What separates a wise political economist or politician from a foolish one is the ability to consider the unseen consequences of their policies.

March 21, 2018|Assault Rifle, David French, Gun Control, Gun Violence Restraining Order, Jacob Sullum, RAND Corporation, Second Amendment

An Empirical Liberty Framework for Debating Gun Control

by Brendan Patrick Purdy|

Stephanie Frey / Shutterstock.com
For public debate to be productive, we need clear frameworks for analysis, and this is especially true of discussions about gun control.

November 13, 2017|Gun Control, Gun Rights

Gun Rights as a Minimaxing Policy Preference

by James R. Rogers|

While support for gun control typically increases after mass shootings, after time, as CNN noted recently, that increase reverts back to the general trend.

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October 9, 2017|Bret Stephens, Gun Control, John Locke, Second Amendment

Bret Stephens’ Fetishism for Gun Control

by Nelson Lund|

Right after the Las Vegas massacre, New York Times columnist Bret Stephens demanded that the Second Amendment be repealed.

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May 30, 2017|Gun Control, Hugo Grotius, Refugee policy

What Gun Control and Refugee Admissions Policies Have in Common

by James R. Rogers|

 

What to do with populations in which we can identify threats ex ante only probabilistically? This is a central issue in the U.S. debate over gun rights and gun control, and, in many respects, this debate parallels the argument over refugee admissions policy.

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July 6, 2016|Bernie Sanders, Christopher Hitchens, Eugene V. Debs, George Orwell, Gun Control, Martin Luther King Jr., Second Amendment

A Brief History of Socialist Support for Gun Rights

by Ron Capshaw|

Flags of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are carried through the crowd during the New York City Women's March, January 20, 2018 (Erin Alexis Randolph/Shutterstock.com)
Amidst the gun debate, we shouldn't forget that socialists feared that a weaponless working class would usher in a dictatorship by capitalists.

June 2, 2016|Administrative State, Gun Control, Obamacare

Politics in a Post-Modern Republic

by Richard Samuelson|

What is the cause of our polarized politics?  Some blame one party or the other, and that is certainly plausible.  But I wonder if the problem goes deeper.  Our two parties are fighting for the future.   We are polarized because we disagree about what it would mean to make America better.  Beyond that, the arguments are so extreme because in our post-modern age we cannot agree about what it means to be reasonable.

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October 12, 2015|Free Exercise of Religion, Governor Nikki Haley, Gun Control, President Obama

Here’s a Horse-Trade for You

by Patrick Lynch|

Last week’s horrible tragedy at Umpqua Community College in Oregon put us back into a repetitive cycle in partisan discourse: A madman commits a massacre. Advocates for greater controls on firearm ownership use their outrage at the loss of life to point fingers at Americans’ right to own guns, and argue for more gun control. Gun-rights advocates mourn the loss of life, accuse their opponents of exploiting the deaths of the victims, and argue that greater restrictions short of outright bans would not prevent future tragedies and would endanger the basic rights of the vast majority of gun owners to protect themselves.

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December 29, 2014|assault weapons ban, Bushmaster, Gun Control, National Firearms Act, Newtown suit

Newtown Suit Proceeds under False Pretences

by Nicholas J. Johnson|

 

Some of the families who survived the horror of the Newtown shooting are suing Bushmaster, the manufacturer of the AR-15 rifle that was used by the deranged gunman who murdered 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

The complaint actually reads more like an attempt at healing than a serious legal claim. To that extent, I am sympathetic. But the strictly legal issues and theory of recovery to be gleaned from it deserve comment.

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Book Reviews

A Mirror of the 20th-Century Congress

by Joseph Postell

Wright undermined the very basis of his local popularity—the decentralized nature of the House—by supporting reforms that gave power to the party leaders.

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The Graces of Flannery O'Connor

by Henry T. Edmondson III

O'Connor's correspondence is a goldmine of piercing insight and startling reflections on everything from literature to philosophy to raising peacocks.

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Liberty Classics

Rereading Politica in the Post-Liberal Moment

by Glenn A. Moots

Althusius offers a rich constitutionalism that empowers persons to thrive alongside one another in deliberate communities.

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James Fenimore Cooper and the American Experiment

by Melissa Matthes

In The American Democrat, James Fenimore Cooper defended democracy against both mob rule and majority tyranny.

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Podcasts

Stuck With Decadence

A discussion with Ross Douthat

Ross Douthat discusses with Richard Reinsch his new book The Decadent Society.

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Can the Postmodern Natural Law Remedy Our Failing Humanism?

A discussion with Graham McAleer

Graham McAleer discusses how postmodern natural law can help us think more coherently about human beings and our actions.

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Did the Civil Rights Constitution Distort American Politics?

A discussion with Christopher Caldwell

Christopher Caldwell discusses his new book, The Age of Entitlement.

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America, Land of Deformed Institutions

A discussion with Yuval Levin

Yuval Levin pinpoints that American alienation and anger emerges from our weak political, social, and religious institutions.

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