Gun Rights Lesson #355 – Machine Guns

Pick a shoot-em-up movie, any shoot-em-up movie. Odds are that somebody’s going to have a gun that “sprays” bullets all over the place. Whether it be the Terminator, Robocop, John McLane, Hannibal Smith, Jack Bauer, or Marta from Scarface, machine...

Gun Rights Lesson #202 – Too Easy To Buy

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is one of a series of articles on gun rights. Each addresses a common anti-gun trope. “It’s too easy to buy an assault weapon!” Consider how you would feel if someone complained “It’s too easy to buy a...

Gun Rights Lesson #461 – The Mentally Ill

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is one of a series of articles on gun rights. Each addresses a common anti-gun trope. “We should toughen our laws to keep the mentally ill from buying guns!” As certain as the tide, a high-publicity shooting incident elicits...

Gun Rights Lesson #315 – Arsenals

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is one of a series of articles on gun rights. Each addresses a common anti-gun trope. “No one needs an arsenal! There should be limits on the number of guns someone can own or buy!!” This argument sprung forth in the aftermath of...

What Laws Would You Pass?

The mass shooting in Las Vegas continues its hold on front pages and social media platforms, and the killer’s motives remain stubbornly unknown and mysterious. Since nature abhors a vacuum, and since this atrocity is tailor-made for the “do...