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Harris and Trump Unite to Defend the Imperial Presidency: The Senator and the President She Wants to Unseat Are Determined to Have Their Way, Regardless of What the Law Says Jul. 03, 2019
When Congress declined to allocate the money he wanted for a wall along the southern border, Donald ... Read More
What's Wrong With Licensing Gun Owners? Cory Booker's Plan Would Unjustly Deprive Peaceful Americans of the Fundamental Right to Armed Self-Defense May. 08, 2019
Cory Booker says the gun control ideas he unveiled on Monday are necessary "to make justice a realit... Read More
The NRA Is Struggling with Legal and Fiscal Problems and Internal Turmoil. Good. May. 01, 2019
While the nation's preeminent gun-rights organization met last week amid internal turmoil, another m... Read More
Arming Teachers Remains a Terrible Idea Mar. 19, 2019
The notion of arming public school teachers has come around again, from some of the usual suspects i... Read More
Gun Sale Laws Need Consistency Mar. 07, 2019
The phrase "if the law supposes that, the law is an ass," has been misstated and misused over the ye... Read More
Short Takes on Confusion, Clarity and Everything in Between Mar. 04, 2019
Punting the Issue Imagine our surprise when local St. Louis attorneys accused the National Football ... Read More
One Deadly Drug Raid, Two Red Herrings: Neither Gun Control nor Uncritical Support of the Police Can Stop Violence Required by War on Drugs Feb. 06, 2019
After a drug raid killed a middle-aged couple and injured five narcotics officers in Houston last we... Read More
Have Gun, Can't Travel: New York City's Arbitrary Restrictions on Transporting Firearms Give SCOTUS Chance to Curtail Rampant Disrespect for the Second Amendment Jan. 30, 2019
The first time the Supreme Court defended the Second Amendment, it overturned a Washington, D.C., la... Read More
In the Annals of Tone-Deafness, These MLK Observances Deserve Special Note Jan. 23, 2019
Monday's federal holiday should have been about honoring the legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther Ki... Read More
Short Takes on Blindfold Challenges and Blinder Bigotry Jan. 21, 2019
The Darwin Challenge In the Netflix film "Bird Box," a mysterious force overtakes Earth, causing mas... Read More
You're Nobody Until Somebody (White) Kills You Jan. 17, 2019
Social media rang with righteous indignation over the senseless killing of Jazmine Barns, who was sh... Read More
The Whimsical Illogic of 'Assault Weapon' Bans: The Category Is Defined by Politicians, Who Focus on Looks Rather Than Function Jan. 16, 2019
Since 1996, Gallup has been asking Americans whether they support a ban on "assault weapons." Gallup... Read More
'This Is Our lane.' Doctors School the NRA on America's Gun-Violence Epidemic. Nov. 19, 2018
More than 30,000 Americans are killed by firearms annually, far more than in any other industrialize... Read More
Demand Action to Stop Deadly Shootings Nov. 13, 2018
Our country can't continue like this. The past few weeks feel like the United States has hit a new l... Read More
Why Are the Police Caught Flat-Footed by Right-Wing Extremism? Because They Are Right-Wing Extremists. Nov. 09, 2018
Not for the first time, nor the last, the U.S. has recently been hit by a wave of political violence... Read More
Why I Was Heartbroken Nov. 08, 2018
The October 27th Shabbat massacre of Jews at Tree of Life, a Pittsburgh suburban synagogue, cannot b... Read More
Andrew Cuomo's Unconstitutional Assault on the NRA: N.Y.'s Governor Is Violating the First Amendment by Pressuring Banks and Insurers to Shun 'Gun Promotion Organizations' Nov. 07, 2018
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's methods may be obscure, but his assault on the First Amendment is anyth... Read More
Hatred Has No Place in House of Worship Nov. 05, 2018
Houses of worship are, at their best, places of peace and tranquility, spiritual oases where pain an... Read More
Death at the Tree of Life Nov. 02, 2018
The rampage in a Pittsburgh synagogue that left 11 dead has become so enmeshed in election-eve debat... Read More
The DOJ Should Not Prosecute Robert Bowers: The Federal Case Against the Pittsburgh Shooter Is Redundant and Constitutionally Questionable Oct. 31, 2018
If anyone deserves execution, the man who murdered 11 mostly elderly people at a Pittsburgh synagogu... Read More
