Possession of firearms by law-abiding citizens reduces crime and is key to deterring gun violence, a newly released report says.
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Unpublished CDC study confirms over 2 million annual defensive gun uses
An unpublished Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study confirms Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck’s findings of more than two million defensive handgun uses (DGUs) per year.
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Does gun control reduce murder? Let’s run the numbers across the world
- After I thought about it, I realized the question of whether reducing guns in a society will lead to fewer murders is a testable hypothesis.
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The ‘nice girl’ who saved the Second Amendment
- For Heller, thank the scholarship of Joyce Lee Malcolm
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How the Second Amendment prevents tyranny
- The Second Amendment was supposed to protect us from the government by dispersing its coercive power among the people. We still adhere to that system today.
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10 common arguments for gun control, debunked
- An attorney and former sniper team leader for the U.S. Army explains why 10 of the most common gun control arguments don’t make sense.
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Gun-owners are being blamed for the failures of liberalism
Liberalism is largely a process of adopting illogical and factually invalid positions and then artificially placing blame on its opponents when policies based on those positions inevitably fail. For the blame to bear fruit, it is necessary for people of good conscience to be fooled into believing that their actions and beliefs are bad for society and have brought about shameful consequences. At the same time, it is necessary for people whose consciences have already been deformed and co-opted by the faux morality of liberalism to be conditioned to think fellow citizens, who have caused no actual harm but hold contrary views, are evil.
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The right to bear arms
The right is general. It may be supposed from the phraseology of this provision that the right to keep and bear arms was only guaranteed to the militia; but this would be an interpretation not warranted by the intent.
The Second Amendment covers machine guns
Weighing the gun control argument
It is a bit misleading to call our current national discussion about gun control a “debate.” Simply put, politicians and the media directing the discussion aren’t interested in evidence or conclusions contrary to those that they have a vested interest in disseminating. They are interested merely in silencing any opposition, and they rely on their devoted acolytes to continue empowering them to do so.