Good men with rifles

The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot bé persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.

Report: Lawful firearm possession prevents violence

Possession of firearms by law-abiding citizens reduces crime and is key to deterring gun violence, a newly released report says.

New York Police Department is retiring the revolver

• About 50 officers still carry the storied six-shot revolver that became the standard department firearm in 1895, but the weapon is being phased out.

Unpublished CDC study confirms over 2 million annual defensive gun uses

An unpublished Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study confirms Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck’s findings of more than two million defensive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.

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.

The ‘nice girl’ who saved the Second Amendment

• For Heller, thank the scholarship of Joyce Lee Malcolm

Salute to hero Blaine Gaskill

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.

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.

Here are 8 stubborn facts on gun violence in America

In the wake of the tragic murder of 17 innocent students and teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, students, educators, politicians, and activists are searching for solutions to prevent future school shootings.

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.

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

The puckle machine gun was patented in 1718 — 73 years before the 2nd Amendment. This invalidates the argument that The Founders couldn’t envision firearms more advanced than muskets.

Nick Freitas speech to the House of Delegates

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.

The right of the people to keep and bear arms

The object of this clause is to secure a well-armed militia … But a militia would be useless unless the citizens were enabled to exercise themselves in the use of warlike weapons. To preserve this privilege, and to secure to the people the ability to oppose themselves in military force against the usurpations of government, as well as against enemies from without, that government is forbidden by any law or proceeding to invade or destroy the right to keep and bear arms.

The Supreme Court’s constitutional orphan

The Second Amendment protects “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms,” and the Fourteenth Amendment requires the States to respect that right, McDonald v. Chicago, 561 U. S. 742, 749–750 (2010) (plurality opinion); id., at 805 (THOMAS, J., concurring in part and concurring in judgment). Because the right to keep and bear arms is enumerated in the Constitution, courts cannot subject laws that burden it to mere rational-basis review. District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U. S. 570, 628, n. 27 (2008).

Rush Limbaugh: ‘We need concealed carry in these schools’

Provocative conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh called for concealed carry at American schools as gun free zones have invited school shooters because they know “they are going to be the only one armed.”

Flashback 30 years: Guns were in schools … and nothing happened

The millennial generation might be surprised to learn that theirs is the first without guns in school. Just 30 years ago, high school kids rode the bus with rifles and shot their guns at high school rifle ranges.

Responsible gun ownership

Responsible gun ownership saves lives. The right to self-defense is essential to public safety.

President Donald J. Trump