Megan Mcardle mulls over the proposal to make gun owners buy gun liability insurance, and finds it wanting for a host of reasons. Most of her arguments make sense to me, although I disagree with this particular point of hers: … Continue reading →
…takes aim at guns.
Continue reading →The Newtown killings got the attention of the entire country, and rightly so: a large death toll with young children as the bulk of the victims, and a perp who’d been described as strange and whose motives are still unknown. … Continue reading →
It may not be such a bad idea, actually, when it’s the ALICE protocol.
Continue reading →…of Seraphic Secret tells the tale of how he become a gun owner. [Hat tip: commenter “IGotBupkis.” And by the way, as a public service to those of you who don’t know the meaning of the word bupkis, it means—well, … Continue reading →
Here you go. And here’s a rebuttal. This is a good opportunity for me to recommend that you read this law review article from 1994 about “assault weapons” and “semi-automatic” ones and how they do and/or do not differ from … Continue reading →
Quite a few people here have recommended reading this piece by University of Pennsylvania professor Randall Collins on the psychology of rampage killers. Written before the Newtown murders, it says a lot that seems correct in describing the inner life … Continue reading →
I’ve never understood the point of gun-free zones, and of advertising them too. What are they other than an invitation to a shooter to take aim at a bunch of sitting ducks—or in the case of children, sitting ducklings? I’m … Continue reading →
At Sandy Hook Elementary, did actions such as those of Mary Ann Jacob prevent even more deaths from occurring? Within seconds, a school secretary warned [library clerk] Jacob there was a killing machine in their midst. Then she heard the … Continue reading →
As could be very reliably predicted, the forces of gun control have now fastened on the Newtown school shooting and bent it to their purpose, despite the fact that the details as we know them so far argue against it. … Continue reading →
More facts are emerging: The shooter was 20-year-old Adam Lanza. He also killed his mother Nancy Lanza, with whom he lived and who worked as an aide at the school, before he went there to begin his murderous rampage. Neighbors … Continue reading →
In another dreadful, outrageous, vile act of violence, a shooter (now dead) opened fire at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, about halfway between Hartford and New York City. There have been extremely conflicting and shifting reports on the number … Continue reading →