Guns

The year 2025 is shaping up to have the lowest homicide rate since 1900. Let that sink in. The lowest in 125 years. Law-abiding citizens carrying firearms aren’t the problem. They never were.

The Second Amendment’s primary purpose—arming citizens as the ultimate check against government tyranny—remains both legally recognized and practically viable in modern America.

Our citizens are justifiably sickened and infuriated by so many deadly shootings.

Why are 58% of new gun owners Blacks, and 40% women?

Richard Ebeling on why armed self-defense is essential in a free society.

As a friend once explained to me, “I carry a gun because I can’t carry a cop.”

Americans who call for stricter and stricter gun control know that getting rid of rifles will do little or nothing for the nation’s homicide rate. Their calls for more restrictive gun laws are part of a larger strategy to outlaw gun ownership altogether.

Are you very afraid? 3D-printed guns are coming. “Virtually undetectable!” shrieked CNN. “This changes the safety of Americans forever!” shrieked MSNBC. Does it? Six years ago, a company called Defense Distributed posted blueprints for...

How many lives are saved each year through the use of firearms

Last week Rep. Nancy Pelosi warned President Donald Trump that if he declared an “emergency” to build a wall, “think what a president with different values can present… Why don’t you declare (the epidemic of gun violence in America) an...

“What about the beneficial effect of gun ownership?”

Dr Andrew Bernstein establishes the practical case for upholding the right to bear arms and validates the moral right of honest persons to own guns. Guns, in the hands of honest, trained persons, save innocent lives.

The fatal fallacy of gun control laws in general is the assumption that such laws actually control guns. Criminals who disobey other laws are not likely to be stopped by gun control laws. What such laws actually do is increase the number of disarmed and defenseless vict…

Academics who don’t toe the leftist line get attacked and lose their jobs.

What might have happened if a few of the 1,500 concert attendees in Paris’ Bataclan theater had guns?

After every tragic shooting, liberals and progressives call for more gun laws. They exploit American ignorance as to why the Framers gave us Second Amendment protections.

A disarmed population makes crime a safer occupation and street violence a safer sport.

Gun control zealots are almost always people who are lenient toward criminals, while they are determined to crack down on law-abiding citizens who want to be able to defend themselves and their loved ones.

I can’t convince my friends in New York City, but it’s just a fact: More guns — less crime.

The great bulk of the studies show that gun control laws do not in fact control guns. On net balance, they do not save lives but cost lives.

Why — at a time in our history when guns were readily available, when a person could just walk into a store or order a gun through the mail, when there were no FBI background checks, no waiting periods, no licensing requirements — was there not the frequency and kind…

So many of the issues of our time — or perhaps any time — hinge on whether one considers the full context, or only one element of it.

We almost never hear about these hundreds of thousands of defensive uses of guns from the media, which will report the killing of a dozen people endlessly around the clock.

The dirty little secret is that gun control laws do not actually control guns. They disarm law-abiding citizens, making them more vulnerable to criminals, who remain armed in disregard of such laws.

It’s amazing. When Hollywood celebrities who support gun control or gun bans advocate these policies, we’re supposed to humbly and uncritically listen. Even when some celebrities, such as Rosie O’Donnell, support gun bans while claiming special exceptions for...

Why are the political and intellectual leaders—people who are socialist or beyond—so interested in this issue? We’re talking not about the guy next door who voted Democratic but about the Tooheys.