Guns

Win a gun, need I say more? Oh, and save lives.0
- Guns, Newsletter
- November 29, 2018
We’re raffling off a gun. Read on. There is a lot of handwringing over what should be done to stop school shootings. Many politicians think disarming YOU will make schools safer. But we at Independence Institute wanted to do something that could actually save lives. So we did what we always do —we sprung into
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Why your child is safer in a plane than in school 0
- Guns, Politics
- June 4, 2018
There hasn’t been a hijacking of a commercial American aircraft since the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001, even as hijacking continue around the world. There could be a multitude of reasons for this success including stronger cockpit doors and tougher TSA screening, or at least the illusion of tougher TSA screenings. Apparently,
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What if there were serious gun controls?0
- Guns, The Hill
- November 8, 2017
After the Las Vegas murders, Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) urged Congress to “take a stand against gun violence by passing common-sense gun safety laws.” On Monday, after the mass murder in Texas, he wrote, “A simple idea: Anyone convicted of domestic abuse should see their rights under the 2nd Amendment severely curtailed.” On Tuesday, Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) announced that he and Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) are writing a bill “to prevent anyone convicted of domestic violence — be it in criminal or military court — from buying a gun.
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Want to stop mass shootings? Let’s get more guns in the right hands 0
- Guns, The Hill
- June 18, 2017
The recent mass murders on London Bridge ended eight minutes after they began, when armed English police officers arrived and shot the killers. Other police officers, who had batons but not firearms, happened to be near the scene when the attack began.
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VIDEO: David Harsanyi First Freedom Event 0
- Events, Guns, Video, Watch&Listen
- December 14, 2018
David Harsanyi, author of the book, “First Freedom: A Ride Through America’s Enduring History with the Gun” sat down with Second Amendment scholar David Kopel to discuss guns and gun rights in America. Below is the video.
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VIDEO: Boulder’s Gun Ban UPDATE, Crowdfunding Campaign Launched 0
- Guns, Video, Watch&Listen
- January 25, 2019
Here’s an update on how things are going with my ongoing resistance to Boulder’s hateful, bigoted gun ban. In the video below, I share some of the “tolerant” feedback I’ve gotten from the first video, where I explained why I’m going public and will not comply with the Boulder gun ban. If you’d like to
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