2017 is shaping up to be another winning year for gun owners
So far this year, thirteen state legislatures have enacted laws to strengthen the right to keep and bear arms, and none have passed new gun control laws. In every year this century, pro-gun laws have outnumbered anti-gun laws, but this year’s score is particularly lopsided.
Paul Hsieh, MD: Why Doctors Should Not Ask Their Patients About Guns
A local colleague, Dr. Matthew Bowdish, has declared, “I will not undermine the Second or Fourth Amendment rights of any of my patients who are lawful gun owners. Nor will I record my patients’ gun ownership status in any medical records that could be accessed by government officials unless relevant to a specific medical issue.” This should be the credo of all freedom-loving physicians. Continue reading
John Lott: The Facts About Assault Weapons and Crime
“Yet despite being at the center of the gun-control debate for decades, neither President Obama nor Ms. Feinstein (the author of the 1994 legislation) seems to understand the leading research on the effects of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban. In addition, they continue to mislabel the weapons they seek to ban.” Continue reading
The Threat Posed by Gun Magazine Limits
Bans on “large capacity ammunition feeding devices” could endanger victims instead of saving them. Continue reading
Obama: Lifetime Secret Service protection for me, at your expense. We might grant you permission to own a gun.
While the President contemplates a gun control agenda that could restrict American rights to own guns, the President quietly signed legislation on January 10 that provides the “lifetime Secret Service protection of former Presidents.” Continue reading
Texas town allows teachers to carry concealed guns
Employees also must undergo training in crisis intervention and hostage situations. And they must use bullets that minimize the risk of ricochet, similar to those carried by air marshals on planes. Continue reading
David Kopel: Guns, Mental Illness and Newtown
There were 18 random mass shootings in the 1980s, 54 in the 1990s, and 87 in the 2000s. Continue reading
