Guns

Jennifer Abel is a brilliant libertarian writer and master of the devastating observation: You know those amusement-park shooting galleries where you use an air rifle to knock down multiple rows of moving mechanical ducks? The way they work is, you shoot at the targets all you want, and none of the targets can shoot back. Most schools and workplaces operate on the same … [Read more...] about Of Shooting Galleries And Gun-Free Zones

Step one: Walk into any gun shop, and take a look at the empty spaces on the shelves where EBRs/Evil Black Rifles/Semiauto Assault Weapons/Scary-looking long guns used to be.  Watch the remaining ones fly off the shelves, and people place backorders.  Or just read reports by folks who have done just that.  There's plenty; here's one. Step two:  browse over … [Read more...] about “Nothing to see; move along now,” in four steps

There's an old Chinese curse that goes, roughly, "may you live in interesting times." The Obama years are clearly going to be interesting times, in many ways -- perhaps some good; certainly many bad. Let's take a look at how . . . interesting they're probably going to be, at least in terms of issues around the Second Amendment and the right to keep and bear arms. I'd rather … [Read more...] about Living in a Chinese Curse: RKBA Edition, Part One

The Supreme Court finally released their long-awaited 2nd Amendment decision in Heller, and it seems to support an individual right to bear arms...in your own home, in D.C., if your name is Dick Heller, and all you want is a city gun permit. That's according to Scott Greenfield's analysis of Heller. They announced a fundamental individual right, yet also allowed all … [Read more...] about Heller: Gun Owners Get a Cookie

The murder of 32 people at Virginia Tech yesterday has reignited the gun control debate. I don't feel like writing about it now, so I'll just say one thing that keeps going through my mind: I don't know anything about the killer, but I do know something about every one of his victims. I know it because it's been true of the victims of every mass shooting we've had in this … [Read more...] about Victims of the Virginia Tech Massacre