Originally posted October 4, 2017. In conversations about gun control, champions of gun control often mention Australia as a shinning example of the road America should follow. What is overlooked, however, is that Australia’s buyback program was an extensive strategy of gun confiscation. In the Federalist, Varad Mehta brings up the crucial point of how […]
Thinking Back: More Guns Less Crime!
Originally posted January 18, 2013. You can do your part in safeguarding our children by alerting your representatives in Washington, your governor, and your local sheriff to John R. Lott, Jr.’s More Guns Less Crime. Understanding crime and gun control laws is the forte of America’s eminent authority John Lott. Milton Friedman has written about […]
Here It Comes: Part I
Originally posted November 9, 2012. Literally hours after the reelection of Barack Obama, the U.S. backed U.N. arms treaty talks. We’re looking at gun control here, pure and simple. Over coming weeks, you are going to read a lot of jive as to how the intent is not to jockey with your Second Amendment rights. […]
“Here I Am! Don’t Shoot!”
Originally posted June 12, 2013. Gun-free zones don’t make you safe – they make those wishing to steal your birthday safe. As Allysia Finley of The Wall Street Journal notes: But it’s also worth pointing out that the state of California and city of Los Angeles have among the strictest gun-control laws in the country. […]
Gun Control’s Effect on Violence, Part II
Originally posted November 2, 2016. Last week I introduced you to a piece by Robert Verbruggen explaining the flaw in a study of violence involving firearms by the Center for American Progress (a liberal progressive think tank). Verbruggen continued his exploration of research involving guns and crime here. In his second piece he addresses an […]
Tucker Carlson Getting it Right
Writing at The American Conservative, Alan Pell Crawford calls Tucker Carlson a “Grand Inquisitor with a boisterous sense of humor.” And, adds Pell Crawford, despite his mostly mainstream conservative thinking, Carlson challenges traditional thought wherever he sees problems with dogma. He writes: He remains well within the ideological tent on many red meat controversies of […]
Bad News for the Obama Administration?
Top Republican lawmakers are formally requesting the appointment of a special counsel to investigate the Justice Department’s conduct in 2016/2017. The next bit of bad news is that the long-withheld documents related to the Operation Fast and Furious scandal are to be released to Congress. As Julie Kelley notes in American Greatness of the insidious […]
On Trade, I’m with Trump and Ross, not Globalists Cohn and Ryan
At The Wall Street Journal, Jacob M. Schlesinger and Rebecca Ballhaus outline President Trump’s global tariffs on steel and aluminum. They write: President Donald Trump kicked his “America First” trade policy into high gear Thursday, launching global tariffs on steel and aluminum, while signaling even more aggressive pressure on trading partners to come, especially against China. In announcing the […]
TAC Editor Merry on U.S. Trade History Basics
The editor of The American Conservative, Robert W. Merry takes readers on a tour of the history of American trade policies, highlighting what worked, what didn’t and what was controversial. He warns that despite long periods of calm in trade relations, flare ups are inevitable. Merry writes (abridged): America’s first great protectionist political figure was […]
Gunsplaining: Public Ignorance or Public Policy?
One argument from anti-2nd Amendment advocates is that the “jargon” they use to explain gun’s various demerits is often diminished or outright dismissed when imprecise firearm terminology is used. But as senior editor David Harsanyi of The Federalist points out, much of gun-control policy is driven by the mechanics of a firearm and “failing to understand […]
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