At first glance, Hillary Clinton was on the right track. In the wake of the recent mass shootings and anguished cries of do something, “It Takes A Village” makes sense, until you realize that Clinton’s village depends on federal bureaucrats.  “But the principle is worth rescuing,” urges William McGurn in the WSJ. There will never […]

Following the horrific shootings in El Paso and Dayton, former President Barack Obama issued a statement in which he condemned “language coming out of the mouths of any of our leaders that feeds a climate of fear and hatred or normalizes racist sentiments.” “This is a bit rich coming from someone who sat with his […]

You can’t beat crazy. And it’s hard to fight stupid. We all, however, can keep the federal government out of the mix when it comes to debating the issues of guns. Before you even begin to stake out your debate position against federal government interference, controls and gross mismanagement, read the original Articles of Confederation […]

We are treating a legitimate, but very small, problem as if it is an existential threat to the country. It just isn’t. After the shootings in El Paso and Dayton, congressional Republicans are making noise about gun control laws. The liberal media is screaming about expanding background checks. Never mind, as Kimberley Strassel reports in […]

One common element in nearly all of the recent mass shootings is anger. The young shooters were male, deeply troubled, alienated from society. The El Paso shooter is suspected of writing a manifesto that expresses sympathy for the racial motivations of the Christchurch killer. He also denounced Hispanic immigration and raged against “unchecked corporations” who […]

Despite frenzied calls for expanded background checks by Democratic primary candidates, there’s little evidence such expanded checks would have done anything to stop the gunmen in Dayton and El Paso. At The Federalist, Chrissy Clark explains that neither of the shooters would have failed a background check. She writes (abridged): Top Democrats are calling on […]

At The American Conservative, Pat Buchanan slams the Democratic primary candidates for exploiting the deaths of Americans in recent shootings for their own political gain. He explains that the candidates were attacking the president “before the bodies of many had been removed from the crime scene.” Pat writes (abridged): It was two days of contrast […]