I recently had the opportunity to watch Brady Campaign leader Paul Helmke debate John Lott, author of More Guns, Less Crime. I was struck by two things in the way Helmke argued. First of all, I found him to be an exceedingly normal and reasonable fellow. The second was a certain sad desperation in his [...]
I just finished Guns Don’t Die — People Do by Pete Shields, the founder of the National Council to Control Handguns (NCCP) — what would later be known as the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. The book is a manifesto of sorts, and follows the journey taken by Shields as he became more and [...]
It struck me today that the problem of software, music, and movie piracy is a fairly similar one to gun regulation. In New York, there exists a law stating that one cannot own two or more handgun permits. Seems harmless enough, until you discover that New York City requires its own permit and does not [...]
So it looks like the Brady Campaign is prepared to lose the pending Heller vs. DC court case and will have to deal with the fact that the second amendment will probably be decided to be an individual right. Speaking on the subject, Brady Campaign attorney David Hennigan, explaining the sorts of legislative efforts the [...]
((so said a reformed Chicago gang member, whose firsthand experiences display the brazenness with which bans are ignored by criminals. In this case, the man was talking about how easy it was for him and his buddies to acquire illegal guns through illegal means, and how little they cared about it.)) I’ve long believed that [...]
The other day, my fiancée said, “You know, the liberal approach to guns is a lot like the conservative approach to birth control: keep it out of peoples’ lives and everything will be fine.” She’s right, of course. Liberals constantly deride conservatives’ efforts to restrict abortion and sex education because liberals know that absent these [...]
GunPundit discovered some really telling maps showing the locations of murders in Baltimore. it turns out that you can break it down by type of murder and race of victim, interestingly enough. Here are the graphs I found for 2007: Gun homicides resulting in dead white people: Gun homicides resulting in dead hispanic people: Gun [...]