Month: April 2016

  On July 8, former CNN anchor Lynn Russell wrote a column for Fox News in which she recounted the alleged June 30 attack and attempted robbery she survived because her husband won a gunfight. She said, there is “nothing to debate” on guns. Rather, the clear lesson is that having a gun saved her

I have no idea what to make of this. The Huffington Post is arguing that Americans have no legal right to shoot a violent attacker because it violates the criminal’s right to a fair trial. I feel confident in saying this is by far the dumbest attempt to subvert our gun ownership rights ever and

In the nearly two weeks since Hurricane Katrina, the government of New Orleans has devolved from its traditional status as an elective kleptocracy into something far more dangerous: an anarcho-tyranny that refuses to protect the public from criminals while preventing people from protecting themselves. At the orders of New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, the New

Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom is backing a sweeping ballot measure to regulate guns, while Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León is pushing his own list of bills through the Legislature. Newsom, who is currently running to replace Gov. Jerry Brown, would place a five-point list of gun control measures in front of voters in

A national sheriffs’ group is calling on law enforcement officers to refuse to enforce gun controls that infringe on the Second Amendment. The group, called the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA), began taking steps to drop enforcement of such controls “at the association’s 2014 convention.” Since that time, they have stepped up their

John Stossel, long time TV journalist and outspoken libertarian, has done well-researched reports on gun rights in the past, like this story about lies and false statistics used in anti-gun ads. Recently, Stossel, who lives in New York City, decided he wanted to get a permit to carry a firearm in light of recent public

Gun violence and safety is a hot topic in the country currently, and there are very polar opinions on the topic as well. Despite all the recent controversy, some people still need to train for the future line of work, whether it be training to be a police officer or joining the armed forces. JROTC

Since the Supreme Court’s 2008 District of Columbia v. Heller, the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals have decided nearly 150 Second Amendment cases. From these cases, a fairly consistent set of doctrines has been developed. My new article The Federal Circuits’ Second Amendment Doctrines synthesizes and analyzes this emerging law. (The article is co-authored with Joseph G.S.

My dear friends, Jews in Israel and the Diaspora. I am sorry to tell you that the terror attacks from which we suffer today and from which we suffered yesterday, a week ago, a month, a year and a decade and century ago, are all part of the same war, the same struggle, the same