Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) indicated during an interview with Fox News’s Brian Kilmeade that the response to the Texas church shooting should be more armed law-abiding citizens rather than more gun control. Paxton pointed out that there were numerous laws already on the books, including “laws against murder,” and the attacker violated those
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Why do beliefs cluster the way they do? If someone believes that only police and military should have guns, why is that person also likely to support socialized healthcare and a government-imposed minimum wage, and be unsupportive of school vouchers? In his 1987 book A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles, economist Thomas Sowell
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The gunman who opened fire in the Texas church was able to pass a background check because the Air Force “mishandled” the process for reporting his domestic violence conviction, according to a report. On November 6 Breitbart News reported that the gunman, Devin Kelley, passed a background check in 2016 to acquire his rifle. CNN quoted a law enforcement
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The last time I attended a holiday at a synagogue, the new rabbi (fresh from New York City) asked why I had a 1911 on my hip. “Because it’s my dress gun and I am wearing it out of respect for the occasion.” At that point, several of the men present shifted their jackets to show
Read MoreMany people are posting that they carry concealed in their places of worship. (If you can carry, you should be carrying everywhere.) But it strikes me that it would be even better if those places of worship made it known that worshipers may be armed. Then you may never have to draw. And that’s the
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