Month: February 2018

President Trump: armed and trained teachers, no more gun free zones = the do something that will really save the children. Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump, after listening to a series of emotional stories and pleas to enhance school safety at the White House Wednesday, floated the idea of arming teachers and school staff, an

“Background checks are fine, but useless if not followed up on which is an aspect of each of the last two shooting sprees. The problem is not that safeguards are not in place, but enforcement of those safeguards is lacking, to say the least. And since the way the feds want to expand the safeguards

“As somebody who actually cares about the right in question [Second Amendment right to bear arms], I would be concerned with the slippery slope; Bump stocks don’t actually allow you to fire any faster than you can manually. Ban them, and the obvious next step is to ban guns that can be fired rapidly manually.

Major American Jewish organizations are calling for stricter gun-control laws in the wake of the Feb. 14 mass school shooting in Parkland, Fla., that left 14 students and three staff members dead. A spokesperson for the women’s organization Hadassah told JNS that the group supports all three of the legislative proposals under discussion in the

The (very polished, very professional) student shooting survivors are co-opting the phrases of the Holocaust. Make no mistake, the Holocaust would not have happened anywhere to the degree that it did if citizens had not been disarmed. The irony should not be lost.

Every story I hear about what was done to Jews in the Holocaust (and I am a child of Holocaust survivors), confirms that citizens must remain armed.

There’s a lot going around about the Second Amendment.  Some on the left have been spreading a little rumor that it isn’t necessarily about protecting any right of the individual.  Some say it doesn’t hold water compared to the government’s ideas on ensuring public safety. Let’s not forget that the Amendment, “A well regulated Militia, being

“The Republican lawmaker has argued that more of his classmates would have survived the [Columbine] attack if some faculty had been armed. Twelve students and one teacher were killed by two teen gunmen at the high school in Littleton, Colorado.” Democrats are opposed to this as the solution; to “we have to do something.” Because

Talk is cheap, but persuading Americans to surrender their rights will be expensive, difficult, and time-consuming. A few hours after yesterday’s shooting hit the news, the comedian Rob Delaney penned this tweet: The @NRA & the politicians they own must not know this T. Jefferson quote. The 2nd Amendment is a FUCKING BOY’S COAT. pic.twitter.com/cKR0Nk4Uwm