“… if Senate Democrats get their way, they’ll weaponize S230 reform to target online gun marketplaces. Conservatives urging repeal of Section 230 are playing right into their hands.” Debate surrounding Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 most often involves social media. But what about gun sales? The question is worth asking because
Read MoreGetting a law passed is not the same thing as getting people to obey. “There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it
Read More‘Something has to be done’: After decades of near-silence from the CDC, the agency’s director is speaking up about gun violence
The CDC now plans to take on “gun violence” as a public health issue. Read: gun control and disarming law-abiding citizens. (CNN)For the first time in decades, the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — the nation’s top public health agency — is speaking out forcefully about gun violence in America,
Read MoreStopping the import of Russian ammo is just pretending to do something noble. “…restrictions on imports of firearms and ammunition are less likely to hurt well-connected Russian manufacturers, who will almost certainly find buyers elsewhere, than they are to hurt civilian consumers of those goods. Amid social fracture and loss of faith in institutions, American
Read MoreUniversal background checks will do nothing to make people safe. That is not the goal. The goal of mandating universal background checks is to create a registry for the purpose of confiscating our guns. Former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords isn’t a fan of guns. She was at one time when it could benefit her politically. Now,
Read MoreChipman’s confirmation is languishing in the Senate, the anti-gun rights groups are urging Biden to establish a White House office that will not require Senate confirmation. The gun-control lobby is growing impatient. With major gun-control legislation yet to materialize and Biden’s nominee to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) stalled in
Read More“The Second Amendment was supposed to protect us from government by dispersing its coercive power among the people. We still adhere to that system today.” The latest gun control hysteria being stoked by the press has revealed an enormous amount of confusion about the role of the Second Amendment as a guarantee of liberty in
Read More“Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt posted his reaction to the ruling on Twitter, “Breaking: Another huge win. A Missouri judge just ruled in our favor. This time we won defending a new Missouri law protecting our Second Amendment rights.” ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Missouri House Bill 85, also known as the Second Amendment Preservation Act, was
Read More‘Of all the mass delusions that have been perpetrated upon the American people, the government’s decades-long mission to terrify the public from owning firearms is the most dangerous. Because control ultimately depends upon the threat of force, no person can be free when government alone is armed. This used to be common knowledge in the
Read More“The case highlights the weakness of a model predicated on the presumption that persons named in a petition are dangerous, and that it is therefore appropriate to strip them of their rights and property without notice or a meaningful opportunity to respond until after the fact. E.P. was obligated to spend time and money to
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