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.
Read MoreEvery 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.
Read MoreThere’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
Read More“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
Read MoreTalk 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
Read MoreSince we’re all talking about guns, this needs to be pointed out. The difference between a magazine and a clip. Okay? Are we clear? We are responsible for pointing this out as needed…
Read More“Our continued refusal to hear Second Amendment cases only enables this kind of defiance. We have not heard argument in a Second Amendment case for nearly eight years. Peruta v. California, 582 U. S. ___, ___ (2017) (THOMAS, J., dissenting from denial of certiorari) (slip op., at 7). And we have not clarified the standard
Read More“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example
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