A compromise on the “terrorist watch list”
A lot of the gun control talk in recent days following the Orlando attack has centered around the “terrorist watch list”, a covert list of individua...
Category: Second Amendment
Seven minutes
In the current firearms political climate following the Orlando shootings — not just at Pulse, but also of Christina Grimmie — it seems almost expec...
Can they be any more predictable?
Predictably in the wake of the recent Orlando mass shooting, there are calls for gun control and reinstating the Assault Weapons Ban. Here is one such call that...
Campus carry and academic discourse
If there is one area where I can give anti-gun advocates credit, it’s their ingenuity in devising arguments to use against the expanded recognition of fir...
Road Trip: A renewed view of the Second Amendment
Recently I had the great opportunity to take a road trip with my wife to southern Nevada. Being a freshly-renewed permitted carrier of a concealed weapon from M...
Revisiting due process and firearms
Perhaps my expectations are too high. I don’t think they are. Just as I would expect a programmer to understand the fundamental concepts of the languages ...
Talking about rape
Let’s talk about rape. Rape is forced sexual performance or sexual performance that occurs while the person — the victim — has been coerced, i...
Reply to Gov. Martin O’Malley regarding “gun reform”
Martin O’Malley is the former governor of Maryland who is also seeking the Democratic nomination for the 2016 presidential election cycle. Recently he pen...
Revisiting racism and guns – liability insurance
Here’s a question: what ideas have the anti-gun left devised that will not adversely affect the poor and minorities? One idea that’s floated around ...
Due process and the Second Amendment
In his FAQ on violence, question 15, Sam Harris said: It now seems to me that there are two ways of approaching this [discussion about guns and gun rights] that...