All Posts Tagged With: "Gun Control"
What The Drug Warriors Have Given Us
Does anyone still think the “war on drugs” is a good idea?
That may strike some people as an odd question under the circumstances, so let’s take it from another direction. Have you seen the news stories about the violence on the border being perpetrated by the Mexican whiskey and cigarette cartels?
No? That’s probably because there was no such violence and are no such cartels.
So why are there violent cartels in marijuana, cocaine, and heroin but not in whiskey and cigarettes?
All together now: prohibition.
17Jun2009 | Sheldon Richman | 8 comments | ContinuedGun Control: An Economic Analysis
In Economics 101 we teach students about several fundamental concepts, including the relationship between means and ends, forward-looking behavior, the use of substitutes, opportunity cost, and the role of moral hazard. Further, we insist that these concepts can be used to help understand the world around us and have applicability far beyond the classroom.
Yet, all [...]
A Property-Rights Theory of Mass Murder
Stephen Carson, a software engineer, writes independently from St. Louis. This article is condensed from “Killing and Stealing: A Property-Rights Theory of Mass Murder,” which first appeared in The Independent Review, Winter 2007, and was reprinted in Opposing the Crusader State: Alternatives to Global Interventionism, edited by Robert Higgs and Carl P. Close (The Independent [...]
1Sep2008 | Stephen W. Carson | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Reviews – April 2008
- Globalization by Donald J. Boudreaux Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
- Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement by Brian Doherty Reviewed by Bettina Bien Greaves
- Armed America: The Remarkable Story of How and Why Guns Became as American as Apple Pie by Clayton E. Cramer Reviewed by George C. Leef
- The European Economy Since 1945: Coordinated Capitalism and Beyond by Barry Eichengreen Reviewed by Waldemar Ingdahl
Capital Letters
Bike Helmets, Children, and Libertarian Philosophy
To the Editor:
In response to Ted Roberts’s article criticizing the admonishing of children to use bicycle helmets (“Take Your Bike Helmet to the Safety Museum,” February), I’d like to offer a couple of unscientific, anecdotal items from my own experience.
One is from a few decades ago, when I was a [...]
Book Reviews – April 2003
Guns and Violence: The English Experience
by Joyce Lee Malcolm
Harvard University Press • 2002 • 352 pages • $28.00
Reviewed by Clayton Cramer
Joyce Lee Malcolm’s new book is not the masterpiece that her previous book, To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right, was. Still, there is much to commend, and much to be [...]
New Laws Will Protect Americans from Snipers? It Just Aint So!
The handcuffs had barely been slapped on the two Maryland sniper suspects—John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo—before the so-called liberals began invoking their crimes as a pretext to undermine the rights of all Americans. New York Times columnist Bob Herbert, writing on October 31, 2002, invoked federal crime statistics indicating that “the number of [...]
1Feb2003 | James Bovard | 0 comments | ContinuedTaxes into Plowshares
Yet another monument to state control has been erected in Washington, D.C. No, not the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial. In this case, the monument is a lesser-known sculpture called “Guns into Plowshares.” This work, erected in 1997, stands in Judiciary Square close to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial. Dubbed a monument to peace, the [...]
1May2002 | William E. Pike | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Tainted Public-Health Model of Gun Control
Miguel Faria, M.D., is editor-in-chief of the Medical Sentinel of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.
Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes?
—Juvenal
Early in the 1990s the American Medical Association (AMA) launched a major campaign against domestic violence, which continues to this day. As a concerned physician, neurosurgeon, and then an active member of organized medicine, I [...]
National Gun Registration: The Road to Tyranny
Miguel A. Faria Jr., M.D., is the editor-in-chief of Medical Sentinel, the journal of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, and author of Vandals at the Gates of Medicine: Historic Perspectives on the Battle Over Health Care Reform (1995) and Medical Warrior: Fighting Corporate Socialized Medicine (Hacienda Publishing Inc., 1997, www.haciendapub.com).
Georg Hegel (1770-1831), the [...]
Just Dial 911? The Myth of Police Protection
Richard Stevens is a lawyer in Washington, D.C., and author of Dial 911 and Die (Mazel Freedom Press, 1999).
Underlying all “gun control” ideology is this one belief.” “Private citizens don’t need firearms because the police will protect them from crime.” That belief is both false and dangerous for two reasons.
First, the police cannot and do [...]
Capital Letters
Live by the Stats, Die by the Stats
To the Editor:
Regarding Mark Skousen’s column, “Chicago Gun Show,” in the October 1999 issue of The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty the statistical arguments advanced by the Chicago school allegedly demonstrating gun ownership reduces violent crime are methodologically flawed. Though I am a proud gun owner and lifetime NRA [...]
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The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy–If We Let it Happen
By Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, and Peter J. Tanous
