All Posts Tagged With: "Gun Control"
Cuba in Revolution by Miguel A. Faria, Jr.
Hacienda Publishing • 2001 • 452 pages • $26.95 Reviewed by George C. Leef The vicious regime of Fidel Castro has for more than 40 years trampled on individual rights in Cuba, but the details of his seizure of power and subsequent Stalinist rule remain surprisingly little known in the United States. Within weeks of [...]
1Jun2002 | George C. Leef | 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 | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Reviews – 2002/3
While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace Today by Donald Kagan and Frederick W. Kagan St. Martin’s Press o 2000 o 483 pages o $32.50 Present Dangers: Crisis and Opportunity in American Foreign Policy and Defense Policy edited by Robert Kagan and William Kristol Encounter Books o 2000 o 401 pages [...]
1Mar2002 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedSplit Decision
The Second Amendment’s affirmation of the right to keep and bear arms applies to individuals, not collectives. Anyone who can read plain English already knew that. But now we have a U.S. appellate court saying so. That can’t hurt. The October ruling of a three-judge panel from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals grew out [...]
1Feb2002 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Ten Things You Can’t Say in America by Larry Elder
St. Martin’s Press · 2000 · 367 pages · $23.95 cloth; $14.95 paperback Reviewed by William H. Peterson There is hope yet for America. Larry Elder is a host of a successful talk show on KABC Radio in Los Angeles and a nationally syndicated columnist who wins the imprimatur of a major book publisher to [...]
1Oct2001 | William H. Peterson | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Tainted Public-Health Model of Gun Control
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 joined in what I considered a worthwhile cause. It was then that I arrived [...]
1Apr2001 | Miguel A. Faria Jr. | 6 comments | ContinuedNational 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), [...]
1Mar2001 | Miguel A. Faria Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedThey’re Just Dying to Be Rescued
Karen Selick is an attorney and a columnist for Canadian Lawyer. Copyright 2000. Belleville, Ontario, Canada—Why don’t abused women want to defend themselves? Three times within the past year, and many times previously, I have been consulted in matrimonial cases by women who have told credible and terrifying stories of violence, stalking, and death threats [...]
1Dec2000 | Karen Selick | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Uplifters Try It Again
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) was the most influential newspaperman of his era and a prolific author of iconoclastic books and essays. This is reprinted from The Evening Sun of Baltimore, November 30, 1925. Copyright 1925 by The Evening Sun. Republication without credit not permitted. I The eminent Nation announces with relish “the organization of a national [...]
1Oct2000 | H. L. Mencken | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Big One?
A case may be headed to the U.S. Supreme Court that could legally resolve the dispute over what the Second Amendment means. In a reasonable world no ruling would be required, since these words couldn’t be more straightforward: “A well regulated militia being necessary for the security of a free state, the right of the [...]
1Oct2000 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedGuns, Gun Laws, and Liberty
The heart of virtually every citizen of America went out to the family of little Kayla Rolland after a classmate took her life with a .32 caliber revolver on February 29 in Mt. Morris, Michigan. As with the Columbine High School shootings in Colorado last year, we all feel pained and distraught about such senseless violence, and we wonder what has gone wrong and what can be done to prevent any recurrences.
1Aug2000 | Lawrence W. Reed | 12 comments | ContinuedJust 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 [...]
1Apr2000 | Richard W. Stevens | 38 comments | ContinuedCapital 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 [...]
1Jan2000 | FEE Admin | 2 comments | ContinuedEmotive Policymaking
Doug Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books, including Tripwire: Korea and U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changed World. We live in an age of paradox. Media saturation following events like the murders at Columbine High School makes it appear that [...]
1Nov1999 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedChicago Gun Show
Now John R. Lott, Jr., until recently the John M. Olin Law and Economics Fellow at Chicago, is making the case that a well-armed citizenry discourages violent crime.
Gary Becker has showed that increasing the cost of crime through stiffer jail sentences, quicker trials, and higher conviction rates effectively reduces the number of criminals who rob, steal, or rape.[3]
1Oct1999 | Mark Skousen | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Second Amendment in the Light of American Republicanism
The “transforming” ideology of America’s revolutionary period saw the chief conflict in society as one between liberty and power. That ideology synthesized themes from several sources.[1] Given the differing origins and jumping-off points of classical liberalism and classical republicanism (the two most important elements), the American “synthesis” might be expected to undergo some unraveling when up against the harder problems of political life.
1Jun1999 | Joseph R. Stromberg | 4 comments | ContinuedMore Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws
Dave Kopel is research director at the Independence Institute, a free-market think tank in Colorado (http://i2i.org). His most recent book, with Paul Blackman, is No More Wacos: What’s Wrong with Federal Law Enforcement and How to Fix It. Gun prohibition kills people. Guns in the hands of responsible citizens save lives and make everyone safer—even [...]
1Dec1998 | David B. Kopel | 9 comments | Continued-
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