All Posts Tagged With: "self-defense"
Gun Owners Have a Right to Privacy
If you own a gun in Illinois, take precautions. The state attorney general, Lisa Madigan, wants to release the names of gun owners in response to an Associated Press request. Publication of that list would tell the criminal class where the guns are, which could be useful to two different sorts of lawbreakers: gun thieves [...]
25May2011 | John Stossel | 8 comments | ContinuedPrivate Guns, Public Health
David Hemenway, a professor of health policy at Harvard University, harbors a deep aversion to guns. His book embodies the institutional prejudices of a cohort of academics notable for their abiding predisposition for state control over individuals for “the public good.” So ingrained is the bias that it almost dashes one’s hopes that firearms can [...]
12Jul2010 | Timothy J. Wheeler | 0 comments | ContinuedBanning Handguns Would Save Lives?
A Los Angeles Times opinion piece by Jennifer Price last February, “Gun Lobby’s Perfect Aim,” asks: why not ban handguns? She was writing in anger and sorrow over the murder of her brother David and his wife, by the wife’s mother. Emotion is a poor basis for public policy, and the essay demonstrates a poor [...]
1Jun2003 | Clayton E. Cramer | 8 comments | ContinuedThe Seven Myths of Gun Control: Reclaiming the Truth About Guns, Crime, and the Second Amendment
Guns increase the incidence of violent crime. Using a gun to deter crime is more dangerous to the intended victim than the perpetrator. Guns pose a special threat to children. Such statements, reinforced in the media, are accepted at face value by many Americans. But are they true? According to Richard Poe, editor of FrontPageMagazine.com, [...]
1Oct2002 | Tom Welch | 10 comments | ContinuedCapital Letters
Is the State Needed for Defensive Force? To the Editor: Donald Boudreaux, in “The ‘A’ Word” (July 2001), says “it’s possible that even the best feasible stateless society will be worse than a society with a well-structured government constitutionally limited to protecting its citizens from violence and theft. But let the case be made.” I [...]
1Nov2001 | FEE Admin | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 Seen and Unseen in Gun Control
The heinous shootings by young people at public schools around the country have predictably renewed calls for more gun control. Advocates of gun bans commit a classic fallacy that is usually associated with economic policy. But it fully applies to all government policy, including gun control. In the nineteenth century, the French economist Frederic Bastiat [...]
1Oct1998 | Sheldon Richman | 3 comments | ContinuedReading the Second Amendment
“A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” —Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution Is this sentence so hard to understand? Apparently so. Even some of its defenders don’t like how it is worded because it [...]
1Feb1998 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | Continued-
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