A massive gun licensing scandal in New York City, now the subject of a Manhattan federal court trial, could easily be an indictment against so-called “discretionary issue” laws that allow authorities to decide who does or doesn’t get to exercise their right to keep and bear arms, which is supposed to be protected from such […]
What Venezuelan Police Just Did Should Thrill Gun Prohibition Lobby
Police in Venezuela just did what America’s gun prohibition lobby would like cops in the United States to do: On Wednesday, they “crushed and chopped up nearly 2,000 shotguns and pistols,” according to Reuters. The news agency reported: Interior Minister Nestor Reverol said the event marked the renewal of efforts to disarm Venezuelans, through a […]
Lobbying Is To Corruption What Pencils Are To Misspelled Words
It seems that, of all things political, lobbying and campaign finance raises the biggest ire among “the American people.” They point out that “if we could just get money out of politics,” problems of corruption and the new “golden rule” would largely vanish. They might be right but the solution, in this case, is worse […]