The 2 Percent and the 80 Percent

At its best virtue signalling only wastes time, prioritizing guilt reduction over crime reduction.  At its worst it squanders limited resources that could have been used to enact real solutions. Few have applied reason and evidence to the gun controversy better than...

Is the Mass Shooter Problem Exaggerated?

The Uvalde shooting of young school children is heart wrenching and tragic. We are left with despair and outrage, and while these are normal reactions they are a poor basis for public policy and effective solutions. The George Floyd murder soon after the Arbury...

Guns and Shooters

Another tragedy and another proliferation of desperation and outrage. Unfortunately, desperation and outrage are rarely grounds for effective solutions, and may be as likely be counterproductive.  The Brady Bill of 1993 meant to restrict and delay access only led to...

Fascist Liberals

What Conservative Women Can Learn About Liberals From the Way They Treat Dana Loesch- by John Hawkins at Townhall: Liberalism is no longer about winning arguments. It’s about intimidating people into silence. Shutting people up. De-platforming them. Doing whatever it...

The Local Solutions to Parkland

by Henry Oliner Another shooting and another blame fest. More memes, virtue signaling, intolerance, “please unfriend me if you believe…..”, Yes, we have too many guns that are too easily available.  Yes, we have a culture of violence that enriches Hollywood and their...

The Enemy of Good Government

from Kevin Williamson, It’s Time to Do Nothing about Guns But our passions can run away with us, especially in politics. Politics is not about policy: Politics is about tribe. Turn on Thom Hartmann’s radio program some time and, if you can stomach two minutes of it,...