In Gun Fight, Adam Winkler misses the point that the only way to reduce homicides is to reduce the number of handguns.
Carl Bogus
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
What’s Killing Conservatism?
Self-destruction is inevitable when a rigid ideology of disdain for government fully comes to power.
Posted inFeatures
Learning to Love the Gun
Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture, Michael A. Bellesiles. Alfred A. Knopf, 603 pages, $30.00. It is as if Michael A. Bellesiles has overturned a table on which rested everything we thought we knew about guns in early America. The image of the rifle hanging over every American mantel, of settlers depending […]
Posted inEconomic Policy
The Contract and the Consumer
The conservatives haven’t made “tort reform” a crusade to stop a flood of products liability litigation. There is no such flood. This is a straight payoff to their benefactors.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Strong Case for Gun Control
While abhorring violence, Americans genuinely believe that gun control laws cannot reduce violent crime because criminals will not give up their guns. But some new research shows that gun control, properly designed, can be effective as well as consti