By Juliegrace Brufke House Democrats are torn over some of the members of their party, including leadership, fundraising off of their gun-control protest on the House floor – a move Republicans slammed for politicizing an act of terror for political gain. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and top members of the party – including Rep. John…
Ben Carson went on MSNBC on behalf of the Trump campaign to discuss the Democrats’ push to pass gun control legislation. Carson, attempting to strike a moderate tone, suggested that both sides of the debate are too locked into their beliefs and that true progress cannot be made unless we come together. “Let’s put on…
By Lina Bryce Howard Stern asserted that American’s have a right to bear arms and should be able to defend themselves from “wolves” in his most epic rant on his Sirius XM talk show. “I’m so upset about Orlando and what went down,” Stern said. “But I can’t believe these people would come out afterward and their answer…
A favorite argument of gun grabbers holds that the Second Amendment is obsolete because the Founders, crafting the Constitution and the Bill of Rights between 1787 and 1791, couldn’t have imagined the advanced firearms that are available to civilians today. They only wanted to protect the right to keep and bear muskets; clearly, that protection…
With ever growing political pressure to forsake due process in order to do something, some elected officials are standing tall in Congress. Despite the mass hysteria on the left and right following the tragedy in Florida, several members of Congress have remained level-headed and fought to protect the Second, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments. House Speaker…
2016 just keeps getting weirder. After Donald Trump caved on gun rights and indicated support for restricting ownership base on the federal government’s various terror watch lists, the NRA has also seemingly given in on the right to due process. That alone is enough to make the situation bizarre, but the fact that the American Civil…
Donald Trump has flipped on gun control and is now parroting a liberal policy point that jeopardizes all of our rights. Trump has indicated that he will meet with the NRA about supporting restrictions that would ban anyone on a terrorism watch list from buying firearms. Here’s the problem — people on watch lists haven’t been…
Libertarian Presidential Candidate Gary Johnson reiterated his pro-Second Amendment stance in light of the Orlando shooting in a phone interview with Reason Tuesday morning. “I understand how so many people can believe that if you restrict this kind of weapon you can prevent this kind of incident,” Johnson said. “But there’s just no evidence whatsoever…
By Casey Harper A New York Times editorial advocates for a new law allowing a secret court to take away citizens’ right to own a gun at the discretion of the federal government. Citing the Orlando terror attack that left 50 dead including the shooter and 53 wounded at a gay nightclub, the piece advocates for a…
The bodies had hardly cooled in Orlando before the usual suspects were clamoring for harsher measures to control guns in the United States. President Obama, Democratic members of Congress, and media elites have been pushing the familiar solution of severely restricting or banning certain types of firearms. “This massacre is therefore a further reminder of…