Go Figure: Gang Violence Has More to Do With Emotion Than Economics
Academics and other “experts” assume a rational weighing of possible benefit and loss by gang members, while accounts of actual shootings show something very different.
Academics and other “experts” assume a rational weighing of possible benefit and loss by gang members, while accounts of actual shootings show something very different.
More than 150 veterans and their families enjoyed some trigger time as a way for the firearm industry and San Antonio Police Department to offer a collective “thank you” to vets and their families for their service and sacrifice.
If you’re honestly trying to understand what’s killing people, the data point squarely to mental health, social isolation, substance abuse and access to care – not to some uniquely dangerous “gun culture” in Minnesota.
Despite the roadblocks erected to slow New Yorkers from exercising their constitutional rights, the firearm industry remains committed to ensuring those rights cannot be unconstitutionally infringed.
Male voters are not going to give up their rights just to make Democrats feel good about themselves.
Anti-gun extremists aren’t sending these demand letters with a goal of public safety but to seize control of the firearms industry through administrative action and lawfare.
Keeping the multitude of America’s various hunting traditions alive isn’t just meaningful and special for personal and familial reasons. It’s also important for other simple reasons — dollars and cents.
The answer isn’t more lawsuits, it’s more political firepower. That means mobilizing the grassroots to confront legislators directly, not waiting for a judge to do it for them.
Unlike other “solutions” touted by gun-controllers that only limit the rights of law-abiding Americans while mostly ignoring the criminals breaking the law, Utah’s approach is unapologetically practical.
Zohran Mamdani’s rise is no accident. It’s a warning. As mayor of America’s largest city, has a stage big enough to normalize the idea that disarming citizens is simply “common sense.”