As technologies evolve, we habitually regulate their use. Cars did not exist in the eighteenth century; the Constitution can offer no guidance about them. So, we invented a body of traffic laws in the cause of public safety. As telephone technology has evolved from the device Alexander Graham ...
“No one will lay a finger on your firearms,” and, boasted that while president he “did nothing” to curb guns. Now, Trump has been the target of two attempted assassinations in close to two months, with both assailants carrying an assault-style weapon. The man ...
The fight for more stringent gun control laws derives in part from the idea that more guns mean more violence. As it turns out, though, in the United States and the rest of the developed world, total murder and suicide rates, from all causes, do not increase with rates of gun ownership...
As for children and teens who commit school shootings, the Brookings Institute suggested that about half of school shooters havefeelings of rejection and were often bullied. Also, half have a history of mental health disorders. The study added that the majority of children with psychological problem...
The homicide remains unsolved. No suspect has been charged. The weapon, which the St. Louis police believe to be a handgun, has not been recovered. The investigation remains open. There is nothing extraordinary about the case — other than perhaps how routine this kind of gun play has become...
Certain versions of the facts are tagged as “misinformation”, a new term that has only recently been introduced, a very efficient weapon of war it is, too. In reality however, there is no such thing as misinformation. There is information (facts and opinions) and there is “...
We saw a level of police presence no different than we do in Cincinnati or Boston. (The only “assault style” weapon we saw was in the hands of an airport security guard – in Atlanta.) And we always felt relaxed without any fear of violence. The occasional Cuban might ask for a “...
(most modern general-purpose handguns) and Prohibited weapons which is everything else – Prohibited weapon licences generally exist just for people who owned these guns before the laws changed (Canada didn’t generally just crush things) but people are allowed to use them, sell them to other...
“Drones have really become the counterterrorism weapon of choice for the Obama administration,” says Rosa Brooks, a Georgetown law professor who helped establish a new Pentagon office devoted to legal and humanitarian policy. “What I don’t think has happened enough is taking a big step back...
The central insight is that I do it for myself only, satisfying my own goals and desires. I love driving, but my daily is not the most fascinating, enthusiastic vehicle ever, not a classic, not an overpowered brapping weapon, not a cambered scraper. But I enjoy driving it daily. Also...