No, you can’t blame the Republicans for lack of gun control

Yesterday was a victory for the United States - the Senate prevented shredding the 1st, 4th, 5th, 8th, and 14th amendments in order for Senate Democrats to restrict the 2nd. This is being played as Republican's wanting to sell guns to ISIS. I'm not joking, that's actually what Sen Chris Murphy stated: We’ve got to make …

Dave Kopel on “The Costs and Consequences of Gun Control”

Dave Kopel again speaks wisdom with this guest post in WaPo's The Volokh Conspiracy column: By far the single most effective step we could take to reduce violent crime would be to greatly increase spending to help the severely mentally ill. The biggest crime reduction would be fewer crimes against the mentally ill, since they are …