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Stopping mass shooters like the one in Uvalde, Texas, will be harder than passing a law. Source: Young Men, Guns and Guardrails – WSJ

By: Michael Brendan Dougherty – nationalreview.com – May 25, 2022 Why do our global elites sound like they belong in a bad dystopian movie? Why can’t our leaders imagine anything other than a future of privation and control? Listen, just about everyone seems to have fallen for one conspiracy theory or another. Americans regularly confess as much to pollsters. In 2018, 66…

By: Jim Geraghty – nationalreview.com – May 25, 2022 On the menu today: Yet another horrific school shooting, and yet another call for legal changes that, had they been in place before the shooting, would not have changed the outcome. A few months ago, the National Institute of Justice, the research agency of the U.S. Department of Justice, and The Violence…

To understand the need for red flag laws, it’s important to back up and understand the different categories of American gun deaths and the tools we have to defeat gun violence.

The Southern Baptist Convention has released a nearly 300-page report revealing that its leaders “chose to protect the denomination from lawsuits” rather than those who were sexually abused by more than 700 pastors in its denomination.

An eighteen-year-old gunman killed at least nineteen children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, yesterday afternoon in what is now the deadliest school shooting in Texas history and at least the thirtieth shooting at a K–12 school in the US in 2022.

By: Phil Gramm & Mike Solon – wsj.com – May 23, 2022 Based on the erroneous notion that all value comes from labor, Marx assumed that the financier, entrepreneur and manager were noncontributing claimants on the fruits of the worker’s labor and that government could displace them and then “wither away” as growth occurred spontaneously. Most subsequent collectivists have assumed the same thing….

It had to happen. He’s mentioned it multiple times in interviews. No, it’s not the “I didn’t leave the Democrats, the Democrats left me” bit.

By: Jonathan Turley – msn.com – May 23, 2022 New York City Mayor Eric Adams, like other Democrats, recently framed the right to abortion in absolutist terms. Adams and others have argued that the decision to abort must be left entirely to the woman, without limitations. If adopted into law, that would mean a nine-month-old fetus could be aborted at will. It’s an extreme position,…

Embracing an absolute right to abortion is a legally significant window into how a politician interprets the Constitution. Source: Abortion without limits? Democrats speak of rights in absolutist terms

Starting in the spring of 2020, school boards and superintendents across the country faced a dreadful choice: Keep classrooms open and risk more COVID-19 deaths, or close schools and sacrifice children’s learning.