Does a ‘Code of Silence’ Among Students, Parents Abet School Shootings?
School shootings can be averted when parents, school authorities and students themselves take seriously the signals indicating potential violence from troubled youths, and communicate their concerns...
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Americans and Guns: Are the Politics Changing?
Igor Volsky. Photo by Peter Dohan Igor Volsky learned to tell the difference between what politicians say and what they do when he was growing up in the former Soviet Union. The lesson came back to...
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Background Checks Alone Won’t Stop Gun Violence: Experts
Although tougher background checks dominate today’s gun control conversation, they may not be enough to meaningfully reduce gun violence. Three violence prevention experts say intervention,...
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‘He’s Not Just a Number’: Are Gun Deaths Eclipsed by Opioid Crisis?
On Oct. 30, 2018, Trevonte Kirkwood, 27, of Bloomington, Illinois died of multiple gunshot wounds. He was one of nine people shot and killed in the Bloomington-Normal metropolitan area in 2018. That’s...
View ArticleWill Bump Stock Owners Escape Federal Ban?
Roughly half a million bump stock owners could wake up facing felony charges on Tuesday due to a federal rule change retroactively classifying bump stocks as machine guns. That is, unless the Bureau...
View ArticleDo Gun-Owners Need Privacy Protection From ‘Harassing’ Doctors?
Lawful gun owners have a right to be protected from “harassment” by physicians who lecture them about the dangers of firearms, according to an Arkansas doctor. Writing in the Louisiana Law Review, Dr....
View ArticleThe Deadly Link Between Guns and Domestic Violence
In 2011, Deborah Wigg, a 39-year-old mother of two from Virginia Beach, Va., obtained a protective order against her husband after asserting that his abusive behavior had escalated. In her...
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