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  • Guns Haven’t Changed in America. People Have.

    Guns Haven’t Changed in America. People Have.0

    Having enjoyed my 82nd birthday, I am part of a group of about 50 million Americans who are 65 years of age or older. Those who are 90 or older were in school during the 1930s. My age cohort was in school during the 1940s. Baby boomers approaching their 70s were in school during the

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  • Guns and Schools: Can the Market do Better?

    Guns and Schools: Can the Market do Better?0

    There is no epidemic of gun violence in America; quite the opposite in fact. But last week’s shooting at a high school in Florida was a grim and jarring reminder of deep cultural problems lurking just beneath the veneer of our materially comfortable society. Those problems are beyond the scope of libertarianism per se, but

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  • Gunman Kills At Least 50 in Las Vegas, Thought to Be ‘Lone Wolf’

    Gunman Kills At Least 50 in Las Vegas, Thought to Be ‘Lone Wolf’0

    In what authorities are calling the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history, a gunman killed at least 50 people and injured more than 400 Sunday night at an outdoor country music concert in Las Vegas by firing from the 32nd floor of a hotel. The number of deaths surpasses the carnage from the Orlando

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  • Gun Violence Would Plummet If We Just Called off the Drug War

    Gun Violence Would Plummet If We Just Called off the Drug War0

    With the horrific shooting that recently took place in Las Vegas, debates over gun control have been given center stage in our media and politics once again. And while every pundit seems to have their own surefire way of combatting gun violence, they all gloss over the elephant in the room. Which is, although mass

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  • Gun Shop Creates World’s Best-Ever Receipt

    Gun Shop Creates World’s Best-Ever Receipt1

    I don’t often use the literary tactic of referring to something as the “best-ever.” Indeed, the only time that phrase appeared in the title of a column was back in 2014 when I smugly wrote about the collapse of government-run single-payer healthcare in Vermont. Recalling what Justice Brandeis wrote about states being the “laboratories of

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  • Gun Control: We’re Avoiding It During COVID-19 So Far

    Gun Control: We’re Avoiding It During COVID-19 So Far0

    If history has taught us anything, it’s that a crisis is the lifeblood of state growth. The coronavirus saga offers a treasure trove of power grabs that elected officials are seeking to ram through while Americans must make significant readjustments in their daily lives due to state-imposed shutdowns around the nation. Some of the attempts

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