Good Citizens and Guns

May 3, 2008 | Don B. Kates, Jr.

“Gun-free zone” policies which disarm everyone (except the perpetrators) facilitate murder rather than precluding it.

In Election Season, Mum’s the Word about Gun Control

February 7, 2008 | Don B. Kates, Jr.

Contrary to what anti-gun advocates predicted, after 5,000,000 carry permits have been issued, violent crime has dropped dramatically — and virtually no gun-related crimes have been committed by ordinary people with carry permits.

Not Targeting “Assault Weapons”

September 27, 2004 | Don B. Kates, Jr.

The assault weapons ban was not renewed because, as one scholar noted, the ban was “sort of like trying to reduce motor vehicle crashes by banning cars with flames painted on the side.”