Founder of Black Guns Matter and current candidate for Philadelphia City Counsel Maj Toure was one of the panel speakers at the the House, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security hearing on “Community Responses to Gun Violence in our Cities”....
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Trump: Gun Grabber
by George Joseph | Nov 27, 2018 | Featured Articles, Politics
On the evening of Nov. 30, 2015, Adarius Montrells Sims of Birmingham, Alabama, was driving his gold Grand Am home. Tired after hanging out all night, he fell asleep at the wheel. The car crashed, and medics found Sims unconscious. After the crash, a police officer...
Cop Kills Man
by Emily Sullivan | Nov 15, 2018 | Featured Articles, Politics
When police arrived after reports of a shooting over the weekend at a bar outside Chicago, witnesses say Jemel Roberson, a 26-year-old security guard who worked there, had already subdued the alleged assailant in the parking lot, pinning him to the ground. Adam...
How America’s Gun Violence Epidemic May Have Roots in Overseas War Zones
by Will Porter | Jul 11, 2018 | Featured Articles, Politics
In recent months a string of school shootings in the United States has rekindled the debate over gun violence, its causes and what can be done to stop it. But amid endless talk of school shootings and AR-15s, a large piece of the puzzle has been left conspicuously...
Video of Vegas Shooter Finally Released: Here's How He Brought the Guns In
by James Holbrooks | Mar 22, 2018 | Blog
This article originally appeared at Anti-Media. Las Vegas, NV — Newly released surveillance footage from Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino shows that Stephen Paddock, the man who committed the worst mass shooting in modern American history, acted...
Video of Vegas Shooter Finally Released: Here’s How He Brought the Guns In
by James Holbrooks | Mar 22, 2018 | Blog
This article originally appeared at Anti-Media. Las Vegas, NV — Newly released surveillance footage from Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino shows that Stephen Paddock, the man who committed the worst mass shooting in modern American history, acted...
Google Tried to Censor What Americans Can Buy Online — And It Totally Backfired
by James Holbrooks | Mar 1, 2018 | Blog
This article originally appeared at Anti-Media. Very silently — and very temporarily — this week Google appeared to have chosen a side in the gun control debate in the wake of the recent school shooting in Florida that left 17 people dead. Disappointingly,...
TGIF: Overcoming Confirmation Bias on Guns
by Sheldon Richman | Oct 6, 2017 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Confirmation bias is one of the great obstacles to making the practical case for liberty. People see in events what they want to see. I think of the joke about the person who planned to take his hyperactive dog on a train trip and asked his veterinarian for a...
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My Testimony Before the Maine State Senate
In support of Ld 1054, Defend the Guard legislation: Thank you all so much for the opportunity to testify before your committee today. Today is the 20th anniversary of the beginning of Iraq War II. The consensus now is that we should not have done it. Iraq was not...
These Iraq War Supporters Are Still in Congress
On March 19, 2003 the United States began its military invasion of Iraq. The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq passed Congress in October 2002, with 296 congressmen and 77 senators voting in favor of giving President George W. Bush carte blanche...
Laci Green is Wrong: Democratic Competition vs. Free Market Competition
In environments where there's a lot of competition, people tend to lie out their ass and you can apply this to any competitive situation. Take capitalism. As industrialization took full effect, the Federal Government had to interfere because there was so much false...
Empower the Workers: Decriminalize Economic Activity Between Consenting Adults
The most reliable and effective protection for most workers is provided by the existence of many employers. As we have seen, a person who has only one possible employer has little or no protection. The employers who protect a worker are those who would like to hire...
Chris Rock’s New Special Exposes His Political Ignorance
A common claim among Democrats is that, "It's not that people don't want to be educated, they just haven't been given the opportunity, thus government spending on education needs to increase." If there were ever a group of people capable of "educating" themselves it...
War and Delusion: A Critical Examination
In this episode of the Protestant Libertarian Podcast, Alex Bernardo sits down once again with Laurie Calhoun. Laurie is a philosopher, a cultural critic and an author. She is a senior fellow at the Libertarian Institute, where she regularly writes articles analyzing...
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