by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jul 2, 2017 | • Politics, Guns & The 2nd Amendment
More Guns, Less Crime? 37 Years of Data Suggest the Opposite Is True Analyzing 37 years of data, a Stanford team finds no basis for a theory at the heart of the modern gun-rights movement. In the four decades that the modern, militant gun rights movement has been...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 15, 2017 | • Politics, Guns & The 2nd Amendment
My Message to Republicans Following the Shooting in Virginia Whenever some sort of tragedy occurs, I do my best to not overly-politicize it because I feel that does a disservice to the victims. Thankfully no victims died from Wednesday’s shooting at a baseball...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 15, 2017 | • Politics, Guns & The 2nd Amendment
Mass shootings since Sandy Hook, in one map In December 2012, a gunman walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and killed 20 children, six adults, and himself. Since then, there have been at least mass shootings, with at least people killed...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 8, 2017 | • Politics, Domestic Terrorism, Donald Trump, Guns & The 2nd Amendment, Terrorism
Toddlers Have Shot More People in the US Than Muslim Terrorists in 2016 Donald Trump has made a big deal out of barring Muslims from entering the United States on the basis that some might be terrorists sneaking in to stage attacks. But the real front line in...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 2, 2017 | • Politics, Guns & The 2nd Amendment
The psychology of why 94 deaths from terrorism are scarier than 301,797 deaths from guns According to the New America Foundation, jihadists killed 94 people inside the United States between 2005 and 2015. During that same time period, 301,797 people in the US were...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Sep 19, 2016 | Guns & The 2nd Amendment
Half of all guns in the US are owned by 3% of Americans, data shows Americans own an estimated 265m guns, more than one gun for every American adult, according to the most definitive portrait of US gun ownership in two decades. But the new survey estimates that 130m...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Aug 17, 2016 | Guns & The 2nd Amendment
By the NRA’s standards, the last place a shooter should have succeeded in committing a massacre would be in a heavily armed crowd. However, the roughly 100 police officers present were unable to stop the extremely mobile, well-prepared gunman. The “Good Guy With...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 22, 2016 | Guns & The 2nd Amendment
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by J. Jerrald Hayes | Feb 8, 2016 | Guns & The 2nd Amendment
The Second Amendment doesn’t say what you think it...
