by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 13, 2017 | • Politics, Guns & The 2nd Amendment
More Guns Do Not Stop More Crimes, Evidence Shows After I pulled the trigger and recovered from the recoil, I slowly refocused my eyes on the target. There it was-a tiny but distinct circle next to the zombie’s eye, the first bullet hole I’d ever made. I...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 17, 2017 | • Politics, Guns & The 2nd Amendment
What the founding fathers actually meant by the Second Amendment might surprise you The Second Amendment is one of the most frequently cited provisions in the American Constitution, but also one of the most poorly understood. The 27 words that constitute the Second...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 15, 2017 | • Politics, Guns & The 2nd Amendment
How Chicago Gets Its Guns – ProPublica It’s not big trafficking rings. Mostly, it’s through little guys like John...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 10, 2017 | • Politics, Guns & The 2nd Amendment
FACT CHECK: Is Chicago Proof That Gun Laws Don’t Work? In the wake of the horrific shooting in Las Vegas this week, the White House faced questions about whether President Trump would support stricter gun legislation. Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 7, 2017 | • Politics, Guns & The 2nd Amendment
Opinion | Confessions of a Sensible Gun Owner Our family has moved three times in the past five years, and each move has necessitated a reckoning with where and how my guns are stored. My armory is small by American standards: two shotguns and a rifle. I don’t...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 7, 2017 | • Politics, Guns & The 2nd Amendment
Trevor Noah Destroys Sean Hannity For His Delusional Las Vegas Response “According to Sean Hannity, what really stops a bad guy with a gun is a Sean Hannity with a gun,” Noah said on Tuesday’s broadcast of “The Daily Show.” Noah played a...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 6, 2017 | • Politics, Guns & The 2nd Amendment
Just three percent of adults own half of America’s guns Just 3 percent of American adults own half of the nation’s firearms, according to the results of a Harvard-Northeastern survey of 4,000 gun owners. The survey’s findings support other research...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 5, 2017 | • Politics, Guns & The 2nd Amendment
Analysis | Why gun violence research has been shut down for 20 years The political positions taken up after the Las Vegas massacre are too familiar. Democratic leaders, such as U.S. senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), immediately called for...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 5, 2017 | • Politics, Guns & The 2nd Amendment
Taibbi: The Gun Lobby Is Down to Its Last, Unconvincing Excuse As of this writing, the death toll in Las Vegas is 59, with over 527 injured, making it easily the deadliest gun massacre in modern U.S. history. (Characteristically, there have been some deadlier ones in...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 3, 2017 | Guns & The 2nd Amendment
The White Privilege of The “Lone Wolf” Shooter Last night, the United States experienced the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. At least 58 people are dead and over 500 more wounded. No, that’s not a typo: more than 500 were injured...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 3, 2017 | Guns & The 2nd Amendment
White American men are a bigger domestic terrorist threat than Muslim foreigners When President Donald Trump signed his since-revised executive order banning people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States, he claimed it was to protect...
