Outside the Beltway

The Supreme Court, unsurprisingly, ruled that lying on a Federal form about a gun purchase is, in fact, a crime.

The tragedy in Santa Barbara will. inevitably, revive the same old gun debate. But can it ever evolve beyond shouting?

The Second Amendment isn’t broken, and you don’t fix things that aren’t broken.

A Federal Judge in New York upholds, for the most part, that state’s new gun control law.

Starbucks is kindly asking customers not to bring guns to their stores.

A gun rights victory at the ballot box in Colorado.

An absolutely ridiculous criminal case out of West Virginia.

The Boston Marathon bombing attacks are leading some politicians to make wildly absurd statements.

The Supreme Court has ducked an opportunity to expand the holdings in D.C. v. Heller

The D.C. Circuit now has four vacancies out of eleven seats.

Bill Clinton has a warning for his fellow Democrats.

Josh Marshall explains what it’s like to be a non-gun person in a very pro-gun culture.

Would Liability Insurance Help Minimize Threats to Public Safety?

Sharing some thoughts and soliciting feedback on what the 2nd amendment means.

Conor Friedersdorf contends “The U.S. Already Had a Conversation About Guns—and the Pro Side Won.”

Will the massacre of twenty children in a Connecticut elementary school mark a turning point in America’s gun culture? Don’t count on it.

The fact that yesterday’s shooting at the Empire State Building resulted in nine civilians being injured by police bullets raises several questions.

..because apparently we can apply a modern definition of “arms” to the constitution, but not modern understandings of the word “citizens.”

Don’t look for an effort to enact new gun laws in the wake of the Aurora shootings.

The health care battle is formally joined in the Supreme Court.

A new look at Clarence Thomas’s 20 years on the Supreme Court, from a critic, is surprisingly positive.

How would a Democrat-equivalent of Rick Perry be received?

Is it reasonable to state that countries with less guns are more likely to become tyrannical than countries with more guns?

Two things: 1) one of the best things I have seen on this topic and 2) and a re-iteration on what I think is the broader issue here.

If there’s anything all sides should be able to agree on after several days of back-and-forth is that most of us didn’t really know the story.

More on the strategery of civility.

UQ’s Thoreau makes a compelling point: “Usually people blame the 2nd amendment for a mass shooting. This time they’re blaming the 1st. But why not all the others?”

The relationships between inflammatory rhetoric and political violence is complicated.

Should we limit the number of rounds guns can hold in order to minimize shooting sprees?