Dr. John Lott talked about the Trump administration’s decision to roll back an Obama administration rule on background checks for gun purchases. The conversation explains how Obama’s rule banned gun ownership by Social Security recipients who received help on their finances and how the media and various politicians have inaccurately described those rules.
New Research: The worst 2% of U.S. counties produce an even larger share of firearm murders than of murders overall. Those counties account for 53% of all murders but 57% of firearm murders. U.S. murders are concentrated far more heavily than Canada’s and Australia’s.
We have previously examined how heavily murders concentrate in the United States, but this is our first analysis of firearm homicide concentration. The first two graphs show that the worst 2% to 5% of counties account for a share of firearm murders about four...
Quit messing with our rights. What, exactly, are you expecting to accomplish? Had guns most of my life and briefly had an FFL & State license. No one’s been shot, or even at-
I am a responsible citizen. I do believe in the right to self defense.
The problem gun owners are faced with is the mindset of both the federal and state governments. In my State (California) Governor Brown is in the process of taking away or limiting the rights of gun owners.