by Dan Mitchell | Oct 4, 2017 | Blogs, Crime, Society
Over the years, I’ve been pleasantly surprised to find intellectuals on the left who are willing to risk opprobrium from their ideological peers by acknowledging that gun control doesn’t make sense. In 2012, I shared some important observations from Jeffrey Goldberg,...
by Dan Mitchell | Jun 6, 2017 | Blogs, Europe
Defenders of civil liberties have won big victories against gun control in the United States. The fight certainly isn’t over, to be sure, but most Americans have some degree of freedom to own guns, carry guns, and protect themselves with guns. By contrast, the...
by Dan Mitchell | Apr 23, 2017 | Blogs, Education
Several years ago, I would regularly share horror stories about innocent kids being abused by politically correct government school administrators who overreacted to anything remotely resembling a gun. I even had a U.S. vs. U.K. stupidity contest that featured many...
by Dan Mitchell | Dec 1, 2016 | Big Government, Blogs, Crime, Society
When I write about gun control, I generally make two arguments. First, criminals are lawbreakers, so the notion that they will be disarmed because of gun control is a fantasy. Crooks and thugs who really want a gun will always have access to black-market weapons....
by Dan Mitchell | Sep 25, 2016 | Blogs, Crime, Society
I like when leftists accidentally make the case for limited government. The IMF, for instance, accidentally put together some solid evidence showing that a value-added tax is a money machine for bigger government. A story in the New York Times, meanwhile, accidentally...
