by Dan Mitchell | May 1, 2022 | Blogs, Crime, Society
Economics in part is the analysis of how people respond to incentives (do high tax rates encourage or discourage work, do trade barriers increase or decrease prosperity, etc). This type of analysis also applies to the study of crime. For instance, do guns...
by Dan Mitchell | Mar 20, 2022 | Blogs, Crime, Society
Two years ago, I rhetorically asked whether the movement for gun control was dead. But, given how states have been expanding civil liberties for gun owners, perhaps I should have asked about the vitality of the movement for gun rights. For instance,...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 23, 2022 | Blogs, Society
When I wrote about race and gun control two years ago, I included five short videos to help show the value of the 2nd Amendment for minorities. For today’s column on the same topic, we’ll start with this full-length video. If you don’t have time to...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 12, 2021 | Blogs, Education
I don’t like Joe Biden being a lackey of the teacher unions, and I think the entire Department of Education should be eliminated. That being said, intervention from Washington is the not the main cause of America’s education problems. The real...
by Dan Mitchell | May 31, 2021 | Blogs, Crime, Society
Charles Blow is a doctrinaire left-wing columnist for the New York Times. But I applauded him late last year for expressing sympathy for black gun ownership. He’s certainly not a full-blown supporter of the Second Amendment. And I don’t...
