Hurd represented Uvalde, Texas from 2014-2021. Here is a taste of his piece at The New York Times: We are not helpless, and if the people we elect to address our country’s tough challenges think nothing can or should be...
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Gerson: The GOP spin on guns is “wrong–morally and legally”
Here is Michael Gerson’s recent Washington Post column: Is the slaughter of innocents the unavoidable price of freedom? A significant group of Americans believe it is. In a recent CBS-YouGov poll, 44 percent of Republicans agreed that mass shootings are...
What we have said about guns and gun control over the years
Despite what I have heard from a few folks in the last day or two, I think we’ve been pretty consistent over the years: May 28, 2021: When it comes to the Second Amendment, Matt Gaetz has no clue March...
On “thoughts and prayers” and “God-given rights”
I know I just reposted this piece a few days ago after the Buffalo shooting, but it continues to represent my thinking about these mass shootings. Here is what I wrote at The Washington Post in August 2019: In the...
It’s time for gun rights advocates to stop “looking the other way”
Conservative Washington Post columnist Henry Olsen calls out his fellow conservatives in the wake of the Buffalo shooting. Here is a taste of his piece: Yes, it’s inevitable that some mass shootings will occur in any society with private gun...
When it comes to the Second Amendment, Matt Gaetz has no clue
Watch the Florida congressman in action at a recent rally: Actually… no. Here is Saul Cornell, our best historian of the Second Amendment, writing in 2012: The founders had a word for a bunch of farmers marching with guns without...
Jack Hibbs offers an “exclusive teaching” about the coming “Civil War,” the “God-given right” to own guns, the “great blessing” of COVID-19, the diseased immigrants coming “from the Middle East and Africa,” and why mask-wearers lack faith
This weekend the American Conservative Union is hosting its annual Conservative Political Action Conference or CPAC. Learn more about the line-up here. Donald Trump will speak on Sunday. Let’s see what some of his favorite evangelicals are up to these...