The current ban on handguns in the District of Columbia has not reduced violence in the city.

Good intentions don't necessarily make good laws. What counts is whether the laws ultimately save lives. Unfortunately, too many gun laws primarily disarm law-abiding citizens, not criminals.

Should we treat the Second Amendment like the rest of the Bill of Rights and assume it protects Americans against an over-intrusive government, as the Bush administration now argues?

Ambassador Bolton's review of John Fonte's book "Sovereignty vs. Submissions:  Will Americans Rule Themselves of be Ruled by Others?"

Only domestic politics can explain two of the Obama administration's most controversial moves: exporting illegal guns to Mexico and balking at building an oil pipeline from Canada.

Involuntary commitment is bound to raise some apprehensions and there are serious questions about how it should be implemented, but there are horrible costs to the policy our society has been following.

Gun violence has become an increasing concern to the general public, the media, and politicians, and many current ideas about controlling crime--for example, through juvenile gun bans, right-to-carry laws, and one-gun-a-month rules--involve controlling access to firearms. During this two-day conference, a group of academics will present for discussion their research...

Congress has never before passed and the Supreme Court has never upheld a law requiring individuals to buy a commercial product, as Obamacare does. On this the Obama Democrats, not Clarence Thomas and judges following his lead, are the ones sweeping aside precedent.