
A Locked and Loaded Covenant: The Religious Roots of America’s Gun Culture
Garry Wills was being only slightly ironic when he wrote (in the wake of the…
Read MoreGarry Wills was being only slightly ironic when he wrote (in the wake of the…
Read MoreLast night, as news of the shootings in San Bernardino was being digested, the Twitterverse…
Read MoreLast fall, Wall Street Journal editorialists such as Peggy Noonan and Karl Rove were full of confident predictions about the election. Rove had his polls, Noonan her “vibrations,” each telling them of the near surety of a Romney victory.
Read MoreLogic is the key to the story. In this case, once we know how many thousands of Americans are killed by guns each year and know that places with the fewest guns have the fewest murders, it’s only logical to regulate gun ownership and possession. But even the most convincing logic can rarely defeat a rich, emotionally powerfully, historically deep-rooted myth. And the gun control advocates’ progressive myth is depressingly thin and emotionally weak compared to the thick, potent store of myth wielded by their opponents.
Read MoreGerald Gay’s Second Amendment extremism and Islam.
Read MoreIn the wake of the June 28th Supreme Court ruling, thoughts on the gun’s sacred role in US culture and our God-given right to be violent…
Read MoreA complement to Gary Laderman’s column on the gun-as-sacred-object: scholar Lou Ruprecht’s scriptural encounter with the Second Amendment and the NRA in a gun debate gone astray.
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