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Clicking on banner ads keeps JWR alive Jewish World Review August 5, 1999 /23 Av, 5759 Thomas Sowell Gunning for guns NOW THAT THE MASS SHOOTINGS in Atlanta have led to predictable demands for more federal gun control laws, let us at least make an effort to think rationally. Is the way to prevent more tragedies like the one in Atlanta to pass laws ensuring that virtually all Americans will be as helpless as those who were shot and killed by Matt Barton? Does that make any sense? When people ask emotionally, "How can we stop these things?" the most ...

Reducing crime is not the true aim of the gun-control crowd Published in The Orlando Sentinel on June 22, 1999. The argument over gun-control measures is an argument over how many restrictions will be placed on the rights of honest citizens. The argument has nothing to do with the National Rifle Association. The neo-totalitarians in America are nothing if not unoriginal. They follow a fixed pattern. They create a straw man, demonize the straw man, then frame the argument as a contest between good and the evil demon. In the case of gun control, the NRA is the designated ...