Many may recall with fondness the Mad magazine cartoon Spy vs. Spy, involving two lookalike deadly agents, black versus white, continually engaged in plots to destroy the other (with apologies to William Barr). VoxFairfax previously reported (March 17, Dumbing Down… Read More ›
Has partisanship come to this? Didn’t it used to be a safe bet that law-enforcement personnel would enforce all laws, whether or not they personally agree with them? No longer—at least when it comes to guns. As states have approved dozens… Read More ›
Some of us who recall our civics lessons vaguely remember that President Lincoln and the Civil War settled the belief that a state could nullify a law of Congress (it cannot). However, recent research indicates that a number of states… Read More ›
Editors’ Note: Reprinted from The New York Times, January 30, 2019. An obscure New York City gun case could tempt the justices to make broad pronouncements about a right they haven’t addressed in a decade. Is there a more enigmatic… Read More ›
Not content simply to spew its pro-gun message, the National Rifle Association now complains that doctors who point out the terrible effects that bullets have on human beings should, basically, mind their own business. Chutzpah in the extreme! For the… Read More ›
Rarely in my lifetime have I seen the type of civic engagement schoolchildren and their supporters demonstrated in Washington and other major cities throughout the country.… These demonstration demand our respect. They reveal the broad public support for legislation to… Read More ›
Virtually everyone is familiar with the success of the National Rifle Association (NRA) in defeating gun control efforts and expanding gun ownership of firearms. This effort has been accompanied by the NRA’s relentless state-by-state activities to encourage legislatures to broaden… Read More ›