MORE ON GUN-FREE ZONES
It has long been known that a large majority of mass murders in public take place in “gun-free zones,” where it is unlikely that any of the potential victims will be armed and capable...
GRAND JURIES
The grand jury concept has been much in the news of late. People with axes to grind (including multiple talking heads on CNN) decry the fact that grand juries in Missouri and New York...
MALUM PROHIBITUM
In legal theory, crimes are divided between malum prohibitum and malum in se. Translated from Latin, malum in se means that the thing being described is evil in and of itself, and is probably...
SYG IGNORANCE: THE CURE IS KNOWLEDGE
Blatant misinformation about Stand Your Ground laws and principles continues to abound. Sometimes, when you have to tell someone “You don’t know what you’re talking about,” it’s not an insult, but simply a statement...
THRESHOLDS
With our fifty-state patchwork quilt of gun laws, it’s often difficult to know where the armed citizen is legal, and where he or she is not. I constantly check what I consider to be...