WE HAVE A RIGHT to free speech. It is perhaps our most celebrated right as Americans. But no one has the right to cry “fire” in a crowded theater. Every right is subject to the tests of common sense, common decency, and a fair understanding of how the exercise of one right actually damages the exercise […]
Gun Rights
Gun control redux
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. And again, and again. US Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat running for president, and US Rep. Hank Johnson, a Georgia Democrat, on Thursday introduced the Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety Act, a bill the sponsors say, “includes and builds upon Congressional Democrats’ strongest gun safety […]
Oh, shoot, what did Trump say now?
Listen to the tape. If all you do is read the stories or the transcripts of what Donald Trump said regarding Hillary Clinton and guns, there surely is some wiggle room in there for interpretation, though not a three-lane highway. But if you listen to the speech itself, there is no denying what Trump was […]