Here's a comprehensive breakdown of gun policies being promoted by the current crop of candidates provided by the Washington Free Beacon. It includes a pretty thorough explanation of what these policies are and the effects (if any) they might have on incidents according to recent studies.

For a more in depth discussion beyond this Praesidium video of Gun Free Zones and the data that drives them, check out the excerpt from my friend, and Sociology Professor at Wake Forest University, David Yamane's blog article below. There are several links in the original article from his well documented research worth investigating. Research on Investigating the New York Times’ Dangerous Gun Myths, Misleading Anti-Gun Headline from Associated Press, Unhelpful Exaggeration of Data on “School Shootings” Sets Back Scholarship on Gun Violence, and others…

Excellent read by Robyn Sandoval. Very enlightening article and a very good conversation starter.

In 1651, Thomas Hobbes wrote that free people consent to give up their individual rights in order to establish a political community, i.e., civil society, which establishes laws so that everyone can enjoy security. Although simplistic, this theory supports the following arguments for gun control:

I love whisk(e)y. My love knows almost no boundaries. American, Canadian, Indian, Irish, Japanese, Scotch, Texas. Barley, corn, rye, wheat. Neat, rocks, mixed.

To fuel my love I have been reading Reid Mitenbuler’s recent book, Bourbon Empire: The Past and Future of America’s Whiskey.

Early on, Mitenbuler introduces the first alcohol distiller among the British colonists, George Thorpe. Around 1620, Thorpe first distilled alcohol from Indian corn mash in the Berkeley settlement near Jamestown, Virginia. (See another account of this here.)

This wasn’t because without the distilled spirit the colonists would be tee-totalers. Nay. Mitenbuler makes clear that the colonists loaded their ships with beer for their trips across the Atlantic and to sustain them in the colonies.