If We Want to Implement a Pointless Ban of Bump Stocks We’re Going to Need New Laws
President Donald Trump's administration has announced a new ban for bump stocks. These are simple mechanical devices which make it...
Guns
Stop Creating False Equivalency Between Lawful Speakers and Those Who Try to Silence Them
Over the weekend there was a demonstration organized by 2nd amendment supporters in opposition to a proposed ballot measure instituting...
A North Dakota School May Be Getting AR-15’s for Security, and What’s the Big Deal?
For some reason a request put in by the Bismarck Police Department for AR-15's, to be kept (and hopefully never...
Podcast: Are You Afraid of 3D Printed Guns?
We talked about the controversy over 3D printed guns on the radio show today. Also Daryl Lies from the North...
We Should Stop Lowering the Flags for Mass Shootings
Last night the Washington Post reported that President Donald Trump was refusing to order the nation's flags lowered as a gesture...
Anti-Gun Parkland Students Expected to Visit Fargo/Moorhead, Bismarck, and Standing Rock This Month
This summer some of the students from Parkland High School, those who are now being used in messaging campaigns by...
Would Senator Heitkamp Support the Use of Secret Lists to Deny Women Abortions?
It's an election year, and Democratic Senator Heidi Heitkamp is facing re-election in an increasingly red state as one of...
Why Do We Need Facts and Reason When We Can Just Feel Things?
My print column last Sunday made two points. First, that schools shouldn't have excused students for the anti-gun protests. Second...
On Gun Control Will Heitkamp Side With North Dakotans or Her Hollywood Fundraisers?
"Dems want gun control, but worry it could cost them midterms," a headline from The Hill reads. Left-wing groups are...
The Argument for Gun Control Is Myopic and Shallow
Over the weekend the Fargo Forum published an editorial calling for the reinstatement of an assault weapons ban that was as...
