I Go to a School Where an Attack Was Foiled. Here's Why I'm Against Limiting Gun Rights.

March 7, 2018
Good morning from Washington, where House members intend to question the FBI about its performance in the case of the Florida school shooter. Rachel del Guidice reports. Lawmakers may look to Ohio for a program that helps make schools safer. Fred Lucas has details. We've also got arguments against more restrictions on guns from newcomer Nicole Martin and the seasoned Walter Williams. Plus: Anthony Kim and Patrick Tyrrell on the huge problem with steel tariffs, Tony Perkins on tax dollars helping Planned Parenthood's candidates, and Eric Teetsel on heartland pushback to transgenderism. It's farewell to Gary Cohn, the president's chief economic adviser, who announced his pending departure.
Commentary I Go to a School Where an Attack Was Foiled. Here's Why I'm Against Limiting Gun Rights. Four months before the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, my own school in Cherokee County, Georgia, was under serious threat in October from two 17-year-old students. Read More
Commentary Trump's Tariffs Would Be a Massive, Self-Inflicted Wound A new report utilizing the same economic model as the Commerce Department found that the net job losses caused by the proposed tariffs will be 146,000 jobs. Read More
News How This Ohio Program Trains Teachers in 12 States to Carry Guns A 14-year-old boy shot at two other students in Madison Junior/Senior High School in Ohio in a nonfatal encounter in February 2016. By that July, the Mad River district's Board of Education had voted to arm certain trained teachers and staff. Read More
Commentary Kansas Republicans Are Standing Up to Transgender Lies, Protecting Kids From Harm Fellow Kansans are suffering and dying because of the lie that one's sex is whatever a person believes it to be. The rate of attempted suicide for those who experience "gender dysphoria" is 41 percent—10 times the national average. Read More
Commentary Your Tax Money Makes Planned Parenthood a Political Kingmaker There's a real problem when "nonprofit" organizations receive direct taxpayer funding, and then turn around with a related entity and indirectly use those dollars to impact the political process. Read More
News House Majority Leader Says Lawmakers Will Question FBI on Parkland 'Failures' "We will also have the FBI up here talking to the Oversight and Judiciary [committees] on where the failures happened and why," says House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. Read More
Commentary Shootings Are a Morality Problem, Not a Gun Problem We must own up to the fact that laws and regulations alone cannot produce a civilized society. Read More
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