Democrats love to claim that Republicans have only one answer to gun violence: thoughts and prayers. The reality is, Democrats are the ones stuck on a single, recycled answer — banning guns. Every tragedy becomes another excuse to trot out the same tired talking point, as if outlawing firearms will…

On December 29, 1890, the U.S. government showed the deadly cost of disarmament when it demanded guns be surrendered “for your own safety.” At Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota, federal troops surrounded a camp of Lakota Sioux and ordered them to surrender their firearms. Most complied. They trusted —…

When the Minnesota Catholic school shooter’s journal was deciphered, one passage stood out like a siren in the night: “I am sick of my hair. I want to chop it off. I only keep it because it is pretty much my last shred of being trans. I am tired of…

Much of the modern gun control debate is framed around restricting access to firearms. After every mass shooting, we hear calls for bans — bans on certain rifles, so-called “assault weapons,” or “high-capacity magazines.” The underlying assumption is simple: if the weapon is harder to obtain, the violence will diminish….

News broke this week that Glock, Inc. sent a letter to Oklahoma Representative David Hardin, chair of the House Public Safety Committee, expressing support for state legislation banning machine gun conversion devices (MCDs)—the so-called “Glock switches” that criminals use to illegally convert pistols into full-auto firearms. At first glance, the…

After the tragedy in Minneapolis, critics sneered: “Thoughts and prayers are not enough. Those children were literally praying when they were gunned down.” It’s a painful statement, and at first glance it seems to carry weight. But it rests on a deep misunderstanding—of God, of free will, and of what…

On the morning of August 27, 2025, the unthinkable happened at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis. During morning Mass, a gunman stood outside the sanctuary and fired through the stained-glass windows at children and parishioners. Two children were killed and seventeen others injured before the attacker died by suicide in…