By Mark | December 15, 2012
As you’ve no doubt heard, a gunman entered an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut yesterday morning, taking the lives of 20 children (all 6 and 7 years old) and 6 adults. It’s a heartbreaking story, and I don’t know that there’s anything that I can say that hasn’t already been said better by our obviously […]
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By Mark | September 28, 2010
According to a consortium of Libertarian groups on the campus of UT Austin, tonight’s speech by “More Guns, Less Crime” author John Lott, has been cancelled on account of the masked gunman with the AK-47 who closed down the school this morning.