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ifeminists March 30, 2005 Wendy McElroy	Mother Sues Cops For Failing to Protect Kids As long as restraining orders are "standard" and "perfunctory" they lose all value as indications of possible violence. Perhaps the police would take them seriously if they were issued only after a genuine threat of violence had been established.
Reason May 2005 Kohn et al.	Straight Shooting on Gun Control A debate about gun control from four viewpoints.
ifeminists November 16, 2005 Wendy McElroy	Girls, Get Your Guns Organizations dedicated to female gun ownership are spreading from well-established organizations like Second Amendment Sisters and Women and Guns to relatively new ones like Mother's Arms, which urges mothers to protect their children with armed force if necessary.
Reason August 2002 Jacob Sullum	Second Thoughts John Ashcroft's Second Amendment position, even if adopted by the U.S. Supreme Court, is not likely to have practical consequences anytime soon.
ifeminists April 15, 2003 Wendy McElroy	War May Redefine Gun Control Despite the high emotions that surround war --- or perhaps because of them --- people are focusing again on "normal" life. But what is normal has shifted in ways both obvious and subtle. Consider how war has affected just one issue: the debate over gun control.
ifeminists May 13, 2003 Tiffany Hyatt	Why I Picked Up a Gun One woman was raped and beaten by men who actually are commissioned police officers. I was that woman.
ifeminists January 19, 2005 Wendy McElroy	Complex Issue Requires Complex Solutions There is no 'one-size-fits-all' solution to a complex and varied phenomenon like domestic violence. Answers will vary depending on specific situations. Both men and women fall victim to domestic violence.
ifeminists May 5, 2004 Wendy McElroy	Gun-Proof Your Children The basic question is whether private gun ownership is a Constitutional and individual right, or a reckless practice that endangers society and children.
ifeminists August 13, 2002 Glenn Sacks	Baseball Player's Domestic Violence Arrest Demonstrates How Men are Presumed Guilty in Domestic Disputes Scott Erickson was arrested after an altercation with his girlfriend last week.
ifeminists March 31, 2004 Wendy McElroy	Supreme Court Ruling May Impact Domestic Violence Cases In the '80s and '90s, mainstream feminism sold a simplistic theory of domestic violence and of its victims -- specifically, women. According to this dogma, the woman should leave the relationship and press charges.
Reason June 2005 Robert VerBruggen	Self-Defense vs. Municipal Gun Bans When Hale DeMar shot an intruder in his house, he may well have saved his children's lives. So why was he charged with a crime?
ifeminists December 28, 2005 Wendy McElroy	Abuse of Temporary Restraining Orders Endangers Real Victims The seeming ease with which temporary restraining orders (usually issued to women in regard to domestic violence) are issued in the U.S. constitutes a problem for those who wish all restraining orders to be taken seriously.
ifeminists May 6, 2003 Wendy McElroy	Women With Guns Fight Back Women need to defend themselves, especially single women or those with husbands overseas. And the media has a responsibility to discuss honestly the issue of gun ownership.
Reason December 2008 Brian Doherty	How the Second Amendment Was Restored The inside story of how a gang of libertarian lawyers made constitutional history, declaring by a 5-4 decision that yes, the Second Amendment does secure an individual right to keep and bear arms.
Reason February 2005 Eric Dzinski	Humanizing Gun Nuts In Shooters: Myths and Realities of America's Gun Cultures, anthropologist Abigail A. Kohn shoots down stereotypes about gun enthusiasts.
ifeminists January 4, 2006 Angelucci & Sacks	California Domestic Violence Lawsuit Will Help Secure Services for All Abuse Victims American domestic violence policies based on the woman good/man bad model keep men and children trapped in violent situations in a number of ways. What's needed are domestic violence policies tailored to the needs of all victims of abuse, regardless of gender.
ifeminists March 16, 2005 Ray Blumhorst	VAWA - One of the Biggest Taxpayer Fleecings in the History of America Those who deal with domestic violence according to gender feminist ideology have been less than effective in dealing with the true dynamics of violent domestic relationships, and now they are going back to congress to ask for billions more in funding for the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA).
ifeminists May 16, 2007 Leving & Sacks	Equal Rights Amendment Yes, 'Women's Equality Amendment' No Unfortunately, the bill's sponsors have changed the ERA's name to the Women's Equality Amendment. There's a major problem with that, because when considering injustices based on gender, today men and fathers can lay claim to many of them.
AskMen.com Moti Shapira	How To: Buy A Gun If you are thinking about buying a gun, there are three main parameters by which to choose the most suitable model.
ifeminists September 30, 2003 George Rolph	An Open Letter to the Police Commissioner of Great Britain As someone who mans a 24-hour help line in the UK for male victims of domestic violence, I am struck by the number of men who tell me that the police refuse to either take their complaints seriously, ignore them entirely, arrest the victim or fail to arrest the perpetrator.
Reason November 2002 Joyce Lee Malcolm	Gun Control's Twisted Outcome Restricting firearms has helped make England more crime-ridden than the U.S.
Reason February 2009 Jacob Sullum	Speak Softly and Carry a Concealed Handgun Would a nicer NRA be more effective?
AskMen.com	"Arrest Me!" A man rebuffed in an attempt to get arrested, finally got his wish when he went for an officer's handgun.
Reason Aug/Sep 2007 Jacob Sullum	Driving While Armed The ACLU defends gun rights.
ifeminists April 22, 2003 George Rolph	Domestic Violence and the Male Victim Studies carried out on male and female bullies in schools and my own observations of abusers show a startling similarity between the two. This has led me to the conclusion that an abuser, whether male or female, is simply a bully who never grew out of it.
Salon.com May 15, 2001 Jake Tapper	Playing both sides President Bush unveils a new gun program carefully crafted to appease both the NRA and gun control advocates...
Reason November 2008 Jacob Sullum	Back to Court The D.C. Council unanimously approves a law that makes armed self-defense in the home impractical and bans the most popular weapons used for that purpose. One Washingtonian has filed a federal lawsuit fighting it.
ifeminists August 13, 2002 David Graham	The Sexism of Gun Control Opposing the view that women are unable to protect themselves with handguns.
ifeminists March 3, 2004 Wendy McElroy	Do Gun Control Activists Pad Gun Death Statistics? Million Mom March hopes to create a groundswell of public outrage against guns. But, MMM should reconsider the inflation and skewing of statistics on dead children. As a strategy, it looks cruel and heartless and could easily backfire.
Reason Aug/Sep 2009 Jacob Sullum	Step Away From the Car: Rare Fourth Amendment victory In April the U.S. Supreme Court said police may no longer routinely search the vehicles of recently arrested people, a practice that was considered constitutional for nearly three decades.
Salon.com April 14, 2001 Earl Ofari Hutchinson	Cincinnati's killer cops Black leaders want the feds to investigate the city's trigger-happy police. They shouldn't hold their breath...
Reason June 2000 Kenneth Smith	Loaded Coverage How the news media miss the mark on the gun issue.
Reason January 2009 Brian Doherty	Baloney Ballistics Gun databases fail. Devoting so much record keeping to every gun sold guarantees wasted effort, since less than 1 percent of all guns sold will ever be used in a crime.
Salon.com July 26, 2000 Valeria Russ	My son loves cops How and when do I tell him about Amadou Diallo?
Salon.com November 1, 2000 Earl Ofari Hutchinson	Killer cops The slaying of actor Anthony Dwain Lee by a black officer is evidence that many black cops have the same prejudices as their white colleagues...
Reason July 2009 Jacob Sullum	Drug Control Begets Gun Control The violence in Mexico is caused by prohibition, not firearms.
Salon.com June 7, 2000 Camille Paglia	The gun letters The Million Moms are "cowardettes who don't know the difference between a Glock and a glockenspiel."
ifeminists November 2, 2006 McCormick & Sacks	October's Domestic Violence Awareness Month Ignores Many Victims Current DV policies are so at odds with research and reality that many domestic violence researchers and treatment providers signed a letter urging the California legislature to stop the state's policy of excluding male victims and their children from DV services.
Reason April 2005 Jacob Sullum	Fizzling Lawsuits Of 33 government-sponsored gun lawsuits in America filed since 1998, all but three have been dismissed.
ifeminists June 24, 2003 George Rolph	Reassembling the Truth While the Observer (UK) newspaper should be applauded for having the courage to publish a piece on husband abuse, they score no points for cutting edge and truthful journalism. I want to dismantle this article and report the real facts behind this facile piece.
Reason June 2000	A Smith & Wesson FAQ So they pressured Smith & Wesson into accepting gun control in the form of a lawsuit settlement. We should be glad, right?
ifeminists August 19, 2003 George Rolph	Inaction By You Causes Pain For Others Male victims of domestic violence attacks are still not being taken seriously by government and other agencies in the UK and many other western countries.
Reason February 2003	Letters Gun Control Twists... True Patriots...
BusinessWeek March 31, 2011 Stephanie Armour	A 'Bring Your Gun to Work' Movement Builds Partly as a result of the Gabrielle Giffords shooting, gun rights activists are proposing laws that permit more workplace firearms.
InternetNews September 19, 2006 Roy Mark	Group Demands Restitution For ID Theft A federal task force on identity theft urged Congress today to require ID thieves pay victims for the time they spend restoring their credit.
ifeminists August 19, 2003 Resa LaRu Kirkland	We've Gone the Wrong Way, Baby I think I missed a memo in my journey through womanhood. I mean, at what point did being female become synonymous with being anti-gun?
IDB America June 2004 Charo Quesada	The People's Police Why the residents of Bogota have come to love their police force, after years of suspicion and resentment.
Reason December 2008 Brian Doherty	Four Decades of Defending Self-Defense Since its inception in 1968 the defense of Americans' Second Amendment rights has been a staple of reason. Take a look back at how they have covered this issue through the years.
Wired June 23, 2008 Vince Beiser	Pistol Cam: When Cops Draw This Point-and-Shoot, Say Cheese In an effort to address public concerns about police accountability, the sheriff's department SWAT team in Orange County, New York, recently started packing cameras on their pistols.
Reason April 2002 Charles Oliver	Brickbats Georgia may bar people from answering the door nude... Cocaine seized by Dallas police really sheetrock... How lumpy must a sauce be before it can be called a vegetable?... Germany is the only country in the world that licenses golfers... etc.