gun control Archive

Gun Laws: Who’s Afraid of Paul Helmke?

This article reprinted with permission from the Indiana Policy Review Foundation.

“This latest tragedy, at a heavily fortified army base, ought to convince more Americans to reject the argument that the solution to gun violence is to arm more people with more guns in more places.” — Paul Helmke, former mayor of Fort Wayne now president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence

Maybe Steven Covey, the business guru, was talking about Indiana when he said, “The way we see the problem is the problem.”  The new “Guns at Work” law exemplifies such political myopia in extremis.

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The Gun in Your Glove Box and Property Rights

Every once in a while an issue comes up that pits some rights against others. HB 1065, which is legislation the Indiana State House passed and is now awaiting Governor Mitch Daniels’ signature is one of those pieces of legislation.

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Culley: Coleman’s Proposal is about Self-Defense

(By Patrick Culley, a Hoosier Libertarian)

The government that governs least, governs best. Take Libertarian City-County Councillor Ed Coleman’s proposal to end the ban on firearms in city parks for example. Coleman’s timely proposal addresses a glaring problem with our city’s current laws. As it stands now, you have the right to defend your life from an armed assailant on the street, in a supermarket, in a department store, a state park, a federal park, just about everywhere except a city park. Are Indy’s public parks such utopian safe zones that you don’t need to worry about protecting yourself there? What makes a city park safer than a state or federal park where you are allowed the right to defend your life?

Let’s be clear: this proposal is not about “gun rights”. It’s about the most fundamental of human rights; the right to self defense.

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