A big rat just jumped the sinking ship: Dennis Henigan has left the Brady Campaign. Something to remember is that Henigan has long known that high gun ownership rates probably do not cause high violent crime rates. He has been … Continue reading
Brady Campaign Lawyer Dennis Henigan claims: Of course, it is true that the exercise of free expression, for example, also can create a risk of violence or physical injury. If that risk becomes sufficiently great, the courts will deny the … Continue reading
Dennis Henigan has a new post about two gun dealers up on the Brady Campaign blog. I find it interesting that much of what he says is only half-true. For example he says: The Seattle Times reported that Brian Borgelt, … Continue reading
Henigan believes that it is imperative to steer the argument about guns away from the problematic area of criminal use, with its inconvenient focus on criminals, and toward the matter of guns in the home—incidents of suicide, accidental shootings, and … Continue reading
Via the Huffington Post article What Does The NRA Want? (And What To Do About It): Following the massacre of first graders at the Sandy Hook Elementary School, NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre infamously said that the lesson to … Continue reading
It is true that D.C.’s gun laws are, to some extent, undercut by weaker gun laws of surrounding jurisdictions, particularly Virginia. But that is hardly the fault of D.C.’s gun laws. What we’re talking about here is possession of a … Continue reading
Henigan may be confused about American history, since no one of his political orientation traces his lineage back to anyone associated with the founding of this country. But when it comes to losers, Henigan ought to know better than most. … Continue reading
When the ‘reasonable’ Brady Bill was pending, we told the world that radical unreasonable gun laws were waiting in the wings. We were called paranoid, at best, and liars, at worst–by HCI, Congress, the news media and even some of … Continue reading
Dennis Henigan tells us guns aren’t useful as a deterrence against violent crime: Apart from the statistics, the deterrence theory poses an interesting conundrum. If criminals are deterred by the prospect that their victim may be armed, how can we … Continue reading
I have been thinking about the Brady Campaign story that the Heller and McDonald decisions are really a good thing for their side. They claim it has, “Taken the extremes in the gun debate off the table, and given us … Continue reading
Handgun Control Inc. often quotes from Cruikshank, which says, “the bearing of arms for a lawful purpose is not a right granted by the Constitution.” They never quote the next sentence from that decision: “Neither is it in any manner … Continue reading
I’ve read Half-Truth Henigan’s most recent post several times now and I still don’t really get what his point is. I think he is trying to claim the NRA is saying if gun owners don’t get their way they will … Continue reading
Lies–there you have the religion of slaves and taskmasters. Truth is the god of the free man. Maxim GorkyRussian novelist, playwright.The Lower Depths (1902)[From Wikipedia (link above), “The theme of harsh truth versus the comforting lie pervades the play from … Continue reading
There is a lot of statistical disagreement on whether the Miranda rule saves lives or not, whether it results in the release of dangerous people who have confessed to their crime but the confession can’t be used. We don’t — … Continue reading
See Notes on Lethal Logic for links to all my posts on Dennis Henigan’s book Lethal Logic. Chapter 1 of Lethal Logic is titled: “Guns Don’t Kill People. People Kill People.” Henigan claims cars are a valid analogy to guns: … Continue reading
The central policy issue is whether the enactment of specific restrictions on firearms will prevent violence. Whether violence necessarily increases with the number of guns available in a society provides little guidance on that central issue. Dennis A. Henigan Vice … Continue reading
I am not arguing here that higher rates of gun ownership cause higher rates of crime, violent crime, or homicide. Such causation is difficult to show because so many other factors bear on the incidence of crime. For instance, simple … Continue reading