Who Is Winning the Gun War?

Who Is Winning the Gun War?

By Patrick J. Buchanan Attacks from abroad -- Pearl Harbor, 9/11 -- have united us. Yet domestic atrocities lately seem only to deepen our divisions. The bombing of the Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City was seized upon to savage government critics like Rush Limbaugh. After the murder of six innocents, including a 9-year-old girl, and the wounding of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and a Continue reading...

America’s Coming Gun War

America’s Coming Gun War

By Patrick J. Buchanan Eight days after the massacre of 20 first-graders at Sandy Hook Elementary, where each child was shot with a Bushmaster .223, The Nation's Gun Show, the biggest east of the Mississippi, opened. "A line already snaked around the building shortly after the three-day event began at 3 p.m., and the parking lot was jammed" at the Dulles Expo Center in Chantilly, Va., wrote Continue reading...

The Dead Soul of Adam Lanza

The Dead Soul of Adam Lanza

By Patrick J. Buchanan "No set of laws can eliminate evil from the world, or prevent every senseless act of violence in our society." So said President Obama in words of comfort in Newtown. The president was right to speak of evil, but mistaken when he called the massacre "senseless." For this was a premeditated and purposeful act of mass murder, and the devil that did it knew exactly Continue reading...

A Nation Arms Itself — For What?

By Patrick J. Buchanan With the shooting death of Trayvon Martin by a neighborhood watch volunteer who was legally carrying a 9-millimeter handgun, the familiar wail has arisen from our cultural and media elite: America has too many guns! “Open carry” and “concealed carry” laws should be repealed. Florida’s “Stand-your-ground” law, replicated in two dozen states, Continue reading...

Is America Disintegrating?

By Patrick J. Buchanan In Federalist 2, John Jay looks out at a nation of a common blood, faith, language, history, customs and culture. "Providence," he writes, "has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people -- a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion ... very similar in their manners and customs Continue reading...