[Ed: This is an excerpt from Dr. Faria's new book, America, Guns and Freedom, minimally edited for DRGO. It was originally published at GOPUSA October 14 and on his site HaciendaPub October 16.] Depending on the level of culture and social progress, violence can take different forms in different societies. In the mid‑twentieth century, Stalin’s brutal communist government killed more Soviet citizens through privation, forced labor, and famine than soldiers fighting the Germans in World ...

(from desmetmirror.com) [Ed: We are posting excerpts from this recently released study from Dr. Lott's Crime Prevention Research Center, first because everything at CRPC is important, and because Dr. Mauser is also a contributor to DRGO. The abstract is at, and the original can be downloaded from, this page on CRPC.org. [This is an opportunity again to remind readers that supporting CRPC with donations is one of the most important things one can do for the RKBA. Only John Lott has given ...

(from haciendapub.com) [Ed: This was first published November 4 on Dr. Faria's site Hacienda Publishing. Edited for DRGO.] A good approach to decrease gun violence and street crime should not involve penalizing law-abiding citizens and infringing on their Second Amendment rights while coddling criminals. And that is exactly what "Progressives" want to do. In fact, they have tried to exempt criminal gangs from the Red Flag laws they want to exact on the law-abiding citizen. It ...

(from dailytruthreport.com) This past weekend I celebrated my First Amendment right to free speech and peaceable assembly on the Capitol Lawn at the first 2nd Amendment Rally with perhaps two thousand of my fellow Second Amendment supporters from around the nation.  It was a particularly apropos moment. Elections are just days away here in Virginia that could dramatically alter the direction of the Commonwealth, and it is only a week before we celebrate the service of military veterans w...

(from crimefictionbook.com) Bloomberg.com recently published a piece, "Drivers with DUIs Shouldn't be Armed" which read: "...gun owners with DUI convictions are a discrete and dangerous group. For lawmakers eager to make progress against gun violence, they're too good a target to ignore." This editorial implies that gun purchasers with a history of a DUI charge cause considerable gun violence.  This couldn't be further from the truth. (more…)

(from wikipedia.org) I was very pleased to be asked to speak to the Department of Psychiatry last Friday at Queens Hospital Center. QHC is affiliated with Mt. Sinai's Icahn School of Medicine. It was a unique chance to give the DRGO view in the heart of anti-gun sentiment, New York City, and a welcome opportunity to preach data and reason to a roomful of progressives who had to sit and listen. The invitation came from Dr. Neil Mukerji, a dedicated DRGO member who decided to let his colle...

“Disband your army and return to Rome . . . immediately!” the letter read.  Julius Caesar looked at it, appalled. Rome wanted him to step down from his position of power and disband his standing army.  “Not going to happen,” Caesar thought to himself. “In fact, I’ve got a little surprise for you . . .” (more…)

(from anime.goodfon.com) The idea behind red flag laws—stopping violence with guns before it occurs—is a laudable one. It may even be the case that the pursuit of this goal will help transform the behavioral science of risk assessment for the good of all of society. An apropos analogy may well be anti-missile missile technology. At the time Ronald Reagan pushed for such weaponry, it was dismissed as something so beyond what technology was capable of at the time that it was dubbed the "Sta...