Gun laws state-wide protect citizens from violence, according to Rod Blagojevich after the US Supreme Court’s decision striking down DC’s gun ban laws.  “Rose Man” Lee Nixon last week, as Blagojevich spoke, was currently lying in state at Lane Mortuary…

Senator Obama claims that he brings a new message to the people of the United States, that of hope, unity, and change.  Let’s examine that a bit further.

Obama claims that he is the one who can unite ‘everyone’ in the United…

Why can’t our country keep guns away from potential criminals?  Why is that so hard to do? I realize guns are just a method to their  madness but it appears that even 40 surveillance cameras still won’t deter some who …

     In a recent edition of  the Sunday Post Dispatch, reader John W. Niebling suggests that the Second Amendment be interpreted as only allowing ownership of guns common at the time of the writing of that amendment.  While I do…

A March 23 letter to the editor suggests the right to bear arms should be restricted only to weapons available in 1791.

Let’s carry that logic to our other rights, starting with the First Amendment. Our right to free speech should be restricted…

As bad as the massacre of civil servants in Kirkwood is, it’s almost as disturbing to hear how many militants in our community rationalize this atrocity because the victims were people in government. The net of this thinking: if you’ve…

In one bitter week, six dead in Kirkwood, MO and six in DeKalb, IL, an even dozen, from a fusillade of gunfire by two citizens armed and dangerous. This is not counting the other assorted incidents of  victims killed by gun-toting citizens in our country…

That someone would contend that the answer to gun violence such as the recent tragedy at Kirkwood City Hall is more guns rather than less is as predictable as that night will follow day. But, let’s take a closer look…

Putting up more walls and shields to protect citizens from themselves isn’t the answer to the violence that prevails in our communities. Nor is the prevalence of guns to protect the rights of ordinary citizens a solution.

The key is…