March 28, 2018
Good morning from Washington, where the Trump administration's move to restore a question about citizenship to the U.S. census is driving liberals crazy. Rachel del Guidice reports. Liberals feel much fuzzier, apparently, about a former Supreme Court justice's suggestion to dump the Second Amendment. Kevin Daley has details. Firearms training for teachers and other school staff is the topic of stories from Fred Lucas and Kelsey Harkness. Plus: Sen. Mike Lee on spending more on the swamp, Steve Bucci on a path to achieve safer schools, Autumn Leva on faith and adoption, and Walter Williams on knowing what we don't know.
A middle-school science teacher in western New York state says he told his supervisor he went through firearms training. He has been around guns for much of his life, but says he still learned much.
"An armed society is a polite society," firearms instructor Quinn Cunningham says.
These actions will not guarantee 100 percent safety in our schools, but they will enhance school security by deterring shooters, defending students, and equipping on-site personnel to end the killing as quickly as possible.
"This carries the nation one step closer to preventing against actual foreign influences in our elections," former Justice Department lawyer J. Christian Adams says of restoring the census question on citizenship.
"The demonstrators should seek more effective and more lasting reform," John Paul Stevens writes in The New York Times. "They should demand a repeal of the Second Amendment."
"We need to do better. We need to go back to voting on smaller individual appropriations bills," writes Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah.
In an attempt to "punish" faith-based providers for their beliefs, the left will ultimately end up punishing the many children and birth moms in need—in your state, and every state.
In the face of this gross human ignorance, who should be in control of goods and services?
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