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Fentanyl, Drug Policy, and Informed Consent

Should drugs be legal? Even fentanyl? These are questions libertarians hear regularly as the death toll attributed to fentanyl continues to rise. One of the core foundations of libertarian thought is consent, and by extension, the ability to grant or withdraw consent. The reason why some choices are generally denied to minors yet broadly extended …

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A ‘Red Flag’ for your rights (Yes, they’re coming for your guns)

The latest scheme from the gun grabbers is called “red flag” laws and, unlike most their other schemes, even nominally conservative pundits and publications are getting on board with this attempt to disarm certain people. That’s the trick, you see, the classic divide-and-conquer strategy that has worked in so many other cases. They don’t want …

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Yes, we do need 30-round magazines for self-defense

I keep encountering the truly ridiculous assertion that anyone who has a 30-round magazine for a firearm “must be planning to kill 30 people.” Now, most of the people making such claims aren’t attempting to have a good-faith discussion, but for those who actually don’t understand the issue, here’s a more realistic assessment. Typically, those trained …