Recent research of mine showed how thousands of lives could be saved if all states had red flag laws, as opposed to a situation where no state had a red flag law.  National legislation then passed Congress providing funds to help states create or improve their red flag laws.  In this article, I compare firearm death rates from the 19 states which have such red flag laws to see how to make such laws better.

Police Should Be Part of the Process: The Highland Park Police and Illinois State Police have come under criticism in the wake of the Fourth of July Parade shooting.  But it wasn’t about law enforcement making a bad call.  In states like Illinois, laws themselves are written making the job of the police harder to seize weapons from those who threaten themselves or others.

John A. Tures is a professor of political science at LaGrange College in Georgia. He can be reached at jtures@lagrange.edu. His Twitter account is @JohnTures2.