We emerged from the weathered high-mountain hut with the sunrise. As the sun poked through a jagged arête on the Mont Blanc massif, a new challenge emerged as I shouldered the door open through the snow drift that had grown behind it. The previous...

The gun control lobby has been moderately effective at co-opting the phrase "gun safety" and using it as a synonym for gun control, to the point that I automatically assume I'm about to hear an anti-gun...