Evan Gahr

About the author: Evan Gahr is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and a columnist whose work has appeared in the Washington Post and American Enterprise.

Conservatives oppose gun control while advocating laws against drug use. If conservatives were consistent in their philosophy, they would acknowledge that access to guns poses a greater threat to teenagers than the availability of drugs. Emotionally volatile teenagers, such as Charles Andy Williams, who allegedly killed two students at his California high school, pose a danger when they are able to acquire firearms.

Georgia Republican Bob Barr refuses to concede any ground in our nation's war on drugs. In 1999, Representative Barr tried to block implementation of a District of Columbia referendum to allow the seriously ill to use marijuana for medicinal purposes. In...