Ownership of guns can not collapse on paperwork, but on goodwill. Most of the lawsuits that otherwise conscientious gun owners get into usually begin with simple choices driving across a border, leaving a handgun in a car, lending a rifle to a relative or walking into a building with...

Certain religious practices bear fewer resemblances to belief than to daily operations guide books. That inequity may be particularly evident in Christianity, which tends to interpret practices as action preceding, and explanation following. To individuals who do not subscribe to the underlying claims (the one concerning God, scripture, or afterlife)...