A Supermajority of Likely 2016 Voters Support Obama’s Executive Actions on Guns
A new poll shows that a supermajority of likely 2016 voters support President Obama’s proposed executive actions on gun control.
A new poll shows that a supermajority of likely 2016 voters support President Obama’s proposed executive actions on gun control.
Fact checkers found that President Obama was telling the truth when he said that violent felons can buy a gun online without a background check.
Responsible gun control is a moral issue. Catholics are praising President Obama for taking his announced executive action on gun control and urging Congress to follow his lead.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders went beyond supporting President Obama executive actions on gun violence. Sanders is promising that if elected president he will continue Obama’s executive orders.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is standing with President Obama and supporting his executive actions to reduce gun violence.
President Obama is eyeing up major executive actions for his final year in office. The President is considering executive actions that would expand gun background checks and close GITMO.
With Republicans in Congress defying the wishes of a majority of the American people, President Obama is finalizing his plan to take executive action on gun violence.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) devastated the Republican argument against keeping the weapons of the hands of criminals with common sense on CBS’s Face The Nation.
President Obama isn’t pulling any punches. The President showed how fed up he is by calling the Republican opposition to making it more difficult for terrorists and criminals to buy high-powered weapons insane.
Compare and contrast how two mass murders, less than a week apart, were treated by the Fox “News” Channel.
As House Republicans continue to protect terrorists’ legal ability to purchase deadly weapons, the facts are staggering: according to the GAO, over the last 11 years, more than 2,000 suspects on the FBI’s Terrorist Watchlist bought weapons in the United States.
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest ripped Senate Republicans for blocking legislation that would make it illegal for terror suspects to buy guns.
Senate Republicans voted today to block a measure that would have prevented individuals on the terror watch list from legally buying guns in the United States.
Democrats in the House are now begging Republicans to reconsider and allow a vote on the bipartisan “King-Lofgren Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act” so that… you know… people on the terror watch list won’t be able to easily and legally buy guns.
Here’s an issue that President Obama has been begging Congress to fix, along with pretty much all sane law enforcement: Known terrorists can buy guns legally here in the United States of “freedom”. Yes, we can’t have nice things like refusing to sell handguns or assault weapons to suspected terrorists, because the NRA is too worried about the profits of the gun manufacturers they represent.
The two men got worked up over armed EPA agents, ignoring of course the threat of armed anti-government conservatives like Cliven Bundy
President Obama pulled no punches when he called out Fox News and other conservative media outlets for spreading the lie that he is out to take away guns.
Giffords is planning to host a “Domestic Violence Awareness Summit” on Wednesday, and to form the Women’s Coalition for Common Sense.
A crowd of around 300 pro-gun protesters assembled outside the Roseburg airport to protest the President’s visit.
President Obama is strongly considering using his executive power to act where Congress won’t by expanding background checks through executive action.
President Obama challenged the media to do the math on the number of deaths by terrorism in the US compared to gun violence, and data shows that gun deaths are a bigger threat to the American people than terrorism.
A party that invents “facts” and then claims all future discourse must be based on their fictional evidence should not be allowed on TV
Gun research is scarce so when it does come out progressive gun regulation advocates have to report on it accurately.
In his remarks after the Charleston church massacre, President Obama displayed his leadership by discussing the nation’s easy access to guns in relationship to the number of mass shootings in the United States.
During an interview on CNN’s New Day Monday Morning, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) fired back at host Chris Cuomo’s assertion that the hostage situation in Australia may have been averted if that country didn’t have such strict gun control laws.
What’s happening in Ferguson, and rattling the cages of strained municipalities throughout the country, is, of course, about our complicated and corrosive attitudes about race. And yes, always and forever when it comes to public safety and the senseless loss of life on American streets, it’s about guns.
In an appearance on Newsmax TV Monday, gun rights activist Larry Pratt said that the reason President Obama is for gun control is “he clearly doesn’t like the fact that the American people can own guns because we might just want to use them to keep people like him from becoming tyrants.”
PoliticusUSA’s Justin Baragona was on the scene Saturday afternoon when a smaller than expected group of open carry enthusiasts descended on downtown St. Louis for a march.
In a video released by the NRA Monday, commentator Billy Johnson asked people to be more tolerant of guns and stop being scared of them. In the video, he claimed that we as a society have humanized guns too much and people have become too intimidated of them.
Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, a national gun control group that was formed in the wake of the Newtown mass shooting tragedy, is targeting national grocery chain Kroger with an ad campaign highlighting the company’s lax attitudes towards guns in their stores.
Republicans have got double trouble as Democrats will be deploying both Bill and Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail in 2014.
The notion of so-called Christians exposing themselves as the anti-Christs they really are is being played out in the drive to put more guns in the hands of more Americans, especially conservative Christian Americans; it is no surprise it is being advanced by right-wing Christian churches.
Joe the Plumber declares that the most important reason for having guns is to hunt down politicians.
The upcoming debt ceiling limit could get “wild” because Mitch McConnell wants entitlement reform in exchange for the suck budget.
Alex Jones is once again leading the charge of the very worst in America by blaming the navy yard shooting on a lack of guns.
Had guns not been allowed in Yellowstone, a three year-old girl might not have been able to shoot herself in the park this weekend.
Republican Arkansas State Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson is still pushing hard to arm teachers in the state’s schools, even after he accidentally shot a teacher during active shooter training.
According to the NRA, keeping like machine guns and short-barreled shotguns out of convicted felons hands = focusing on “law-abiding gun owners”.
In the period of a week a young South Carolina woman and a black man were shot to death in a bar and outside a nightclub. Gun laws in action.
Following a series of bar killings, NC’s Republican dominated legislature has still decided allowing more guns in bars is a good idea.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) admitted he hadn’t watched Obama’s remarks about Trayvon Martin and Stand Your Ground laws, but complained that Obama was going after white folks’ guns again.
Because President Obama used the word gun in his statement about the Zimmerman verdict, Republicans are freaking out and claiming that he is coming for their guns.
Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) is claiming today that Congress shouldn’t pass any gun control measures, because they can’t stop terrorists from getting guns.
Recent events revealed that according to the NRA, there are no Americans who should be restricted from owning guns and no reason for any American to destroy the guns they have.
Follow the crazy: We shouldn’t implement any kind of gun safety legislation even after repeated mass shootings, but immigration reform should be killed because several immigrants allegedly bombed Boston.
John Boehner’s conservative caucus is ready to obstruct immigration reform and gun safety legislation because it is contrary to their ideology.
An uninformed and misguided Bill Maher has decided to blame liberals instead of the NRA and red state Democrats for the lack of stronger legislation to deal with gun violence.
After Speaker John Boehner suggested that he may allow the House to vote on gun and immigration reform bills, the right has dissolved into complete hysteria.
Wayne LaPierre has adopted a new strategy to oppose any changes in gun laws that would prevent mass shootings. LaPierre is now claiming that arming women will prevent rapes.
Olympic star Oscar Pistorius’s shooting of his girlfriend, whether it was an accidental infliction of a mortal wound or premeditated murder, explodes gun nut myths.
A Republican State Senator from Georgia, Bill Jackson (R-Augusta), took to the Senate floor on Monday to inform his colleagues, ‘They’re killin’ people with frying pans.’
House Republican Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn claimed that guns aren’t part of the root problem of school shootings. Rep. Blackburn tried to argue that guns have nothing to do with school shootings.
The current outrage from gun-fanatics that President Obama is sending federal forces to confiscate their precious firearms is a microcosm of the past four years of teabagger claims.
If you think a person is violating the Constitution, you don’t violate the constitution yourself as a remedy and expect anyone to take you seriously.
Guns do not kill people. People armed with guns kill people. And people armed with assault rifles have the capability of killing a whole bunch of people in a matter of minutes.
While the population still grieves over the loss of young lives at Sandy Hook, the NRA and Congress dig in to prevent meaningful curbs on guns.
NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre’s presser today sounded more like a marketing strategy for the manufacturers on the board of the NRA than a sane policy position.
David Barton says the Founding Fathers would want us armed with the same weapons available to the government – because the Bible says so
Despite misguided appeals for more weapons and more god, the nation is ill-prepared to address the real problem; more guns.
Ann Coulter suggested that the Sandy Hook school shooting would have been prevented if there were more guns at the school. Does this also apply to the kindergarten classrooms where the victims were?
What happens when you mix Santa, guns, and Fox News’ Gretchen Carlson? You get an armed Santa defending Christmas while Fox News redefines the Second Amendment as you can do anything that you want.
Republicans have spent the past four years fearmongering that Obama is coming for their guns, but at the 2012 convention, the GOP has banned all guns and weapons.
The Governor of the Wild West state where you don’t need a permit to carry a concealed weapon vetoes a gun expansion bill for the second time.
Mitt Romney’s lie your ass off to get elected tour took the stage at the NRA’s annual meeting and uttered a barrage of falsehoods about President Obama and guns, so extreme that most of them had no relationship to any facts.
Palin’s most powerful nemesis, McCain/Palin campaign strategist Steve Schmidt, will soon return the fire Palin unloaded on him from her book, “Going Rogueâ€. Operation Palin Apocalypse officially commences Sunday night when Schmidt appears on 60 minutes. The only question remaining is how low will they go? This is the GOP after all. The party of Rovian election tactics.
 At least ten people were shot, and five people were hospitalized in a shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl victory rally.
While sweating profusely at an event with the NRA in Pennsylvania, Donald Trump slurred his words and got basic facts wrong.
When asked about their case for impeachment of President Joe Biden, Republicans offered up the dog ate my homework, third grade excuse of: “There’s stuff there.”
President Biden’s leadership got Congress to pass the first gun reform legislation in decades, and the new law has kept 500 dangerous people under age 21 from legally purchasing guns.Â
The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act has seen 250 illegal gun traffickers charged by the DOJ. Over 1,300 illegal guns have been confiscated, including 190 AR-15s.
Fox News reported that an explosion on the Rainbow Bridge US/Canada border was a terrorist attack, but they were later forced to retract their inaccurate reporting.
Communities rejecting MAGA hate like Moms for Liberty suggests there might be hope for the United States, which is still reeling from the divisions exploited by the efforts to get Donald Trump into the White House in 2016 that then exploded upon his win and still divide us today.
Finally, at long last, it’s being said. The Democratic Party isn’t teeming with raging liberals running the show. The country has moved left, and the Democratic Party is right where the center of the country is now on issues. “Almost on every single issue, the Democratic Party is where the center of the country is,”…
Hours after Republican strategists sent a memo warning Republicans how to frame abortion, Chris Christie tried it on Morning Joe and it did not go well.
Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones used the Bible to call out Speaker Mike Johnson for using his faith to worship guns.
A man illegally carrying a handgun into the Wisconsin Capitol while seeking Democratic Governor Tony Evers was arrested, posted bail, and then returned with an assault rifle. “A man illegally brought a handgun into the Wisconsin Capitol, demanding to see Gov. Tony Evers, and returned at night with an assault rifle after posting bail, a…
Senator Mitch McConnell ignored Senator Mitt Romney’s advanced warning about the threat of violence on January 6th, 2021, including chatter targeting Romney himself.
New polling reportedly revealed to Republican Senators showed that “pro-life” is not resonating with voters anymore, so now Republicans are considering rebranding “pro-life” as “pro-baby.”
The Biden Department of Justice has proposed a rule to clarify that there are actually no loopholes to the requirements for license and background checks in firearms dealing. There was never a loophole.
The only all-male court in the United States has just voted to uphold a 6-week ban on abortion after managing to replace the lone woman judge.
While driving to work near Dallas Texas, a man flipped off a car, the other driver opened fire and fatally shot the man’s wife. In Texas, you can carry a loaded handgun in your vehicle without a permit. Texas leads the nation in road rage shootings.
Here 4 the Kids organized a sit-in of white women from around the country at the Colorado Capitol on Monday for the purpose of getting an Executive Order signed by Gov. Jared Polis that will ban guns and create a buy-back program.
Chief Justice John Roberts is operating under the idea that in a democracy, no one should be allowed to use their First Amendment to disagree with this court in any place where they might see or hear it.
There are so many mass shootings that it is easy for Americans to become buried in the overload of senseless violence, but Vice President Kamala Harris is making sure that we don’t forget Uvalde.
Fox News used the Black father of a murdered child to attack a new Black mayor by tricking him into thinking the interview was about violence.
As Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) was telling George Santos (R-NY) to have some dignity and resign, Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) showed up to try to bully Bowman but fled when Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).
President Biden announced 13 new actions to reduce gun violence on the one year anniversary of the Buffalo mass shooting.
In Texas, students pressured lawmakers to allow a vote on a bill to raise the age limit on semi-automatic rifles from 18 to 21 with large protests at San Antonio City Hall on Thursday.
Fox News was hit with another defamation suit, this one on behalf of Nina Jankowicz, who specializes in Russian disinformation.
The #2 Republican in the House Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) told reporters that gun control doesn’t work, Republicans won’t be taking up gun legislation.
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough called Gov. Greg Abbott sick for continuing to make more guns available and easier to get as the gun murder rate has skyrocketed in Texas.
President Biden told Republicans that thoughts and prayers aren’t enough and criticized them for responding to mass shootings with a shrug.
MSNBC’s Jen Psaki said that it isn’t the people who want change politicizing gun violence but Republicans who want to maintain the status quo.
84-year-old Andrew Lester was described by his grandson as radicalized and immersed in Fox News before he shot teenager Ralph Yarl.
The Daily Show guest host Jordan Klepper showed how the NRA’s culture of fear leads to gun violence and shootings.
House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) slammed Jim Jordan’s sham Manhattan crime hearing as a scam to protect Trump.
After America’s latest mass shooting in Alabama, President Biden asked a powerful moral question that Republicans can’t answer on gun violence.
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert parodied the right’s Bud Light protest with a commercial for Shaft Beer.
In Ron DeSantis’ best world, things like this happen: Charges have been dropped against one of the two men who shot each other’s daughters in a road rage incident in Florida. The man who shot first is the one whose charges were dropped.
John Oliver called out the lies of Tennessee House Republicans who claimed that race had nothing to do with the expulsions of two House Democrats.