Gun Control

Opinion:After More Mass Shootings Last Week, Can We Tell a Story to End Gun Violence in America?

Opinion:After More Mass Shootings Last Week, Can We Tell a Story to End Gun Violence in America?

We need to weave a cultural narrative that addresses the fact of the world we are making and helps us…

3 years ago

Colorado passes bill to seize guns from people deemed threat to self, others

By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - The Colorado legislature on Monday passed a "red flag" bill that would allow those…

5 years ago

Support For Tougher Gun Laws Hits New High Just As Trump Is Sued Over NRA Influence

Unbelievably, more Americans are calling for tougher gun laws now than right after the Sandy Hook massacre.

6 years ago

Chris Murphy Says Virginia’s Democratic Wave Proves That NRA Blood Money Is Losing Its Influence

As gun violence continues to rear its ugly head all across this country, the American people want to see real…

6 years ago

Two-Thirds Of Voters Demand Tougher Gun Laws After GOP Pretends Vegas Shooting Never Happened

Republicans may continue to live in their NRA-funded bubbles, but it's clear the American people – Democrats, Independents and Republicans…

7 years ago

Gun Violence Victim Steve Scalise Says It’s Too ‘Early’ To Talk About Banning Bump Stocks

It's stunning that anybody would be against limiting a device that essentially transforms a firearm into an automatic weapon, but…

7 years ago

Editorial Cartoon: Not the Time

Editorial Cartoon: Not the Time

7 years ago

GOP Congressman To Propose New Legislation Banning Deadly Bump Stock Devices For Guns

While it's good news that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle seem to have found some gun-related legislation they…

7 years ago

Pew U.S. survey finds agreement on some gun-control proposals

More than 80 percent of Americans want to limit firearms access for people with mental illness and require background checks…

7 years ago

Silence on San Bernardino School Shooting Speaks Shuddering the Soul

That this this school shooting went by without any substantive cries to address our nation’s gun culture and safety laws,…

7 years ago

Trump’s Politics of Repression Promise to Exacerbate Domestic and Global Problems

Trump's presidency, with its emphasis on law and order, is trying to sell us the idea that a repressive society…

7 years ago

Trump’s Threatened Invasion of Chicago Aimed Squarely at African Americans

Jesse Jackson said what is needed is a plan but Trump has no plan, just a bunch of things he…

7 years ago

Justice Denied for Merrick Garland and the American People

Justice has not only been denied to a worthy Supreme Court nominee and the work of the high court. It…

7 years ago

Ohio GOP Pushing Measure To Allow Guns On College Campuses, In Day Care Centers

If approved, it would also allow firearms in police stations and airports.

7 years ago

Clinton Destroys NRA Myths About Her, Shines A Light On Gun Violence In Third Debate

Once again, Hillary Clinton showed that she is in step with the vast majority of Americans while Donald Trump desperately…

8 years ago

SCOTUS Rules That Domestic Abusers Can Be Barred From Owning Guns

If you're a domestic violence offender, the Supreme Court says you don't have a Second Amendment right to a firearm.

8 years ago

Democrats Show America What Real Leadership Looks Like With Brave House Protest

During this historic, courageous sit in -- Democrats found not only their spine but the knowledge that they carry moral…

8 years ago

Sarah Palin Calls President Obama ‘a Special Kind of Stupid’

"Forget your asinine gun control, do your job and engage in Islamic terrorist control."

8 years ago

Ted Nugent Says ‘Nothing more anti-American than the freaks that hate me’

Watch out, because Nugent says the only thing more dangerous than a "sow Grizzly bear with cubs is Ted Nugent…

8 years ago

Hillary Clinton Displays Historic Candidate Courage By Taking On the Gun Lobby

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has shown unprecedented courage in taking on the gun lobby – a position no…

8 years ago

Gun Owners Need Roe Vs. Wade

Ending Roe v Wade, a law that protects women from being discovered would also backfire and end the privacy of…

8 years ago

Ted Nugent Goes Full-On Jew Hater in Facebook Rant

Nugent posted a photo of prominent Jewish Americans to Facebook with the caption, “So who is really behind gun control?”…

8 years ago

Bernie Sanders To Co-Sponsor Bill That Would Allow Victims To Sue Gun Dealers

After being hammered by Hillary Clinton for his vote against a bill that would have allowed victims of gun violence…

8 years ago

Ted Nugent Calls Obama a Racist Child-Killing Freak

Ted Nugent claims Obama is trying to kill children by creating gun-free zones but he's the one refusing to keep…

8 years ago

Catholic Leaders Stand With Obama On Guns And Demand Republicans Follow His Lead

Responsible gun control is a moral issue. Catholics are praising President Obama for taking his announced executive action on gun…

8 years ago

For It Before He Was Against It: Video Busts Paul Ryan Supporting Obama Gun Action

Speaker Ryan was for addressing background check loopholes at gun shows until he was against it. He's against it now,…

8 years ago

Bernie Sanders Devastates Republicans With Common Sense On Guns

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) devastated the Republican argument against keeping the weapons of the hands of criminals…

8 years ago

Against NRA Opposition Sen. Feinstein Pushes To End Gun Sales To Suspected Terrorists

Senator Feinstein is leading an effort to bar gun sales to people on the Terrorist Watchlist, but the NRA is…

8 years ago

Tucker Carlson and Erick Erickson Agree Obama is Coming for “Our Guns”

The two men got worked up over armed EPA agents, ignoring of course the threat of armed anti-government conservatives like…

8 years ago

John Oliver Hilariously Demolishes Fake Founding Father Quotes

The GOP and Religious Right have been throwing fake Founding Father quotes at us for years. John Oliver hilariously rips…

9 years ago

Supreme Court Could Hear, Overturn Assault Weapons Ban

The Supreme Court could decide as early as Tuesday whether to hear a challenge to Highland Park, Illinois' municipal assault…

9 years ago

Australians Disgusted With America Call To Boycott This Violent and Immature Nation

Some 2.1 million Australians visit the U.S. annually and the call for boycott is likely motivated as much by self-preservation…

9 years ago

Trump’s Second Amendment Position Papers Are a White Gun Nut’s Wet Dream

Donald Trump neither read nor understood the Second Amendment but uses it as just an excuse for "law-abiding" folks to…

9 years ago

Refusing to Bow to the Gun Lobby, Hillary Clinton Talks Gun Sense

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton continues to champion common sense gun reform on the 2016 campaign trail.

9 years ago

Americans Should be Allowed to View the Horror of Now-Daily Mass Shootings

Every American should have the experience of seeing the sheer terror, hear the screams, and watch the bloodletting of innocent…

9 years ago

Ted Cruz Releases Video Of Himself Cooking Bacon With A Machine Gun

He didn't shoot an armadillo, but Ted Cruz demonstrates cavalier attitude towards guns that seems both sophomoric and dangerous.

9 years ago

It’s Getting Hard to Tell Where Sovereign Citizens End and Republicans Begin

Both Republicans and so-called sovereign citizens are citizens and subject to federal authority. If not, we should rethink deportation laws

9 years ago

Debate on Gun Violence Limited by Either-Or Thinking

There have been 101 school shootings since Newtown. Obama said afteward, "the time is now." It is now well past…

9 years ago

Two Year-Old Walmart Shooter A Year-End Scream for Gun Law Reform

It's the end of an eventful year and the beginning of a new one. I had visions of a fresh…

9 years ago

Moms Demand Action Hammers Grocery Chain For Allowing Guns To Be Openly Carried In Stores

Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, a national gun control group that was formed in the wake of…

10 years ago

Gun Advocates Are Suing a Texas City For The Right to Terrify Motorists

A Texas city is being sued in federal court for violating the heavily-armed men's 1st Amendment rights to exercise their…

10 years ago

Georgia Law Would Allow You to Stand Your Ground on Public Transportation

Sponsored by Rep. Rick Jasperse, R-Jasper, House Bill 875 would allow guns to be carried in churches, bars, and even…

10 years ago

Colorado Recalls Are an NRA Political Terror Campaign to Keep the Violence Flowing

The real point of the recall elections of two Democratic Colorado state senators is to scare legislators into never supporting…

11 years ago

Misplaced Anger: How Americans Today Respond to Their Hearts and Not Their Heads

As terrible as the verdict is, what's even more disheartening is how Americans in 2013 buy into the media narratives…

11 years ago

Republicans Freak Out and Claim Obama Is Using Zimmerman Verdict to Take Their Guns

Because President Obama used the word gun in his statement about the Zimmerman verdict, Republicans are freaking out and claiming…

11 years ago

Look What’s in Pandora’s Box: A 3D-Printed Wiki Weapon

Yes, 3D printers are coming to a store near you, and for the low-low price of $1500 or less, and…

11 years ago

Sarah Palin Hypocritically Accuses Obama of Playing the Politics of Emotion

The queen of the politics of emotion accuses President Obama of playing the politics of emotion

11 years ago

Right Wingers Claim Prayer Doomed Manchin-Toomey

You probably didn't know this but gun safety laws are "pagan" and it was prayer that defeated Manchin-Toomey

11 years ago

Democrats Make Ted Cruz Look Like a Fool by Reviving Gun Control Bill

Ted Cruz (R-TX) to boasted to a tea party gathering in Texas that he was a major force in killing…

11 years ago

Ted Nugent Threatens Violence and Launches A Racist Attack Against the President

Ted Nugent's opposition is not necessarily about guns, the Second Amendment, or government oppression, but about an African American sitting…

11 years ago

20 Dead Children Are Not Enough to Keep Republicans from Filibustering

The fact that polls show the vast majority of Americans want stronger gun laws means absolutely nothing to Republicans, because…

11 years ago

New Poll: 85% of Gun Owners Support the Background Checks in Senate Dems Bill

It turns out the"liberal extremists" that Wayne LaPierre warned were pushing background check legislation are 85% of U.S. gun owners.

11 years ago

GOP Logic: Health Care Mandates are Evil but Gun Mandates are Necessary

Why waste time teaching kids how to read when the NRA will fund mandatory programs to teach kids how to…

11 years ago

Republicans Have Created Racist Frenzy With Baseless Obama Gun Confiscation Talk

the NRA, Republicans, and so-called patriots are driving gun fanatics and racists into frenzy by asserting President Obama is on…

11 years ago

Why Fashion Designers are the Last Line of Defense Against the Gun Obsessed

It's clear that there will be no effective gun legislation passed as long as the House remains in Republican hands,…

11 years ago

Like Most Cockroaches, Ted Nugent is Still Here

Ted Nugent said that if Barack Obama was re-elected and Mitt Romney did not prevail, then he would either be…

11 years ago

The NRA: Beholden to Gun Manufacturers and Betrayers of Their Country

The rising calls for civil or revolutionary war are the result of President Obama's re-election, but with NRA and Republican…

11 years ago

White House Drives the NRA Crazy by Releasing Photo of Obama Shooting a Gun

The President punched the NRA in their lobbyist mouth by releasing a photo of Obama skeet shooting.

11 years ago

As Wayne LaPierre Testified Against Gun Control, Another Multiple Shooting Occurred in Phoenix, AZ

While Wayne LaPierre was testifying against gun control in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee at least three people in…

11 years ago

A Contingent of Gun Fanatics Make Their Intention to Initiate a Revolutionary War Known

There is a contingent of gun fanatics driven by racial prejudice and gun lobby fear mongering who desperately long to…

11 years ago

Here is Who The NRA is Really Defending

The NRA is defending people like Richard Schmidt, convicted felon, neo-Nazi and potential terrorist who manage to buy gun weapons…

11 years ago

Guns are Just the Latest Symptom of the Right’s Anti-Obama Delusion

The current outrage from gun-fanatics that President Obama is sending federal forces to confiscate their precious firearms is a microcosm…

11 years ago

How Wealthy Libertarians and the NRA Joined Forces to Enrich the Firearms Industry

There is a contingent of wealthy libertarians who are actively promoting gun proliferation to transform America into a nation where…

11 years ago

Guns don’t kill people. People with guns kill people. A whole lot of people.

Guns do not kill people. People armed with guns kill people. And people armed with assault rifles have the capability…

11 years ago

Presidents Bush and Clinton Also Used Executive Orders to Reform Gun Laws

Republicans are threatening to impeach Obama over executive action on gun control, but many presidents have issued executive orders on…

11 years ago

Desperate Gun Fanatics Are Pushing Civil War as a Response to Gun Control

The reaction from gun-proliferation addicts over the past week have revealed a deep-seated belief among firearm fanatics that simply talking…

11 years ago

Giffords/Kelly PAC a Missed Opportunity for Gun Reform

Ya gotta love Gabby Giffords and her remarkable husband Mark Kelly. But on Tuesday they blew it.

11 years ago

The Second Amendment is Not an Unfettered Right

Gun owners say that any gun control restricts their 2nd Amendment rights. The result is an elevation of the 2nd…

11 years ago

Focusing NRA Fight on Sandy Hook Could Lose the Battle for Sensible Gun Policy

Now we have this universal outpouring of grief and revulsion and we also have a problem. The known facts about…

11 years ago

The Idea That an Armed Good Guy Can Stop an Armed Bad Guy is Not Borne Out by Reality

The idea that an armed good guy can stop a bad guy is not borne out by reality. Law enforcement…

11 years ago

The NRA’s Response to Sandy Hook Massacre is to Sell More Guns

NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre's presser today sounded more like a marketing strategy for the manufacturers on the board of the…

11 years ago

Expect a ringing defense from gun owners in the aftermath of 27 deaths

Politicians (a few at least) are making loud gun control noises. They do that every time there's another mass murder.…

11 years ago

The NRA’s Soft Underbelly: 70% of Their Members Favor Gun Restrictions

If one quarter of the 70 percent who feel the NRA is, on some level, making unreasonable demands can be…

11 years ago

Man Who Killed Florida Teen Over Loud Music Alters His Story to Fit Stand Your Ground

The Florida man who shot a teenager because he felt threatened by the teen's play of loud music is changing…

11 years ago

Casualties of Divide and Conquer

As I write, we know that the president of the Sikh temple was shot, and a Granthi of the Temple was…

12 years ago

A Good Housekeeping Approach to Gun Control

Today, Lipstick Liberal takes on Gun Control as only she can.

12 years ago

The Medical Debt of Colorado Shooting Victims Cries out for Healthcare Reform

Many victims of the Colorado shootings are facing ruinous financial debt due to expensive surgeries and rehabilitation for their wounds.

12 years ago

Congressman from Aurora Urges Congress to Address Gun Laws

Congressman Ed Perlmutter, who represents Aurora, was on Face the Nation this morning where he argued that Congress must address…

12 years ago

Right Wingers Are More of a Threat to Gun Owners Than Liberals

Republicans from past experience seem to be eager to take away your rights to firearms and shift the blame to…

12 years ago

The Choice Between Rugged Individualism and Senseless Violence

This article is not a call to disarm; it is a call to sanity and reason, because without discourse on…

12 years ago

Hate Group Blames Colorado Massacre on America’s Lost Fear of God

The AFA says people died because we've lost our fear of God; more accurately, they died because we insist on…

12 years ago

Dear America, Can We Talk About Gun Control and Personal Responsibility Yet?

In the wake of the tragic shootings at the Batman movie, it's time for Americans to have a hard conversation…

12 years ago

Ted Nugent, the Civil War, and the GOP’s Anti-Constitutional Fantasies

Ted Nugent believes we'd be better off if the South had won the Civil War, completely ignoring that states rights…

12 years ago

Hope from the Wild West: Jan Brewer Vetoes Guns on Public Property

The Governor of the Wild West state where you don't need a permit to carry a concealed weapon vetoes a…

12 years ago

The Facts don’t Match Palin’s Obama Second Amendment Claims

During her speech in front of the NRA, Sarah Palin threw a little red meat to the crowd by claiming…

14 years ago