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.
Rep. Lauren Boebert ranted against the Senate gun control bill while spelling America wrong.
It has been decades since serious gun legislation was passed and the bipartisan gun violence bill in the Senate is historic in many ways.
What does it mean if 90% of Americans want the right to life, a right enshrined in the Constitution, but can’t get it because their lawmakers refuse — for decades– to respond to the will of the people?
All of these issues—women’s right to choose, gun control, the rights of people to love how they want and marry whom they want, and much more—depend on one issue: democracy.
President Biden will announce new rules cracking down on ghost guns and two executive actions on gun violence.
President Joe Biden commemorated the fourth anniversary of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and called on Congress to act and pass gun control legislation. “On February 14th, 2018, a gunman stole the lives of 14 students and 3 educators at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School,” Biden wrote on Twitter….
While we seem to finally be gaining ground on the COVID-19 pandemic, there is one public health crisis to which we appear powerless. That is the epidemic of gun violence. According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have been 305 mass shootings as of this writing. 3,044 students did not have the opportunity to graduate high…
According to the latest Morning Consult-Politico tracking poll, two-thirds of Americans support stricter gun control measures. The poll was conducted following a spate of mass shootings in Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, and Colorado. Just 28% said they opposed tougher restrictions on gun ownership. The poll also found that 76% support banning gun ownership for those…
When Joe Biden was running for president, he promised to use executive action to help with the gun problem in America. While he was initially focused on vaccines and the economy, he got around to the issue on Wednesday night. Following two March mass shootings, Biden said, “I don’t need to wait another minute –…
Over the last 20 years, the United States has experienced a number of mass shootings. 2021 has been no different. There have been high-profile massacres in both Atlanta, Georgia and Boulder, Colorado. And the responses to the mass shootings have followed the usual script. Democrats use the incidents to call for common sense gun controls….
Vice President Kamala Harris criticized the Republican Party and politicians who’ve refused to consider gun reform in the wake of mass shootings in Atlanta, Georgia, and Boulder, Colorado, that have left a total of 18 people dead in the last week. “I believe it is possible–it has to be possible–that people agree that these slaughters…
Senator Chris Murphy criticized his colleagues for their inaction on gun reform measures just two days after a gunman killed 10 people at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado. “I have just come to the conclusion that Congress has become complicit in these crimes,†Murphy (D-Conn.) told MSNBC. “When Congress doesn’t act, it sends an unintentional…
Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), who serves as the Senate Judiciary Chairman, called the recent mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado, “devastating,” noting that he “can’t keep up with” the sheer number of mass shootings that happen in the United States annually. “I can’t keep up with it,†he said during his opening statement at a committee…
Representative Jason Crow (D-Co.) is calling for comprehensive gun control measures in the wake of yesterday’s mass shooting in Boulder, which resulted in ten deaths. “There are common sense laws and legislation that we can pass that will help make our communities safer. We just have to get them done. It’s that simple,” he told…
Giffords, the gun violence prevention advocacy group created by gun violence survivor and former Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), has launched a new ad campaign to pressure Republicans in the Senate to support a measure that would expand background checks on all firearms purchases. “That’s why we’ve marched, organized, and won. Almost nothing has support from…
The Democrat-led House of Representatives is set to pass two measures to expand background checks on all firearms purchases and transfers. It would also expand the review time for gun purchases to 10 days. The bills will advance to the Senate, though they require significant bipartisan support to pass. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said…
A bill to expand federal background checks on all gun sales has been reintroduced in the Senate by Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.). The bill, the Background Check Expansion Act, was also reintroduced in the House by Representative Mike Thompson (D-Calif.). The Democrat-controlled House passed the Bipartisan Background Checks Act in 2019 but the legislation was…
Donald Trump Jr. claimed Democrat Joe Biden’s campaign is “the most anti-2nd Amendment Presidential ticket in history.” “Make no mistake about it: The radical left is coming for your guns!!!” he wrote. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris want to take away your right to defend yourself and your family. They are the most anti-2nd Amendment…
President Donald Trump claimed the Constitution’s Second Amendment is “DEAD” if his rival Joe Biden wins November’s general election. “Is that what you want from a leader? He will destroy our Country! VOTE NOW USA,” Trump wrote. In the same message, the president claimed Biden will be “ruining” the Supreme Court if Democrats expand the…
Sarah Palin sounded the alarm on Twitter when she wrote: “Here They Come: Dems Planning ‘Aggressive’ Gun Control Push When They Take Over House†Here They Come: Dems Planning 'Aggressive' Gun Control Push When They Take Over House https://t.co/ezbWNP6KAN — Sarah (@SarahPalinUSA) November 13, 2018 Of course, Palin thinks it is a bad thing for…
So far this year the National Rifle Association (NRA) has spent just $11 million on midterm races, less than half of the amount of money it spent on the midterms in 2014. The National Rifle Association, long seen as a kingmaker in Republican politics, is taking a lower profile in this year's midterm campaign. It…
A leading Jewish rabbi expressed the feelings of millions of Americans when he appeared on CNN and criticized President Donald Trump for some of his remarks which followed the mass murder in Pittsburgh on Saturday. Rabbi Joshua Stanton directly responded to Trump who had blamed the death toll in the synagogue massacre to a lack…
New Jersey Democratic Governor Phil Murphy signed a half-dozen new gun control laws on Wednesday, tightening the Garden State’s already tough gun statutes. Murphy signed the new laws in Trenton surrounded by the Democratic legislative leaders who got the legislation passed after the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida on Valentine’s Day that left 17 people…
In a change of heart after the Santa Fe school shooting, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday that he could support some new gun control measures in his state. Abbott is a Republican who has always worked to expand gun rights and has been against any form of gun control laws or regulations. After the February…
According to James Shaw Jr he is not a hero, but in the eyes of millions he is. He’s the guy who took away the automatic rifle of the Waffle House shooter in Antioch, TN who killed four people and would have killed more if not for Shaw’s actions. On Tuesday the mayor of Nashville…
When 17 people were killed by a teenager with an assault rifle at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on Valentine’s day, a renewed national debate on gun control laws erupted.  Many gun control advocates began pushing anew for a complete ban on assault-style rifles and also large capacity magazines, since these are…
Bayer AG, the massive German conglomerate, confirmed Saturday that the company will no longer be spending ad dollars to support Laura Ingraham’s Fox News show. Bayer  is at least the 16th company to withdraw sponsorship from “The Ingraham Angle” after the abrasive host attacked Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg last week. “Bayer US has stopped…
Embattled Fox News host Laura Ingraham announced on her show Friday night that she was taking a break from her show, the Ingraham Angle. She said it was because of Easter, but that seems a bit too coincidental to be completely true. Before the show started Friday almost all of her sponsors had decided to…
According to NBC, Americans are mad. Maybe more mad than they’ve ever been. A large majority of all Americans — 57 percent — responded to a poll by saying they are outraged.  In fact they are so outraged that they would get out of their homes and attend a march and carry a protest sign….
While the Samaritan was the surprising character to show mercy to the man left for dead in the ditch, the real twist came when Jesus asked the lawyer to lay aside his privilege and see the world though the beaten and bruised eyes of a man desperate to save his life.
Who knew that the entitled Trump son-in-law (and future felon) Jared Kushner has a brother who is a good guy?  I sure didn’t, and I wouldn’t believe it if I hadn’t read it in an article in Axios.  Just this morning Axios reported that Josh Kushner — brother of Jared — has quietly donated…
Reading the Second Amendment on its face value and in its historical context or original intent, it is clear that these ideas did not fall from heaven but were tied to particular realities of the day.
A new NBC poll released Thursday morning should be a wakeup call to the NRA and its supporters in Washington, including President Trump. Â Most people think that putting more guns in schools is a really bad idea. The truth is that arming teachers is a crazy idea that could only be thought up by the…
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is a coward and a crook. Instead of working to pass legislation addressing the gun violence epidemic in our country, he is turning to gutting consumer protections in a banking bill.
Senate Democrats are bullish on background check legislation, they only need 3 more Republicans. There are 4 Republicans being targeted to flip their vote.
You probably didn’t know this but gun safety laws are “pagan” and it was prayer that defeated Manchin-Toomey
Five Senators in Alaska, Arizona, Nevada, and Ohio are feeling the wrath of the public after failing to support a background checks measure, in what PPP called ‘serious backlash’.
Republicans want bombing suspect treated as enemy combatant but it’s liberals who want increased government control?
The GOP: Sodomizing our shared reality – and you
The capture of Boston bombing suspect Dzhoklar Tsarnaev was and will continue to be tragic theater with an endless stream of unanswered questions.
If you buy a gun, opponents of background checks say it’s an invasion of privacy. Speaking in the Gallery of the Senate is another matter.
By any measure, America is in decline. The fault lies almost completely with male Republicans. Democratic women must usurp the power.
After the brutal slayings of 20 precious Sandy Hook children, the son of Pastor Rick Warren shoots himself with an unregistered gun purchased on the Internet, and still the NRA doesn’t care.
Rand Paul’s promised filibuster of expanded background checks flopped today, as Harry Reid’s bill sailed through the cloture vote 68-31.
The fact that polls show the vast majority of Americans want stronger gun laws means absolutely nothing to Republicans, because citizens don’t affect their cash reserves.
The announcement by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Pat Toomey (R-PA) that the Senate has reached a bipartisan agreement on background checks is a major victory for Obama in his push for gun reform.
Most of the perpetrators of recent mass shootings were already identified as being mentally disturbed. None legally purchased their guns.
When Reshad Riddle gunned down his father at Church, he didn’t say his act was the will of atheism.
Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Sarah Palin seem to have captured the spirit of the current crop of Republicans; still extreme and still anti-Obama.
Piers was trying to have a sane discussion about gun safety measures when Dana Loesch exploded, ‘If you stab someone with a spoon it can be qualified as an assault weapon!’
It turns out the”liberal extremists” that Wayne LaPierre warned were pushing background check legislation are 85% of U.S. gun owners.
The five Democrats who killed the assault weapons ban will further embolden the million caliber wackjobs to make this the most dangerous county on the planet, wars notwithstanding.
The NRA has decided that it is great strategy to claim that Rep. Carolyn McCarthy whose husband and son were mass shooting victims doesn’t know what she is talking about on the gun violence issue.
The primary purpose of House Bill 933 is to perpetuate the bloat of the defense budget and decimate domestic programs.
After years of manipulation and buying off elected officials, a large percentage of radical right-wingers are planning a civil war.
There’s a national email movement to demand the defunding of ACA. It’s spearheaded by Heritage Action for America (HAA), an offshoot of the Heritage Foundation.
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 long-time and oft-repeated Republican criticism of Democrats is the tendency to regulation. But, so do Republicans, especially for friends.
If any facet of the GOP’s war on America has grown to lunatic proportions, it is gun control. The more people die from gun violence, the more the GOP sinks into denial.
It’s clear that there will be no effective gun legislation passed as long as the House remains in Republican hands, but fashion has the answer.
Right wing “patriots” are constantly complaining of losing their freedoms and liberty. I would ask what these freedoms and liberties are.
A planned, walled-in Patriot Community called the Citadel Project is being planned for a mountainous region of Idaho. It’s all about guns
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.’
Ted Nugent said that if Barack Obama was re-elected and Mitt Romney did not prevail, then he would either be in jail or dead around this time. But Nugent, like most cockroaches, is still here.
Are you not entertained? Former action star Steven Seagal is training a criminal collection of deputies how to protect our school children
Right wing media failed to correct stories in which they falsely claimed that a man who is against gun safety regulations was the father of a Sandy Hook student.
According to a new PPP poll, the NRA’s position on gun control has become so toxic that voters view NRA support as a reason not to support a candidate
The Republican/NRA American dream is coming true. A 3-year-old is killed while playing with a loaded pink handgun and a woman pulls a gun at an all girls school during carpool pick up.
Wayne LaPierre went so far off the crazy cliff today, that even Fox News had to call out his conspiracy laden BS.
NRA has a very long ‘enemies list’ that includes sports teams, but they left the RNC off their list even after the GOP banned guns at their convention.
Conservatives freak out over the President’s skeet shooting photo, falling right into the President’s trap. Again.
Joe Scarborough has a message for those who are defending assault weapons, “If you go out and try to defend assault weapons, then you end up looking like a jackass.”
Listening to Wayne LaPierre testify against something as common sense as background checks is causing me to rethink my position. The more he talks, the more I support gun control.
Martin Bashir took down the tactics of the NRA against gun safety today, starting off with a clip of an ‘NRA mole’ who heckled father of a victim the Newtown tragedy.
The gun movement radicals are coming out of the woodwork post-Obama Executive Orders. The worst of them has threatened death for gun reform
Rep. Richard Nolan is the first Democratic to go the record describing the thinly veiled threats that he is getting from NRA members.
The same people who love Sarah Palin call Obama a dictator. But in 2008, then Gov. Palin stripped the militia of their guns and many powers.
The President’s 23 Executive Orders on gun control are now public. The Republicans are pushing back implying some may be unconstitutional
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.
The Tea Party’s actions in Wisconsin and Michigan show them to owe their inspiration not to the Patriots of 1776 but to King George III
President Barack Obama gave a moving speech on gun reform, but House Republicans have already chosen the gun lobby over children’s lives.
‘What’s wrong with these people, Mika? What’s wrong with these people?’ Joe asks Mika on MSNBC’s Morning Joe after showing the NRA’s new ad aimed at Obama’s kids.
The Republican Party seems to think if Obama doesn’t do what they want him to do, he is violating the Constitution
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.
Republicans are threatening to impeach Obama over executive action on gun control, but many presidents have issued executive orders on gun control, including George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton.
According to GOP gun nut Larry Pratt, gun-control policies are Pagan, thus proving Piers Morgan’s accusation that he is unbelievably stupid
How do America’s most extreme gun enthusiasts want to live? You’ll soon get to find out as they build their own city in the mountains of Idaho
The Firearms Freedom act legislation is passing in a number of states. It establishes state laws that override the feds; a waste of time
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.
The endless chorus from the Religious Right that all that plagues our society is the result of divine wrath has grown tiresome…and then some.
More tragic news. In Tennessee, a toddler shot and killed himself accidentally with his grandfather’s gun.
The NRA held a press event today. Wayne LaPierre presided. He suggested police in all schools. He mentioned no new gun laws to be passed
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.
One of the world’s largest hospitality companies is Wyndham Hotels. When you stay at one of their hotels, you’re funding the NRA.
At this point, there is reason to hope for action on gun violence in response to the tragic shooting in Sandy Hook in which 20 children died.
David Barton says the Founding Fathers would want us armed with the same weapons available to the government – because the Bible says so
I’ve covered our military training on some pretty hefty weapons that I could barely hold up to my shoulder, which has only solidified my beliefs about gun control.
Senator Boxer spoke on the floor on the need to end gun violence and better protect our children following the tragic school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.
James Dobson says America has turned its back on God and Sandy Hook is God’s response: the murder of our children in retaliation.
