We need to weave a cultural narrative that addresses the fact of the world we are making and helps us tell a story that ends differently from the murderous ways our national narratives have been concluding recently.
By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) – The Colorado legislature on Monday passed a “red flag” bill that would allow those deemed a threat to have their firearms seized, despite opposition by most of the state’s sheriffs and threats of legal challenges. Both chambers of the Democratic-controlled General Assembly approved the measure, sending it to the…
Unbelievably, more Americans are calling for tougher gun laws now than right after the Sandy Hook massacre.
As gun violence continues to rear its ugly head all across this country, the American people want to see real change, not more extremist, guns-everywhere rhetoric from the NRA.
Republicans may continue to live in their NRA-funded bubbles, but it’s clear the American people – Democrats, Independents and Republicans – are still hungry for tougher gun laws.Â
It’s stunning that anybody would be against limiting a device that essentially transforms a firearm into an automatic weapon, but it’s dumbfounding that Scalise, who almost died in a shooting, is hesitant to support it.
While it’s good news that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle seem to have found some gun-related legislation they can agree on, it’s not even close to enough.
More than 80 percent of Americans want to limit firearms access for people with mental illness and require background checks at gun shows and in private sales, according to a Pew Research Center survey released on Thursday.
That this this school shooting went by without any substantive cries to address our nation’s gun culture and safety laws, especially regarding domestic abusers, is another indictment against this impervious predicament.
Trump’s presidency, with its emphasis on law and order, is trying to sell us the idea that a repressive society is a free society.
Jesse Jackson said what is needed is a plan but Trump has no plan, just a bunch of things he doesn’t like and a short enough fuse to make that a problem.
Justice has not only been denied to a worthy Supreme Court nominee and the work of the high court. It continues to be denied to the American people.
If approved, it would also allow firearms in police stations and airports.
Once again, Hillary Clinton showed that she is in step with the vast majority of Americans while Donald Trump desperately clung to NRA talking points.
If you’re a domestic violence offender, the Supreme Court says you don’t have a Second Amendment right to a firearm.
During this historic, courageous sit in — Democrats found not only their spine but the knowledge that they carry moral authority on this issue — House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) praised Congressmen John Lewis.
“Forget your asinine gun control, do your job and engage in Islamic terrorist control.”
Watch out, because Nugent says the only thing more dangerous than a “sow Grizzly bear with cubs is Ted Nugent with more confidence.”
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has shown unprecedented courage in taking on the gun lobby – a position no other presidential candidate has taken on.
Ending Roe v Wade, a law that protects women from being discovered would also backfire and end the privacy of potential firearm owners
Nugent posted a photo of prominent Jewish Americans to Facebook with the caption, “So who is really behind gun control?†and put an Israeli flag next to each of their faces
After being hammered by Hillary Clinton for his vote against a bill that would have allowed victims of gun violence to sue gun dealers, Bernie Sanders will co-sponsor a Senate bill that will allow victims to sue gun manufacturers and gun dealers.
Ted Nugent claims Obama is trying to kill children by creating gun-free zones but he’s the one refusing to keep guns out of the wrong hands
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.
Speaker Ryan was for addressing background check loopholes at gun shows until he was against it. He’s against it now, as Speaker of the crazy House, which is bursting with Republican NRA extremists claiming to represent the “people”.
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.
Senator Feinstein is leading an effort to bar gun sales to people on the Terrorist Watchlist, but the NRA is fighting her efforts.
The two men got worked up over armed EPA agents, ignoring of course the threat of armed anti-government conservatives like Cliven Bundy
The GOP and Religious Right have been throwing fake Founding Father quotes at us for years. John Oliver hilariously rips this industry apart
The Supreme Court could decide as early as Tuesday whether to hear a challenge to Highland Park, Illinois’ municipal assault weapons ban.
Some 2.1 million Australians visit the U.S. annually and the call for boycott is likely motivated as much by self-preservation as disgust
Donald Trump neither read nor understood the Second Amendment but uses it as just an excuse for “law-abiding” folks to lock and load
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton continues to champion common sense gun reform on the 2016 campaign trail.
Every American should have the experience of seeing the sheer terror, hear the screams, and watch the bloodletting of innocent Americans
He didn’t shoot an armadillo, but Ted Cruz demonstrates cavalier attitude towards guns that seems both sophomoric and dangerous.
Both Republicans and so-called sovereign citizens are citizens and subject to federal authority. If not, we should rethink deportation laws
There have been 101 school shootings since Newtown. Obama said afteward, “the time is now.” It is now well past time, and nothing has been done
It’s the end of an eventful year and the beginning of a new one. I had visions of a fresh start as I sat down to write my final political words of 2014. I’ve had a lot to say about American gun culture over the past 12 months and figured it might be refreshing to…
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.
A Texas city is being sued in federal court for violating the heavily-armed men’s 1st Amendment rights to exercise their 2nd Amendment rights to terrify motorists stuck in traffic.
Sponsored by Rep. Rick Jasperse, R-Jasper, House Bill 875 would allow guns to be carried in churches, bars, and even some government buildings
The real point of the recall elections of two Democratic Colorado state senators is to scare legislators into never supporting even the most common sense gun laws.
As terrible as the verdict is, what’s even more disheartening is how Americans in 2013 buy into the media narratives and engage in what we will call “selective anger”.
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.
Yes, 3D printers are coming to a store near you, and for the low-low price of $1500 or less, and they are going to play holy hell with existing laws.
The queen of the politics of emotion accuses President Obama of playing the politics of emotion
You probably didn’t know this but gun safety laws are “pagan” and it was prayer that defeated Manchin-Toomey
Ted Cruz (R-TX) to boasted to a tea party gathering in Texas that he was a major force in killing the compromise gun safety measure in the Senate, but Cruz’s funereal celebration may be premature.
Ted Nugent’s opposition is not necessarily about guns, the Second Amendment, or government oppression, but about an African American sitting in the Oval Office.
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.
It turns out the”liberal extremists” that Wayne LaPierre warned were pushing background check legislation are 85% of U.S. gun owners.
Why waste time teaching kids how to read when the NRA will fund mandatory programs to teach kids how to use a gun? That’s just one version of efforts to mandate gun ownership and training.
the NRA, Republicans, and so-called patriots are driving gun fanatics and racists into frenzy by asserting President Obama is on a mission to confiscate guns, and invalidate the 2nd Amendment.
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.
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.
The rising calls for civil or revolutionary war are the result of President Obama’s re-election, but with NRA and Republican backing, a well-armed group of lunatics cannot be taken lightly.
The President punched the NRA in their lobbyist mouth by releasing a photo of Obama skeet shooting.
While Wayne LaPierre was testifying against gun control in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee at least three people in Phoenix, AZ were victimized in another multiple shooting.
There is a contingent of gun fanatics driven by racial prejudice and gun lobby fear mongering who desperately long to initiate a revolutionary war over attempts to stop the senseless gun violence.
The NRA is defending people like Richard Schmidt, convicted felon, neo-Nazi and potential terrorist who manage to buy gun weapons despite laws prohibiting convicting felons from owning them.
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.
There is a contingent of wealthy libertarians who are actively promoting gun proliferation to transform America into a nation where domestic tranquility is figment of one’s imagination.
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.
The reaction from gun-proliferation addicts over the past week have revealed a deep-seated belief among firearm fanatics that simply talking about gun control is a cardinal sin worthy of civil war.
Ya gotta love Gabby Giffords and her remarkable husband Mark Kelly. But on Tuesday they blew it.
Gun owners say that any gun control restricts their 2nd Amendment rights. The result is an elevation of the 2nd Amendment to where it trumps all other rights.
Now we have this universal outpouring of grief and revulsion and we also have a problem. The known facts about the event and the killer himself could mitigate against meaningful changes.
The idea that an armed good guy can stop a bad guy is not borne out by reality. Law enforcement officers go through extensive firearm training, and yet they do not always stop bad guys with 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.
Politicians (a few at least) are making loud gun control noises. They do that every time there’s another mass murder. Nothing ever happens.
If one quarter of the 70 percent who feel the NRA is, on some level, making unreasonable demands can be convinced to drop their membership it would be over $24 million less in NRA coffers every year.
The Florida man who shot a teenager because he felt threatened by the teen’s play of loud music is changing his story so that it will fit a stand your ground defense.
As I write, we know that the president of the Sikh temple was shot, and a Granthi of the Temple was shot and killed. Police officials are investigating this as a domestic terrorist act. At this time, we don’t have the name of the Sikh Temple shooter. Witnesses describe him as a man in his 30’s,…
Today, Lipstick Liberal takes on Gun Control as only she can.
Many victims of the Colorado shootings are facing ruinous financial debt due to expensive surgeries and rehabilitation for their wounds.
Congressman Ed Perlmutter, who represents Aurora, was on Face the Nation this morning where he argued that Congress must address the expired assault weapons ban.
Republicans from past experience seem to be eager to take away your rights to firearms and shift the blame to Democrats.
This article is not a call to disarm; it is a call to sanity and reason, because without discourse on the conditions driving people to support the proliferation of guns, there will be more massacres.
The AFA says people died because we’ve lost our fear of God; more accurately, they died because we insist on misreading the Second Amendment
In the wake of the tragic shootings at the Batman movie, it’s time for Americans to have a hard conversation about gun control and personal responsibility.
Ted Nugent believes we’d be better off if the South had won the Civil War, completely ignoring that states rights was all about slavery
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.
During her speech in front of the NRA, Sarah Palin threw a little red meat to the crowd by claiming that President Obama wants to take away guns and ammo, but the truth is that Obama presidency has been extremely pro-Second Amendment. Obama has been so pro-gun that the Brady Campaign gave his administration him an F on their annual report card.