Daniel Gross

In the weeks since George Zimmerman's killing of Trayvon Martin, corporate America has been force fed a crash survey of public opinion on gun policy. Some of America's most popular --and message-savvy -- companies announced their swift verdict when they, and then ALEC, withdrew support for the...

Don't get me wrong, I blame George Zimmerman for shooting Trayvon Martin.  But I also blame the NRA and the politicians who do their bidding for putting the gun in his hands.

George Zimmerman had an arrest record and a history...

A number of years ago, with the election of George W. Bush the gun lobby said, "...we'll have a president where we work out of their office." Around that time, in their unchecked euphoria, they launched a big budget advertising campaign with the slogan, "I am the NRA."...

This morning, as I was getting ready to go to work with the TV news on in the background, I heard the anchor say, "Police are still seeking a motive for the deadly shooting rampage in the Carson City IHOP that claimed four lives."

And that got me thinking. Are...

This week, a 15-year-old girl from Austin Texas, Meagan Allen, shot and killed herself in her school's bathroom after telling her friends she was going to commit suicide. Unfortunately, her friends didn't take her warnings seriously.

This tragedy didn't make national news, as some of the more...

It seems like an absurd, farcical headline you might expect to read in The Onion. But it isn't.

According to MSNBC, the source of the headline, earlier this week, a man in Alabama was carrying his Glock .40 handgun from the glove compartment of his car to his home when...

As someone who has dedicated my life to the prevention of gun violence, it is heartening to see so much attention being paid to it. The terrible tragedy in Tucson has once again elevated the issue into the national spotlight and, as evidenced in places like The Huffington Post, it...

In an open letter sent by the White House, First Lady Michelle Obama suggests parents use the Tucson tragedy as a teachable moment. It's a moment, she writes, for valuable lessons, "about the character of our country, about the values we hold dear, and about finding hope at a time...

I know about headline-grabbing tragedies. My younger brother was shot in the head on the observation deck of the Empire State Building in 1997. The incident inspired me to resign as an advertising executive to start PAX, an organization dedicated to preventing gun violence.

In our time of shock and...