For too long, watching one horrific shooting tragedy after another, those of us seeking sensible gun laws have asked, "What is it going to take?"  "How big a tragedy is going to have to occur before Congress wakes up and creates the change that is too long overdue?" 

I believe...

One month ago, 20 first-graders and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School lost their lives in a senseless act of gun violence that never should have happened. President Barack Obama called it the worst day of his administration.

Following the tragedy in Newtown, the White House asked the Brady...

This past weekend, in a domestic disturbance that went horribly awry when a gun entered the mix, a man shot and killed his girlfriend, then, hours later, killed himself. That everyday occurrence would not have made national news -- except that the man was an NFL player, Kansas City Chiefs...

Remember the scene near the end of The Wizard of Oz, when Toto pulls back the curtain to expose that the powerful image of the Wizard was simply a projection of a rather ordinary, powerless old man? That happened last Tuesday night with the NRA. And it wasn't the first...

Forty seconds. That's all it would have taken to potentially save the lives of three women at the Azana Spa and Salon in Brookfield, Wisconsin this past weekend.  Forty seconds is all it would have taken to keep a community and our nation from suffering yet another mass shooting in...

Members of eight families who lost loved ones in the Aurora theater massacre on Monday joined us and tens of thousands of other Americans in calling on Debate Moderator Jim Lehrer to ask President Obama and Gov. Romney to present solutions to gun violence.

They represent the millions...

Every year, watching the U.S. Open tennis tournament makes me so proud to be a New Yorker and an American. That was especially true this year, as both the men's and women's finals represented everything that is great about tennis. But unfortunately this year's incredibly deserving champions, Serena Williams and...

Below are excerpts from a blog I posted in the wake of the tragedy in Tucson last year, before I recently assumed the job of president of The Brady Campaign.

Within 48 hours of the terrible tragedy in Aurora, Colorado, a new campaign was launched called We Are Better Than This. It was based on the fundamental belief that we are better than a nation with mass shootings like the one in Aurora, Colorado, and better than the...

In the NRA's view of the world, Ian Stawicki was a law-abiding citizen with the right to carry a loaded gun in any neighborhood of his choosing.

Until he shot four people to death in a Seattle café and then grabbed a mom and shot her in the head near...

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...