Gun

What a Difference a Gun Makes

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 04.14.2012

Marian Wright Edelman

It's a tragedy that five years after Virginia Tech so little has changed. How many years must we wait until tragic headlines about school shootings, children dying, and people using the "shoot first and ask questions later" defense to take the law into their own hands go away? When will we finally get the courage to stand up as a nation and say enough to the deadly proliferation of guns and gun violence that endanger children's and public safety? As a nation we can't afford to keep waiting for common-sense gun control laws that would protect our children and all of us from indefensible gun violence. The time to act is now.

Gun Study Shows Holding Weapon Has Weird Effect On Men's Appearance

Posted 04.13.2012

By: Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience Managing Editor Published: 04/12/2012 06:18 PM EDT on LiveScience With gun in hand, a man of any size appears big...

Walking While Black

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.21.2012

Marian Wright Edelman

The outcry over Trayvon's death is absolutely right and just. We need a nation where senseless deaths no longer happen.

What Would Happen If You Shot A Gun In Space?

Posted 02.22.2012

By: Natalie Wolchover Published: 02/22/2012 10:51 AM EST on Lifes Little Mysteries Fires can't burn in the oxygen-free vacuum of space, but guns...

New York's Finest Cut to the Chase in the Murder of Police Officer Peter Figoski

Audrey Silk | Posted 03.13.2012

Audrey Silk

The brunt of the fury should have been trained on Lamont Pride first and foremost. In the end, he was solely responsible for his actions.

Amish Girl Shot Dead In Buggy By Man Cleaning Gun: Sheriff

AP | Posted 12.21.2011

FREDERICKSBURG, Ohio -- A man cleaning his muzzle-loading rifle shot the gun into the air, accidentally killing a 15-year-old Amish girl driving a hor...

TSA Stops Passenger Over Purse Design

Posted 12.02.2011

Vanessa Gibbs had no problem getting her Western-themed purse through security at Jacksonville International Airport. But, on her return trip from Nor...

Did Attorney General Holder Lie to Congress?

Adam Winkler | Posted 12.12.2011

Adam Winkler

The Republicans in Congress have set their sights on Holder in what is likely to turn out to be the first major scandal of the Obama administration.

11-Year-Old Girl Shoots Her 14-Year-Old Sister With Shotgun While 'Playing CSI'

Posted 11.26.2011

Two sisters were "playing CSI" with a loaded 20-gauge shotgun when the game turned all too real, according to investigators in Logansport, Ind. An ...

Banned: Indian Actress Caught in Sex Scandal

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 11.14.2011

Shirin Sadeghi

It would be a hoot and a half if anyone in Hollywood lost their job over allegations of infidelity. By most estimates, Tinseltown would become a ghost town. Too bad thirty year old Nikita Thukral is based in India, then.

Pot-Smoking Georgia Judge Ousted From Bench For Bizarre Behavior

AP | GREG BLUESTEIN | Posted 11.06.2011

ATLANTA — A Georgia judge who pointed a gun at himself while at the courthouse, berated his boss in a bizarre televised rant and admitted to reg...

Playmate Arrested With Gun At Airport

AOL Travel News | Posted 10.10.2011

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Mom Mistakes Small Gun For Cigarette Lighter, Daughter Wounded: Cops

Patch.com | Posted 09.26.2011

A 12-year-old girl was wounded by a ricocheting bullet Sunday evening in Banning, when her mother fired a tiny pistol she mistook for a cigarette ligh...

Gilbert Arenas Tweets About Gun Incident

Huffington Post | Dan Treadway | Posted 09.14.2011

Gilbert Arenas, fresh off being named one of the top 100 sports personalities on Twitter by Sports Illustrated, made a few eyebrow raising tweets rega...

Man Pulls Gun At Kid's Party After Cake Runs Out

Posted 11.15.2011

The host of a kid's birthday party wouldn't let his children eat cake -- so Joseph Hayes threatened to make her eat lead, according to police. The ...

NRA's Deadly Agenda Is Out

Paul Helmke | Posted 07.06.2011

Paul Helmke

In yet another sign of how out of touch it is with how people interact in a civilized society, the National Rifle Association is apparently so wrapped...

Arizona Gun Wild: New Bill Establishes State Army for Gov. Brewer?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Jeff Biggers

The Arizona state legislature is considering legislation that would give Gov. Jan Brewer the right to establish an armed force, the Arizona state guard, to back her up for whatever the governor considers "necessary."

Ja Rule Pleads Guilty In NY Weapon Case

AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW YORK — Ja Rule agreed Monday to go to prison for two years in a gun case, becoming the second platinum-selling rapper set to do time after a...

The States of Dis-Union: Will Arizona and West Virginia Join the President or Secede?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Jeff Biggers

As President Obama calls on the nation to "come together as a people, Republicans, Democrats, Independents," and "find common ground, even as we're ha...

Congress, Wake Up and Smell the Gunfire

John Rosenthal | Posted 05.25.2011

John Rosenthal

If Congress actually tried to further increase gun violence in the US, they could hardly be more effective than the gun policies that exist today.

Now Arizona Wants to Allow Concealed Guns on Campuses

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Jeff Biggers

Will Gov. Brewer and the state legislature listen now after the Tuscon massacre -- or continue Arizona down the path of gun violence?

WATCH: Jon Stewart To Dick Armey...

Posted 05.25.2011

In the next step for broadening Tea Partiers' cause, one of the leading faces of the movement stepped onto the set with Jon Stewart. Former House Maj...

Utah's License Give-Away Must Go

Paul Helmke | Posted 05.25.2011

Paul Helmke

Utah is issuing concealed weapon licenses -- by the thousands -- to people willing to pay the mere $65.25 fee. You don't have to live, or ever set foot, in Utah to get the license.

California Mother Kills Herself While Driving After Girl, 9, Refuses To Pull Trigger

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

LAS CRUCES, N.M. -- A California woman shot and killed herself while driving in southern New Mexico after her 9-year-old daughter refused her mother's...

Open Carry Equals Open Season?

Paul Helmke | Posted 05.25.2011

Paul Helmke

Americans have for far too long settled minor disputes with lethal firepower, and it's one of the reasons that we continue to reject the vision of America, held by gun rights extremists, as a place where anybody can carry and display any gun.