Gun Control

Gun-Control Advocates Accidentally Side With NRA

CQ | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gun-Control, Gregory W. Meeks, Ed Perlmutter, Nra, Guns, Second Amendment, Joe Courtney, Shelley Berkley, National Parks Guns, Bennie Thompson, Hank Johnson, Frank Pallone Jr., Patrick J. Kennedy, Melissa Bean, Adam Smith, Politics News

As they study the vote in Congress to ease gun restrictions in national parks, the National Rifle Association and gun-control groups agree on one impo...

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P.J. O'Rourke: Gun Control Futile

Blaise Zerega | Posted 06.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Political News, Brady Bill, Pj O'rourke, Nra, National Parks, Concealed Weapons Permits, Columbine, Gop, Gun Control, Gun Control Legislation, Politics News
Blaise Zerega

P.J. O'Rourke concludes that gun control is futile: "You simply can't change the nature of America as far as gun control goes. It's the nature of the beast."

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Missing Weapons: The Nation's Great Threat

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gun Violence, Bronx-Synagogues-Bomb-Plot, Gun Control, Military Industrial Complex, Terrorism, Guns, Politics News
Allison Kilkenny

The real enemy isn't living abroad, but rests within in the forms of weapons manufacturers and a government too greedy and cozy to properly guard its own citizens.

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Congress Says Yes to Guns in National Parks

Josh Sugarmann | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gun Violence, Credit Card Bill, National Rifle Asssociation, Guns in Parks, Wildlife Refuges, Gun Control, Guns in National Parks, Nra, National Parks, Wayne LaPierre, Violence Policy Center, U.S. Congress, Politics News
Josh Sugarmann

In its ongoing efforts to open up every possible space in America to gun toting, the NRA succeeded in attaching to the credit card bill legislation allowing loaded guns in National Parks and Wildlife Refuges.

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The NRA Credit Card

Scott Blakeman | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gun Control, Tom Coburn, Credit Card, Brady Bill, National Parks, Nra, Concealed Carry, Politics News
Scott Blakeman

President Obama and Congressional Democrats refused to fight Republicans and the NRA on a despicably unrelated amendment to the credit card reform bil...

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Senate Votes To Allow Loaded Guns In National Parks

AP | MATTHEW DALY | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Democrats Gun Control, Democrats Second Amendment, Guns National Parks, Gun Control National Parks, Gun Control, Bush Guns National Parks, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Democratic-controlled Congress is moving to restore a Bush administration policy that allowed loaded guns in national parks. T...

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Responsibility Is A Lifestyle: It's Time to Bury Da Beef

T.I. | Posted 06.11.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Gun Violence, Prison Sentence, Prison, T.I. Prison, Gun Control, Rappers, T.I. Gun, T.I., Guns, Entertainment News
T.I.

In a few weeks, I will begin a one-year prison sentence for being in the possession of illegal firearms. Before I go to prison, I want to speak to young people about responsibility as a lifestyle.

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Guns & Romance

Leighann Lord | Posted 06.11.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Couples Counseling, Gun Control, College Shooting, Couples, Connecticut, Comedy News
Leighann Lord

Love is complicated. Science has shown that the chemical make up of the brain while in love looks very similar to mental illness. Add this to any pre-existing pathologies and the situation gets problematic.

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Obama Administration Fails to Remove Gun Lobby Language from Budget

Paul Helmke | Posted 06.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Rahm Emanuel, George W. Bush, Nancy Pelosi, Gun Control, Department of Justice, Tiahrt Amendment, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Guns, Illegal Guns, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Obama Budget, Politics News
Paul Helmke

Obama's proposal undermines the landmark Brady Law by continuing the dangerous Bush administration policy requiring the destruction of most Brady background check records in just 24 hours.

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A Cause Worth Saving

Rev. Lennox Yearwood | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Non-Profits, Murder, Gun Violence, Gun Control, Congress, Justice Department, Obama Justice Derpartment, Politics News
Rev. Lennox Yearwood

The government tells us that some industries are too big to fail and therefore they deserve to be bailed out. Well I think some causes are too sacred to give up on.

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Gun Violence Prevention And Obama's First 100 Days: Incomplete

Paul Helmke | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Columbine, Gun Violence, Binghamton Shooting, Arne Duncan, Rahm Emanuel, Assault Weapons, Obama First 100 Days, Gun Control, Hillary Clinton, Virginia Tech, Guns, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Mexico Drug Wars, Politics News
Paul Helmke

Over the last 100 days, the nation has suffered a string of mass shootings taking the lives of 57 people in less than a month. The president's direct response to this gun violence has been minimal.

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The First 100 Days and Guns

Josh Sugarmann | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tiahrt Amendment, Assault Weapons Ban, Mexico, Gun Control, Assault Weapons, Nra, Eric Holder, National Rifle Association, Violence Policy Center, Tobacco, 100 Days, Gun Lobby, Obama Adminstration, Atf, Jimmy Carter, Import Ban, First Hundred Days, Obama 100 Days, Politics News
Josh Sugarmann

The recent incidents of gun violence are just discrete examples of the estimated 84 Americans who die on average each day in our nation from guns. Yet in the White House, the response remains muted.

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Why Not Gun Insurance? An Invitation to the NRA

Gerald Sindell | Posted 05.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gun Violence, Gun Laws, Gun Insurance, Bob Herbert, Gun Rights, Gun Control, Nra, Ralph Nader, Vince Bugliosi, Politics News
Gerald Sindell

Gunshot wounds directly cost some $2 billion dollars a year. Gun insurance would help with medical bills and funeral expenses.

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Mass Shooting Template -- Repeat as Necessary

Josh Sugarmann | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gun Violence, National Rifle Association, Gun Violence Prevention, Josh Sugarmann, Assault Weapons, Violence Policy Center, Nancy Pelosi, Gun Control, Harry Reid, Vpc, Rampage Shootings, Nra, Mass Shootings, Columbine 10 Years Later, Politics News
Josh Sugarmann

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10 Years After Columbine, Elected Officials Doing Nothing Is Not Working

Paul Helmke | Posted 05.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hilary Clinton, Gun Show Loophole, Gun Violence, Columbine, Rahm Emanuel, Nancy Pelosi, Obama First 100 Days, Gun Control, Virginia Tech, Eric Holder, Guns, Illegal Guns, Barack Obama, Mass Shootings, Columbine 10 Years Later, Columbine 10 Year Anniversary, Politics News
Paul Helmke

If terrorists or pirates or even pistachios had killed even a fraction of that number of Americans that guns did last month, news coverage would be wall-to-wall.

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Sunday Roundup

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.19.2009 | Home

Read More: Columbine, Binghamton Shooting, Pittsburgh Police, Oakland Police Shooting, Gun Control, Police Shooting, Nra, Virginia Tech Anniversary, Home News
Arianna Huffington

Why has the idea of sensible gun control legislation become so politically radioactive? Not even a recent run of deadly gun rampages (including the shooting deaths of four police officers in Oakland, the gunning down of three policemen in Pittsburgh, and the massacre of 13 people in Binghamton, New York), the second anniversary of Virginia Tech (the worst mass shooting in U.S. history), and the president of Mexico all but pleading for Barack Obama to do something about the tidal wave of bought-in-America assault weapons wreaking bloody havoc on his country have been able to create the political will to reinstate the assault weapons ban. Tomorrow is the 10th anniversary of Columbine; what better moment for the president to forget how difficult it would be to take on the NRA, and remember his campaign promise to push for a ban on these killing machines?

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Growing Up In the Shadow of Columbine

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 05.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Murder, Gun Violence, Columbine, School Shooting, Eric Harris, Erin Bilir, Youth Radio, Dylan Klebold, Gun Control, Colorado, Youthradio, School Shootings, Guns, Littleton, Politics News
Youth Radio -- Youth Media International

Erin Bilir grew up in Littleton, Colorado and remembers the day of the shootings and how it changed everything for kids in that town.

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Insurrectionism Goes "Mainstream"

Josh Horwitz | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Second Amendment, Gun Violence, National Rifle Association, Shootings, Insurrectionism, Insurrection, Richard Poplawski Pittsburgh, Gun Control, U.S. Constitution, Oklahoma City-Oklahoma, Pittsburgh-Pennsylvania, Politics News
Josh Horwitz

Far from protecting liberty, insurrectionism deprives American citizens of their freedom.

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Guns, Lies, and Videotape

John W. Delicath | Posted 05.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Politics, Obama Gun Control, Eric Holder Attorney General, Gun Control, Media, Alan Gottlieb, Second Amendment Foundation, Conservative Paranoia, Media News
John W. Delicath

Gottlieb is free to say and publish whatever he wants about Obama's plans for gun control, But that does not mean that the press has an obligation to report it or feature him on national TV.

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Obama, Democrats Put Assault Weapons Ban On Back-Burner

Newsweek | Michael Isikoff and Suzanne Smalley | Posted 05.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Assault Weapons, President Obama, Obama Administration, Gun Control, Democrats, Assault Weapons Ban, Gun Control Legislation, Politics News

Despite a recent spate of killings, the president and fellow Democrats choose not to wage war on assault weapons....

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After Mass Shootings And A Supreme Court Ruling, What is Gallup Thinking?

Paul Helmke | Posted 05.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Polls, Assault Weapons, Nancy Pelosi, Antonin Scalia, President Obama, Eric Holder, Gun Control, Gun Licensing, Gallup, Heller Decision, Guns, Ak-47, Pollsters, Rahm Emmanuel, First 100 Days, Barack Obama, Gun Registration, Obama First 100 Days, Hillary Clinton, Politics News
Paul Helmke

Today's Gallup news release, "Support for Gun-Control Laws at All-Time Lows," is one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time.

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Arthur Delaney

Shooting Rampages May Be Sparked By Recession

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Gun Control, Shootings, Paul Helmke, Recession, Business News

Crazed gunmen have killed 57 people in eight separate incidents in the last month, to the general bafflement of everyone except gun control advocates....

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Gun Permits: What The Latest Mass Killings Have In Common

AP | DEBORAH HASTINGS | Posted 05.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gun Licenses, Binghamton Shootings, Gun Permits, Gun Control, Pittsburgh Police Shootings, Mass Killings Gun Permits, Nra, Jiverly Wong, Politics News

They had more in common than unleashing carnage _ nearly every gunman in this monthlong series of mass killings was legally entitled to fire his weapo...

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Trigger-Happy in America

Cindy Handler | Posted 05.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mental Illness, Gun Violence, Binghamton Shooting, North Carolina Shooting, Shootings, Loner, Alabama Shooting, Conceal and Carry Laws, Economic Crisis, Why People Kill, Gun Control, Gun Lobby, Nra, Suicide by Cop, Politics News
Cindy Handler

I start wonder why the NRA hasn't launched a lucrative travel channel show. They could start each segment with "Today's shooting comes to you from..." filling in any given American locale.

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Have We Reached the Tipping Point on Guns?

Cenk Uygur | Posted 05.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Second Amendment, Murder, Gun Violence, Politics, Binghamton Shooting, Shootings, Pittsburgh-Shooting, Firearms, North Carolina Shooting, Alabama-Shooting-Spree, Gun Control, Washington Shooting, Nra, Guns, Binghamton-New York, Pittsburgh-Pennsylvania, Politics News
Cenk Uygur

How many shootings do there have to be in the news before we wonder about the wisdom of allowing just about anyone to get a gun in America? Our gun culture is completely out of control.

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