Gun ownership by itself doesn't make someone nuts. It just seems that lots of people who are nuts like guns a little bit too much.
AP | Posted 05.02.2009 | Chicago
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- An effort to limit the number of guns people can buy has failed again in the Illinois House. The measure would have capped ...
Rev. Lennox Yearwood | Posted 04.27.2009 | Politics
There is no excuse for Sen. John Ensign attaching an amendment to the voting act that would eliminate DC's ability to enforce necessary gun laws.
Eric Boehlert | Posted 04.17.2009 | Media
The press now covers shooting sprees the way it covers killer tornadoes: They're one-day stories, they're acts of nature, and all people can do is try to stay out of the way.
AP | Posted 04.16.2009 | World
STUTTGART, Germany — The father of a teenager who killed 15 people last week is being investigated on involuntary manslaughter charges for faili...
Spiegel | Josh Ward | Posted 04.13.2009 | World
Two days after a school rampage that left 15 dead, shocked Germans are demanding measures to prevent future "human time bombs." Like their country's p...
Paul Helmke | Posted 04.12.2009 | Politics
Even by the standards of the Conservative Political Action Committee event where he recently spoke, the NRA's Wayne LaPierre was over the top.
Chicago Tribune | Robert Mitchum | Posted 04.03.2009 | Chicago
The social costs of gun violence in Chicago total about $2.5 billion each year, according to a report released Tuesday by an academic group formed to ...
Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 03.31.2009 | Politics
US guns are being used to allow some very bad Mexicans to shoot a lot of their countrymen. This isn't just a tragedy for Mexico: it's also a national security for the US -- one that we are causing.
Jim Jaffe | Posted 03.27.2009 | Home
Public consensus takes a long time to get. But it is worth waiting for if the goal is a lasting result.
Paul Helmke | Posted 03.15.2009 | Politics
A last-minute rule adopted by the Bush administration after the election forces states to allow loaded, concealed weapons in National Park lands within their borders regardless of state law.
Josh Sugarmann | Posted 03.15.2009 | Politics
According to National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre, gun owners are uniting in "political spontaneous combustion." Ouch.
Paul Helmke | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics
With over 100,000 gun deaths or injuries every year in America, it is clear what we're doing now to reduce gun violence is not working.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 02.25.2009 | Politics
The Republican strategy sounds like the demon child of Mao's Cultural Revolution and Stalin's five-year plans: a criminal intolerance of social differences combined with an outrageously failed economic policy.
Paul Helmke | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics
Last year at this time, I said that America was turning a corner on the gun issue, and the watershed events of 2008 confirmed that prediction. The pa...
Justin Callaway | Posted 02.02.2009 | Style
I have never wanted a gun before, but I am seriously considering purchasing my first firearm. It's not just Obama-gun-snatching-fears, I also want to lock in my glock while I can still afford to.
Adam Winkler | Posted 02.02.2009 | Politics
In June, 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling on the Second Amendment right to bear arms, D.C. v. Heller. So far, the victory hasn't turned out exactly as the gun rights folks had hoped.
Stephen Herrington | Posted 01.14.2009 | Politics
Why exactly do we need firearms? A gun will not insure that you do not lose your job to an international merger or international competition. A gun will not get you a raise.
Lloyd Garver | Posted 01.11.2009 | Green
For the first time in 25 years, a new Bush Administration rule will allow people to carry loaded, concealed weapons in national parks and wildlife refuges. Gun guys, can't you leave it at home for one little weekend?
Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 01.04.2009 | Media
Why is Bloomberg wasting his time on one gun case in New York? It seems like he and the New York media are trying to scapegoat Plaxico Burress for New York's gun problems.
Paul Helmke | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics
Because of the Supreme Court decision, the gun violence prevention debate has shifted from the extremes to the middle.
Sharon Glassman | Posted 12.20.2008 | Living
if a bad guy had wandered hrough the street, pillowcase over shoulder at high noon, a host of adults would have called the local precinct for action. This was, clearly, what a concerned citizen should do. Taking the law into your own hands made as much sense as performing your own tonsillectomy.
WBBM | Posted 12.20.2008 | Chicago
An emotional night inside the Winnetka Village Council chamber as residents pleaded with council members to keep a 20-year old handgun ban in place. ...
Joshuah Bearman | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics
I thought all those stories about the bang up business at gun stores after Obama's win sounded hokey. And they are.
NBC 5 | Matt Bartosik | Posted 12.19.2008 | Chicago
Winnetka officials could decide to amend the city's ban on handguns at a town meeting tonight. In September, three Winnetka residents and the Nationa...
Bruce Tenenbaum | Posted 05.05.2009 | Politics