Trump Declines Request to Lower Flag for Capital Gazette Victims
What was once a rare symbol of national mourning has become so commonplace as to be meaningless.
What was once a rare symbol of national mourning has become so commonplace as to be meaningless.
Jarrod Ramos should have been in jail, let alone allowed to have any weapon more dangerous than a butter knife.
A man with a grudge against the Annapolis Capital Gazette killed five people in the newsroom.
The Trump Administration’s School Safety Commission isn’t getting off to a very good start.
In the end, it may be insurance companies that have the biggest voice in the debate over arming teachers.
The leading candidate for the GOP nomination for Tennessee’s next Governor has a unique explanation for gun violence.
Alex Jones is finally being called on to answer for his irresponsible lying about events like the Sandy Hook shooting.
We have a generation of schoolkids who aren’t even surprised when there’s a shooting at their school. That’s a problem.
The new President of the National Rifle Association has a new theory to explain mass shootings, but there’s no basis for believing it’s accurate.
In the wake of yesterday’s killing of eight in a Texas high school, WaPo’s Philip Bump provides a chilling statistic.
Another school shooting, this time in Texas.
The Supreme Court has declined to accept yet another Second Amendment case for review, continuing a streak that goes back some eight years.
Oliver North is fitting right in at the N.R.A.
A blast from the past as Oliver North, who was once at the center of a major Washington scandal, is named President of the National Rifle Association.
Support for gun control spiked in the wake of the Parkland, Florida school shooting but it appears to be returning to more normal levels, and that’s bad news for gun control advocates.
Travis Reinking shot four people dead in Nashville over the weekend with a gun that he wasn’t supposed to have access to. Thanks to what seem to be loopholes in existing gun laws, he had one anyway.
Two months after the shooting in Parkland, Florida, support for gun control measures seems to be slipping.
The parents of two of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre are suing Alex Jones for falsely accusing them of lying about the deaths of their children.
Another Federal Court loss for gun rights activists challenging state laws banning “assault weapons.”
The woman who wounded three people at the video company before killing herself posted insane rants all over social media.
Yet another object lesson in why active efforts at inclusiveness are vital.
A proposal that has no chance of passing may harm the movement he’s seeking to help.
New polling shows that public support for several gun control proposals continue to increase in the wake of February’s shooting at a Parkland, Florida High School.
Does Rick Santorum really think that learning CPR can stop school shootings?
Organizing protests was the easy part. The hard part for those who would seek to expand gun regulations is yet to come.
Personal attacks on teenagers whose friends were murdered is a strategy sure to backfire.
The Department Of Justice is proposing a rule change that would ban bump stocks, but it could run into legal problems.
Is Google acting as a good citizen here? Or abusing its market dominance?
Polls released since the Parkland, Florida shooting show that support for gun control measures is at its highest level since 1993, but will it last?
Yet another example of the foolishness of having firearms in the schoolhouse.
Students across the country are staging 17-minute protests at 10 am in their time zones.
Not surprisingly, the Trump Administration is backing away from gun regulations opposed by the N.R.A.
Within hours after the new Florida gun law was signed by Governor Rick Scott, the National Rifle Association had filed a lawsuit seeking to strike it down.
Kids are more likely to be killed driving to school than shot while there. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try and prevent them.
A big win for gun control advocates in a deeply Republican state.
Another lawsuit has been filed against Dick’s Sporting Goods over its policy barring gun sales based on age.
Witnesses say another student was “showing off his gun.”
The inevitable response to announcements by the big box stores that they would not sell guns to those under 21 has arrived.
Once again, the Administration is walking back the President’s statements on a controversial issue.
Is it legal for retail businesses to restrict gun sales based on age? The short answer appears to be yes.
Will the NRA lobby to have these on America’s streets?
President Trump appeared to change positions on several gun control ideas, but he probably doesn’t mean it.
Following yesterday’s move by Dick’s Sporting Goods, Walmart has raised the age for all gun sales to 21.
Despite the activism we’ve seen in the wake of the school shooting in Florida, it’s unlikely that we’ll see significant Congressional action on guns.
Dick’s Sporting Goods will no longer sell “assault weapons” at any of its stores, and will limit the sale of any gun to people aged 21 and above.
As with any such discretionary power given to police, it will surely be abused. But the Parkland shooting was yet another in a long line of situations where obvious “red flags” were ignored until it was too late.
The shipping giant FedEx is coming under serious pressure to sever its ties with the NRA. Its president has issued a strong statement as to why they won’t.
I don’t see how the state legislature making tax decisions on the basis of the public position an company takes is legal under the 14th Amendment.
New polls show increased support for various gun control measures, including limitations on so-called “assault weapons,” but that doesn’t mean we’re likely to see Congressional action on the subject.