Ask a politician where he or she stands on gun control legislation and it’s likely you will get an answer that involves “mental health.”
Category: Violence
This is your representative on guns
It’s been just over two months since twenty children and six adults were brutally gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Since then thirty-three
Rewriting the Second Amendment
“They’re trying to take away my Second Amendment rights,” say many gun rights advocates. But what do they mean by that? I doubt that
“Proposing gun legislation should be a felony,” says MO lawmaker
File this one under idiotic state laws. Missouri state representative Mike Leara–a Republican– has filed a bill that would make it felony for state
A funny thing happened on my way to the gun show
On Saturday, January 26, when page three of my morning newspaper featured a story about four local homicides, and when people in cities across
Cory Booker: It’s not easy being a political star
Several weeks ago, I wrote about the hazard of being seen as a hero. The downfalls of General David Petraeus and Lance Armstrong demonstrate
Putting a special stamp on the State of the Union
There are certain thoughts that are de rigueur in every State of the Union Address. Honor is paid to our men and women in
NRA’s new iPhone app: Locked and loaded with propaganda
A month after Newtown, here comes a new shooting app—“NRA: Practice Range.” That’s right, it’s from those same tone-deaf folks who blamed video games
FDR’s Fourth Freedom and gun control
As our national debate on gun control continues, we can learn a great deal from FDR and his Fourth Freedom. This was part of
It took too long to start the gun control debate
Progressives, can you imagine Rachel Maddow shying away from a story high on the liberal agenda. I couldn’t until the evening of Friday, December