The Senate voted to allow debate on gun legislation Thursday morning by 68-31, which destroyed any hope some Senate Republicans had of filibustering this key vote.
If makers of violent video games are held responsible for their role in mass shootings, the NRA should be more careful about who can purchase their instructional manual.
One Republican lawmaker in Texas wants to arrest and charge police officers with a crime if they enforce federal gun laws.
In case you’ve ever wondered or suspected it, I can now confirm the truth – Senator John McCain (R-AZ) is an insensitive ass.
The NRA tells politicians that when it comes to gun regulations ‘No, we’re not going to do that’ according to their Wisconsin lobbyist, Bob Welsh.
Nothing says honest debate like lying about testimony before Congress. The right-wing continue to defend themselves from their position of unfettered gun ownership.
With all of the talk about a new Assault Weapons Ban, we all should sit down and look at exactly what would be banned, and allowed, under the now-expired ban from 1994.
She then invoked the fallacious slippery slope argument by saying that universal registration will lead to ‘universal confiscation,’ which, of course, leads to ‘universal extermination.’
The NRA can’t win by facts, so they turn to distortion in order to try and continue their argument that people need unfettered access to military grade weapons in their private lives.
In an about-face, the right-wing is throwing fits that gun control measures don’t strip away weapons that the military and police use to defend us.
If you closed your eyes while listening to Friday’s Sean Hannity Show, you might think that the paranoid rhetoric was coming from an Alex Jones follower.
‘Don’t be dragging people’s children into this. It’s wrong, and I think it demeans them, and it makes them less of a valid, trusted source of information.’
Public opinion research shows that the majority of Americans support each one of these proposals. Let’s heed our President’s call and get to work.
The ad, released ahead of Obama’s Wed. gun control conference, has drawn criticism about the NRA being ‘sick in the head.’
‘No one hunts with an assault rifle,’ Cuomo said. ‘No one needs 10 bullets to kill a deer. End the madness.’
There’s something about having a lawyer by his side that can have a calming effect on a volatile gun nut.
To the firearm industry’s dismay, Biden has suggested considering ‘smart gun’ technology, which will only allow the owner of a gun to fire it.
Tennessee isn’t afraid to punish gun nuts like James Yeager who threaten to shoot people who ‘take away’ guns.
It seems that a lot more states are writing legislation that challenges the authority and supremacy of federal laws.
Gov. Cuomo enraged the gun lobby by hinting that confiscation of assault weapons might be appropriate; since then, however, he has backed off and focused mostly on common-sense–but strict–gun control legislation.
