12 rational responses to irrational gun arguments
With the gun control debate hitting a fever pitch, a handy how-to guide for dealing with gun rights extremists
Friday, Jan 25, 2013 4:47 PM UTC 199Politics AlterNet, Gun Control
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Religion prof: Opposing gun control is a sin
Reform movements have been most successful when they combined facts with powerful symbolic images
Thursday, Jan 24, 2013 9:37 PM UTC 71Social Religion Dispatches
7 uncovered quotes that reveal just how crazy the NRA’s become
The organization once supported reasonable gun control laws. Now it's a lobby group for paranoid extremists
Wednesday, Jan 23, 2013 2:51 PM UTC 160Politics AlterNet, NRA, Wayne LaPierre
Shooting sprees start with women
It's no coincidence that Adam Lanza's first victim was his mother. Women represent the final barrier to mass murder
Monday, Jan 21, 2013 11:00 PM UTC 67Politics The Nervous Breakdown
The NRA takes a shot at Obama
The lobby's new attack ad calls the president a hypocrite for having a security detail protect the first family VIDEO
Wednesday, Jan 16, 2013 4:24 PM UTCLife Video, NRA, Barack Obama
Poll: 6 in 10 favor stricter gun laws
And 84 percent want a federal standard for background checks VIDEO
Wednesday, Jan 16, 2013 9:01 AM UTCPolitics Video, aol_on, From the Wires
NY seals 1st state gun laws since Newtown
it will be the toughest gun control law in the nation VIDEO
Tuesday, Jan 15, 2013 11:05 PM UTCNews aol_on, Video, From the Wires
The NRA once supported gun control
It may seem hard to believe, but for decades the organization helped write federal laws restricting gun use
Monday, Jan 14, 2013 3:00 PM UTC 16Politics AlterNet, NRA, Wayne LaPierre
The Pentagon: The global NRA
Obama has pledged to curb the sale of assault weapons at home, but how will he address American violence abroad?
Monday, Jan 14, 2013 2:38 PM UTCPolitics TomDispatch.com, Newtown
Assault weapons bans won’t save enough lives
To reduce the death toll from gun violence, we need a sweeping reform of the way guns are bought and sold
Wednesday, Jan 9, 2013 3:00 PM UTC 27Politics The American Prospect
Mass shootings do little to change state gun laws
In fact, several states have responded by making it easier to buy more guns and take them to more places
Saturday, Jan 5, 2013 6:00 PM UTCPolitics ProPublica, Virginia
Alabama issues a disturbing PSA
A state's Homeland Security releases a short film on how to survive a mass shooting -- with a dramatic reenactment VIDEO
Friday, Jan 4, 2013 7:53 PM UTC 15Life Video, Mass shooting, Sandy Hook
Far right loses its collective mind over possible gun legislation
Three weeks after Sandy Hook, Tea Partyers and right-wing bloggers are hinting at civil war if the government acts
Thursday, Jan 3, 2013 9:39 PM UTC 81Politics Southern Poverty Law Center
Gun deaths rampant after Sandy Hook massacre
The numbers are simply staggering: An average of 18 people have been killed each day since December 14
Thursday, Jan 3, 2013 7:12 PM UTC 88News AlterNet, Sandy Hook Shootings
Silencers: The NRA’s latest big lie
Silencers could give the next Adam Lanza even more time to kill -- but to the NRA, they protect kids' hearing
Sunday, Dec 30, 2012 12:00 PM UTC 211Politics NRA, Gun Control, Sandy Hook
House Dems to propose large-capacity gun magazine ban
It would not include equipment that is already legally owned
Friday, Dec 28, 2012 9:09 PM UTC 17Life Gun Control, Assault weapons
75 percent of states ignore mental illness checks for gun buyers
According to the Wall Street Journal, 12 states account for most of the mental health records in the FBI database
Wednesday, Dec 26, 2012 5:08 PM UTCPolitics AlterNet, Guns
How not to stop a massacre
In the real world, we can't stop massacres without limiting gun access
Sunday, Dec 23, 2012 4:45 PM UTC 29News Newtown, Sandy Hook
Gun violence, by the numbers
These stats tell you everything you need to know about our nationwide epidemic -- and my personal trauma
Sunday, Dec 23, 2012 2:30 PM UTC 11Politics The Weeklings, Gun Violence
Wayne LaPierre’s bizarre pop culture references
"Natural Born Killers?" "Mortal Kombat?" You wonder why the NRA is so feared when its leader is this addled
Friday, Dec 21, 2012 9:48 PM UTC 46Politics The American Prospect
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