Guns are so sacrosanct here that we need body armor for our children. Sales for bulletproof backpacks and child-sized body armor manufactured by a Utah company have increased 500 percent since last...
There's evidence suggesting that violent video games don't really lead to mass shootings and other firearm-related homicides. As I noted in today's column, Germany, Japan, Australia, the UK, France...
Here's part of the problem: One of the NRA’s greatest legislative successes, the Firearms Owners’ Protection Act, let dealers sell ammo without recording vital information about the buyers. That law...
Yeah, the recent push for coal as a substitute for oil isn't helping matters: In a report destined to frustrate advocates for global action on climate change, the Paris-based International Energy...
Rick Snyder did the right thing: Gov. Rick Snyder vetoed legislation Tuesday that would have allowed gun owners with extra training to carry concealed weapons in public schools. The bill was...
My Wednesday column: Whenever there's a demonstrably horrifying event like 9/11 or Tucson or Sandy Hook, a debate begins in earnest over who or what we should blame and what needs to happen next. And...
Nat King Cole - "O Holy Night" (It's my favorite Christmas performances from now through Tuesday.)
Best Persons: In addition to cancelling its popular “American Guns” reality show, The Discovery Channel confirmed to Raw Story on Tuesday that firearms enthusiast Ted Nugent will also not be...
Jeffrey Toobin clarifies the PR campaign that transformed the 2nd Amendment: The re-interpretation of the Second Amendment was an elaborate and brilliantly executed political operation, inside and...
This is both horrendous and smart: According to sources, David Clark, the executive producer in charge of Fox’s weekend coverage, gave producers instructions not to talk about gun-control policy on...
Just remarkable -- and dangerous. Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America: CHRIS MATTHEWS (HOST): So you’re like Sharron Angle, out in Nevada, who said we need our Second Amendment...
In case you're following the rumors and trial balloons that are leaking out of the fiscal cliff negotiations, here's the newest one: The details, via a source familiar with the negotiations, include:...
"I’d also like us to encourage people to gang rush shooters, rather than following their instincts to hide; if we drilled it into young people that the correct thing to do is for everyone to...
My Tuesday column: It's been just over eight years since the assault weapons ban expired, and in that time new gun control bills have been scarce. There are a variety of reasons for the legislative...
She & Him - "Change is Hard" Live
He was one of the unsung giants of the U.S. Senate and a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient for his service with the 442nd Regiment, responsible for the harrowing and deadly attacks on the German...
I sincerely hope this is a glitch and he hasn't been injured or worse: NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel has gone missing in Syria, according to Turkish news reports. The reports...
We can do this here, too: On April 28, 1996, a gunman opened fire on tourists in a seaside resort in Port Arthur, Tasmania. By the time he was finished, he had killed 35 people and wounded 23 more...
Another sign the conservative movement as skewed farther to the right since Reagan who, still, was pretty conservative. Reagan's legacy on gun control: Signed the Mulford Act in California ...
During yesterday's Meet the Press, violence in video games and the media was brought up as a possible cause of gun violence in America and I couldn't disagree more. The rate of gun violence in Japan...
