The gunman who killed 58 people and injured over 500 others when he opened fire on concertgoers in Las Vegas was able to do so in part because of a device called a bump stock, which allows semi-automatic weapons to mimic fully automatic ones. After this horrific incident, Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California introduced […]

Donald Trump is never one to let an opportunity to enrich himself pass him by, no matter how despicable and heartless a move it may be. We saw this in action during Hurricane Harvey. While other public figures like President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton used their positions to ask others to donate to relief […]

The head of the National Rifle Association finally came out of hiding following one of the worst gun massacres in American history, and his statement was predictably inane. NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre appeared within the safe confines of Fox News Thursday night to attempt to spin the Las Vegas massacre, which claimed the lives of […]

Facing a wave of anger over the senseless gun tragedy in Las Vegas Sunday night, Republicans this week are slowly being forced to engage in a debate about gun violence in America, and why leaders refuse to pass meaningful laws to address the swelling public safety crisis. As cable television airs daily, tearful remembrances to […]

After Stephen Paddock killed 59 people in Las Vegas and injured nearly 600 more with an arsenal of weapons, American political discussion is once again dominantly focused on gun policy. From workplace watercoolers to corner bars, to newsrooms across the United States, people are asking what can be done to prevent senseless shootings. Of course, […]

This is why Republicans don’t want to talk about gun violence in the wake of horrific cases of gun violence — their arguments don’t hold up. Kellyanne Conway learned that Thursday morning with an appearance on CNN’s “New Day.” She became one of the first White House officials this week who was willing to have […]

The shooter who massacred 59 Americans in Las Vegas was in possession of modified rapid-fire guns in his hotel room, and now that an effort is underway to ban the tools used to make those weapons deadlier, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is already opposing it. Grassley’s position against this modest suggestion should not be a […]

South Dakota Sen. John Thune, like so many of his fellow Republicans, is not interested in talking about real solutions to gun violence, even after the latest horrific mass shooting in Las Vegas. Instead of being willing to talk about gun safety, his advice to future victims is to “take steps in their own lives […]

There is no single reason why the National Rifle Association has a death grip over the debate on gun regulation in the United States. Much of its power comes from its cult-like cultural propaganda videos to NRA membership, which galvanizes them to relentlessly call members of Congress. But another source of the NRA’s power lies in […]

As is customary, the Republican response to one of the deadliest mass shootings in modern American history is to talk about anything except guns. None of them want a conversation on how one man took 18 guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition into the Mandalay Bay Casino in Las Vegas and killed over 50 […]

Always finding a way to turn Hillary Clinton into the villain of any unfolding national story, Fox News and other conservative commentators turned their ire on her following one of the deadliest mass murders in U.S. history, displaying more scorn toward the former Secretary of State than toward the gunman who killed 58 people in Las […]

After the horrific mass shooting in Las Vegas Sunday night, Donald Trump again proved how incapable of real leadership he is. His bizarre offering of “warmest condolences” followed by a statement that neglected to even mention gun safety put his all too predictable inadequacy as president on full display. And just as predictably, his administration leapt […]

The Trump administration has literally laughed off concerns about working on gun safety legislation after the massacre in Las Vegas. During the daily White House press briefing, NBC reporter Hallie Jackson asked press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to respond to Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), who called for Congress to “get off its ass and do something” […]

The NRA is cynically pulling campaign ads in the wake of the mass shooting in Las Vegas — but only temporarily. The gun extremists appear to believe that the country only needs eight days to forget about the worst mass shooting in modern American history, allowing them to exploit the gun issue to assist an […]

Donald Trump’s decision to leave out any mention of guns or gun violence in America in the wake of yet another horrific mass shooting earned him immediate plaudits from many media commentators. Analysts on CNN seemed particularly impressed by Trump’s brief televised address, which conveyed very little sense of anger or outrage that the United […]

Donald Trump’s statement on the mass shooting in Las Vegas contained no references to guns or gun violence. The shooting at the Harvest Music Festival has taken the lives of at least 50 people and injured more than 400, and is the worst such attack in modern American history. In his address to the nation, […]

The NRA has gone full-on Alex Jones in recent weeks, producing a string of confrontational and fantasy-like videos that depicts rogue “leftists” violently tearing down America, while the untrustworthy news media protect “Democratic overlords.” So over-the-top as to be at times comical, the clips have generated headlines for their incendiary rhetoric, and for their strange […]

A new ad from the NRA weaves a dark conspiracy theory about violent resistance to Donald Trump’s presidency, then implores gun owners to respond to the protesters with a “clenched fist.” The ad comes weeks after Trump was the featured speaker at the group’s annual conference in Atlanta, where he praised them for backing him […]

The one-year anniversary of the horrific mass shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in Orlando, Florida, just passed, and the two-year anniversary of the terrifying massacre by a white supremacist in a Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, is drawing near. And the gun lobby has chosen, at this time of painful memories and still-fresh grieving […]

As the NRA holds its annual convention in Atlanta, Georgia Rep. John Lewis will be headlining a rally put together by gun safety advocates from Moms Demand Action and the Everytown Survivor Network. The groups hope to “to stand and fight back against the NRA leadership’s dangerous ‘guns everywhere’ agenda that contributes to the more than […]

Donald Trump lost the popular vote to a woman. This is a difficult fact for him to accept, as evidenced by his constant harping on the 2016 election results and most recent habit of handing out electoral college maps to reporters. Speaking at the NRA conference (as the first president to do so since Ronald Reagan), […]

Over the last few days, four more names have trended; four more Black citizens who have been killed by police violence or neglect. We name them, individually, because they are not mere statistics in a grim tally of police killings, lumped together to be demonized and discarded. Keith Lamont Scott, 43, was fatally shot in […]