On Sunday, 26 people were murdered and many more injured in a horrific shooting spree at the Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. The massacre is the deadliest shooting in the state’s history. But Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican who has complained that not enough Texans own guns, appeared on Fox News to offer what […]

Current Texas Attorney General and then-state Sen. Ken Paxton faced a crisis while running for office. He had just lost an endorsement in the primary from a Republican congressman after Paxton was reprimanded for breaking state securities law. His opponent had the support of another congressman and an anti-abortion group. But when he really needed […]

The Republican Party’s reaction to the church massacre in Sutherland Springs, Texas, has been a predictable moral failure. Politicians are offering empty “prayers” and suggesting people should go out and buy more guns, while feigning moral outrage at anyone who asks for real legislative action against what is now a raging public health crisis. The […]

The NRA went silent in the wake of the mass shooting in Las Vegas that killed 58 and injured hundreds. But now the extremist gun group has roared back to life with an utterly chilling ad calling for retribution against any and all critics of Donald Trump. The ad ends with a call to arms […]

Turns out Republicans in Congress do want to address the issue of guns following the worst mass shooting in modern history. It’s just that Republicans want to quietly pass a truly radical and dangerous NRA-sponsored bill that would make it easier for people to buy silencers for their guns. People like Stephen Paddock, who purchased […]

As America struggles to heal from the horrific massacre in Las Vegas and struggles even harder to have a conversation about the devices used to commit it, the tragic results of letting guns proliferate unchecked in public spaces are all too clear. And some people who have pushed ever more permissive gun laws, like Texas […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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), […]

Donald Trump took some time during his address to the NRA’s annual meeting in Atlanta to praise Karen Handel, the Republican candidate facing Democrat Jon Ossoff in the runoff for Georgia’s 6th Congressional District. TRUMP: I’d like to congratulate Karen Handel on her incredible fight in Georgia six. The election takes place on June 20th — […]