If American suppliers and the unregulated market have their way, South Koreans will someday enjoy all the privileges of gun ownership, including the privilege of getting shot by accident on the street.
Reuters | Posted 08.18.2008 | Home
HOUSTON - A Texas school district will let teachers bring guns to class this fall, the district's superintendent said on Friday, in what experts said ...
AP | Posted 08.15.2008 | Politics
HARROLD, Texas — A tiny Texas district will allow teachers and staff members to carry concealed firearms to deter and protect against school sho...
Lloyd Garver | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics
I emailed the state of Minnesota and asked if it was legal to walk into a bank with a gun. They said it was unless that bank had a sign specifically prohibiting people from doing so. A bank! And this was the law!
John Rosenthal | Posted 02.25.2008 | Politics
It is time for reasonable people to insist that Congress enact sensible and consistent federal laws that require criminal background checks for all gun sales in the US.
Josh Horwitz | Posted 02.20.2008 | Politics
If the Supreme Court sanctions an individual right to armed violence against government, it may just limit its ability to resolve similar disputes in the future.
John Farr | Posted 02.20.2008 | Politics
Many people more eminent than I have decried the insanity of our outmoded gun laws, which along with our current wasteful, protracted foray into Iraq, constitutes an international embarrassment.
James Rocchi | Posted 02.19.2008 | Entertainment
As a film critic, I can only say one thing in response to those cultural pundits on the right and left who suggest that mass shootings are inspired by movies and videogames, which is, simply, "You're wrong."
Peter Clothier | Posted 12.13.2007 | Politics
It's incomprehensible and disgraceful that the question is not in the headlines of the media and on the tongue of every presidential candidate.
Peter Clothier | Posted 12.12.2007 | Politics
How could anyone in their right mind believe that those who authored the founding documents of this country intended that fire power be readily available to morons and maniacs alike?
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 10.31.2007 | Politics
The gun lobby has managed to quiet their opposition over the past half dozen years because they have been the vocal majority, but they may well lose their leverage once the hunters and Bible-thumpers leave town.
Washington Post | Manuel Roig-Franzia | Posted 10.28.2007 | Home
Assassins blasted Ricardo Rosas Alvarado, a member of an elite state police force, with a blizzard of bullets pumped out of AK-47 assault rifles. Alv...
Paul Helmke | Posted 10.04.2007 | Home
What are we going to do about guns in our schools? Over the last week and a half, there have been numerous reports about school "lockdowns" after a gu...
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John Feffer | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics