After President Obama got emotional in Connecticut but refused to name the most powerful arm of "the gun lobby" that is bending back the administration's legislative push, Biden spared no words in describing the political tactics of the National Rifle Association.
The Des Moines Register is in a bit of hot water after they published an interactive Google Map revealing the level of security in most Iowa's school districts. As you might imagine, the NRA crowd was not pleased, and the map has been taken down.
Depsite rumors to the contrary, President Obama isn't giving up on gun violence. In an event at the White House on Thursday morning, the President averred that he continued to toil under the memory of the mass shooting in Newtown.
Authorities in Quantico, Virginia, have lifted a area-wide lockdown after a Marine who shot and killed two co-workers was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot.
The notion that guns serve as phallic implements (and thus tokens of masculinity) is about as old as it is obvious. ("Consider your man card re-issued," read a recent gun ad.) But the idea that gun control exists to symbolically castrate gun owners is, surprisingly, a far more recent development.
Gun control advocate Robyn Kelly won the Democratic primary in the race for Jesse Jackson Jr.'s old House seat, setting her up as a shoe-in to spend the next two years on Capitol Hill.
Twitter exploded Saturday morning after a gunman wearing body armor was reportedly spotted on the MIT campus, which is terrifying. Except after the smoke cleared and no gunman was found, it appears the whole thing was a hoax.
More than a week after President Obama demanded that gun violence victims "deserve a vote" on new legislation, members of Congress across the country don't appear to be budging, from Connecticut to Colorado.
As the Illinois Congressman pleaded guilty to embezzling campaign funds, another campaign flood began, as a familiar story of city politics and corruption gives way to a test of national gun-control politics turned local — and evaporating campaign-finance limits that may upend another election cycle beginning as soon as next week.
Hours before Janay Mcfarlane was shot and killed on Friday, her 14-year-old sister was standing behind President Obama during his speech about gun violence and stricter gun legislation.
Should we be concerned that Ted Nugent — the paleo-rocker who said he'd be "dead or in jail" by this time if President Obama were reelected — is attending tomorrow's State of the Union address?
Attorney Jennifer Lubinski, ended up documenting pretty much the entire horrifying scene on Twitter, and in pretty unprecedented fashion.
A new poll shows strong public support for banning assault weapons. Here's why that doesn't translate into legislation.
One way to look at the effects of gun violence in America is how many people have been killed. Another way to look at the impact: How many years have been taken from the lives of gun victims?
Authorities still have no motive in the killing of Navy sniper Chris Kyle, but most signs seem to point the post-traumatic stress disorder as a possible culprit.
Just days after his SUV was the target of a drive-by shooting, rapper Rick Ross decided he needs his own version of the secret service -- an armed security detail working 24 hours a day to protect him from another attempt on his life.
Well, this is a heartbreaker. A 15-year-old girl was shot and killed yesterday in Chicago, a week after she traveled to Washington, D.C., where she performed with her high-school band at ceremonies for President Obama's inauguration.
Former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was injured in an Arizona parking lot in January 2011, spoke today at the opening of the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on gun violence.
The "Assault Weapons Ban of 2013," previewed at a news conference midday Thursday with Feinstein and Connecticut senators surrounded by victims of gun violence, seeks to restrict the sale of the following weapons.
Let's take a look at the instant pundit reaction to specific segments of the inaugural address, from gay rights and health care to gun violence and climate change.
President Obama is working to address gun violence on the federal level, but The Guardian has made a comprehensive graphic detailing legislation in the laboratories of democracy.
Dana Milbank on kids being used in the gun debate, Fred Kaplan on Mali, Jonathan Mahler on Lance Armstrong, Slavoj Žižek on European elites, and Ricky Sekhon on playing bin Laden in Zero Dark Thirty.
No matter what Obama says about putting armed police officers in schools, the NRA keeps criticizing him. Lost in all that shouting are the voices of people who'll actually work in such schools — the teachers.
Gun advocates are already in a fit over one of the president's directive regarding healthcare professionals. Except that the order actually just preserves a legal expectation for doctors to report on their patients that has existed for 37 years.
President Obama signed the actions into immediate law, saying that "we must act now" even as Congressional action looms.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
President Obama will reveal a two-part package to combat gun violence at the White House on Wednesday, though the specifics of his plan remain relatively mysterious.
The New York Governor continues to fight for "the toughest assault weapons ban in the nation," and imminent deal with multiple restrictions is reported to be imminent.
As details emerged from Thursday's shooting at Taft High School in Taft, California, the teacher present in the classroom and a classroom superviser emerged as heroes for successfully talking the gunman into putting his shotgun down and surrendering.
Less than a month after the Newtown shootings, a new report confirms an unsettling truth that already seemed statistically likely: On average, Americans are dying younger because of guns.
David Brooks on Chuck Hagel, Gabrielle Giffords and Mark Kelly on guns, Ramesh Ponnuru on the debt ceiling, Simon Tisdall on Syria, and Michael Specter on genetically modified crops.
President Obama will not call for any "specific measures" on gun policy at a joint announcement with Joe Biden at the White House today, but the president will reportedly task the VP with leading an administration-wide review.
Details are still sparse, but Baltimore's WJZ television and the Baltimore Sun are reporting that one student at Perry Hall High School is in critical condition after another student apparently shot him in the back in the cafeteria on the first day of school.
Given Chicago's violent and gunshot riddled summer, and as callous as it may seem, violent news coming out of the city just isn't surprising anymore--in fact it's become depressingly commonplace.
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