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Wayne LaPierre

Deride the NRA's spokesman all you want, but his group is close to gutting gun control legislation in Congress.

School police

After Newtown, policy-makers are making schools more like prisons—at the expense of those they should be protecting.

Gun rights advocates

Opponents of gun control spent the last twenty years undermining local approaches to gun policy.

Gun and ammunition

It’s time to end the sale of military-style assault weapons to civilians.

Democrats like Joe Biden were responsible for some of the worst laws behind mass incarceration. Whatever our response to gun violence, a new war on crime is not the answer.

Will Obama's order to increase "school resource officers" funnel more of our students through the school-to-prison pipeline?

Let's face the truth: anyone with a gun can be a "bad guy." What we need is fewer guns, period.

Toy soldiers

The Roberts Court has shifted away from the very collective values and ideas that will be necessary to enact—and uphold—crucial policies on guns and mental health.

Joe Biden, Leon Panetta

The Pentagon is intent on pursuing its own global version of the Second Amendment.

handgun

It's the wrong response to incidents like Newtown.

Blogs

There is an unusually large, organized drive for gun control after the murder at Sandy Hook Elementary.

December 17, 2012

The site of Friday’s massacre is also headquarters for a main gun lobbyist. 

December 17, 2012

The fear of losing children can help save them.

December 17, 2012

The NFL cannot be a force for nonviolence because its popularity is the perfect reflection of what we’ve become as a country.

December 17, 2012

An offshoot of the Occupy Wall Street movement has responded to the Connecticut massacre, calling for gun control policies that will save lives. 

December 17, 2012

The corporate group produces “model” legislation designed to prevent action. Even when mass killings demand it.

December 16, 2012

Everyone from Nicholas Kristof to Yoko Ono is speaking out for gun control.

December 14, 2012

The National Rifle Association has successfully stymied any effort to regulate gun ownership, but whom do they really represent?

December 14, 2012

Indiscriminate gun violence happened at a wide variety of different places—the only thing predicable is the frequency. 

December 14, 2012

Washington is so paralyzed on gun control it can’t seem to pass fundamentally sensible reforms. 

December 14, 2012