Guns
Stephen King’s New Essay “Guns” Calls for Common Sense in Gun Control Debate
Almost as difficult to believe as the fact that there’s a (thankfully waning) “Sandy Hook truthers” movement is that, in the wake of the tragedy […]
Hero-Mayor Cory Booker Can Turn Guns into Bracelets
Cory Booker’s always been something of a shapeshifter. He’s a Stanford grad and Rhodes Scholar who decided to live in a public housing complex for […]
Protests Force Postponement of Harrisburg Gun Show
A casualty of the post-Sandy Hook culture war: The Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show, planned to start Feb. 2 in Harrisburg, has been delayed in […]
Fire School Officials Who Suspended PA Kindergartner for “Terroristic Threat”
It is time to immediately boot all school administrators who had any involvement in suspending a five-year-old kindergartener from the Mount Carmel Area Elementary School […]
Eagles’ Trent Cole Boycotting Harrisburg Gun Show…Not For the Reason You Think
The Sandy Hook massacre was a tipping point, for gun control activists and for gun rights advocates. It took Sandy Hook for Barack Obama to […]
Bob Casey Turns On His Gun-Loving Past, Will Vote for Assault Weapons Ban
As for much of the country, the Sandy Hook massacre proved the tipping point for Bob Casey. Long a supporter of gun rights and other […]
President Obama’s Gun Agenda is Too Big
President Obama this week chose to do Something Big about guns. But he should’ve started small. He should’ve started with the bad guys. He should’ve […]
Obama’s Gun Plan Won’t Stop Violence in Philly…or Any Big City
Flanked by children not much older than those gunned down in Sandy Hook Elementary, President Obama tasked Congress yesterday with passing the most aggressive series […]
Dear Parents: Is It Time for Us to Ban Toy Guns, Too?
Yesterday, President Obama, flanked by beaming parents, signed a series of initiatives that will, at long last, start to push the boulder that is gun […]
Bob Casey, Pat Toomey Aren’t Rejecting President Obama’s Gun Proposals, Yet
Both of Pennsylvania’s senators have reputations for being Second Amendment types who, as the phrase goes, “clint to their guns”—or, at least, their gun-loving voters. […]
Michael Nutter Rips Marco Rubio
In Washington today for Barack Obama’s announcement on gun control, Mike Nutter laid into Florida Senator and would-be-Presidential-hopeful-if-he-didn’t-have-so-many-shady-friends Marco Rubio. Responding to Rubio’s comments that […]
Gun Advocates Fight Back with Strategically Placed Philly.com Ads
Talk about targeted advertising. The accompanying piece, by the way, reported that February’s Eastern Sports and Outdoor show, held in Harrisburg, will not sell assault […]
New York’s New Gun Law Conflates Violence, Mental Illness
Huzzah and hallelujah, that’s what I should be saying in response to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s tough gun control law that he signed with […]
Obama to Call for Assault Weapons Ban, Universal Background Checks Today
Today President Obama will reveal his proposal for gun control, surrounded on a stage by a group of children who wrote him letters in the […]
New York Passes Gun Restrictions; Will the Feds?
The New York Times reports: “Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and lawmakers agreed on Monday to a broad package of changes to gun laws that would expand […]