As the open carry debates heats up in Texas, Open Carry Texas (OCT)–a gun group that has garnered national attention in recent weeks–has apparently been receiving threats on a regular basis. “We get death threats all the time,” C.J. Grisham, President of
Given the cultural winds blowing through the entertainment community, Second City’s American Mixtape might be as fair and balanced as one can expect. The traveling show, playing through June 29 at the Garner Galleria Theatre in Denver, hits both bleeding
On June 9, Esquire columnist Charles P. Pierce addressed the Las Vegas attack that killed two police officers by criticizing law enforcement’s support of the NRA positions on guns. He went so far as to state that a police officer
On June 8 The Daily Beast ran a column by Dean Obeidallah which argues gun rights opponents either need to get serious about opposing gun control or forget it. It is time to go big or go home. According to
On June 7, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America founder Shannon Watts said a good guy with a gun “has never” stopped a bad guy with a gun. Watts made this comment in response to a question from
Animal rights activists are campaigning to get Metallica banned from headlining this year’s Glastonbury festival because the singer James Hetfield supports bear hunting and is a member of the National Rifle Association. The festival, in Pilton, Somerset, is very probably the
During the June 5 airing of the Daily Show, host Jon Stewart mocked the NRA for apologizing for calling Open Carry Texas (OCT) demonstrations “weird,” then asked what will happen when an OCT participant walks into a business with his
Police indicate that a gunman who used a shotgun to kill one and wound three on the Seattle Pacific University campus was stopped and subdued by a student who sprayed him with pepper spray, then tackled him to the ground.
On June 4, the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) Chris Cox apologized for a published statement by the NRA Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) that described openly carrying an AR-15 or AK-47 for demonstration purposes as “weird.” On June 2, Breibart News
On May 29, Salon magazine published a profile piece on Richard Martinez, father of Christopher Michael-Martinez, asserting that the elder Martinez “should scare the sh*t out of the NRA.” Martinez’s son was among the three persons Elliot Rodger shot to
The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote today on better funding for the mental illness data sharing in background checks that was supported by the NRA in 2007. On May 26 Breitbart News reported that the NRA supported the
On May 27 Michael Bloomberg’s Businessweek ran a column acknowledging the impotency of conventional gun control proposals and countering Richard Martinez’s claims that the NRA was to blame for the death of his son Christopher Michael-Martinez. The column was written
On May 27, The Daily Beast’s Cliff Schecter took a different tact from other gun control proponents, who have simply ignored the fact that Elliot Rodger stabbed and killed as many people as he shot and killed, when he tried
As I write this more than 131k people have shared Adam Gopnik’s story directly blaming the Santa Barbara murders on the NRA. Gopnik gives himself leeway to cast blame in this direct way because the father of one of the
On Friday, the parents of Elliot Rodger, knowing that something was very wrong, traveled frantically up the California 101 freeway to find him before he went on a multiple shooting and stabbing rampage that left him and six others dead. According
Following the heinous crime at Sandy Hook Elementary the New York Daily News (NYDN) ran a cover page blaming America; following the May 23 shooting deaths of three people in Santa Barbara, California, it has done the same thing. On
The Huffington Post, in its zeal to slam GOP candidates for any faux pas that it can find, has taken GOP House candidate Tony Strickland to task because his campaign sent a robocall extolling his support of Second Amendment rights
In January 2008, George W. Bush signed an NRA-supported bill into law to improve and increase incentives for states to share mental health data with the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). The money for the improvements was spread
Many Democrats – Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) among them – have shamelessly attacked the NRA and pushed for more gun control in the wake of the heinous May 23 Santa Barbara attacks. To do this they
On May 24 The Daily Beast ran a column by Cliff Schecter comparing the NRA to tobacco companies and blaming it for Elliot Rodger’s heinous Santa Barbara attacks. According to Schecter, “the NRA enables massacres” by rejecting “science and information,”
Surveillance video from the I.V. Deli Mart in Isla Vista, CA obtained by CNN shows bullets hitting the inside of the store and customers scrambling for cover last night when Elliot Rodger opened fire on the store as part of
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On May 22 MSNBC’s Chris Hayes expressed amazement that he has heard no response from the NRA to a smart gun “truce” offered them on May 5. Hayes exact words: It has now been 17 days since we first aired
Democrat Alison Grimes is running a tough campaign to take Republican Senator Mitch McConnell’s seat in Kentucky, but it seems she feels she needs to run away from Obama to do it. In a new ad, Grimes complains that there
On the May 18th airing of Face the Nation, Michael Bloomberg revealed a subtle shift in terminology by saying the NRA is trying to scare Congress into opposing “rational background checks.” This statement came after host Bob Schieffer said, “You
On May 9 New Jersey state senator Loretta Weinberg (D-37) told MSNBC that she and fellow lawmakers would “reverse” a 2002 law limiting gun sales to smart guns “only if the National Rifle Association (NRA) vows not to try to
John Lott, an economist and an expert on firearms in society, recently announced that he is launching the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC), which will produce studies on the relationship between crime and guns. Lott ultimately hopes that CPRC’s research
After working with the National Restaurant Association to try to get amnesty and immigration reform legislation that would import more foreign workers, President Barack Obama claimed that the very workers whose wages the Congressional Budget Office determined would be lowered
During a March 5th appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) continued to push his failed Senate gun control bill and said his “NRA friends understand.” Host Joe Scarborough said, “My NRA friends understand it,” and Manchin said
When Jon Stewart criticized the NRA for what he described as substituting “lock and load motherf**ckers!” for winning at the ballot box, he failed to take one thing into account — the NRA won some massive victories at the ballot
On April 30th Mark Glaze–the head of Michael Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG)–announced he will be stepping down in June. This announcement comes less three weeks since Bloomberg pledged to spend $50 million to challenge the NRA in the
On April 29th, Jon Stewart criticized former Governor Sarah Palin’s support for waterboarding terrorists and the NRA’s ongoing fight to protect the Second Amendment. According to The Wrap, Stewart focused specifically on Palin’s remarks at the April 25th-27th NRA convention,
Chris Cheng is one of the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) newest commentators, and he is going to give the left fits. He is gay, pro-gun, and intent on breaking the stereotypes which are commonly thrust on gun owners in America.
Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin did not back down from her remarks at the NRA Convention this weekend, when she said she would have no problem waterboarding terrorists. “Actions to stop terrorists who’d utterly annihilate America and delight in massacring
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana–“The truth is, armed self-defense saves innocent lives, and denying that right gets good people killed,” declared Chris Cox–executive director of the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA), bringing thousands of NRA members to their feet for
On April 26th an anti-gun rally in Indianapolis designed to counter the NRA presence there drew 25 people. The NRA’s Annual Meeting was held in Indianapolis April 25-27. According to Fox News, the anti-gun rally was sponsored by Hoosiers Concerned
Speaking to the NRA Annual Meeting on April 25, Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke, Jr., responded to former Supreme Court justice John Paul Stevens’ push to change the language of the 2nd Amendment by saying he would like to
Saturday at the “NRA Stand and Fight Rally” at the 2014 NRA Annual Meetings in Indianapolis, IN, NRA Vice President Wayne LaPierre introduced a new NRA ad. ‘It’s time to believe in the good guys again! We are the 5
Saturday at the “NRA Stand and Fight Rally” at the 2014 NRA Annual Meetings in Indianapolis, IN, former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) took a defiant tone towards the current administration’s gun control efforts by pointing out that our president, politicians
INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana–Thousands of NRA members attending the National Rifle Association’s Annual Meeting gave Gov. Mike Pence an enthusiastic reception during his speech. Pence touted Indiana’s laws and policies on hunting and self-defense, calling NRA members “the champions of liberty that
On April 25, speaking at the NRA Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, NRA chief lobbyist Chris Cox described Michael Bloomberg as an “arrogant hypocrite.” According to The Hill, Cox spoke as if Bloomberg were in earshot when he said, “Stay out
