Anti-Abortion Group In Ohio Is Fundraising By Selling Assault Rifles

Anti-Abortion Group In Ohio Is Fundraising By Selling Assault Rifles: Personhood Ohio, a far-right group attempting to outlaw all abortions by defining life as beginning at conception, is still attempting to get a “personhood” amendment on the state ballot after falling short last year. And the leader of the group, Patrick Johnston, is trying out a few creative fundraising efforts to raise money for Personhood [...]/p

Gun Group Holds Rally With AR-15s To Congratulate Congress For Blocking Background Checks

Gun Group Holds Rally With AR-15s To Congratulate Congress For Blocking Background Checks: A group of gun activists armed with AR-15s and handguns held a rally at the Tippecanoe County Courthouse in Indiana on Saturday to thank Congress for voting down gun safety measures, including a proposal to expand background checks for guns sales. Indiana Moms Against Gun Control organized the event as a counter protest to Moms [...]/p

In 12 Hours, Gun Violence Victims Read The Names Of Over 3,300 People Shot To Death Since Newtown

In 12 Hours, Gun Violence Victims Read The Names Of Over 3,300 People Shot To Death Since Newtown: Early Thursday morning, gun violence survivors and families of victims finally finished reading the names of all the people who have been killed by guns since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The list of over 3300 people took 12 hours to read. The Newtown Action Alliance organized a reading at Edmond Town Hall in [...]/p

60 Minutes Talks To Sandy Hook Parents

60 Minutes Talks To Sandy Hook Parents
"If you don't at least get a lump in your throat at the raw pain and grief of these parents of the victims of the Sandy Hook shootings, you don't have a heart."

Even Gun Manufacturers Think The NRA’s Opposition To Background Checks Is Nuts

Even Gun Manufacturers Think The NRA’s Opposition To Background Checks Is Nuts: Ninety-one percent of the country believes that there should be universal background checks for all gun sales. Indeed, there are more Americans who believe they have personally seen a UFO than agree with the National Rifle Association’s opposition to universal background checks. Even the nation’s top trade group for gun makers does not agree with [...]/p

The NRA Goes to Congress... Gun-nuttery Ensues | Alternet

The NRA Goes to Congress... Gun-nuttery Ensues | Alternet
"Unlike most gun owners, they're fighting to keep the gun-show loophole open."

The Glocks Are Falling! The Glocks Are Falling!

The Glocks Are Falling! The Glocks Are Falling!
"The gun crowd is so paranoid about the erosion of their Second Amendment rights that they make Chicken Little look like an actuary."

NRA's Latest Outburst: Evil Mexicans Are Coming to Kill You!

NRA's Latest Outburst: Evil Mexicans Are Coming to Kill You!
"This is functionally insurrectionist fearmongering, urging members to arm up so that they can defend not just against Mexicans, but their own government."

NRA, You Lie!

NRA, You Lie!
"the NRA actually dared to deny their own lobbyist's arrogant, authoritarian, flippant attitude toward public reaction to the Newtown shootings, calling it the "Connecticut Effect," a thing to wait out until public memories fade."

The Nine Most Insane Quotes From The NRA’s New Apocalyptic Op-Ed

The Nine Most Insane Quotes From The NRA’s New Apocalyptic Op-Ed: Wednesday afternoon, National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre published a bizarre, paranoid screed on the Daily Caller outlining a series of wildly implausible scenarios in which (among other things) the police will cease to exist because of the deficit and al-Qaeda will provoke the government into stealing your guns. Here are the nine [...]/p

Second Connecticut Senator Slams NRA For Offensive Newtown Shooting Remarks

Second Connecticut Senator Slams NRA For Offensive Newtown Shooting Remarks: Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) has joined fellow Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) in condemning the National Rifle Association for its Wisconsin lobbyists’ comments downplaying the importance on the Newtown shooting. This past weekend, Wisconsin NRA lobbyist Bob Welch declared at the group’s annual meeting that they would soon continue weakening the nation’s gun laws, but [...]/p

Gun Homicides Increased 25 Percent After Missouri Repealed Background Check Law

Gun Homicides Increased 25 Percent After Missouri Repealed Background Check Law: New research suggests that universal background check legislation of the sort currently being debated in Congress has had an enormous impact on gun violence in the past, according to testimony presented at Tuesday’s hearing before the Senate Judiciary committee. Daniel Webster, the Director Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, studied the consequences of [...]/p

Congresswoman Representing Newtown Blasts NRA For Offensive Comments About Connecticut Shooting

Congresswoman Representing Newtown Blasts NRA For Offensive Comments About Connecticut Shooting: The freshman congresswoman who represents Newtown, Connecticut condemned the NRA in a statement on Tuesday for the group’s offensive comments about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Over the weekend, lobbyist Bob Welch dismissed the importance of the Newtown massacre, telling an annual Wisconsin NRA meeting that they will be able to continue weakening the [...]/p

6 Facts You Must Know Before Watching Obama’s State Of The Union Address

6 Facts You Must Know Before Watching Obama’s State Of The Union Address: Before President Obama delivers his fifth State of the Union address this evening, here are six things you should know about the nation’s most pressing issues: 1. We don’t have a spending problem. Republicans love to claim that government spending is out of control and is holding back the economy. But under President Obama, government [...]/p

Revealed: The Truth about the NRA (A hint? It’s not Wayne LaPierre or its members.)

The 10 NRA-Funded Senators Hoping To Block Gun Regulations

The 10 NRA-Funded Senators Hoping To Block Gun Regulations: The National Rifle Association’s NRA Political Victory Fund PAC has distributed more than $1 million in career donations to current members of the United States Senate. And, like their House counterparts, the Senators who have received the most are also among the most vocal opponents of any new gun violence prevention legislation advanced in the [...]/p

NRA Dismisses ‘Connecticut Effect,’ Suggests Grief Over Newtown Tragedy Will Be Short-Lived

NRA Dismisses ‘Connecticut Effect,’ Suggests Grief Over Newtown Tragedy Will Be Short-Lived: WAUSAU, Wisconsin—The National Rifle Association will wait until the “Connecticut effect” has subsided to resume its push to weaken the nation’s gun laws, according to a top NRA lobbyist speaking at the NRA’s Wisconsin State Convention this weekend. Though the NRA had been tight-lipped about how the Newtown tragedy would affect their efforts, lobbyist Bob [...]/p

Aurora Shooting Victims Now Being Harassed By Gun-Nut Conspiracy Theorists | Alternet

Aurora Shooting Victims Now Being Harassed By Gun-Nut Conspiracy Theorists | Alternet
"It’s not just  people in Newtown, Conn., who are being harassed by conspiracy theorists. In Aurora, Colo., things have gotten so bad that prosecutors this week requested that the names of victims’ families be redacted from future court documents to spare them from “relentless contacts by proponents of purported ‘conspiracies'."

NRA-Backed Republican: Senate Won’t ‘Produce Any Legislation’ Expanding Background Checks For Gun Purchases

NRA-Backed Republican: Senate Won’t ‘Produce Any Legislation’ Expanding Background Checks For Gun Purchases: Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) — a top recipient of campaign donations from the National Rifle Association — poured cold water over ongoing bipartisan negotiations in the Senate to expand background checks for all gun purchases, insisting that lawmakers are unlikely to act on the proposal. The senators involved in crafting the compromise — Tom Coburn [...]/p

NRA Endorsement Actually A Curse For Candidates, Poll Finds

NRA Endorsement Actually A Curse For Candidates, Poll Finds: Endorsements from the National Rifle Association might be doing political candidates more harm than good, according to a new poll from Public Policy Polling. In a national survey, 39 percent of voters said that they are less likely to vote for a politician whose candidacy has garnered NRA backing. Only 26 percent believe they’re more [...]/p