The good news: Democrats have never been more unified behind new restrictions. The bad: the media, the filibuster, and all that polarization.
gun violence
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Is Virginia Headed for a New Charlottesville?
Gun rights activists will be joined by white nationalists on January 20 in Richmond to protest proposed gun violence bills in the new Democratically-controlled legislature.
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Trump’s Reelection Strategy Does Not Include Gun Control
The president’s most ardent supporters do not want to be disarmed, so he is not going to disarm them.
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On White Supremacists and Guns, Silence Is Complicity
It is not a question of left vs. right, but right vs wrong.
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What Do We Do If White Supremacist Terrorism Keeps Increasing?
If the political system makes it impossible to take legislative action on guns, there may be only one tool left.
Posted inFeatured, Magazine, November/December 2018
A Real Long-Term Solution to Gun Violence
To address one of America’s deadliest problems, start by cornering the market.
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Spare Us Your Thoughts and Prayers
Remember when Charlton Heston declared, “From my cold, dead hands!” Thanks to the group he led, there are now, sadly, more pairs of cold, dead hands in Jacksonville, Florida: The authorities in Jacksonville, Fla., said there were “multiple fatalities” at a mass shooting on Sunday at a bar that was hosting a live gaming event […]
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The Royal Scam: A Press Corps at Its Lowest Point
Seriously, who gives a damn? The attention that American mainstream-media entities are giving to the worthlessness in Windsor Castle today is nothing short of repulsive, an indictment of the Fourth Estate’s fetish for frivolity over seriousness and substance, a worsening of the anti-intellectual trends in American culture. Why are we paying so much attention to […]
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Unreliable Sources: Fox News Invades CNN
As if Rick Santorum wasn’t bad enough, did we really need to see former Fox News propagandist Eric Bolling being warmly received by Brian Stelter today? Bolling’s suggestion that Sean Hannity’s rantings are “always within the boundaries of fact” is beyond laughable: ever heard Hannity talk about climate change? Bolling’s suggestion that Donald Trump is […]
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You Know, CNN, You Could Have Had Emma Gonzalez On Instead of Rick Santorum
It was as offensive as it can possibly get. Just one day after the historic March for Our Lives, CNN, bowing down once again to the god of false balance, just had to bring former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum onto the panel of State of the Union this morning to spit all over the children […]
