gun control

Starting today, some employees of the Huntington Independent School District in Lufkin, Texas will be carrying loaded weapons on campus.

Even at just fifteen years old, this girl has almost eight years shooting experience.  As a member of the Maryland State rifle team she is on her way to earning a shooting scholarship for college.  And prior to testifying before the Maryland Legislature as they considered gun control legislation, it looks like she also did a little homework on the issue:  

Wednesday afternoon, President Obama proposed numerous measures in response to a string of recent mass shootings across the country, including one at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in which 20 children and six adults were murdered by a gunman.

Update: We interviewed the store's owner. His comments appear below. Heading Due North, a gun and sporting-goods store in Norwich, New York, posted two photos to its Facebook page of signs in front of the store criticizing anyone who voted for President Barack Obama or New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. The store is owned and operated by David Francis, who also signed a letter posted on the storefron

In his recent interview over Django Unchained, Quentin Tarantino reminded me of the serial killer “interviewed” by Dirty Harry in the football stadium.  Same exaggerated facial features.  Same narcissism.  It’s uncanny: Either Tarantino believes that movie violence does not contribute to violence in real life, or he doesn’t care.  We don’t know which because he didn’...

Most of us tune into 'Sunday Night Football' and expect to see one of the weekend's big games. What you don't expect is a lecture on gun control.

Gun control has always been a major issue of debate in America — right up alongside the more recently heated topics of abortion, same-sex marriage and health care — but the tragic shooting of 71 people during a Colorado theater’s showing of ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ has given this controversy a brand new spotlight.