I’m all for Pres. Obama’s and Gov. Cuomo’s efforts to ban semi-automatic rifles and high-capacity magazines, but we shouldn’t kid ourselves that this is going to make much of a dent in the gruesome gun death toll in America.read more

Wayne LaPierre and the NRA refuse even to acknowledge that there is a gun problem in this country. Its answer to every massacre is the same: more guns.read more

Who wants to hear from the gun lobby and its enablers right now?read more

It does not guarantee unregulated weapon ownership.read more

President Obama, you have not done anything to stop this gun barbarism here in America.read more

“We’re going to have to come together and take meaningful action and prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics.”read more

The mythic power of the NRA to punish any elected official who dares to stray from the no-gun-control-ever line is wildly exaggerated.read more

We need a new framework for dealing with this issue: a public health and prevention framework.read more

They want a law allowing gun owners to shoot “illegal” voters. “We want to keep the wrong people away from the polls.”read more

One heavy-metal maniac is just the tip of the white supremacy iceberg that lies just below the surface, ready to sink this titanic ship we call America.read more

We don’t need meaningless platitudes from our leaders in the face of horrific gun violence. We need action.read more