Tag: Gun Control

"The Republican candidates have vowed to roll back all of these sensible measures [taken by President Obama]. And many of them have shown open contempt for the simple notion that Black Lives Matter," Sybrina Fulton argues. (AP file photo/Bill Boyce)

Trayvon Martin’s mother endorses Hillary Clinton

Kelly Cohen · January 11, 2016 6:23 pm

Congress banned the CDC from gun advocacy in 1996, and CDC adopted a self-imposed ban on research. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, FILE)

Liberal NYT writer on gun activists: ‘We must admit that they have a point’

Eddie Scarry · January 11, 2016 4:47 pm

President Obama recalls the 20 first-graders killed in 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School, while speaking about steps his administration is taking to reduce gun violence. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Beltway Confidential

Why Obama is raising the gun control issue

Michael Barone · January 11, 2016 1:59 pm

Beltway Confidential

Will Oregon standoff lead to Occupy West?

Jeremy Lott · January 11, 2016 7:26 am

Monarchical Obama? Real monarchs are humbler and a whole lot cheaper

Dan Hannan · January 11, 2016 5:02 am

Former Democratic congresswoman Gabby Giffords, along with her husband, retired astronaut Mark Kelly, will endorse Hillary Clinton later this week. (AP file photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Giffords endorses Clinton

Daniel Chaitin · January 11, 2016 12:01 am

"It's existing law, that someone convicted of domestic abuse can't buy a firearm," Cruz said on CNN's "State of the Union." "My job as president is to enforce the law." (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Cruz would enforce gun restrictions against domestic abusers

Paige Winfield Cunningham · January 10, 2016 3:32 pm

Christie acknowledges ‘evolution’ on gun laws

Dan Friedman · January 10, 2016 1:00 pm

A key component of President Obama's new executive actions on guns includes a call for $500 million to increase access to mental health care by expanding the service capacity of the behavioral health workforce. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama ignores bipartisan effort on mental health

Susan Crabtree · January 9, 2016 9:55 pm

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are statistically tied in Iowa according to the latest poll. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

Clinton and Sanders take aim at each other on guns

Daniel Chaitin · January 9, 2016 8:28 pm

President Barack Obama, right, walks over to greet Taya Kyle, left, widow of U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, during a commercial break at a CNN televised town hall meeting at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., Thursday. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Washington Secrets

Obama weekly report card: A from Zogby, ‘He is winning,’ D- from Babbin, ‘Meaningless gun plan’

Paul Bedard · January 9, 2016 12:00 pm

In April 2015, outside Grants Pass, Ore., a local chapter of the Oath Keepers recruited people to help provide security for a gold mine on federal land where the claimholders are in a dispute with federal regulators. (AP Photo/Jeff Barnard)

Armed western standoffs are fairly common

Jeremy Lott · January 9, 2016 3:40 am