Bringing a weapon to a rally isn't about exercising your own rights -- it's about threatening other people's rights
By David Sirota Aug 22, 2009
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As a big gunmaker prepares for a public offering, signs emerge suggesting the frenzy to stock up on ammo is abating
By Andrew Leonard
October 23, 2009
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The Supreme Court takes a case on a hot-button issue: Whether the 2nd Amendment applies to the states
By Alex Koppelman
September 30, 2009
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Cop killer Richard Poplawski is an extremist. But amid the deafening din of the right wing's anti-government rhetoric, how extreme is he?
By Gary Kamiya
April 7, 2009
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John McCain used the high court's decision to blast away at Barack Obama -- but it could make Obama's campaign more bulletproof.
By Mike Madden
June 27, 2008
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On gun control, Democrats' long retreat means fight on home turf.
By Gabriel Winant
April 2, 2009
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The Obama administration wants to bring the law back, but the House speaker nixed the idea, and it'd be hard to get Democrats on board anyway.
By Alex Koppelman
February 26, 2009
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The court's decision, the first it has made on the Second Amendment since 1939, says that the amendment protects an individual right to bear arms.
By Alex Koppelman
June 26, 2008
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Ron Paul's conspiracy theories! Fred Thompson's secret guns! Mitt Romney's rapid-fire "word of God"! And what Jesus would do.
By Michael Scherer
November 29, 2007
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Cho and other Asian shooters were portrayed as "smart but quiet" and "fundamentally foreign." What do these stereotypes reveal, and what do they obscure?
By Jeff Yang
April 19, 2007
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The best way to reduce the odds of another blood bath like the one at Virginia Tech is to amend the Constitution and abolish the right to bear arms.
By Walter Shapiro
April 18, 2007
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How the trivial world of sports matters, even in the wake of a tragedy like the Virginia Tech massacre.
April 17, 2007
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Bush heads for Virginia Tech; McCain says we "have to keep guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens."
By Tim Grieve
April 17, 2007
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Like my father, I love and respect guns. But I'm conflicted.
By Cary Tennis
April 16, 2007
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Brian Schweitzer, the blue governor of the red state of Montana, may just have the answer to the Democrats' woes.
By Tim Grieve
April 19, 2005
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Interested in picking off a wild boar or gazelle from the comfort of your own home office?
By Mark Follman
April 5, 2005
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Bush's support of the latest immoral gun bill shows once again just how willing he is to do the bidding of the NRA -- even if it means sabotaging homeland security.
By Arianna Huffington
March 3, 2004
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Field & Stream's Web site was associated with a voter's guide accusing a Democratic Senate candidate of being anti-gun. One problem: He's a member of the NRA.
By Farhad Manjoo
November 1, 2002
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The media is fixating on John Allen Muhammad's Muslim beliefs. But the most relevant fact about him could be his record of terrorizing his family members -- and how that didn't stop him from getting his hands on guns.
By Joan Walsh
October 25, 2002
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In the wake of the sniper attacks around Washington, the gun lobby remains unmoved by the case for ballistic fingerprinting.
By Arianna Huffington
October 25, 2002
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While we're busy singing "America the Beautiful," the oil industry and other greedy pillagers are trying to pick our pockets and despoil our purple mountain majesties.
By Arianna Huffington
October 2, 2001
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Readers respond to Salon's coverage of the latest high school tragedy.
March 7, 2001
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Schools need to teach our kids how much they matter. If they don't, we will see Santana and Columbine copycat shootings again and again.
By Meredith Maran
March 6, 2001
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Guns, neglect, bullying, the role of race: If you feel like you've heard this all before, it's because you have.
By Daryl Lindsey
March 6, 2001
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Georgia's Zell Miller says he'll confirm the attorney general designate despite tough grilling on gun control and abortion by Kennedy, Schumer and Feinstein.
By Alicia Montgomery
January 18, 2001
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