Gun Nation

The Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre is now a part of our collective history. As the shock wears off, the country seeks greater understanding. Where America looks for an answer---whether it's our gun laws, Adam Lanza's...

  Joe Brown, Editor of Gizmodo.com, had this to say about the Sandy Hook Elementary School Massacre: More than a dozen children were just murdered in Connecticut. It's time to take steps toward preventing this sort...

  The following editorial appears at oathkeepers.org: This shooting is yet another tragic example of the failed, grotesque insistence on helpless victim zones where any crazed gunman can be assured of a large number of disarmed,...

  Since Tuesday's shooting spree at the Clackamas Town Center shopping mall (only fifteen miles from here) applications for CCW permits are up by more than 300% my local sheriff's department . . . My job--the...

  The Illinois State Rifle Association is urging Land of Lincoln residents to count their ballistic chickens before the concealed carry egg hatches. ISRA's latest press release offers four pieces of common sense advice...

  The above image is from a porno-friendly file sharing website called uselessjunk.com. There's no confirmation that the post is genuine, but it's entirely possible that Newtown Connecticut spree killer Adam Lanza left these two...

  "Fuck you, people who say, 'guns don't kill people, people kill people.' Sorry, assholes, this isn't the time for semantics. Guns are the tools that enable people who kill people to kill lots and...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jplh7uatr-E Ralphie's mom was only worried about the kid putting his eye out. She never dreamed he'd be able to chase the Bumpus's dogs down the street, thwacking them with paintball markers. Let alone peeping...

Back in the day (September), Mother Jones magazine marked the "spate" of mass murder and spree killing with a data dive. In the wake of the Clackamas killing, a reader brought the article to...

Via Borderland Beat: El Diario and various media outlets reported last summer, during July and August, that the entire police force of Guadalupe y Calvo deserted when gunmen from the Sinaloa cartel overtook the area. "Last night the...

If there's one thing I can't stand it's sloppy puns. No, not the nightclub singer from the '40's. Puns that don't quite work. I mean, c'mon. It's not a shotgun. It's a handgun 0n...

  "To be secure against the threat of a totalitarian regime with a policy of mass murder, or the threat of tyranny of any kind, the American people must retain their right to keep and...