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What Gun Owners Really Want
I’ve owned six guns. I’ve drawn them on bad guys. I want to be understood.
My father's Iver Johnson .410 shotgun, which he promised would be mine soon, leaned on its stock in a closet off the kitchen filled with other guns and camping gear. The shotgun was given to him by my granddad, who'd bought it at an Ohio sporting goods store in the early 1950s. It was a squirrel gun that took only one shell and had to be manually cocked to fire; my father said it would teach me to shoot safely. I was months away from turning 15 and felt that a gun was the proper acknowledgment of oncoming adulthood. READ MORE >>
Today President Obama will unveil a gun-control platform that is expected to include a reinstatement of the long-expired assault weapon ban. READ MORE >>
Obama Doesn't Need an Assault Weapon Ban
Today President Obama will unveil a gun-control platform that is expected to include a reinstatement of the long-expired assault weapon ban. READ MORE >>
The Public Won't Force Congress to Pass Gun Control
Meet John Lott, the Man Who Wants to Arm America's Teachers
Why Obama Should Lead From Behind on Gun Control
The Politics of Gun Control Have Changed, But Will Democrats Notice?
Over the last four presidential elections, gun control has been as settled as any political question, with Democrats all but conceding the issue to Republicans in national elections. A spate of mass shootings during the first four years of the Obama presidency didn't change this, but there is some reason to think that the terrible elementary school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut could be different. READ MORE >>
Spree-Killing Do's And Don'ts
In 1951 the United States government responded to nuclear testing in the Soviet Union by scaring schoolchildren half to death with a short educational film called Duck And Cover. The film is roundly mocked today, but it's a model of practical advice compared to Run. Hide. Fight., a short educational film funded with a $200,000 grant from the Department of Homeland Defense and produced by the Houston mayor's office. READ MORE >>
