Mark Ristaino, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. August 11, 2009. Two separate incidents of armed Tea Baggers infiltrating town hall meetings have occurred this week. Should we be worried for our lives?
Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. May 26, 2009. Our national parks are among the safest places in America. So against what, exactly, are the proponents of the new gun law defending themselves?
Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. March 26, 2009. In a month filled with tragic shootings, lawmakers are not thinking of gun owners as an oppressed minority. But the NRA is hoping to change that.
Steve Benen, Washington Monthly AlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. December 21, 2008. It invested $15 million to go after Obama, and an additional $25 million to help Republicans win congressional seats. Not exactly money well spent.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet. December 9, 2008. The NRA and Co. have pushed campaigns to allow concealed-weapons permits on college campuses in 15 states this year and failed in all of them.
David Neiwert, Firedoglake AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. August 7, 2008. Heaven help us if we become as paranoid as they are. And the funny thing is, they keep proving that we ought to be.
Daniel Lazare, The Nation. April 22, 2008. When it comes to the Second Amendment, Americans are largely at the mercy of 18th-century attitudes they don't know how to escape.
Rhonda Brownstein, Southern Poverty Law Center. March 13, 2008. The Supreme Court's ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller may be the most important decision on gun control in U.S. history.
Liliana Segura, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. February 22, 2008. As the Democratic party becomes increasingly pro-gun, not even campus bloodshed grabs the candidates' attention.
Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. January 16, 2008. The NRA is reviving its campaign to prohibit businesses from forbidding employees from keeping firearms in their cars.
Steve Benen, AlterNet: PEEK. September 21, 2007. Steve Benen: The NRA convention is proving to be the perfect opportunity for McCain to attack Rudy from the right on gun control.
Jessica Pupovac, AlterNet. February 28, 2007. Motivated by a nationwide decline in hunters, industry-sponsored hunter's education classes are enticing record numbers of kids to take up the sport.