Narrowly beating a midnight deadline, Congress voted Monday to renew an expiring ban on plastic firearms that can evade airport detection machines. But Republicans blocked an effort to toughen the restrictions — the latest defeat for gun-control forces in the year since the grade school massacre in Newtown, Conn. By voice vote, the Senate gave […] Continue reading →
by Dean Weingarten In Louisiana, a court case is headed to the Supreme Court, based on the right to keep and bear arms amendment that was overwhelmingly approved by voters last year. The case is one of those that people point at as showing the insanity of the law. Rico Webb, a 22 year old man with no criminal […] Continue reading →
Doug Giles Is anyone else ticked that we’ve all been forced to know the now-dead-and-in-hell piece of shiitake named Aaron Alexis? However livid we may be, I’m sure it can’t compare to the rage the family members and friends of the ones he mowed down must feel. For those who only watch MTV and have […] Continue reading →
by Taleeb Starkes In Brooklyn, New York, this past Labor Day weekend, a one-year-old baby, Antiq Hennis, was shot while being pushed in a stroller by his father. The bullet pierced the baby’s skull and, according to an eyewitness, “there was blood all over the stroller.” The police believe that those bullets were intended for […] Continue reading →