May 7, 2018
Christian Science Monitor, March 2018. “There is some remarkable overlap between what the tobacco industry invented 30 years ago, and the strategy of the NRA and its supporters today,” says Mark Pertschuk, a longtime expert and organizer for both the anti-tobacco and anti-gun movements. For instance, both the tobacco and …
September 27, 2017
Guns.com, Chris Eger, September 26, 2017- A Pittsburgh Democrat was so shocked by seeing firearms displayed in an area park last month that he has proposed an ordinance to the City Council to prohibit the practice. Pittsburgh Councilman Dan Gilman observed protestors in Mellon Park including some carrying what appeared to be firearms, TribLive.com reported. …
September 11, 2017
The Trace, Alex Yablon, September 11, 2017- The “summer of hate” reached its apogee in Charlottesville, Virginia, when police didn’t separate clashing white nationalist demonstratorsand anti-racist counter-protesters for fear of confronting openly carrying militia members, who showed up to ensure that “free speech” rights were guaranteed. The militia members weren’t the only ones armed: At …
August 23, 2017
The Los Angeles Times, Editorial Board, August 23, 2017- Russian playwright Anton Chekhov noted that, as a dramatic device, a gun introduced in the first act of a play must be fired in the second, otherwise it has no reason to be there. Let’s hope that’s not as true in …
July 17, 2017
CityLabs, Virginia Pelley, July 12, 2017- At 3 a.m. on November 29, an SUV plowed through the front door and window of the Tampa Arms Company, a gun store in a Florida strip mall. Black-and-white security video of the burglary captured the vehicle smashing into the building, then a group …