Arizona state senator Wendy Rogers just endorsed Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial candidate Douglas Mastriano. Here is press release from Rogers’s website: Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers (R) announced on Wednesday that she is endorsing Pennsylvania State Senator Doug Mastriano (R), who […]
Buffalo shooting (2022)
Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey on guns
Over at The Washington Post, the Pennsylvania senator writes about how he changed his mind about guns after Sandy Hook. Here is a taste: I’m a U.S. senator who has done something rare in today’s politics: I’ve changed my position […]
A short history of the National Rifle Association
Robert Spitzer, a scholar of U.S. gun policy and the NRA, divides the history of the organization into three phases: Phase One: At first the group was mainly concerned with marksmanship. It later played a relatively constructive role regarding safety-minded gun […]
Do guns have ANYTHING to do with mass shootings? No, according to Ted Cruz
In Cruz’s world, gun violence happens because of “the elites who dominate our culture,” the media, corporate leaders, Hollywood, homelessness, gangs, “radical” district attorneys, “cultural sickness,” despair, isolation, “sick souls,” broken families, absent fathers, declining church attendance, social medial bullying, […]
Nicholas Kristof: Gun reform that could save 15,000 lives
It’s pretty simple stuff, but don’t expect many GOP Senators to buy in. Here is a taste of Nicholas Kristof’s piece at The New York Times: Let’s just acknowledge that what we’re doing isn’t working, and we need new approaches. […]
“Are you going to put your own desire power ahead of our children?”
Steve Kerr is the head coach of the Golden State Warriors. They are playing in the NBA Western Conference finals right now. Kerr’s father, Malcolm Kerr, was assassinated by Islamic terrorists in 1984. He was the president of the American […]
The Buffalo shooting in historical context
Historian Chad Williams places the shooting in the larger context of Buffalo history. Here is a taste of his piece at The Washington Post: Historical context is necessary to fully grasp the significance of the Buffalo shooting. White-supremacist terrorism targeting […]
It’s time for gun rights advocates to stop “looking the other way”
Conservative Washington Post columnist Henry Olsen calls out his fellow conservatives in the wake of the Buffalo shooting. Here is a taste of his piece: Yes, it’s inevitable that some mass shootings will occur in any society with private gun […]
When it comes to abortion, conservative evangelicals act. When it comes to gun control, some call for revival but most say nothing.
In 2019, I wrote a piece at The Washington Post about the way that conservative evangelicals, mostly white conservative evangelicals, offer “thoughts and prayers” to the families of the victims of gun violence yet oppose gun control legislation. Here is […]