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Which lawmakers get the most contributions from gun rights groups?

John Fea   |  May 27, 2022

From Axios: Sen. Ted Cruz (TX): $442,000 Rep. Steve Scalise (LA): $396,000 Sen. John Cornyn (TX): $340,000 Sen. Lindsey Grahan (SC): $284,000 Sen. Mitch McConnell (KY): $247,000 Rep. Devin Nunes (CA): $228, 000 Sen. Ron Johnson (WI): 223,000 Rep. Kevin […]

What Beto did

John Fea   |  May 26, 2022

In case you missed it, yesterday Texas gubernatorial candidate (and U.S. Senate candidate and presidential candidate and former Congressman) Beto O’Rourke disrupted Texas governor Greg Abbott’s press conference on the school shooting in Ulvade: Watch: In addition to Abbott, Lieutenant […]

Nicholas Kristof: Gun reform that could save 15,000 lives

John Fea   |  May 26, 2022

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?”

John Fea   |  May 25, 2022

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 […]

On “thoughts and prayers” and “God-given rights”

John Fea   |  May 24, 2022

I know I just reposted this piece a few days ago after the Buffalo shooting, but it continues to represent my thinking about these mass shootings. Here is what I wrote at The Washington Post in August 2019: In the […]

What. Are. We. Doing?

John Fea   |  May 24, 2022

At least fifteen kids dead. (Addendum: Now CNN is reporting 18 dead–mostly 2nd and 3rd graders). Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut speaks for many of us:

It’s time for gun rights advocates to stop “looking the other way”

John Fea   |  May 17, 2022

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.

John Fea   |  May 16, 2022

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 […]

Chris Cuomo: Police reform and gun control will come when “white people’s kids start getting killed” and Black people start forming militias

John Fea   |  April 19, 2021

Watch here. After Cuomo finished his monologue, Michael Smerconish and Van Jones joined him on air to talk about this. You can listen to their conversation here. A taste: Smerconish: I thought your commentary was brilliant and depressing and you’re […]

Tweet of the day

John Fea   |  April 16, 2021

Michael Smerconish:

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