Outside the Beltway

The Onion is more cogent.

I don’t think its stolen valor, but Walz has played it loose when referring to his service

Really not much to add on this one

Balancing the public’s desire to know and the potential for harm is not easy.

Tips for how to check yourself before you wreck yourself.

Some depressing stats.

Our English-speaking brethren have much less tolerance for massacres than we do.

New details are emerging about possible motivations.

This one at the University of Virginia.

Japan’s longest-serving prime minister was killed at a campaign rally. He was 67.

The most expansive firearms legislation in decades is likely to become law.

The 6-3 ruling broke down on predictable lines.

Calling it a “deal” is vastly over-selling it.

Or are they?

Donald Trump and friends speak to the NRA.

The research is not as robust as you’d think.

Despite their military trappings and propaganda, they’re seldom heroes.

It doesn’t appear the Uvalde TX police were underfunded

The obstacles to fixing the problem are many.

Alas, it’s unlikely to change the policies that enable them.

We know a lot less about the motives of spree killers than the public discourse suggests.

Tragedy has played out so often that it has become a statistic.

The Kenosha Police Department is still holding his weapon, clothing, and other property for no apparent reason.

A conversation in two parts.

A shocking yet unsurprising statistic.

Our current forms of collective action on guns have failed us.

For the first time in nearly a decade, the Supreme Court heard a significant Second Amendment case, but it is unlikely to rule on the merits of the case.

The Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of a case from Connecticut filed by the parents of victims of the Sandy Hook massacre.

At last week’s debate, Beto O’Rourke handed Republicans and gun rights advocates a nicely wrapped gift with his claim that he would seize guns from otherwise law-abiding Americans.

The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has once again upheld a local ordinance banning assault weapons.

As he has in the past, President Trump has backed away from support for any gun control measures in the wake of the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton.

Another poll in the wake of this month’s mass shootings shows increased support for several gun control measures. That doesn’t mean Congress will act, though.

In the wake of the back-to-back shootings in Texas and Ohio, a new poll shows increased support for some gun control measures. But we’ve been here before.

Republicans have come up with a new target to blame mass shootings on, “violent video games.”

Part 2 of 2.

Part 1

A Florida Woman is being charged with felony burglary after breaking into her estranged husband’s apartment to seize his guns and give them to the police.

A dozen people died late yesterday in a workplace shooting at the Virginia Beach Municipal Center.

After just a year in office, Oliver North is out as President of the National Rifle Association as the group faces an ongoing series of scandals centered around Wayne LaPierre and others.

One opinion writer says that Senator Kamala Harris should be disqualified as a Democratic candidate because she owns a handgun.

A male sophomore makes two suicides in less than a week.

Tragedy piled on top of tragedy.

Last week, the House passed two bills to strengthen the laws regarding background checks for guns, but they’re not likely to even make it to the floor of the Senate.

A Federal Judge in Washington, D.C. has upheld the Administration’s ban on bump stocks.

Gun laws requiring guns to be taken away from convicted felons are either being ignored or have too many loopholes. We need to fix that.

The shooter who killed five people in a factory in Illinois on Friday should not have had a gun to begin with.

Washington has become the latest state to ban the sale of semiautomatic assault rifles to persons under 21.

The Trump Administration is preparing to ban bump stocks in the coming weeks.