Outside the Beltway

Wayne LaPierre’s perverted view of the world in two sentences.

Perception v. reality.

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As the second anniversary of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School approaches, a new poll finds that more Americans support gun rights than gun control.

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We should not tolerate them acting otherwise.

In a logical extension of the Supreme Court’s decision in D.C. v. Heller, a Federal Judge has struck down D.C.’s law barring people from carrying handguns in public.

The tragedy in Santa Barbara will. inevitably, revive the same old gun debate. But can it ever evolve beyond shouting?

So, this happened.

A Federal Judge in New York upholds, for the most part, that state’s new gun control law.

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Gun control has faded as a political issue as the memory of Newtown has faded, and that was entirely predictable.

With debate season over, it’s looking less and less likely that Virginia Republicans will be able to hold back the Democrats on November 5th.

A gun rights victory at the ballot box in Colorado.

An absolutely ridiculous criminal case out of West Virginia.

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It would be nice if columnists for major newspapers would consult political science, rather than Hollywood, for their understanding of our system.

Gabby Giffords writes an emotional diatribe filled with non sequiturs that does nothing to advance the debate.

The politics of gun control is not nearly as easy as its supporters believe it to be.

There’s a very simple reason why gun control is stalling in Congress despite its popularity in the polls.

The Supreme Court has ducked an opportunity to expand the holdings in D.C. v. Heller

Are we heading toward an era where a diagnosis of mental illness becomes an instrument for state oppression?

The Manchin/Toomey proposal on background checks isn’t perfect, but it isn’t horrible either.

One Virginia Republican Member of Congress recently got a lesson in what going against the GOP’s hyperpartisan atmosphere feels like.

Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace called a controversial NRA claim “ridiculous.”

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Bill Clinton has a warning for his fellow Democrats.

Some have criticized the President for delivering his gun control speech before a group of children.

The NRA is calling President Obama an “elitist hypocrite” for opposing armed guards in schools while sending his own girls to school with armed guards.

It turns out, the NRA behind the game is not the National Rifle Association.

Based on the polls, the odds of some changes to America’s gun control laws will become law. It’s unlikely they’ll accomplish anything, though.

The ultimate impact of the Newtown tragedy on the nation’s gun laws is likely to be very limited.

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Did NBC’s David Gregory violate D.C. law on Sunday?

There are factions of the American right that really need to understand this.