Outside the Beltway

Some interesting statistics.

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

Perception v. reality.

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.

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.

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.

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