Outside the Beltway

Caution about making too many assumptions.

The conspirator is living large while his victims go unpaid.

A counterintuitive move.

The huckster is exploiting bankruptcy laws and the financial regulations to circumvent court judgments.

“America can survive the demagogues themselves, it’s their audience that will kill us.”

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

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.

Beyond who her spouse is, the texts to Meadows reveal a deeply concerning situation.

A Supreme Court Justice’s wife urged the White House and Congressional Republicans to steal the 2020 election.

House Democrats have done what their Republican colleagues refused to do.

The GOP, alas, is not going anywhere.

AOC v. MTG: one of these things is not like the other.

The President seems to be enjoying a mild rally effect.

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

Governor Matt Bevin still won’t concede the Kentucky Governor’s race.

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

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.

On a day that called for national unity and empathy, President Trump couldn’t help but revert to form.

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

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.

For the first tine in nearly ten years, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case involving Second Amendment rights.

Alex Jones lost a bid to dismiss a lawsuit filed by families of children killed in the Sandy Hook massacre.

Facebook, Google, and several other companies have closed down accounts associated with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

The Trump Administration’s School Safety Commission isn’t getting off to a very good start.

Alex Jones is finally being called on to answer for his irresponsible lying about events like the Sandy Hook shooting.

We have a generation of schoolkids who aren’t even surprised when there’s a shooting at their school. That’s a problem.

The new President of the National Rifle Association has a new theory to explain mass shootings, but there’s no basis for believing it’s accurate.

The Supreme Court has declined to accept yet another Second Amendment case for review, continuing a streak that goes back some eight years.

Support for gun control spiked in the wake of the Parkland, Florida school shooting but it appears to be returning to more normal levels, and that’s bad news for gun control advocates.

Two months after the shooting in Parkland, Florida, support for gun control measures seems to be slipping.

The parents of two of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre are suing Alex Jones for falsely accusing them of lying about the deaths of their children.

Another Federal Court loss for gun rights activists challenging state laws banning “assault weapons.”

New polling shows that public support for several gun control proposals continue to increase in the wake of February’s shooting at a Parkland, Florida High School.

Organizing protests was the easy part. The hard part for those who would seek to expand gun regulations is yet to come.

Polls released since the Parkland, Florida shooting show that support for gun control measures is at its highest level since 1993, but will it last?

Not surprisingly, the Trump Administration is backing away from gun regulations opposed by the N.R.A.

Kids are more likely to be killed driving to school than shot while there. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try and prevent them.

A big win for gun control advocates in a deeply Republican state.

POLITICO buries the lede in making the case for “Donald Trump’s bubble presidency.”

President Trump appeared to change positions on several gun control ideas, but he probably doesn’t mean it.

Following yesterday’s move by Dick’s Sporting Goods, Walmart has raised the age for all gun sales to 21.

“All In The Family” predicted a policy proposal that President Trump and many other conservatives have made in the wake of the Florida school shooting.

Dick’s Sporting Goods will no longer sell “assault weapons” at any of its stores, and will limit the sale of any gun to people aged 21 and above.

Democrats appear to have regained momentum in the Generic Congressional Ballot.

New polls show increased support for various gun control measures, including limitations on so-called “assault weapons,” but that doesn’t mean we’re likely to see Congressional action on the subject.

Since the Supreme Court handed down its decision in District of Columbia v. Heller four separate Federal appellate courts have ruled that state and local laws banning “assault weapons” do not violate the Second Amendment.

President Trump is pressing the idea of arming teachers to stop shootings in schools.

The students who survived last week’s mass shooting in Parkland, Florida are speaking out, and some on the right are responding by engaging in personal attacks and spreading conspiracy theories.