Outside the Beltway

The Onion is more cogent.

It’s been around for a very long time.

The conspirator is living large while his victims go unpaid.

A trailblazer is gone at 90.

A format unchanged since the Ford Administration* doesn’t suit the modern era.

A man who claims he was going to kill the Supreme Court Justice is in jail.

Donald Trump and friends speak to the NRA.

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

It doesn’t appear the Uvalde TX police were underfunded

An example of security theater with proven negative social impacts

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.

Not.

As scary as the Cold War was, it did reduce the silliness in American politics.

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

The 76-year-old Democratic frontrunner’s penchant for gaffes is raising questions about his fitness to govern.

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

Scot Peterson, the school resource officer who hid from fire during last year’s school shooting in Florida has been charged criminally. The legal basis for those charges seems flimsy.

Authorities have arrested a Florida man named Cesar Sayoc, a 56-year-old Trump supporter, in connection with the wave of bombing attempts directed at critics of the President.

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.

In the end, it may be insurance companies that have the biggest voice in the debate over arming teachers. 

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.

In the wake of yesterday’s killing of eight in a Texas high school, WaPo’s Philip Bump provides a chilling statistic.

Another school shooting, this time in Texas.

The Generic Congressional Ballot has tightened in some recent polls, but on average the battle for control of Congress continues to favor Democrats.

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.

Thanks to a combination of sensationalism and outright lies, a fairly conventional story about an annual protest march in Mexico was turned into Fox News fodder that raised images of an invading army of illegal immigrants.

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.

Personal attacks on teenagers whose friends were murdered is a strategy sure to backfire.

Having journalistic integrity at the Fair and Balanced network has never been more challenging.

Students across the country are staging 17-minute protests at 10 am in their time zones.

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

Within hours after the new Florida gun law was signed by Governor Rick Scott, the National Rifle Association had filed a lawsuit seeking to strike it down.

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.

Another lawsuit has been filed against Dick’s Sporting Goods over its policy barring gun sales based on age.

Witnesses say another student was “showing off his gun.”

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

Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in a case pitting the First Amendment against the right of states to regulate elections.

“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.

Despite the activism we’ve seen in the wake of the school shooting in Florida, it’s unlikely that we’ll see significant Congressional action on guns.

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.

As with any such discretionary power given to police, it will surely be abused. But the Parkland shooting was yet another in a long line of situations where obvious “red flags” were ignored until it was too late.

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.

President Trump’s job approval hits a new low.