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How Negotiating With Gun Advocates Just Gives Them More Ammunition

“What a wonder is a gun! What a versatile invention! First of all, when you’ve a gun— Everybody pays attention.” —Stephen Sondheim, Assassins Last year I had the opportunity to review Candice...

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NRA Takes a Stand on Violent Video Games, Movies and Anything Else That Isn’t...

President of the NRA at today’s conference (Washington Post) Today, the president of the National Rifle Association of America, Wayne LaPierre, made his organization’s highly-anticipated statement...

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Morning Media Mix

(Illustration by Lauren Payne.) Martin Bashir has resigned from MSNBC after his not-so-appropriate on-air comments about Sarah Palin. “It is my sincere hope that all of my colleagues, at this special...

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Anonymous Plans to Form Human Shield to Protect Sandy Hook Funeral Goers from...

Anonymous has been hitting the Westboro Baptist Church hard after the hate group announced it would picket funerals in Newtown.

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Twitter Suspends Anonymous’s Most Popular Account, @YourAnonNews (Update:...

Twitter has suspended one of the Anonymous’s most followed accounts, @YourAnonNews, which boasted almost 800,000 followers prior to its suspension.

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President Obama Responds to Petitions Against Gun Violence in New Video

In the wake of the tragic mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, social networks lit up

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Gun Debate Plays Out in White House Online Petition Portal, Where … Nobody...

In the two weeks since the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., the White House Open

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‘We Cannot Go Backwards’: De Blasio Rips Cuomo Compromise on Gun Control

After the Charleston shooting, Bill de Blasio attacked Andrew Cuomo's deal to roll back provisions of the SAFE Act.

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Free at Last: Katie Couric “Liberated” from Confines of Network TV

While shooting the documentary (airing on Epix May 18, 24, 29, as well as Epix On Demand), Ms. Couric met plenty of paranoid gun nuts (my characterization, not hers), so I asked her for tips on...

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Appoint a Gun Czar Now, Mr. President

Friday was a day of horror, Saturday a day of shock and Sunday a day of mourning. President Barack Obama

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White House Signals Support for New Gun Control Measures

Since last Friday’s massacre at a Newtown, Connecticut elementary school, President Barack Obama has used vague phrases like “meaningful action”

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After Aurora: How Mayor Bloomberg Planned to Make the Next Massacre Count

When the smoke cleared at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., in the wee hours of a Friday morning last

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Return to Sandy Hook

As the documentary ‘Newtown’ opens, Nicole Hockley and her Sandy Hook Promise are training millions of Americans to prevent school murders like the one that took her young son's life.

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JPMorgan Chase Pulls NBC Ads Over Megyn Kelly’s Alex Jones Interview

Families of the 26 people killed during the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting also denounced Kelly.

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Anonymous Attacks Westboro Baptist Church Over Plans to Picket Sandy Hook...

The Westboro Baptist Church, widely reviled for its homophobic beliefs and protests of veteran funerals, announced on Saturday that it would picket at Sandy Hook Elementary School following the tragic...

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Twitter Account of Westboro Baptist Church Spokesperson Hacked; Teen Hacker...

Anonymous announced its intention to “destroy” Westboro Baptist Church this weekend following news that the group would be picketing the funerals of children who died in Friday’s horrific school...

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Anonymous Takes Down Westboro Baptist Church Website

Anonymous is currently executing a distributed denial of service attack (DDOS) on the website of the Westboro Baptist Church, GodHatesFags.com. The website is currently inaccessible. The hacktivist...

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How Dan Quayle Helped Make Adam Lanza's Assault Rifle

Cerberus Capital Management L.P., the private equity firm that owns the company which made Newtown killer Adam Lanza’s assault rifle has extensive political connections. The company’s senior executive...

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Private Equity Firm Announces Plans to Sell Company That Made Adam Lanza's Gun

In the aftermath of the horrific killings in Newtown, Connecticut, Cerberus Capital Management, L.P., the politically-connected private equity firm behind Freedom Group, the company that made the gun...

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