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Beyond Trayvon: How ‘Stand Your Ground’ Laws Spread from Florida to Half the U.S.
Florida’s controversial “Stand Your Ground” law wasn’t always so controversial. The law, which gives citizens the right to use deadly force if they “reasonably...
Beyond Trayvon Martin: How 'Stand Your Ground' Laws Spread from Florida to Half the U.S.
Florida's controversial "Stand Your Ground" law wasn't always so controversial. The law, which gives citizens the right to use deadly force if they "reasonably...
Mitt Romney’s Nuanced Evolution on Immigration
It’s well known that Mitt Romney has changed his position on certain issues over time: cap-and-trade, abortion, gay rights, gun control. In all of these areas...
In Some States, Guns Are Heading to College Campuses
Thanks to a surge in changing regulations, many student's first-day-of-college checklist could read something like this: textbooks, check; laptop, check;...
Why Obama's Silence on Gun Control Pleases No One
There are some issues Democratic Presidents can't seem to win, and gun control is one of them. As a legislator, Barack Obama backed tighter gun laws; as a...
Fire Away
Like them or not, guns are as American as covered wagons and the infield-fly rule. The revolutionaries and pioneers who forged the nation and peopled its...
After Tucson: Why Are the Mentally Ill Still Bearing Arms?
When the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the handgun ban in the nation's capital in 2008, Representative Gabrielle Giffords applauded the ruling, calling gun...
Supreme Court Gun Ruling: More Bark Than Bite?
This is a big week for guns and the people who want to carry them. The question: Just how big?The Supreme Court ruled on Monday, June 28, in a challenge to...
Shootings Reignite Gun-Control Debate in Britain
On Wednesday morning, taxi driver Derrick Bird went on a shooting spree in the rural region of Cumbria in northwest England, killing 12 people and injuring 11...
Ten Years After Columbine, It's Easier to Bear Arms
Monday April 20 marks 10 years since Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold permanently etched the words Columbine High School into this nation's collective memory. What...
Articles from Around the Web
Clinton: I had cultural advantage on gun laws
Bill Clinton says President Barack Obama should not'' waste a minute'' trying to pass gun-control legislation because the issue is partly cultural, and Obama is from an urban...
Florida assailed over firearm laws
Gun-control groups focus on' stand your ground' and other lenient weapons regulations in response to the Trayvon Martin shooting. SANFORD, Fla. -- The night Trayvon Martin was...
Trayvon Martin Shooting Prompts a Review of Ideals
A fatal encounter has become a transcendent moment, shining an unforgiving light on issues such as race relations and gun control that test the ideals of a nation. ...
Bloomberg and Menino in Super Bowl Ad for Gun Control
In a commercial that was shot Tuesday, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and his Boston counterpart, Thomas M. Menino, push for stricter gun control laws. ...
