HNN Hot Topics: Gun Control
McDonald v. ChicagoKhalil Gibran Muhammad: Violence, Gun Rights, and Compassionate ProgressivismSaul Cornell: Judicial Activism, Historical Revisionism, and the Legacy of the Roberts CourtMichael...
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The Real Origin of America's Gun Culture
Replica of a Colt 1851 Navy revolver. Credit: Wiki Commons."I'm here to tell you, 1776 will commence again if you try to take our firearms!,” radio host Alex Jones warned British television journalist...
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The Pentagon as a Global NRA
Credit: Wiki Commons.Author: Tom Engelhardt Bio: 1-15-13Tom Engelhardt, co-founder of the American Empire Project and author of The United States of Fear as well as The End of Victory Culture, his...
View ArticleThom Hartmann: The Second Amendment was Ratified to Preserve Slavery
Thom Hartmann is a New York Times bestselling Project Censored Award winning author and host of a nationally syndicated progressive radio talk show. You can learn more about Thom Hartmann at his...
View ArticleIn gun debate, even language can be loaded
WASHINGTON — When the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence wanted to promote more restrictions on firearms after the Connecticut school shootings in December, it turned to a firm to help publicize...
View ArticleKing’s daughter, others say nonviolent message relevant as ever after...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — While the nation struggles to agree on how to curb gun violence, followers of a man gunned down nearly 45 years ago think his wisdom offers an answer.The words of Martin Luther King...
View ArticleDavid Barton: History proves armed elementary kids prevent school shootings
Conservative host Glenn Beck and "historian" David Barton on Tuesday debuted a new show called "Foundations of Freedom" and suggested that history proved that school shootings could be prevented if all...
View ArticleNRA and the GOP: Together in history
President Obama’s Wednesday pitch for sweeping new gun control laws included a nod to a conservative icon: Ronald Reagan.The mention of the former president’s support for gun control was a reminder...
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Missouri GOP Rep.: Japan Didn't Invade U.S. in World War II Because of Armed...
Editor's Note: Today's Bachmann Award comes courtesy of HNN editor and associate professor of Japanese history at Pittsburg State University Jonathan Dresner.Cadets in the Imperial Japanese Army, circa...
View ArticlePaul Finkelman: 2nd Amendment Passed to Protect Slavery? No!
Paul Finkelman, Ph.D., is the President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy at Albany Law School. He is the author of more than 40 books, including Slavery and the...
View ArticleIra Chernus: Gun Ownership as Sin -- A Strategic, Secular Proposal for Gun...
Ira Chernus is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado and author of “MythicAmerica: Essays.” He blogs at MythicAmerica.us.When you look at a gun, do you see danger or safety? It...
View ArticleJim Sleeper and Daniel J.H. Greenwood: To Stop Gun Violence, We Need to...
Jim Sleeper, a lecturer in Political Science at Yale, is a former New York Daily News columnist and the author of The Closest of Strangers. Daniel J.H. Greenwood, professor of law at Hofstra, writes on...
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Actually, Scalia's Legal Logic Permits Gun Control
Image via Wiki Commons.In the wake of the mass killing of schoolchildren in Newtown, Connecticut, there's been renewed national debate on gun control, especially placing restrictions on individual...
View ArticleJim Sleeper: Guns Require a New Politics
Jim Sleeper, a lecturer in political science at Yale, is the author of "The Closest of Strangers" and "Liberal Racism." E-mail him at james.sleeper@yale.edu.The Senate Judiciary Committee was told...
View ArticleDid gun control enable the Holocaust?
Editor's Note: No, it did not.As gun control moved toward the top of the American agenda after the Dec. 14 massacre at a Connecticut elementary school, gun rights activists began to invoke a curious...
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What's Still Missing From the Gun Control Debate
Image viaShutterstock.Originally appeared on the Huffington Post.Behind the gun control debate lies a deeper one that we need to have. It would show that the danger to our freedom isn't coming from...
View ArticleWhy bogus quotations matter in gun debate
(CNN) -- The Founding Fathers are frequently quoted in the gun control debate, but many of those quotations turn out to be fake.The most popular comment on a recent story about gun control featured a...
View ArticleI Need Police Protection
Author: Steve Hochstadt I bother some people. A lot. I know this from reading the comments about me that appear everywhere these columns are read. It has been made clear to me more than once that some...
View ArticleGun supporters use of Nazi, Hitler references irritates historians
When the president of Ohio's state school board posted her opposition to gun control, she used a powerful symbol to make her point: a picture of Adolf Hitler. When a well-known conservative commentator...
View ArticleAkinyele Umoja: Black Ambivalence About Gun Control
Akinyele Umoja is an associate professor and chair of the department of African-American studies at Georgia State University. He is the author of We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the...
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