Real or political theater?

About that Bulgarian gun-pointing, gun-jamming incident ... I'm feeling truther-y. How about you?

"Please take away my Second Amendment right."

"Do more to help us protect ourselves because what’s most likely to wake me in the early hours isn’t a man’s body slamming at my door b...

Bill Clinton says: Do not look down on the bitter clingers.

"Do not patronize the passionate supporters of your opponents by looking down your nose at them..." "A lot of these people li...

Video from the "Guns Across America" rally here in Madison, Wisconsin today.

Here's some edited video showing the crowd and the signs. In the middle there is a prayer, and at the end is the national anthem. Once y...

Meade drove me up to the Capitol Square to catch the "Guns Across America" rally.

I jumped out of the car almost before it stopped moving to catch up with this sign: "The Experts Agree/Gun Control Works": "R...

"We said, hey, let's do something ridiculous."

"Let's go shoot guns." ADDED: Via a Columbia Journalism Review "Pass the #popcorn" item, with a lot of intra-journal...

Purchase(s) of the day.

Through the Althouse Amazon Associates portal : " Up in the Old Hotel " by Joseph Mitchell. " Glock: The Rise of America...

"P.S. I know you're doing your best."

8-year-old Grant reaches out to President Obama:

"In this bill we will nullify anything the president does that smacks of legislation."

"And there are several of the executive orders that appear as if he’s writing new law. That cannot happen.... I’m afraid that President...

"Democrats hailed Mr. Cuomo's aggressive gun-control push..."

"... citing it as an example of a muscular brand of politics that the governor has made his signature in two years in office. He has be...

Obama resorts to the "if there’s even one life that can be saved" rhetoric.

"If there is even one thing we can do to reduce this violence, if there’s even one life that can be saved, we’ve got an obligation to t...

"NRA airs new TV ad criticizing Obama on eve of White House gun announcement."

CNN headline. Here's the ad:

Why are gun-death statistics inflated with gun-suicide numbers?

"I thought we had a right to die...." Obviously, one reason is: to get bigger numbers. But I think the people that lump gun deaths...

Crazy NRA approach to school violence...

... is supported by 55% of Americans. By "crazy," I mean that the elite media went all out to portray the suggestion as insane: H...

"The White House’s recent announcement they will use executive orders and executive actions to infringe on our constitutionally-protected right to keep and bear arms..."

"... is an unconstitutional and unconscionable attack on the very founding principles of this republic." "I will seek to thwa...

D.C. attorney general confirms that law is for the little people.

No charges will be filed against David Gregory "despite the clarity of the violation of this important law, because under all of the c...

Student with a shotgun fires up to 20 rounds and is disarmed by the teacher.

How did the teacher do it? The teacher, Ryan Heber, was struck in the head by a pellet but was not seriously injured and refused treatment,...

This gun control controversy is a real gift to Republicans.

It got them out of the morose election postmortem. Now, they're in their zone. Guns! — such invigorating shift from having to talk about...

"The president is going to act... Executive order, executive action that can be taken; we haven't decided what that is yet."

"But we're compiling it all with the help of the attorney general and all the rest of the cabinet members as well as legislative ac...

"Gossip site Gawker publishes names of ALL licensed gun owners in New York City."

"The names of permit holders are available from NYPD with Freedom of Information Law request/Journalists receive death threats within a...