Tag: gun control

US President Barack Obama is taking aim at the so-called “gun-show loophole”.

If the people lining up to buy more guns would stop and pray, and pray again, and pray more, perhaps they would realize that they truly are not in control.

The front cover of the New York Daily News for Thursday takes a strong stance against how some politicians are reacting to the San Bernardino shooting with calls for prayer instead of tighter gun control laws.

As a whole, as a culture, we are addicted to guns, and we are addicted to violence.

Archbishop Blase Cupich of Chicago, named by Pope Francis to that high-profile post a year ago, has issued a powerful call for tougher gun control laws in a move that may push the volatile issue further up the Catholic hierarchy’s agenda than it has been before.

Even were all the gun regulation and background checking sufficient to make the NRA go ballistic in place, would that ever really preclude the nutball getting some weapon and embarking on their horrible vendettas?

When it comes to gun violence, our ritual is well known: Express shock and horror.