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Littwin: History says change is coming in Dem race, but latest...

The real news from the Houston debate was not Joe Biden’s overpraised performance. He was OK for the first hour, not so much after...

For the Democrats running for governor in Colorado, gun bans take...

UPDATE: This story has been updated to reflect Erik Underwood's position on a 2013 Colorado gun law. Following the slaughter of 17 people at a...

Littwin: Trump wants teachers who can shoot the apple right off...

Let’s be honest. It’s hard to imagine a worse idea than arming teachers in the classroom to prevent mass shootings. It’s an unserious idea...

Littwin: Is there really some movement on the gun control front?...

If you believe what you read — and who knows, it may just be Russian bots — there’s a groundswell of support to actually...

Littwin: It’s not only hearts that are broken when kids are...

If we didn’t know better — and, of course, we do — we’d think it was pretty much impossible for a president to appear...

Colorado GOP Senate candidate Tim Neville’s AR-15 giveaway is old hat

  Tim Neville, a Republican state senator from Littleton who's running for the U.S. Senate, has a sure-fire way to entice voters to bolster his bid in the March...

Littwin: On the Colorado Springs open-carry killing

What do you do if you see a neighbor walking down the street carrying a rifle, looking, well, distraught? You don't know his name, but...

Wiretap: Just before the next brief, unfruitful gun law debate

The narrative of the Navy Yard shootings, and of the apparently mentally unstable shooter, at the Navy Yard becomes somewhat clearer. So, it seems,...

Aurora shooting elicits calls for tighter gun control

While many politicians are playing it safe, saying it is too soon to talk about gun laws or saying they don’t want to “politicize” the Colorado and now Wisconsin shootings, Democratic U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette and Ed Perlmutter have been outspoken about their desire for more stringent regulation.