Tag: Gun Control

The old joke -- that the worst part of running for Congress is winning -- doesn't get the problem exactly right, not this year at least.

  There's a crisis on the border. Unaccompanied children, mostly from Central America, are being smuggled into southern Texas. As the New York Times reported,...

This is the day Republican primary voters should be nominating someone who could reasonably challenge incumbent Gov. John Hickenlooper. But they won't, because there's no one in the four-way field who can.

“[Bundy] put our people in grave danger by calling in armed civilians from around the country, and that’s not okay.”

After a recent, social media-driven victory that started in response to open-carry advocates bringing long guns into a Dallas Chipotle and ended with the company issuing a formal request that customers leave firearms at home, Bloomberg-backed group Everytown for Gun Safety has set its sites on the mega-retailer Target.

The legislation "would create a gun violence restraining order, establishing a system where concerned family members and others notify law enforcement of someone demonstrating propensity to commit violence."

  WHEN it became clear that the packaging of pot edibles might be confusing to children, thereby possibly endangering them, the state legislature passed a...

A weekend of tweets later, Denver-based burrito chain Chipotle asks customers not to bring guns into their restaurants after members of Open Carry Texas entered a Dallas franchise with assault rifles and posted it to Facebook.

Notes from the final fugue, a.k.a. the 115th day of the 2014 legislative session

notes on the 111th day of the 2014 legislative session