Tag Archives: NRA
‘I’m Really Scared Now to Go to School’: Texas Students Lead Walkout to Protest Gun Laws
On the 19th anniversary of the Columbine shooting, Austin students called on lawmakers to take their fear and demands for gun control seriously.
More than 1,000 students from at least 16 Austin schools marched to the Texas Capitol on Friday, the 19th anniversary of the Columbine shooting, to demand tight...Read More
The Winners and Losers of the Battle for Campus Carry
With the messy and uncertain ending to the campus carry fight, it’s worth asking: Who won?...Read More
Sighting in with the NRA
I expected a tea party rally with heavy security. Or at least an information booth on outfitting your bunker for the coming race wars. But no. The NRA exhibits ...Read More
Group That Hands Out Guns Receives Unquestioning Texas Media Coverage
Kyle Coplen, the 29-year-old student who started the Armed Citizen Project, seems to be having fun messing with the Texas media. ...Read More
Peaceably Assemble: The NRA Comes to Houston
This weekend, an estimated 70,000 people converged on the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston to attend the 142nd National Rifle Association Annual Mee...Read More
Rick Perry Offers His Solution to Gun Violence: Pray
Rick Perry blasts President Obama's gun proposals and suggests that gun violence is caused by evil. Perry's solution? Pray....Read More
A Few of Houston’s Accidental Gun Deaths
The renewed debate over gun control has lately settled into two broad camps: those who think more guns in the right hands would reduce violence, and those who t...Read More
Goodbye to Gun Culture
Here’s the good news about our seemingly intractable gun problem. The gun culture, and dare I say the NRA, may not have much of a future in this increasingly ...Read More