Recently we learned that a convicted killer in one of the most notorious school massacres in American history tried to get a permit to carry a concealed handgun.

Arkansas resident Drew Douglas Grant applied for a concealed carry permit on October 7, according to reports. Authorities said they...

Following up on my last post, I watched an interview broadcast recently on ESPN2, where Miami Dolphins linebacker Joey Porter defended gun possession by professional athletes in the wake of the Plaxico Burress shooting accident.

Porter spoke to ESPN about professional athletes who have...

As you may have heard by now, particularly if you are a pro-football fan, New York Giants receiver Plaxico Burress accidentally shot himself in the leg in a Manhattan nightclub on Friday. While covering the Redskins-Giants game last Sunday, FOX Sports commentator and former NFL defensive tackle Tony...

Earlier this week we released the results of a poll on the gun issue, taken by the prominent Penn, Schoen & Berland firm, of 1,083 confirmed Election Day voters.

Before discussing the responses that may come as a surprise to some, I wanted to highlight the...

The elections two weeks ago reflected significant advances for the cause of gun violence prevention. Meanwhile, with stories of fear-driven gun sales emerging since the election, the shallowness of the gun lobby's divisive approach to America's problems has never been more apparent.

The Brady Campaign produced a well-documented report...

The chief lobbyist for the National Rifle Association has been attacking Sen. Barack Obama's views on preventing gun violence in an Op-Ed in yesterday's Washington Times, and again on FOX News.

His charges fit into a pattern of attacks that CNN, The Washington Post, Congressional Quarterly,...

Tonight in New York City, I'll be participating in a gun control debate hosted by Intelligence Squared, in partnership with National Public Radio.

I'll be joining Prof. John Donohue of Yale University and Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske to argue one side of the issue, while Prof. Gary...

Last week, the Brady Center released its report on the impact of military-style semi-automatic assault weapons on American families and law enforcement after Congress and the President allowed the federal Assault Weapons Ban to expire.

Two days later, the Orlando Sentinel reported the phenomenon of "

Senators Barack Obama and Joseph Biden know that we make it too easy for dangerous people to get dangerous weapons in this country. They know that our weak gun laws have too many loopholes, which lead to over 30,000 deaths and 70,000 injuries from guns every year.

Senators Obama and...

Tonight, Senators John McCain and Barack Obama will debate each other in a town hall at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee. This time, unlike the other debates, ordinary Americans instead of a national journalist will grill the Presidential candidates about their plans for the next four years.

Many issues will...

People often disagree about how best to keep dangerous people from getting dangerous weapons, but very few argue we should have no gun laws at all.

By large majorities, Americans continue to believe that policies like criminal background checks on all gun sales, waiting periods, strong...

The presidential campaign is entering the home stretch, and once again the National Rifle Association leadership is firing its big propaganda guns at the Democratic candidates for president and vice president.

The difference this year? The guns have jammed.

The NRA leadership likes to talk a lot about freedom, but...

America is coping with the worst financial crisis in a century according to Alan Greenspan, is rebuilding from two destructive hurricanes, and is waging two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Yet Congress found nearly four hours of floor time in the last two days to re-write a local...

The nation's media have been feverishly pursuing stories about Alaska's Governor, Sarah Palin. Among other topics, they've been asking about her children.

My questions for Governor Palin are about children, too, but not just her children. I'd like to know her thoughts on how to make America's children safer. With...

When the National Rifle Association asks its members for their next contribution, they might want to disclose how much of that money will be spent to spy on gun violence victims and their families.

Mother Jones Magazine today reported that someone the gun violence prevention movement believed was a committed...

Look up "sacrosanct" in the Oxford English Dictionary and you will find:

Of persons and things, esp. obligations, laws, etc.: Secured by a religious sanction from violation, infringement, or encroachment; inviolable, sacred.

"We were told that (the shooter), who killed five students and then himself at Northern Illinois University in February, was a sweet, unassuming, overachieving grad student who inexplicably snapped. He was not."

This is the introduction to the David Vann article in the August 2008 issue of Esquire Magazine which...

In the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling on the Second Amendment, it's been my hope that it might be easier to find some common ground on steps to help reduce gun violence in this country now that the extremes of the gun control debate (gun confiscation on the one...

Almost two years ago, I became president of the Brady Center and Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. A great deal has happened in the gun violence prevention movement since then, but one of the most important has been the debate in the Supreme Court over the meaning of the...

Our fight to enact sensible gun laws will be undiminished by the Supreme Court's decision in the Heller case. While we disagree with the Supreme Court's ruling, which strips the citizens of the District of Columbia of a...