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The slope is not so slippery, actually: Dems must tackle disinformation about gun control head-on

Gun groups have been circulating for months what they call the “Biden plan to destroy the Second Amendment.” They claim that this is the fateful step that could start the slide to disarmament, and then genocide.

The Myths Fueling Today’s Armed Right How the NRA seeded the storylines animating the violent groups that will be patrolling this year’s election

America’s pro-Trump armed right would not be the first to invent a new ideology to justify their violence. Genocidaires developed propaganda ahead of the mass violence in late-1930s Germany and early-1990s Rwanda.

“The Price of Freedom”: For the Gun Lobby, Mass Shootings Cannot Be Avoided

“This is the price of freedom,” former, disgraced Fox News anchor Bill O’Reilly wrote Monday on his own website hours after the Las Vegas country music concert shooting.

Despite Widespread Calls For Him to Go, the NRA is Stuck With Nugent

Similar to the way NRA bylaws control who gets elected to the board, the same bylaws control how a director may be removed once elected.

Cat Scratch Fever—Is Ted Nugent’s Racism Too Much for Republicans?

How will the NRA respond to Nugent’s anti-Semitic rant? The NRA’s polished leadership has long walked a fine line between extremism and respectability.

Six months after Sandy Hook, grassroot groups and the gun debate

After the horror of the Newtown shooting, gun reform advocates expected to finally see a change. Yet six months later nothing had changed.

Gun Control and Genocide

Here’s why the NRA is dead wrong about gun control causing genocide. But at least even their paid scholars agree with human rights groups about the horrors of the military dictatorship in Guatemala.