Gayle Trotter of the "Independent Women's Forum" -- an organization with no members -- testified at the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on gun violence that AR-15s (the battlefield weapon used in the Newtown, CT massacre) empower women, because women have no other means to defend themselves. Lawrence O'Donnell points out several lapses of ( Read more... )

The Utah Sheriff's Association has threatened to mount an insurrection against the "tyrannical subjugation" of federal authorities if President Obama's gun control legislation is enacted.

"Make no mistake, as the duly-elected sheriffs our our respective counties, we will enforce the rights guaranteed to our citizens by the Constitution. No federal ( Read more... )