http://www.bradycampaign.org/blog Wed, 14 May 2008 04:04:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sen. John McCain is scheduled to speak before the NRA convention in Louisville this Friday, May 16, 2008, and I suspect he might have to perform a high-wire act to impress most of the folks in attendance. The NRA has pilloried and even ridiculed Sen. McCain over the years in its ... http://www.bradycampaign.org/blog/2008/05/14/the-nra-on-sen-john-mccain-then-and-now/ On Mother’s Day, May 14, 2000, approximately 750,000 individuals, led by mothers concerned about gun violence, gathered on the National Mall in Washington, DC to demand sensible gun laws. Across the country, an additional 150,000 to 200,000 people marched in their own communities. Marsha McCartney and her family, including two grandchildren, ... http://www.bradycampaign.org/blog/2008/05/09/the-best-mother%e2%80%99s-day-gift-of-all/ When we talk about making it harder for dangerous people to get guns, we usually focus on felons, domestic abusers and the dangerously mentally ill. Less often do we think about children in this context. There are obvious reasons for this, yet a child with a gun poses its own ... http://www.bradycampaign.org/blog/2008/05/05/making-handguns-childproof/ The one-year anniversary of a tragic killing from South Bend, Indiana, illustrates many of the weaknesses in our gun laws: in a single incident, we have law enforcement officers being shot and killed, by someone who never should have been allowed to purchase a firearm in the first place, but ... http://www.bradycampaign.org/blog/2008/04/30/another-tragic-anniversary/ Forcing employers to allow guns at work? This is an idea only the gun lobby could like. Yet it is one they are trying to push into every state and workplace in America at the expense of your safety. For several years, the NRA had been losing this fight, ... http://www.bradycampaign.org/blog/2008/04/25/forcing-guns-into-workplaces/