On Wednesday, the United States Senate failed to pass the Manchin-Toomey bill. A bipartisan compromise, this bill expanded required background checks to every gun purchase except for transactions between...

Unfortunately, advocacy for the mentally ill is puny compared to the lobby for the right to own handheld devices that  shoot deadly metal pellets at high speed. Between the gun-lobby’s intransigence...

It's not hard to think of recent violence committed by people living in a different world than the rest of us. The Batman shooter. The Tuscon, Arizona shooter. The Unabomber. And so on. The media drags...