NRA

In the weeks since the Newtown, Connecticut massacre, we’ve learned about what it will mean for America, if the NRA gets its wishes and school teachers, students and visitors to schools can carry concealed guns. We’ve learned how contemptuous of the rights of other citizens the gun nutters are.

Jon Stewart spent the first segment of Wednesday night's The Daily Show on the NRAs intensive lobbying against gun control, and their new ad going after his kids.

The NRA has now released a four-and-a-half minute version of the ad in response to the Obama Administration's proposals to curb gun violence, going after members of the media, Obama's children, and anyone else who would get in the way of gun manufacturers' ability to sell their products.

In his press conference on Wednesday to announce new proposals intended to help decrease gun violence, President Obama took the opportunity to shine a spotlight on an unlikely supporter of an assault weapons ban: Former President Ronald Reagan.

With President Obama moving forward with stricter gun regulations, the NRA has gone on the offensive, attacking the President's daughters in a new ad labeled “pornography" by Morning Joe panelist Mike Barnicle.

While everyone agrees that there is no one solution to lessening the number of deaths from firearms, one common sense proposal is almost universally supported — background checks for all gun purchases.

The NRA has made it its mission to force the blame of gun violence onto everything except guns. Following the tragic shooting in Sandy Hook Elementary School where 20 children and six adults were gunned down, NRA president Wayne LaPierre was quick to place the blame on the influence of violent video games.

Governor Dannel P. Malloy announced Thursday the names of 16 members of the Sandy Hook Advisory Commission. The expert panel will review current policy and make specific recommendations in the areas of public safety, with particular attention paid to school safety, mental health and gun violence prevention.

Talking Points Memo editor Josh Marshall brings us today's edition of Not the Onion: CNN interrupting it's coverage of Vice President Joe Biden's meeting with the NRA to cover yet another school shooting.

The shooting occurred about 9 a.m. at Taft Union High School, a community of fewer than 10,000 people amidst oil and natural gas production fields about 120 miles northwest of Los Angeles.