The “Slippery Slope” of Gun Control   A Message from the President of Americans Against Gun Violence December 27, 2017   With winter fully upon us and snow covering many parts of the country, I’m reminded of the gun lobby’s worst fear – the “slippery slope.” The NRA warns its members that enactment of even the most modest gun control laws will lead the United States down the slippery slope toward the adoption of – [...]

Congress Should Be Ashamed: The Concealed Carry Criminal Act of 2017 Following the mass killing of 20 first grade children and six adult staff at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut in December of 2012, former U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was critically wounded herself by a gunshot to the head in a mass shooting in January of 2011, issued the following statement: In response to a horrific series of shootings that has sown terror [...]