This quote is being circulated on social media from an unknown source and unknown time. Regardless of whether it emerged in the wake of the horrendous tragedy in Las Vegas that saw over 500 people maimed or murdered by Stephen Paddock, it perhaps perfectly encapsulates the ...read more

Last night, the major late-night hosts - Seth Meyers, Conan O'Brien, James Corden, Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah, and Jimmy Kimmel - all opened their shows with statements memorializing the victims of the shooting, and urging Republican lawmakers to pass sensible gun control ...read more

1. The media will cover the massacre relentlessly for 5-6 days, interviewing victims, bystanders and government officials. They will cover the vigils and dedicate the 24 hour news cycle to it for as long as people can stand it.  2. There will be vigils held around the country ...read more

Question: what does a society in the grips of a gun crime epidemic need? Answer: a new home shopping channel exclusively selling guns! In about the least helpful development in America's non-existent battle to halt the insane number of gun massacres plaguing the country, a ...read more

Here's a thought: in the wake of new horrific gun massacres destined to occur in the not so far future, Americans should try NOT praying to stop the violence. Yes, this might sound cruel and heartless, but the fact is, this has been the only solution America's political elite ...read more

Perverting the scriptures to fit your own warped worldview is not just for ISIS anymore, kids! Former Alaska Governor and current Putin-fluffer Sarah Palin is promoting her new book of biblical word salad by explaining to her vast Facebook audience of cat ladies and masturbating ...read more

In the wake of the ISIS attacks on Paris, the NRA reposted one of it's promo videos of TV host and Navy SEAL Marcus Lutrell, who apparently "has a message for Islamic extremists" who want to take his freedom. The NRA provided the following description of what can charitably be ...read more

“I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.” -Dorothy Dix There’s an eerily familiar sound of silence in the halls and walls of Congress. This lack of noise means ...read more

In an astonishingly rare moment of honesty Karl Rove announced that the only way to prevent gun violence in America would be to "repeal the Second Amendment". Speaking with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday in the wake of the Charleston shooting, the man known as "Bush's Brain" ...read more

In the wake of national tragedies there is always a battle in the media to attach a particular narrative to it. In the wake of the awful shooting in Charleston, South Carolina last night that saw nine African Americans shot in a church, you can bet that a huge frenzy of blame ...read more

When Mike Huckabee visited a shooting range in Johnston, Iowa on Monday, he was asked by an audience whether he thought the government should be able to limit 'what type of arms a person a law abiding person can purchase'. Huckabee gave a rather alarming answer: We should have ...read more

The Daily Banter's '[INSERT NAME] Shoots  [INSERT NAME(S)] Because Guns Are Awesome' series covers the unfathomable tragedy wrought upon on every day Americans because of their love of guns. Not exactly heartwarming stuff. So why do we do this? This simple answer is that we ...read more

At the risk of sounding pedantic, conservatives really do need to shut up about the mass shooting in France. Still a hot topic in the news, conservative commentators have been coming out in droves to a) demand a war on all Muslims, b) blame Obama, c) argue for more guns ...read more

According to gun enthusiasts and staunch defenders of the 2nd Amendment, the way to cut down gun crime is to have more guns. Except of course, it isn't. According to a study in the American Journal of Medicine, places with higher gun ownership rates also have higher ...read more

Vice President Joe Biden. By Beverly Bandler I sent a message to Vice President Joe Biden after reading an article by Josh Lederman in the Huffington Post, which quoted the Vice President as saying that: “the notion of registering guns crosses a cultural line, noting that ...read more

Logo of the National Rifle Association, the primary force in America’s powerful gun lobby. By Joe Lauria: The Second Amendment was written after a war in which a new nation without a standing army defeated the biggest standing army on the planet. To defend itself, the new ...read more

James Madison, architect of the U.S. Constitution and author of the Bill of Rights. By Robert Parry: The American Right is fond of putting itself inside the minds of America’s Founders and intuiting what was their “original intent” in writing the U.S. Constitution and its ...read more