Politics

A U.S. congressman from Minnesota said that anonymous threats have been coming to his office from opponents of gun control, reported Think Progress.

Rachel Maddow said on her Friday night show that Obama's first term taught the president some tough lessons on partisanship and pushing his agenda.

During the last segment of Bill Maher's show on Friday, he criticized both gun owners and liberals who appeared not to care that the majority of our civil liberties have been compromised as they duke it out over gun control.

Bill Maher started off his first show on Friday since his hiatus with a discussion on gun control, which Maher believes is politically doomed.

Actor Danny Glover said that the Second Amendment was written to strengthen the institution of slavery and help take Native American land, in a discussion with Texas A&M students on Jan. 17, according to video of the talk posted by a conservative student group.

Radio host Rush Limbaugh defended on Friday previous comments that he made that claimed President Obama used children as "human shields" during his gun control announcement.

Virginia state house delegate Joe Morrissey (D) raised eyebrows on Thursday when he brought an assault rifle and other weapons to an afternoon press conference at the state capitol. According to Richmond, VA's CBS Channel 6, Morrissey was displaying an AK-47 rifle and a brace of other weapons he would like to see banned in the state.

American Family Association (AFA) spokesperson Bryan Fischer accused President Barack Obama and his party on Friday of portraying not just National Rifle Association members, but Second Amendment supporters, as insane.

National Rifle Association President David Keene is accusing President Barack Obama and "the left" of stoking fears to generate "hundreds" of death threats against him and his family.

Thursday night on "The Rachel Maddow Show," host Rachel Maddow discussed the re-opening of Women's Health Care Services in Wichita, Kansas, the former clinic of slain physician Dr. George Tiller. Tiller was shot and killed by an anti-abortion extremist on May 31, 2009 in the foyer of his family church. Prior to his death, Women's Health Care Services was one of three clinics in the entire U.S. that offered late-term abortions.

A bank in the small Texas town of Chappell Hill is inviting customers to bring in concealed handguns because it has been robbed five times, "all of them by Yankees."

A prosecutor in Lapeer, Michigan says, "No harm, no foul," after a charter school took the National Rifle Association's (NRA) advice and hired a armed security guard who promptly left his handgun unattended in a student bathroom.