This week’s MOMochat Podcast Looks at Where We Are After Parkland

How Political Pessimism Helps Doom Tougher Gun Laws

It’s predictable after every new mass-shooting horror: The political right’s reflexive call for “thoughts and prayers,” which is then mocked by people who favor more gun restrictions for lacking any accompanying ideas for preventing future killings. But there’s an...
Guns Won’t Save Us From Tyranny – Tyranny is Here

Guns Won’t Save Us From Tyranny – Tyranny is Here

All of you worshipers of the Holy Second Amendment preach that you need unbridled access to military style guns because of some nebulous future in which your arsenal will protect you from a tyrant who has the full backing of the world’s largest military. Wake...
Responsible Gun Owner Shoots Self While Shooting Selfie

Responsible Gun Owner Shoots Self While Shooting Selfie

Another sad tale in the ongoing saga of responsible gun owners everywhere. I mean that — it is sad, particularly since the gun and the ego interacted for a tragic result. A man posing with a gun and taking selfies was killed when the gun went off and struck him...
Why This Mom Wants Common Sense Gun Legislation

Why This Mom Wants Common Sense Gun Legislation

Gun nuts, Teapublicans, and dim witted paranoids look at moms like me and angrily accuse us of being out of touch with reality.  They laugh at me and dismiss me as a naïve, tree hugging liberal who is asking for trouble because I don’t own a gun and I put myself out...