Category: Gun control

Minneapolis General Strike as Federal Agents Murder Another Person

By: Dan La BotzJanuary 26, 2026

The events in Minneapolis confirm that we now live in the grip, the death grip, of an authoritarian government, but also that there is a powerful, popular resistance. We are in a struggle for justice, for democracy, and for our lives. And that struggle goes on, most intensely in Minneapolis, but also everywhere else in the country. And the end is not in sight.

Ruger and the Far-Right NRA

By: Stanley HellerMay 6, 2021

Ruger and the NRA seem to be joined at the hip. Ruger’s goal is to sell guns and make money. Fear of crime sells guns. Fear of a “gun-grabbing government” sells guns. The NRA creates the hysteria. Ruger rakes in the cash.

As American Life Returns to Normal, Mass Shootings Resume

By: Dan La BotzApril 6, 2021

Most Americans, 60%, now favor stricter gun control laws, up by almost ten percent from a few years ago. Yet the U.S. government has proven unable to do anything about this problem. Why is that?

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