Second Amendment

Updated 1:56 p.m. Dec. 20 with information about background checks in IllinoisIt’s perhaps counter intuitive, but when acts of violence shake the nation,…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Aug. 23, 2012 - Over his years in public office, Todd Akin, the embattled Republican nominee for the…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, June 29, 2010 - Justice John Paul Stevens delivered a valedictory dissent Monday extolling the…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Feb. 15, 2010 - On March 2, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in an Illinois gun case that…