The Arkansas Democratic Party notes that the Arkansas Legislative Council refused on voice votes today to even study the potential value of a couple of modest gun-safety measures.
The Arkansas chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America is touting a successful legislative session. No new gun safety legislation was adopted, but they played successful defense on some bad proposals.
Rep. Denise Garner (D-Fayetteville), who defeated Republican Rep. Charlie Collins in part because his passage of the law that forced colleges to allow concealed weapons on campus, has filed three gun safety bills, including one to roll back the Collins legislation.
The mass shooting in California last week produced the usual outpouring of thoughts on gun violence and gun safety. Thanks to Facebook, I ran across relevant commentary from an Arkansas native with ample gun experience. He's concluded the safest home is a home without a gun.
More guns make you safer? Here's a report from Think Progress quoting Colorado authorities about how the number of people with guns complicated the search for the man who killed three in a random shooting in Walmart.
The Guardian takes a look at gun control in a way that turned up a couple of Little Rock angles. The city's murder rate is higher than Chicago and it has a Republican congressman who's at least willing to talk about measures to address crime.
The gun lobby has so cowed the American body politic that it has become unacceptable to talk about gun control in the hours after the latest episode of mass gun carnage.But some persist.