No professional group in America has a more direct interest in gun control than police officers. No labor group in America is more consistently despicable than police unions. There is an opportunity here.

Speaking at an African Methodist Episcopal church in Philadelphia Friday evening, Hillary Clinton vowed to strengthen bonds between communities and cops and create national guidelines to do so.

On Friday, Capitol Hill police arrested Uber driver Kyler Schmitz over a series of tweets he allegedly sent Missouri Senator Roy Blunt in the wake the Orlando shooting, including a promise to shoot Blunt “in the head” for “allowing someone to murder my loved ones,” NBC News reports.

Last night, House Democrats made history as they staged a sit-in meant to pressure Republicans into voting on a stupid, inherently racist gun control bill. And since Speaker Paul Ryan unplugged C-SPAN’s cameras, the world was forced to look on through the fuzzy lens of Periscope and its thousands of hellish, very possibly drunk commenters. It was a masterpiece.

Early Thursday morning, Democratic Representative Debbie Dingell took the podium at the House sit-in to make an impassioned call for new gun control measures, drawing on her own experience as a child terrorized by the threat of gun violence.

After Paul Ryan tried to conduct regular House business during the sit-in for new gun control measures Wednesday night, Texas congressman and GOP thought leader Louie Gohmert offered a pointed critique of his Democratic colleagues’ demands, repeatedly shouting, “Radical Islam!”

As Democrats continued their congressional sit-in demanding new gun control measures, Speaker Paul Ryan took the chair and tried to conduct unrelated House business Wednesday night, finding himself nearly drowned out by chants of “No Bill, No Break!”

After Democrats in the Senate staged a filibuster in support of gun control measures, their colleagues in the House have begun a “sit-in” aimed at embarrassing Republicans into allowing a vote on a measure that would restrict the ability of suspected terrorists to legally buy guns. The move is fantastic political theater. It’s also a tremendous waste of popular support and activist energy in support of a measure that isn’t just ineffective but also actively offensive.

Just a week after Senate Democrats filibustered for new gun control measures, the Democrats of the House have decided to get in on the fun. This time, with a good old-fashioned sit-in.

On Monday, the U.S. Senate rejected four gun control proposals introduced in the wake of last week’s deadly Orlando shooting, voting roughly along party lines against two measures sponsored by Democrats and two competing measures sponsored by Republicans, The Guardian reports.

On Friday, Donald Trump publicly imagined a scenario in which armed bar-goers stopped the Orlando shooter by firing back at him in the darkened club, successfully making a pro-gun argument too stupid for even the NRA to defend.

A filibuster led by Democratic senators demanding new gun control measures in the wake of this weekend’s deadly shooting in Orlando continued past the 13-hour mark Wednesday evening, making it one of the longest such actions in modern Senate history.

Monday night, the National Rifle Association finally broke its silence on the attack that killed 49 people at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub this weekend, predictably blaming the deadliest mass shooting in American history on everything other than our nation’s lax gun control laws.

In 1962, the Pentagon had a pickle on its hands: America wanted to give South Vietnam guns with which to kill its Communist brothers and sisters in North Vietnam, but we couldn’t figure out which guns. The answer became as clear 50 years ago as it is today: The AR-15 is an incredibly good tool for killing lots of other humans.

While Orlando police and the FBI are working to piece together what actually motivated Omar Mateen to murder 50 people and injure 53 more at a gay nightclub in Orlando this morning, Fox News has apparently already solved the puzzle. So why was Mateen able to slaughter a room full of innocent people with a deadly assault rifle? According to Fox News commentator Sebastian Gorka, it’s all thanks to President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and political correctness.

Well, boy, hoo... this is embarrassing, but the Orange County Sheriff’s Department just lost an AR-15 rifle. Have you seen it? It looks just like the one up there. Uh, if you find it, could you give it back? Listen, I know this looks bad, but do me a solid here. They put it on top of their car and then drove off. I guess it fell. Anyone?

President Obama is currently starting one last effort for gun control, in his final year in office. Sometime in the next two weeks, he is expected announce an executive order to require more small gun sellers to do background checks, and he plans to pitch that idea and other gun-control measures to the American public at a CNN-televised town hall Thursday.

Tea Party Republican and Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore, a lunatic, made headlines last week when she sent out her family’s gun-themed Christmas card. Audio from a newly surfaced radio segment shows Fiore admitting that she would like to use those guns to shoot Syrian refugees “in the head.”

Liberty University’s president decided that an arena full of people whose frontal lobes have not yet finished developing was the perfect place to denounce Islam and promote carrying dangerous weapons, all in the same breath.

As the number of mass shootings in 2015 continues to climb and, by some counts even outpaces the number of days so far in the year, The New York Times issued a desperate plea for an end to the violence brought on by too-lax gun control laws in the U.S.