Protesters rally against Starbucks gun policy
April 17, 2010
More than 20 people, including family members of victims the April 16, 2007 Virginia Tech shootings, stood on South Main Street Saturday to protest coffee giant Starbucks on its policy allowing the open and concealed carry of firearms.
Gun bill faces opposition ahead of vote
February 15, 2010
Blacksburg restaurant owners are lobbying against a bill that would allow permit holders to carry concealed weapons in establishments that serve alcohol.
Rational debate is still needed
December 3, 2009
Research universities pride themselves on making arguments and decisions based on logic, reason and facts.
Column: Treatment of gun advocates is intellectual bullying
April 24, 2009
Media snicker of the day: those crazy gun nuts, worried the government is out to snatch their constitutional rights along with their AK-47s. "60 Minutes" is the latest to have a chuckle, playing a commercial for a Washington, D.C.-area firearms show that
Background Check
February 4, 2009
Two family members of April 16 victims stand quietly outside the State Capitol in Richmond. They wear a single sheet of paper emblazoned with the faces of lives ended by gun violence -- Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln amongst them.