Content on Guns:

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.