Guns

PIERRE - South Dakota's Secretary of State Jason Gant says he has seen a "significant increase" in the number of requests for permits to carry a concealed weapon in recent months.

Returning South Dakota to the Old West. Good Idea?

PASADENA, Calif. - If there's any soul-searching among top television executives about onscreen violence contributing to real-life tragedies like the Connecticut school shooting, it isn't readily apparent.

A web movement called "Demand a Plan" is a grassroots effort to get people involved to encourage President Obama and Congress to step up with a plan to end gun violence.

Did this woman do the right thing? What would you have done?

Would you be in favor of your kids teachers packing heat?

Wayne LaPierre, the executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, read a statement Friday morning in reaction to last week’s shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut. He called for installing armed guards in schools to prevent future gun violence against students. On the surface it sounds almost reasonable once you talk it out, but does it stop at schools?

Carol Costello, a "reporter" for CNN, made an inaccurate statement. If CNN, the Cable News Network, wants to be taken as a factual, accurate, and serious source for information, they need to clean up their language

If I every buy a gun, it will be locked up in one place, ammunition in another. I will be more watchful of family and friends who seem to be struggling with the small and big stresses of life. My life has not and will not revolve around the trite, trivial, and trendy.

The deadly school shooting in Connecticut has prompted a South Dakota legislator to begin drafting a bill that would allow teachers, administrators and even janitors with concealed weapons permits to bring their guns to school.