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Crikey readers weigh in on the issues of the day.

Crikey readers have their say on the biggest stories of the week.

Peta Credlin is back in print today — Liberal plot or media scoop? Our cops are getting fat on Big Macs, with big discounts. Rundle on the Republicans’ latest plan to fix US debt. Why Lord Monckton is heading back to Australia. And the media axe swings in overseas bureaux.

As the number of guns in Australia reduced, so too did gun violence. Labor MP Kelvin Thomson implores the US Congress and Senate to look to our experience.

The school shootings in Connecticut have revived a stalled debate on gun control. But history is against any meaningful action to limit gun ownership.

Ah, it’s a presidential election in the offing and a man’s (or woman’s) fancy turns not to spring, love and all that, but to their guns and whether they should have one, or whether they have enough.

Barack Obama’s approach to the gun control debate deliberately seeks to draw fire from both sides. His suggestion of a consensus strategy may actually prove successful on some fronts, writes Dennis A. Henigan.

America will have to confront some of its own demons before its citizens will lessen their devotion to their guns.

One of the most violent countries in the first world — with almost as many guns as people — has taken another step away from gun control. Harley Dennett reports from Washington DC on the Supreme Court decision.

America’s bullet-makers are working round the clock to feed gun nuts’ appetite for ammunition, but they just can’t keep up with the increased demand since Obama took office. Wonderful.

Right wing militia groups, like those responsible for Waco and the Oklahoma bombings, are growing in the US. With increasing public discontent at the government, the rise is even more alarming.

Regarding Monday’s commentary on The Sydney Morning Herald’s rapidly dwindling world coverage, it’s worth noting the reduced SMH presence in London in the past few weeks, says one Crikey tipster.

The GOP is a party disappearing up its own fundamentalism, writes Clive Hamilton.

The Lacey affair has placed Queensland’s criminal justice system under a considerable strain. But somehow the Courier-Mail has taken only a passing interest.

It’s a decade since the Columbine High School shootings, but the truth about the teen gunmen is only now coming out.

In the last four weeks alone, six mass shootings have killed 47 people in the United States.

After almost 12 months of legal wrangling, the Liberal Democratic Party has been registered with the Australian Electoral Commission, writes Alex Mitchell.