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Congress Blocks Gun Violence Research
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In the midst of President Obama’s denunciation of gun violence – if you’ve lost track, the latest massacre was Oct. 1 – he lamented Washington’s ongoing inertia and said that, in fact, “we have a Congress that explicitly blocks us from even collecting data on how we could potentially prevent gun deaths.” |
Los Angeles Gun Tax Under Consideration By City Hall
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Buy a gun in Los Angeles, pay an extra fee?
Two Los Angeles lawmakers want to explore taxing handguns and ammunition sales in a bid to reduce gun violence.
Los Angeles City Councilmen Paul Koretz and Paul Krekorian last week submitted a motion asking for a report on the proposal, which Koretz estimates could bring about $1 million a year. |
Keefe Report: “Don't Let Them Register Your Guns, Mate”
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As politicians thrash around for "doing something” about deranged, dejected homicidal narcissists, many have settled on the Australian model of gun control. But few Americans understand what that really means. In 1996 one of the most horrific mass murders perpetrated by a single deranged individual occurred at Port Arthur in Tasmania. Within weeks, then Prime Minister John Howard railroaded through a Draconian gun-control bill. |
Why I Quit the NRA after Newtown
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I am a mother, a wife, a nurse and a gun owner. I made the decision to obtain a handgun and concealed-carry permit after a frightening experience with two drug-seeking individuals.
These desperate folks made bad choices and incorrect assumptions and, although it turned out OK, the potential for a horrible outcome haunts me. |
Differing Media Opinions Underscore Difficulty of Gun Issue
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Two opinions published over the past 24 hours, one at the Huffington Post and the other by the Washington Post and Oregon.Live, underscore the difficulty of pinning down a solution to the “gun violence problem,” and KIRO radio’s Dave Ross has yet another suggestion about keeping guns out of the wrong hands. |
MI: Rep. Lawrence Proposes Congressional Black Caucus Gun Violence Task Force
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In the wake of two more deadly college campus shootings Friday, Rep. Brenda Lawrence (MI-14) has proposed the formation of the Congressional Black Caucus Task Force to End Gun Violence.
Members who have said they would join in the task force include, but are not limited to, Reps. Donna F. Edwards (MD-04), Sheila Jackson Lee (TX-18), Robin Kelly (D-02), and Donald Payne, Jr. (NJ-10). The task force is being proposed in response to the ongoing epidemic of mass shootings and firearms-related deaths in America. |
Obama Considering Executive Order Mandating Gun Background Checks
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Capitalizing on the October 1 shootings at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, that resulted in the deaths of 10 people, President Obama has tasked his aides with exploring how he can circumventing Congress by using his executive authority to impose new background-check requirements for buyers who purchase weapons from so-called high-volume gun dealers.
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IA: Gun show vendors and Politicians Talk Gun Control
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Vendors at a gun show over the weekend shared their views on the topic of gun control and its role in the 2016 presidential election.
Just days after a political campaign removed signs outside a Council Bluffs business advertising a gun show Sunday.
Gun enthusiasts and vendors were there and talking about this election and what it means about gun rights in America. |
Minnesota Dentist Won't Be Charged in Lion Killing
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Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer became the subject of public outrage after killing the beloved Cecil the Lion this July, and Zimbabwe's environment minister announced Monday he won’t be charged and Zimbabwe officials are no longer calling for his extradition.
He can now return to Zimbabwe as a "tourist" because he had not broken any of the country's hunting laws, Environment, Water and Climate Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri said, the Associated Press reported. Zimbabwe's police and the National Prosecuting Authority had cleared Palmer of wrongdoing, she said. |
The Politics of Failure- Politicians Find Someone to Blame for Failed Gun Control
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Gun control failed again, and more innocents died. Now, anti-gun politicians need someone to blame.
The media didn't tell you universal background checks failed. Gun-free zones failed. Even mandatory reporting of mental illness failed to stop recent public violence. Time and again we see innocents murdered in gun-free paradise.
Politicians need someone to blame for their failed policy. Honest gun owners and the NRA are the chosen scapegoats. |
MI: Ann Arbor superintendent to testify against bill allowing concealed guns in school
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Ann Arbor Public Schools Superintendent Jeanice Swift will testify against a bill that would allow concealed guns in schools.
Sen. Mike Green, R-Mayville, introduced legislation that would prevent open carry in schools, but allow concealed pistol license holders to get an endorsement that allows them to carry concealed weapons.
Legislators will review the bill Tuesday, Oct. 13, in the Senate Judiciary Committee, and from there it could move onto the Senate floor.
In March, a man openly carried a gun into Pioneer High School, prompting the Board of Education to create policies that ban guns from school buildings.
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MI: Trooper Kills Man Who Wounded Deputy With Crossbow
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A 40-year-old Michigan man who wounded a sheriff's deputy with a crossbow arrow was then shot and killed by a state trooper.
The trooper and a Montcalm County deputy were both shot at with the crossbow while serving an arrest warrant Friday night at the man's Cato Township home, state police Lt. Kevin Sweeney told The Associated Press Saturday. |
Remember The 2007 Harvard Study Showing More Guns Led To Less Crime?
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Gun control is back in the news after the recent Oregon college shooting with President Obama considering executive action on gun background checks. Predictably the President is pushing what he describes as “common sense” laws, although without specifically saying what such laws would be. The premise of the left is that there are too many guns out there and more guns means more mass shootings. |
What Caused the Two-Decade Dip in Crime Rates? Not ‘Good Guys with Guns.’
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In the aftermath of the Oregon college shooting that left 10 people dead and nine more injured, conservative politicians and pundits offered their familiar prescription for halting mass shootings: even more guns: “If you had a couple of the teachers or somebody with guns in that room, you would’ve been a hell of a lot better off,” said GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump. Ted Nugent, an NRA board member, went event further, saying that just about every member of our populace should carry a concealed weapon. “Disarmed and helpless is an irresponsible, suicidal choice that will get you killed. Defend yourself.” |
Data Confirm Escalating Gun Violence Problem
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If your gut tells you that mass public shootings are alarmingly common, your gut’s right.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation defines a mass murder as four or more deaths during a single incident with no distinct time period between killings. By this definition, according to Northeastern University criminologist James Alan Fox, between 1980 and 2010 there were an average of 20 mass murders per year, or an average of one every 2.6 weeks.
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What The US Can Learn From Australia About Gun Control
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President Obama is considering using executive action to enact heightened background-check requirements for gun sales, the Washington Post reported last week.
The suggested plan would make gun dealers who sell more than a certain amount guns a year legally licensed dealers, who would then have to comply with background checks for purchasers.
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More Guns Doesn't Reduce Gun Violence
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Allow me to begin this article by offering my condolences to the families affected by the mind-numbing events of the past two weeks on the campuses of Umpqua Community College, Northern Arizona University and Texas Southern University.
These shootings have once again sparked the national debate on gun control. As both sides are deeply entrenched in their views, we need to examine what policies are most effective at reducing gun violence while at the same time preserving our individual rights to bear arms.
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Realism vs. Utopianism In The Gun Debate
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After an atrocity like the shootings at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, what’s needed is hard-headed realism, not pie-in-the-sky utopianism. Unfortunately we always get more of the latter than the former.
That a person could walk into a roomful of innocent people, open fire, and kill in cold blood is beyond almost anyone’s imagination. We naturally wonder what “causes” someone to do that and what could prevent it. But the search for solutions soon reaches a fork in the road: one branch represents logical thinking, the other mere wishful “thinking” with no rational connection to the problem at hand
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US Senate Democrats Prepare Legislation to Thwart Gun Violence
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In his emotional speech last week after the mass shooting in Oregon, he all but conceded that the National Rifle Association has, sadly, stymied his repeated attempts to persuade Congress to eliminate mass shootings through “common sense” legislation to reform America’s generations-old gun-crazy society. The gunman killed nine before killing himself. Under the proposed change, dealers exceeding a certain number of sales each year will reportedly have to obtain a license from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and conduct background checks on potential buyers. These retailers would then be subject to the same laws regarding background checks which apply to current gun dealers.
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Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey Says Christians Should Get Guns
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The Bill of Rights, the idyllic title assigned to the first 10 Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, is what most Americans lean on when it comes to truly defining what it means to be an American. Of these first 10 Amendments, however, most Americans could probably only name three. The three most talked about amendments being the First Amendment (the freedom of speech and religion, etc.), the Second Amendment (the right to bear arms…), and the Fifth Amendment (what gangsters plead when they’re on the witness stand in movies). |
CA: Sonoma County Congressman Pushes for Background Check Reform
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Rep. Mike Thompson ramped up support for his bipartisan firearms background check bill to curb tragedies like Oregon’s recent college shooting.
The Northern California Democratic congressman, whose district includes Santa Rosa Junior College, co-wrote the Public Safety and Second Amendment Protection Act of 2015 with GOP Rep. Peter King. Co-sponsorship has grown to 183 House members since the Umpqua massacre. |
IL: Activists Ask Skokie for Stronger Support Against Gun Shop Planned for Niles
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People For a Safer Society, a local anti-gun advocacy group, is urging Skokie to take a stronger position to support the group's legal fight to keep a planned gun shop and range from opening in nearby Niles.
The Niles Village Board last year approved a special use permit that would pave the way for Sportsman's Club and Firearms Training to open at 6143 Howard St. The board subsequently approved an extension for the special use permit to allow the facility to be built by the company 6143 Howard Partners. |
A Purse Is No Place for a Gun
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In New York last month the glitterati descended on Manhattan for its annual Fashion Week. A week later in Fayetteville, North Carolina, some highly specialized designs were showcased on a much smaller runway.
A women’s shooting group called the Gun Powder Gals hosted a fashion show at a local VFW post that featured bra holsters, corset holsters, and thigh holsters. Such fashion shows have recently popped up in other states, seemingly in response to a reported spike in women buying guns for self-defense and sport.
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Politicians Exploit School Shootings
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Following the recent Oregon school shooting, many politicians rushed to the microphones to call for new gun control laws. President Obama even called on gun control supporters to “politicize” the shooting, while some members of Congress worked to establish a special commission on gun violence. |
OH: Ashtabula Man Shot in Groin at Akron Strip Club
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An Ashtabula man was shot in the groin early Saturday outside a strip club that's become the site of numerous incidents of violence during the past three years.
Akron police are investigating what led up to the 5 a.m. shooting outside the Ace of Spades strip club in the 2500 block of Romig Road. A van parked nearby had its tires and back window shot out, according to police. |
MI: Concealed guns in schools? Bill gets hearing this week
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A bill that would trade open carry weapons for concealed weapons in areas like schools and day care centers is up for a hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee this week.
Right now in Michigan, concealed pistol license holders can openly carry weapons in areas that are off-limits to concealed weapons, like schools, day care centers, sports arenas and bars.
Sen. Mike Green, R-Mayville, introduced legislation that's essentially a trade. It takes away open carry in those areas but allows CPL holders to get an endorsement that allows them to carry there.
Green has described his bill as a peace pipe designed to ease tensions between gun rights groups and school officials. |
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| By calling attention to a well-regulated militia for the security of the Nation, and the right of each citizen to keep and bear arms, our Founding Fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy. Although it is extremely unlikely that the fears of governmental tyranny, which gave rise to the second amendment, will ever be a major danger to our Nation, the amendment still remains an important declaration of our basic military-civilian relationships, in which every citizen must be ready to participate in the defense of the country. For that reason I believe the second amendment will always be important. --JOHN F. KENNEDY |
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