(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Violence Policy Center). For Immediate Release: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 Contact: Marty Langley, 202-822-8200 x109, mlangley@vpc.org Washington, DC–A Florida mass shooting that resulted in the murder of four women, an innocent 17-year-old gunned down by a 61-year-old man in a case of mistaken identity, [...]
There is a founding and governing principle that holds that civilian government controls the military, not the other way around. It was made crystal clear today when President Obama relieved Gen. Stanley McChrystal from overseeing the war in Afghanistan after the general made disrespectful and disparaging remarks in Rolling Stone magazine about the President, Vice [...]
(We are pleased to post the following op-ed from Josh Sugaramann, Executive Director of the Violence Policy Center. Mr. Sugarmann’s commentary was originally published in the Gazette Extra on June 12th). By Josh Sugarmann WASHINGTON — EDITOR’S NOTE: The writer is addressing the question, Does the open display of firearms at protest rallies threaten to [...]
(We are posting the following press release from the Violence Policy Center). These are actual pictures of the shooting as it occurred FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, June 11, 2010 CONTACT: Marty Langley, 202-822-8200 x109, mlangley@vpc.org At Least 65 Innocent People Have Been Killed in Recent Mass Shootings Involving Concealed Handgun Permit Holders Washington, DC–Gerardo Regalado, [...]
Advocacy and Community Spotlight New Yorkers Against Gun Violence’s Legislation Gains Momentum: Microstamping Legislation, Passed In Assembly, Now Voted Out Of Senate Committee. Click NYAGV’s page or the Coalition To Stop Gun Violence’s online resource, to learn more about microstamping; and see this New York Times editorial, “Albany’s Chance To Be Tough On Crime.” Arizona [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Violence Policy Center). FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, June 2, 2010 CONTACT: VPC Press Office, 202-822-8200 x110, press@vpc.org Washington, DC–States with higher gun ownership rates and weak gun laws have the highest rates of overall gun death according to a new analysis by the Violence [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Violence Policy Center). For Immediate Release: Thursday, May 27, 2010 Contact: Marty Langley, Violence Policy Center, 202-822-8200 x109, mlangley@vpc.org Washington, DC—Arrests for murder and a murder-suicide are among the new incidents involving concealed handgun permit holders detailed in the May update of Concealed Carry [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence). OHIO COALITION AGAINST GUN VIOLENCE For Immediate Release: May 14,2010 Contact: Toby Hoover: info@ohioceasefire.org Toledo, OH– The NRA’s homepage for its annual convention in Charlotte, NC on May 14-16th says it all (http://www.nraam.org/index.html) “Note: North Carolina State law prohibits [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Violence Policy Center). Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck Featured Speakers at NRA Convention Washington, D.C.–This weekend, Tea Party advocates Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck will be featured speakers at the National Rifle Association’s annual convention being held in Charlotte, NC. Palin will be speaking [...]
Gun Lobby Enabling Terrorism By Blocking Efforts to Close the ‘Terror Gap’ New York Times Editorial: The Gun Lobby’s Long Shadow. Congress, for example, is cowering before the gun lobby insistence that even terrorist suspects who are placed on the “no-fly list” must not be denied the right to buy and bear arms. Suspects on [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Violence Policy Center). For Immediate Release: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 Contact: Marty Langley, Violence Policy Center, 202-822-8200 x109, mlangley@vpc.org Washington, DC–Concealed handgun permit holders have killed at least nine law enforcement officers in addition to 152 private citizens (including 15 shooters who killed themselves [...]
(Photo from ‘open carry’ gun protest in Virginia, April 19th 2010) GunGuys.com Editorial It is deeply disturbing that gun proponents chose the solemn 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing to organize anti-government rallies and urge attendees to carry loaded handguns and assault rifles in public to demonstrate their anger at the Obama administration and [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus). For Immediate Release Contact: Andy Pelosi, 914-629-6726, andy@gunfreekids.org John Johnson, 319-389-7382, johnwjohnson@mchsi.com (April 15, 2010, New York) – Three years ago on April 16, 2007, Seung-Hui Cho, armed with two semiautomatic handguns and several hundred rounds of ammunition, [...]
According to Cleveland’s local Fox News Channel 8 on April 14th: CLEVELAND – Matthew Warmus, the man accused of shooting and killing a parking lot attendant over a parking spot Friday night, made his first court appearance Tuesday morning. Cleveland Police say Warmus shot parking lot attendant David Williams,27, three times, after the two got [...]
(We are pleased to post the following guest commentary from Josh Sugarmann, Executive Director of the Violence Policy Center. Mr. Sugarmann’s essay was originally posted on the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence’s “Insights” section on its website). March 10, 2010 Since its inception, the Violence Policy Center (VPC) has approached gun violence as a broad-based [...]
(We strongly urge you to read Josh Sugarmann’s new piece on the Huffington Post published on March 1st. Sugarmann is the Executive Director of the Violence Policy Center in Washington, DC.) Tomorrow “Sport Shooting Ambassador Award” winner Antonin Scalia will hear oral arguments in McDonald v. Chicago, a case that will decide whether the opinion [...]
(We are pleased to post the following column from Josh Sugarmann, Executive Director of the Violence Policy Center. Mr. Sugarmann’s piece was originally published on the Huffington Post on Feb. 12, 2010). Currently, visitors to national parks are allowed to possess guns only if they’re stored out of reach and unloaded. All this will change [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Violence Policy Center). For Immediate Release: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 Contact: Mandy Wimmer, Violence Policy Center, 202-822-8200 x110, mwimmer@vpc.org Washington, DC–Concealed handgun permit holders have killed at least nine law enforcement officers in addition to 108 private citizens (including 13 shooters who killed themselves [...]
In response to a story in the Wichita Eagle on Nov 27th about the Kansan carrying concealed weapons law going into affect three years ago, our colleague Josh Sugarmann, Executive Director of the Violence Policy Center penned the following op-ed in response. Wichita Eagle: Too soon to declare gun law a success By Josh Sugarmann [...]
(We are pleased to post the following guest commentary from our colleague, John Johnson, outreach coordinator for the Campaign To Keep Guns Off Campus, about the gun lobby’s agenda to force hidden and loaded handguns on Michigan’s college campues. Mr. Johnson’s essay was originally published in the Traverse City Record Eagle on Dec. 3rd). (Over [...]
(We are pleased to send you the following press release from our partners at the Violence Policy Center). November 17, 2009 Contact: Mandy Wimmer, Violence Policy Center, 202-822-8200 x110, mwimmer@vpc.org Scott Vogel, Freedom States Alliance, 312-243-8980, scott@freedomstatesalliance.org Washington, DC–Concealed handgun permit holders killed eight law enforcement officers and 77 private citizens (including 10 shooters who [...]
Freedom States Alliance Press Release Contact: Scott Vogel (312) 243-8980, scott@freedomstatesalliance.org November 6, 2009 Shooting Shows Why Sen. Burr’s (NC) Amendment To Allow Veterans Suffering From Mental Illness Easy Access To Guns Is Dangerous and Deeply Flawed (Chicago) – Not even soldiers on an American military base such as Fort Hood are immune from the [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release on behalf of national gun violence prevention organizations, including the Freedom States Alliance). For Immediate Release: Monday, July 13, 2009 Contacts: Scott Vogel, scott@freedomstatesalliance.org Peter Hamm, Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, 202-898-0792, phamm@bradymail.org or Ladd Everitt, Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, 202-701-7171, leveritt@csgv.org Washington, DC–America’s [...]
BuzzFlash.com wrote an exceptional piece on June 16th about the gun lobby’s stranglehold over our government — it is a must read. A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSISby Christine Bowman Back during the primary election season, Democrats vilified “lobbyists” as the enemies of the people. No self-respecting Democratic candidate was going to let the unscrupulous K-Street lobbyists [...]
With the Senate’s vote earlier this week to regulate tobacco, a giant step has been made towards better regulating tobacco for health and safety standards. If as anticipated the House approves the updated version and President Obama signs it, we will all have much to celebrate as countless lives and healthcare dollars will be saved. [...]
Josh Sugarmann, Executive Director of the Violence Policy Center wrote the following op-ed in the Washington Post on Sunday, Apr. 19th.
(New York Times: Soldiers guarded a display of weapons seized in an operation against the Gulf cartel, which operates in Mexico City. Mexico is desperate for the United States to do more to stop the steady flow of weapons over the border. In the last six months, federal agents have begun stopping cars they have [...]
Josh Sugarmann, the Executive Director of the Violence Policy Center, wrote a new blog entry on the Huffington Post. According to National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre, gun owners are uniting in “political spontaneous combustion.” Ouch. In the most recent edition of the NRA’s America’s 1st Freedom magazine, LaPierre cites a “tsunami of [...]
U.S. News & World Report wrote on Jan. 30th that NRA board member, Ted Nugent, is campaigning to become the organization’s next president as a celebrity spokesman in the mold of Charlton Heston. Nugent said that he: Stands ready to battle the antigunners in Washington. “Clearly, the NRA is the ultimate ‘we the people,’ family, [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release and new study from the Violence Policy Center). FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, January 26, 2009 CONTACT: Mandy Wimmer, Communications Associate, mwimmer@vpc.org STATE’S BLACK HOMICIDE RATE OF 36.86 PER 100,000 IS NEARLY SEVEN TIMES NATIONAL OVERALL HOMICIDE RATE OF 5.38 PER 100,000 Washington, DC–Pennsylvania leads the nation [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Violence Policy Center). WASHINGTON, DC–For the second year in a row, Nevada, with a rate of 3.27 per 100,000, ranked first in the nation in the rate of women killed by men according to the Violence Policy Center (VPC) report When Men Murder Women: [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Violence Policy Center). Washington, DC–The U.S. House of Representatives today passed a National Rifle Association-backed bill sponsored by Representative Travis Childers (D-MS) that would virtually wipe out any regulation of guns by the District of Columbia, endangering citizens, visitors, and public officials while adversely [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Violence Policy Center). Third Edition of Violence Policy Center Study “American Roulette” Estimates That Nine Murder-Suicides Occur Each Week in U.S., Vast Majority with Guns [Download and print full report here]. WASHINGTON, DC–At least 554 Americans died in murder-suicides during the first six months [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Violence Policy Center). Suspected Rifles May Include ‘Youth’ Rifles for Children Thursday, April 3, 2008 CONTACT: Mandy Wimmer, Violence Policy Center, mwimmer@vpc.org Andy Pelosi, GunFreeKids.org, andy@gunfreekids.org Washington, DC–According to an “Urgent Notice†for gun dealers issued by firearms distributor Sports South, Inc., Brooklyn rifle [...]
An op-ed in the Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale, FL, that was published on October 29, 2001 by Kristen Rand, the legislative director for the Violence Policy Center, stated convincingly that armed pilots is simply a horrible idea. As you’ll see below, in addition to Ms. Rand’s argument that guns in the cockpit could be taken [...]
(A fact sheet from the Violence Police Center argues that armed airline pilots would put air travelers at risk): The close quarters of an airliner make the proposal to arm airline pilots with firearms even more hazardous than arming teachers, as some urged following the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School. The arguments against arming [...]
(We are pleased to post this press release from the Violence Police Center). FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 STATE’S BLACK HOMICIDE RATE OF 32.79 PER 100,000 IS SIX TIMES NATIONAL OVERALL HOMICIDE RATE OF 5.10 PER 100,000 Washington, DC–Missouri leads the nation in the rate of black homicide victimization according to a new [...]
(We are pleased to re-post this column by Josh Sugarmann from December 20, 2007, who writes a blog for the Huffington Post. Sugarmann also serves as the Executive Director of the Violence Policy Center, a think tank in D.C. that conducts research on the gun industry). Last night Congress passed the “NICS Improvement Act,” a [...]
In just today’s Dec. 13th 2007 “Shooting Gallery” alone, we posted three different stories about murder-suicides in Texas, Arizona, and California. These grisly killings are most often perpetuated by men, though not always. Men seek to kill their estranged wives, girlfriends or partners for a host of reasons: a continuation of domestic abuse, a breakup [...]
We strongly urge you to read a truly phenomenal story in Portfolio.com, “Money, Guns & God” about Justin Moon who started and currently runs Kahr Arms, a gun manufacturer that makes some of the most lethal handguns in the world and are often called “pocket rockets.” If you don’t have time to read this exceptional [...]
“More gun control dangerous” said an editorial from “Red & Black”, the student paper of the University of Georgia written by Matt Brandenburgh. Really? Gun control is what is so dangerous? Not our heavily armed society with gaping loose gun laws and loopholes, but “gun control” is the danger? The fact that virtually anybody can [...]
A new report from the Violence Policy Center shows a dramatic drop in the number of American gun dealers. As you’ll see below, this is very good news, and certainly a small “victory” by reducing the sources of weapons that are bleeding America. California Leads Nation in Decrease (-89%), Followed by Hawaii, (-88%) Massachusetts (-88%), [...]
The Violence Policy Center released a “first-of-its kind national analysis of drive-by shootings” called “Drive-By America.” Findings of the study include: During the six-month period covered in the report, 549 drive-by shooting incidents were reported, claiming 156 lives and injuring 465 individuals. California led the nation in the number of drive-by shootings with 115 shootings, [...]
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