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 [...]
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 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 [...]
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart posted a must-see video on April 12th, about the “open carry” handgun movement, including an interview with Paul Helmke, the President of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. WATCH DAILY SHOW VIDEO The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Open Carrier Discrimination www.thedailyshow.com [...]
Chicago’s local Fox News affiliate interviewed a trauma surgeon, Dr. Marie Crandall of Northwestern Hospital, about the human and immense financial costs of gun violence. In addition, Dr. Crandall, representing the Illinois Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence (ICPGV), urged state lawmakers to enact legislation to require background checks on all gun sales. (See the Illinois [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence). BRADY CAMPAIGN TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE For Immediate Release: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 Contact: Peter Hamm, 202-289-5792 Washington, D.C. – The Starbucks Coffee Company allows customers to carry guns, yet prohibits employees from having weapons in Starbucks stores. [...]
(Use this link to purchase your copy today from Amazon.com and support the Freedom States Alliance. When shopping online at Amazon.com, up to 5% will be donated back to our efforts to save lives from gun violence). Freedom States Alliance communications director, Scott Vogel, interviewed Dennis Henigan, author of a vitally important and new book, [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Violence). For Immediate Release Friday, November 6, 2009 Contact: Peter Hamm, 202-898-0792 Washington, D.C. – Four and a half years ago, three police organizations in the United States issued advisories to warn officers that a new handgun introduced into [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and our Freedom States Alliance affiliate, the Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort). For Immediate Release Friday, August 7, 2009 Contact: Peter Hamm, 202-898-0792, phamm@bradymail.org Jeri Bonavia, Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort, 414-351-9283, jmbwave@aol.com Washington, D.C. – Eric Thompson, the arms dealer from [...]
(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 [...]
(See the Wall Street Journal’s July 8th report, An Uphill Fight for the Right to Carry Guns on Campus). PRESS RELEASE Students for Gun-Free Schools Joined By: Freedom States Alliance Gun Free Kids.org Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Violence Protest Easy Guns.com Coalition To Stop Gun Violence For Immediate Release Wednesday, July 8, 2009 Contacts: [...]
(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 Woods 703-801-2625, john.o.woods@gmail.com Marsha McCartney 214-802-6053 Campaign To Keep Guns Off Campus Shows Strong Momentum As Over 90 Universities Oppose Gun Lobby’s Radical Agenda (Austin, TX, June 2, 2009) [...]
Dorothy Samuels wrote an exceptional and must-read editorial in the New York Times on May 9th, “The Deadly Myth of Gun Control in Electoral Politics.” In politics, conventional wisdom can be slow to die, even when the so-called wisdom is neither true nor wise. So I was reminded on a recent visit to Capitol Hill, [...]
(Image from Stop Gun Violence, based in Massachusetts). [The following press statement was released by U.S. Senators Frank Lautenberg (NJ), Jack Reed (RI), and Dianne Feinstein (CA). See fact sheet below]. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, April 21, 2009 CONTACT: Lautenberg Press Office (202) 224-3224 Reed Press Office (202) 224-4642 Feinstein Press Office (202) 224-3841 WASHINGTON, [...]
It is hard not to become deeply cynical and suspicious when the legislative director of a union, who is also the key lobbyist for the gun lobby, gives $3,000 to an African-American state representative who votes “present” — in effect, opposing a crucial bill to require a common sense background check on all handgun sales. [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence). For Immediate Release Thursday, March 12, 2009 Washington, D.C. – A federal appeals court has ruled that the Georgia Legislature can’t force Atlanta’s Hartsfield International Airport to allow people to carry concealed weapons on airport property. The United [...]
An article from the Indianapolis Star by Jon Murray on Jan. 19th reported a huge victory for gun violence prevention advocates, and the residents of Gary, Indiana, as the last and final lawsuit against the gun industry can now proceed to trial. As advocates and the city of Gary seek to hold the gun industry [...]
On Dec. 23rd, BuzzFlash.com conducted an in-depth interview with Scott Vogel, Communications Director for Freedom States Alliance, about the election of Barack Obama, the overwhelming victory over the gun lobby across the country, and what the future holds for the issue. Freedom States Alliance works directly with a network of seven state-based gun violence prevention [...]
(Photo by David Molnar / The Republican. As his father, Sean Connery snaps a photograph, left, Devin Connery of Lunenburg, fires a Heckler & Koch Universal Machine-Pistol at the Machine Gun Shoot and Firearms Expo sponsored by the Westfield Sportsman Club and C.O.P. Firearms and Training on Sunday. Later in the day, an 8-year-old boy, [...]
The New York Times wrote a scathing editorial against the gun lobby on Dec. 2nd: The gun lobby has long intimidated politicians with its war chest and its trumpeted ability to deliver single-issue voters, especially in tight races. After this year’s election, those politicians should be far less afraid and far more willing to vote [...]
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