(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 (June 26, 2010, New York) – The University of Colorado (CU) Board of Regents voted yesterday to appeal its campus gun ban to the State Supreme Court. In April of [...]
According to the Associated Press on Feb. 24th: LITTLETON, Colo. — The gunman was walking through a middle school parking lot and taking shots at students with a hunting rifle as terrified teenagers ran for their lives. He had just wounded two students and seemed ready to unleash more violence when a math teacher named [...]
(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 Bills Fail In Michigan and 11 Other States in 2009. Colorado State University Bans Guns On Campus In December; Momentum Builds To Protect Universities and Student Safety [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from our partners, the Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus). (Over 90 colleges, universities and associations in 23 states have signed the resolution to keep guns off college campuses). For Immediate Release Contact: Andy Pelosi, 914-629-6726, andy@gunfreekids.org John Johnson, 319-389-7382, johnwjohnson@mchsi.com (December 4, 2009, New York) [...]
(Over 90 colleges, universities and associations in 23 states have signed the resolution to keep guns off college campuses). According to a breaking AP news brief on Dec. 4th: DENVER — Colorado State University’s Board of Governors has voted to ban all guns on campus, falling in line with nearly every major college nationwide in [...]
According to the Huffington Post on Oct. 12th: DENVER — In the first detailed public remarks by any parent of the two Columbine killers, Dylan Klebold’s mother says she had no idea her son was suicidal until she read his journals after the 1999 high school massacre. Susan Klebold’s essay in next month’s issue of [...]
Legislators in Montana are considering a bill that would clarify self defense laws and let people carry concealed weapons inside of city limits – even without a permit to do so. But some Democrats, on the losing side of a 58-42 preliminary vote, said the proposal is an unnecessary wedge issue driven by gun groups. [...]
An in-depth article from the Denver Post on March 28th offered insights into the mind of Matthew Murray who attacked two Colorado churches, killing 5 people, including himself after being wounded by a guard, and injuring 6 others. Jacinda Treadway was the last person to talk to Matthew Murray before he opened fire on parishioners [...]
An article from the Herald Sun noted: The man who killed four people at a church and a missionary training centre in Colorado died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said yesterday. Matthew Murray, 24, was shot several times by a security officer at New Life Church on Sunday, but his death was ruled a [...]
According to ABC News: The gunman who killed two teenage sisters Sunday inside a Colorado Springs church has been identified as Matthew Murray, ABC News has confirmed. Authorities have not said whether Murray, a 24-year-old from Englewood, Colo., who was killed by a security guard at the New Life Church after he fatally shot two [...]
How horrifying to see our fellow citizens killed by gunfire in random acts of firearm violence. And how disheartening to see the pundits and mainstream media each time avoiding the elephant in the room: the dominance of a gun culture and gun industry that prevents us as a nation from taking serious action to curb [...]
On top of a shooting that killed two people and injured two others at a faith-based shelter in Colorado, word comes that four people were shot on the same day, Sunday, outside the New Life Church in Colorado Springs. (The New Life Church came to national attention under the ministry of Ted Haggard, now defrocked.) [...]
In a tragic reworking of the Christmas story, two youth ministry workers have been shot dead in Colorado over the weekend. Two others at the faith-driven shelter were injured in the shooting. According to the Denver Post : Two youth missionary staff workers were killed and two others were injured early Sunday when a man [...]
Why a man with a gun was aiming to shoot up the office of the Governor of Colorado remains unclear, although there are clues that the man — who was shot dead by a security officer — was mentally unstable. – Click here for complete story. The incident made us recall a similar shooting by [...]
The standoff that started yesterday in Colorado is over– with tragic consequences. A gunman who killed a student hostage and then himself during a high school standoff “traumatized and assaulted” his hostages during an attack that “was of a sexual nature,” police said Thursday. Park County Sheriff Fred Wegener said Duane Morrison, 53, killed Emily [...]
Breaking news from Colorado: a hostage situation at a high school. An adult gunman took at least four people hostage at the high school in this tiny mountain town Wednesday and several shots were reported fired, authorities said. There were no immediate reports of injuries. Adjoining Jefferson County sent a bomb squad and SWAT team [...]
Finally, the writings of the two student killers at Columbine High School were released to the public yesterday, and what authorities are finding is a lot of clear trouble signals that no one seemed to pick up on. “I hate you people for leaving me out of so many things,” high-school senior Eric Harris wrote [...]
Finally today, great news from Denver, CO. After a decision by the state supreme court there, it seems Denver can continue to regulate weapons that Colorado doesn’t, including assault weapons and some handguns. The city of Denver can regulate assault weapons, “Saturday night specials” and the open carrying of guns because of a 3-3 deadlock [...]
Heidi Yewman is a graduate of Columbine High School in Colorado, and she writes an editorial for the Washington Columbian lamenting that even after seven years, the lessons of the tragedy that happened there still haven’t been learned. It was a terrible, sad day that sparked massive debate regarding guns and gun laws in the [...]
Guns are too easy to obtain, case in point: A Montezuma County man was formerly advised of charges Wednesday following an April 5 raid during which the Montezuma County Sheriff’s Office seized 110 guns. Brian Karsten, 47, was charged with one count of possession of more than a gram of a schedule II controlled substance, [...]
Two new “Shoot First” cases today, and they’re both doozies. First, a little background. “Shoot First” is a law proposed by the NRA that would remove, in states where it is passed, the responsibility of a victim to retreat when threatened. Basically, it means that if you ever, for any reason, even threaten someone, they [...]
The Colorado Springs Gazette has a closer look at the scary “Shoot First” law (or “Make My Day”, or “Deadly Force” law) that was used by a murderer there to get off scot free. When Gary Lee Hill stood on the porch with a loaded rifle, he was afraid the people outside his home would [...]
In Florida, a man chased another man down and stabbed him in the back, killing him. Before he was charged, authorities considered letting him go completely free. In Colorado, Gary Lee Hill fired on from behind and killed John Knott as Knott drove away from Hill’s house, and a jury acquitted him on all charges. [...]
Here we go again. A few months ago, the NRA managed to pass a “shoot first” law in Florida. Vague, unnecessary, and dangerous, the law basically makes it legal to murder anyone at any time as long as, at some point, they made you feel “threatened.” The gun lobby claims the law was designed to [...]
Spencer Johnson was arrested in Longmont, Colorado for allegedly shooting his girlfriend in the wrist and shoulder because he thought she was on a phone call to an ex-boyfriend. He’s sitting in jail now, waiting for bond, but let’s take a trip back, shall we? Let’s see where he got his guns. His landlord and [...]
A Denver firefighter has been arrested for illegally selling fully automatic machine guns to FBI informants. Firefighter first-grade Stan T. Ford, 34, was arrested without incident at his home in southwest Denver by FBI agents at 4:45 a.m. He appeared Tuesday afternoon before a U.S. magistrate, who ordered him held in custody until a preliminary [...]
The poor guy died, but we can’t pass up a story where someone accidentally shoots himself, at a Taco Express no less. A 22-year-old man fatally shot himself in the abdomen Sunday morning at a Taco Express drive through when he bent over to pick up some dropped change. Police believe Randle Cunningham had a [...]
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