The NRA is about to lose yet another fight — this time hoping to stop Elena Kagan’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. But Ms. Kagan’s confirmation is all but certain. The NRA is simply using the Senate’s vote as yet another shameless opportunity to throw it’s weight around. According to the Los Angels Times [...]
(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, [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from GunFreeKids.org). FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Andy Pelosi (914-629-6726), email: andy@gunfreekids.org (June 28, 2010, New York) – Earlier today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment applies to state and local governments. The Court considered the case of McDonald v. City of Chicago, where [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence). FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 28, 2010 MEDIA CONTACTS: CSGV: Ladd Everitt, (202) 701-7171, leveritt@csgv.org ROOT: Kenny Barnes, (202) 431-6646, kennysr@rootinc.org NRA Has Deliberately Misled Congress About Substance of D.C.’s Current Gun Laws Washington, D.C.—Yesterday, U.S. Senators John McCain (R-AZ) [...]
Ed Schultz slammed Fox “News”, right-wing zealots, and gun extremists for peddling conspiracy theories that President Obama is “disarming” Americans of their guns. In fact, as Schultz points out, President Obama received an “F” on a report card from the Brady Campaign on the President’s policies with respect to the gun issue. Watch Video:
(We are pleased to post the following guest commentary from Mark Karlin, editor of BuzzFlash.com on April 21st). BUZZFLASH EDITOR’S BLOG BY MARK KARLIN The politically charged gun movement in America that began when right wing ideologues took over the NRA in the ’70s (in what was called “The Revolt at Cincinnati”) has been pathological [...]
(We are pleased to post the following guest commentary from Cathie Whittenburg, Director of New England Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence. Send comments or questions to necpgv@gmail.com). Patriot – A person who loves, supports, and defends his or her country and its interest. Paranoid – Exhibiting or characterized by baseless and extreme fear or distrust [...]
On April 10th, Columbus, Ohio’s NBC Channel 4 covered an ‘open-carry’ gun protest on the steps of the state capitol:
(On April 19, 1995, at 9:02 a.m., an explosion ripped through the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Okla. At the time, it was the worst terrorist attack ever undertaken on American soil. The blast killed 168 people – 19 of them children – and injured hundreds). (We are pleased to post the [...]
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 [...]
Is the gun lobby going to wage a political war now with the United States Air Force, claiming the service is denying soldiers and airmen their “Second Amendment rights”? And since the NRA routinely says that registering firearms is the first step to confiscating all guns, is the gun lobby accusing the Air Force of [...]
The Philadelphia Inquirer published an editorial on March 4th about the Supreme Court’s new Second Amendment case, McDonald v. City of Chicago, about the city’s handgun ban. A gun-rights decision by the Supreme Court two years ago threatened to make it more dangerous to walk the streets of Washington. Now the top court’s conservative voting [...]
Oral Arguments to Supreme Court On Chicago’s Handgun Ban Supreme Court Releases Transcripts Of Oral Arguments In McDonald v. City of Chicago. Analysis: Second Amendment Extension Likely. The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed poised to require state and local governments to obey the Second Amendment guarantee of a personal right to a gun, but with [...]
(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 press release from the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence). For Immediate Release Contact: Thom Mannard (312) 341-0939 / cell (847) 997-3020, tmannard@ichv.org Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence Says Communities Must Have the Right and Authority to Enact Sensible Gun Laws to Save Lives and Protect Public Safety (March [...]
According to the Washington Post on March 1st: As a member of the Junior ROTC, teenager Antonin Scalia toted his rifle on the subway ride back and forth to Queens. As a hunter, he speaks lyrically of stalking wild turkeys. And as a justice, he may have reached the pinnacle of his more than two [...]
TPMMuckraker posted an article on Jan. 22nd about just how extreme right-wing activists have become, including a call to form a militia armed with fully automatic machine guns and military weapons to protect citizens against “the government.” A group of nearly 200 “extremely concerned citizens” in a small Montana county are demanding that local leaders [...]
On Jan 3rd, Think Progress posted an unsettling video of Tea Party activists in New Mexico who openly carried loaded guns and assault weapons as a threat against “the government” and President Obama. Nearly 350 right-wing protestors crowded a New Mexico town’s busiest intersection yesterday to protest President Obama’s supposed anti-gun agenda and the “government [...]
On Nov. 20th, a media research firm called Media Curves.com used a CNN report about an extremist organization called “Oath Keepers,” to analyze beliefs and attitudes around militia groups and the Second Amendment. In short, once Americans become aware of the militia movement’s extremist anti-government rhetoric, support the “Second Amendment” declines drastically. (See results below). [...]
Peggy Schulz wrote a brilliant column in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel on Nov. 2nd that is worth reading. The overall safety of the general public as we move through our lives on a daily basis is – or at least should be – the top priority for lawmakers, both local and national. We live in a [...]
According to the News Observer on Oct. 12th: RALEIGH The N.C. Supreme Court attracted national attention a few weeks ago as the first court in the nation to rule that a convicted felon has a right to own a gun. What drew little notice is that Edward Thomas Brady, the justice who wrote the 5-2 [...]
A tragedy in Florida resulted in the death of a 62-year-old man’s fiance the day before their wedding and shows the insanity of America’s gun culture. A “law abiding” gun owner fired his gun all because he heard strange noises in his own house without having any clue what, or whom, he was firing at. [...]
(We are pleased to post the following essay from Josh Horwitz, Executive Director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, and was originally published in the Huffington Post). On Monday, it was national news when a man (identified only as “Chris”) appeared at a health care rally in Phoenix, Arizona, openly and legally carrying an [...]
(From left: NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre and U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada). Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid joined fellow disgraced Nevada Senator John Ensign, Gov. Jim Gibbons, and NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre to dedicate a new “shooting park.” Most galling from the publicity event were the repetitive talking points and blatant myths that [...]
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According to a post from Talking Points Memo (TPM) on Aug. 7th: Based on the news that health care events are edging into violence, an anti-health care reform protester in New Mexico named Scott Oskay is calling on his hundreds of online followers to bring firearms to town halls, and to ‘badly hurt’ SEIU and [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from our Freedom States Alliance affiliate, the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence). For Immediate Release Contact: Toby Hoover, ocagv@yahoo.com Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence Calls On Religious Leaders To Speak Out Over Gun Lobby’s Immoral Agenda (Toledo, OH, June 29, 2009) – The Ohio Coalition Against [...]
(We are pleased to post the following joint press release from the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence and the Freedom States Alliance). For Immediate Release Contact: Thom Mannard (312) 341-0939 Scott Vogel (312) 243-8980, scott@freedomstatesalliance.org On One-Year Anniversary of Supreme Court Heller Ruling that Stripped D.C. Of Its Handgun Ban, Pro-Gun Groups Want To Flood [...]
According to the Huffington Post on June 24th: Hal Turner, New Jersey’s top white-supremacist internet-radio show hosting lunatic is back in the news today, for pretty much the same reason he was in the news earlier this month: threatening public officials with bodily harm, and subsequently getting arrested for it! This time out, Turner’s calls [...]
(We are posting the following “fact check” from the Senate Democratic Communications Center from Sen. Harry Reid’s (NV) office. Today, Republican senators continued their fear and smear campaign against Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor by attacking her record on Second Amendment cases. Judge Sotomayor faithfully follows the law in cases concerning the Second Amendment. [...]
Open Carry at Picnics, in Parks and in Churches Being Encouraged Across the country, gun proponents are continuing to ramp up their efforts to normalize abnormal behavior by encouraging citizens to openly carry loaded firearms. Just last week, Pastor Ken Pagano of the New Bethal Church in Kentucky made headlines with his decision to promote [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from Freedom States Alliance affiliate, the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence). For Immediate Release Contact: Thom Mannard (312) 341-0939 Definitive Ruling Holds that Gun Violence Prevention Laws Do Not Violate the Second Amendment; Decision Is Major Setback To Gun Lobby’s Radical Agenda To Eradicate Nation’s Gun [...]
Freedom States Alliance Press Release March 27, 2009 Contact: Scott Vogel, scott@freedomstatesalliance.org State Senate Resolution 1611 To Amend Constitution On Guns Now Moves To Voter Referendum In Nov. 2010 General Election (Chicago) – Despite a downward spiral in the economy where Kansas citizens are losing jobs, home values, health insurance and other vital state services, [...]
A stellar article in AlterNet by Alexander Zaitchik, on Dec. 4th says that: “Among the big losers in November were the NRA and the myth of the once-feared ‘NRA Voter.’ Reform of our gun laws is on the way.” Last month, voters across the country took a cue from the late Charlton Heston and pried [...]
(We are posting the following press release from Freedom States Alliance affiliate, the Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort. Note: GunGuys.com does not endorse candidates for office). NRA Endorsements and Money Are, Once Again, Meaningless in Election The citizens of Wisconsin won another overwhelming victory against the extremism of the gun lobby this election. “Commonsense, democracy, and Wisconsin [...]
A front page story on the New York Times on Oct. 21st reported that conservative legal scholars sharply criticized Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller that stripped DC of its ability to ban deadly handguns, and other sensible measures, to save lives from gun violence. Two conservative federal judges [...]
Sen. Barack Obama panders hard to the NRA in a new ad running in Ohio, Pennsylvania and North Carolina according to Politico. In the ad, the voiceover says that “Barack Obama supports gun rights, our right to defend ourselves, and the Second Amendment.” Obama has, unfortunately, taken the gun lobby’s bait and framed his position [...]
The good citizens of our nation’s capitol are held hostage by the gun lobby that continues to abuse its power — with the help of a patsy Congress — to dictate the public safety policies of the District of Columbia. Currently, the gun lobby is frantically trying to eviscerate the sensible gun regulations that D.C. [...]
Well, we told you so. In fact, even the pro-gun Bush administration’s own Department of Justice and Solicitor General’s Office told us so. A Supreme Court ruling reversing the ban on handguns in D.C., and an unprecedented new interpretation that the Second Amendment grants an individual “right to keep and bear arms†might backfire and [...]
Last Thursday, the Supreme Court, headed by conservative justice Antonin Scalia who wrote the majority opinion, overturned the District of Columbia’s handgun ban by asserting that the ban violated the Second Amendment. In doing so, Scalia reversed over 200 years of legal precedent and ignored the robust history of gun control since the founding of [...]
The day after the Supreme Court erased DC’s handgun ban and invented a new interpretation of an “individual right” to keep and bear arms, the Chicago Tribune writes a blistering editorial calling for the repeal of the Second Amendment. Repeal the 2nd Amendment No, we don’t suppose that’s going to happen any time soon. But [...]
Los Angeles Times Opinion: Judicial Activism By Conservatives Op-ed By Erwin Chemerinsky The Supreme Court’s invalidation of the District of Columbia’s handgun ban powerfully shows that the conservative rhetoric about judicial restraint is a lie. In striking down the law, Justice Antonin Scalia’s majority opinion, joined by the court’s four other most conservative justices, is [...]
(Commentary by David Hemenway, PhD, Professor, Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Hemenway is the director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center and the Harvard Youth Violence Prevention Center.) My field of research is public health, and in particular injury and violence prevention. The scientific evidence is very strong that raising the speed limit [...]
Click here to read the Supreme Court’s decision in District of Columbia v. Heller. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Sally Slovenski (617) 923-6490, sally@freedomstatesalliance.org Scott Vogel (312) 474-1339, scott@freedomstatesalliance.org Despite FSA’s Strong Disagreement With the Conservative Majority’s Ruling, the Supreme Court’s Decision Does Not Prohibit Effective Measures From Being Enacted, Such As Universal Background Checks On [...]
The Chicago Tribune reported on June 26, that Chicago’s Mayor Daley blasted the Supreme Court’s ruling that stripped DC of its handgun ban: High court strikes down Washington D.C. law in ruling that could have Chicago implications An angry Mayor Richard Daley on Thursday called the Supreme Court’s overturning of the Washington D.C. gun ban [...]
According to the Chicago Tribune’s DC political blog, The Swamp: Barack Obama moments ago made his first public comment on the 5-4 Supreme Court ruling striking down the District of Columbia’s handgun ban. The candidate issued a highly guarded written statement that compliments the Court for “much-needed guidance to local jurisdictions across the country” but [...]
The Washington Post posted this prediction on the morning of June 26th: With its term coming to an end, the U.S. Supreme Court this morning is expected to issue its ruling on the District’s handgun-ownership ban in a case that could result in a landmark interpretation of the Second Amendment. In District of Columbia v. [...]
GunGuys returns to the looming U.S. Supreme Court decision on the ban on handguns in Washington D.C. As we have pointed out many a time, “if” — and we do emphasize “if” — the Court erases DC’s handgun ban by saying the District’s gun control provisions violate the Second Amendment, the decision will not likely [...]
The looming Supreme Court decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, a case challenging DC’s 30-year-old handgun ban, seems to be completely off the radar. Although there was a dramatic surge of attention when the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in March, very few articles, editorials, and news stories are being written about the long [...]
We’ve said before that it sometimes takes a view from overseas to get a little perspective on our love affair with guns. Today we want to call your attention to an article from the UK “Scotsman,†which in an April 7th article explained the Washington D.C. gun case currently before the Supreme Court. After providing [...]
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