(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 [...]
(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. According to the Associated Press on May [...]
(People pause at a memorial for victims of the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting in Blacksburg, Va. Friday marks the third anniversary of the shootings, where 32 people plus the shooter died. Jeanna Duerscherl/The Roanoke Times/AP). On April 16th, the Christian Science Monitor quoted Andy Pelosi, Director of the Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus, about [...]
According to the Indiana Daily Student paper on March 1st: A 21-year-old IU student was arrested after he used a loaded handgun to assault a man at Kilroy’s Sports Bar early Saturday morning. Bloomington police Sgt. Jim Batcho said officers arrived at the bar around 2:45 a.m. Saturday and walked down an alley where they [...]
(We are pleased to post the following “Insights Column” from the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence). ICHV Insights Column by Garrett Evans Garrett Evans was wounded and survived the massacre at Virginia Tech University in 2007. He later graduated from the university and now lives in Chicago, where he frequently speaks about gun violence to [...]
(We are pleased to post the following news alert from the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence, an affiliate of the Freedom States Alliance). Bishop Timothy Clarke of First Church of Columbus will preside over the fourth monthly interfaith prayer vigil to remember homicide victims and their families. The vigil will be Sunday, January 17 at [...]
(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 op-ed in the Chicago Tribune on Oct. 8th by Ellen Alberding, President of the Joyce Foundation, who supports the Freedom States Alliance and our efforts to prevent gun violence). (Nadashia Thomas, 6, a cousin of Derrion Albert, holds a sign beside a poster of Derrion Albert at Fenger [...]
(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) [...]
(We are pleased to post the following statement from the Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus). For Immediate Release Contact: Andy Pelosi, andy@gunfreekids.org CROTON FALLS, NY, May 21st – Seven Louisiana state universities have signed resolutions opposing legislation to permit the carrying of loaded guns on college campuses: Grambling State University, Louisiana Tech University, NcNeese [...]
(We are pleased to post the following statement 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 Gun Lobby’s Dangerous Legislation Now Moves to House; Advocates Call for Leadership and Serious Efforts to Keep Guns Off Campus (Austin, TX, May 20, [...]
According to CNN on Mar. 11th a teen gunman kills 16 in Winnenden, German in a school shooting spree. (Resource: See our Freedom States Alliance in-depth interview with Joseph Lieberman, author of “School Shootings”; see part 2 here). WINNENDEN, Germany (CNN) — A gunman dressed in military gear killed 16 people Wednesday in a shooting [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus, a project from our partners at GunFreeKids.org). For Immediate Release Contact: Andy Pelosi 914-629-6726 andy@gunfreekids.org www.GunFreeKids.org Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus asks college and university presidents to band together to fight gun lobby’s agenda to push guns [...]
We are pleased to post the following in-depth interview with Joseph Lieberman, author of “School Shootings: What Every Parent and Educator Needs To Know To Protect Our Children,†(Citadel Press, Sept., 2008). Part I is below. We will post Part II later this week. The interview was conducted by Scott Vogel, Communications Director for the [...]
AlterNet has a must-read article by Liliana Segura, posted on December 10th, about the gun lobby’s insane agenda to arm college students with hidden and loaded handguns on campuses: “The NRA and Co. have pushed campaigns to allow concealed-weapons permits on college campuses in 15 states this year and failed in all of them.” (This [...]
CNN reported the following news brief on Oct. 22nd: The Western Kentucky University campus went under lockdown Wednesday after authorities received reports of altercations at two locations, including unconfirmed reports that weapons were involved and shots fired, officials said. Officials are awaiting confirmation of whether shots were fired Wednesday at Western Kentucky University. Officials are [...]
In the Yale Daily News, Jacob O. Iversen, a graduate student at Yale, wrote a strongly worded response to a recent column by Andrew Clark who called for allowing students to carry concealed handguns on college campuses and in dorms. Mr. Iversen’s remarkably persuasive column, supported with facts and sound arguments, is worth quoting at [...]
After it was reported last week that the Harrold school district in Texas would allow teachers and staff to carry hidden and loaded guns inside its schools, Texas Governor Rick Perry has recklessly come out to say that he supports the idea. This is hardly the first, nor the last time, these ludicrous ideas will [...]
What a refreshing breeze sanity brings in its wake! Officials at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana have announced that the recent “D.C. Handgun Ban” Supreme Court ruling will have no impact on their prohibition of guns on campus. According to the News-Gazette in Champaign: Bring a gun to the Illini Union, a dorm, or [...]
In yet another tragic shooting in Chicago, 14-year-old Ulysses Simmons was killed while enjoying a summer day. He was gunned down by two other teens who wanted his bike. According to the Sun-Times cover story on June 18th: Ulysses Simmons is first CPS student killed over summer break It was the first day of summer [...]
We understand that young men and women are taught to hunt with their parents. We know that there is a rich tradition of bonding during hunting season. But what is the point of promoting shooting as a recreational activity in schools? Good grief, we’ve had entirely too much shooting in educational facilities across America, resulting [...]
We’ll leave it to an article in the April 2, Chicago Sun-Times to start this Gun Guys entry: Three hundred anti-violence activists and Chicago Public Schools students joined local leaders in their fight for gun control this morning following the shooting death of an 18-year-old Simeon Career Academy student over the weekend. “It’s up to [...]
America is reeling from yet another college massacre: this one at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, just about an hour’s drive from Chicago. Authorities have identified the suspected shooter at NIU in DeKalb as Steve Kazmierczak. DeKalb police asked Florida authorities Friday morning to assist in speaking to his father, Robert Kazmierczak. A sixth student [...]
The carnage from guns comes at us so quickly in the news, it is easy to become numbed by it. The past few days, we have seen a boy kill his parents and two siblings with his father’s gun, several women shot and killed in a clothing store in suburban Chicago, a man with a [...]
Leave it to a college newspaper to bring some sense into the debate over reducing gun violence. Such is the case with a “Univ. of Michigan Daily ” November 15th editorial, which concludes: Pressing for easier access to firearms in a country where there are already an estimated 200 million guns in circulation is suicidal. [...]
Good grief. We used to have to worry about STDs, too much alcohol, and our college sports team losing a championship game. Now we have to be worried about junior NRA members on campus. This week they have launched something called “Empty Holster†Week. This group of collegians is protesting that they can’t pack heat [...]
An AP story from southern Oregon, in Medford, noted a disturbing push by a female teacher who wants to carry a deadly concealed handgun in her school to protect herself from her ex-husband who she claims is threatening her. High school English teacher Shirley Katz insists she needs to take her pistol with her to [...]
Tragedies abound – far too many – when it comes to young Americans killed by gunfire. There is a great controversy raging about how to keep more of our GIs from dying in Iraq, but we too often give up on keeping our young people from getting shot here on the home front. So, in [...]
Sometimes good satire is comic relief for realities that are fundamentally tragic. Such is the case with a recent sardonic piece in the celebrated “Onion†on the sad legacy of gun violence in America. Entitled, “Report: School Shootings Help Prepare Students For Being Shot In Real World,†the Onion “news†article cuts close to the [...]
How many times is our nation condemned to read a headline like this? The Chicago Tribune reports: Patrice Brown’s heart was still beating Saturday in an Oak Lawn hospital, but it was small comfort to her loved ones. The 17-year-old high school student was brain-dead after a bullet pierced her neck and shattered her spine, [...]
Excuse us for harping on the “Virginia is for Illegal Gun Sellers” issue, but an August 22nd New York Times editorial cut to the chase: The “Iron Pipeline†of Interstate 95 remains alive and deadly, as a new federal study grimly confirms. Saddest of all is the evidence that some of the most far-reaching shady [...]
As Freedom States Alliance advances its mission of working to prevent gun violence, it has been working more and more with college students. Two of our interns at the New England Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence recently submitted a You Tube question to the Democratic presidential debate. In it, they directly ask the candidates what [...]
Shootings, large scale and individual, happen with such numbing frequency in the United States that they are quickly washed away, like writing in the sand as a wave sweeps over it. Columbine stuck with us for awhile, but then our media became adjusted to school shootings as part of our gun culture’s way of life [...]
The Springfield-Journal Register writes that parents of gun violence victims are raising their voices and calling for stronger gun laws to reduce the deadly epidemic. The 46-year-old Chicago police officer [Ronald Holt] has become one of the personal stories injected into the perennial, usually deadlocked debate over gun control. On May 10, his only child, [...]
In perhaps the most simple, commonsense idea to come along in some time, this AP story suggests that the best solution to stop gun massacres — or at least reduce the carnage — such as VA Tech or Columbine would be to put locks on classroom doors versus the gun lobby’s insane idea to arm [...]
Here is a story from Friday, July 13th, from the Philadelphia Daily News, that continues to circulate around the internet that we wanted to share. It’s a story prompted by our Freedom States Alliance recipient group CeaseFire NJ, and its persistent executive director, Bryan Miller. Put the gun down, Elmo. That’s the war cry of [...]
Yesterday, we wrote about a Yale student, David Light, who was taking to heart the exhortation of gun enthusiasts that a campus well-armed is a safe campus. As we wrote, the New Haven Police, however, felt that Light was violating the law and arrested him, charging him with multiple weapons violations. In a subsequent article [...]
In the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings, the gun lobby trotted out the overworked and preposterous notion that students should attend classes armed. It is the serious notion among some of the leading spokespersons for the “gun enthusiast” movement that pistol-packing college students would prevent shootings on campus. So maybe that is what a [...]
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