The scariest thing this Halloween? We’re seeing violence like this every day, and yet the NRA still holds sway over our Congress. PA: Teen shot and killed at home accidentally while playing with gun WA: 17-year-old arrested in shooting across the street from high school, 13-year-old also arrested for shooting of another 13-year-old KS: Son [...]
Finally today, here’s a great editorial from the Macon, Georgia Times. The NRA is working on a law right now that would keep police officers from sharing information about where gun crimes come from. Standing in the way of police officers trying to do their jobs is ludicrous to most people, but for the NRA [...]
Northwest Indiana Times columnist Mark Kiesling has a pretty entertaining rapid fire debunking of gun guy letters. He quickly takes down the gun guys’ viewpoints one by one. One sure-fire way to trigger an automatic response from certain readers is to write a column about guns that defenders of the Second Amendment believe to be [...]
Buzzflash.com has posted an excerpt from Joan Burbick’s book “Gun Show Nation,” about the cultural and political ramifications of gun ownership in the United States. In the excerpt, she goes into detail about how gun ownership, thanks to American culture, means more than just owning a gun for the gun guys. They’ve come to equate [...]
We’ve got less daylight heading into winter, but no fewer shootings. FL: 32-year-old man killed in shooting at apartment complex CO: Two arrested in connection with killing at Halloween party OH: Couple, 21, both dead in apparent murder-suicide MS: Man murdered at area club TX: Murder suspect’s brother arrested in shooting at apartment complex IL: [...]
The Chicago Defender has landed a front page editorial on firearms, and their point comes across strong: if you want guns off the streets, you’ll need new gun laws, and a grassroots movement to drive them. After a successful gun buyback earlier this year, Mayor Richard Daley and other community leaders say that it’ll take [...]
Late last week, we reported on the NBA. No, we’re not changing focus to sports– NBA Commissioner David Stern has suggested that NBA players either leave their guns at home, or don’t bother owning them at all. And now the Columbus Dispatch has echoed his words– great advice on and off the court. When David [...]
The Toledo Blade has published an extremely insightful editorial that serves as a final word on the recent public reaction to this year’s school shootings. When two gunmen invaded our schools and killed our children, we needed our leaders to respond to the problem: the problem of guns in schools. Instead, they avoided the problem [...]
Our mayors and police chiefs have it right– this needs to stop. And it will, but only when we get the gun lobby’s influence away from our legislators. NJ: Man acquitted in girlfriend’s death as shooting ruled accidental WA: Teen shot in gang confrontation KY: 17-year-old killed as shots fired into car IL: Man found [...]
We told you earlier this week about Bloomberg’s visit to Chicago on Wednesday. Yesterday, he joined his summit of mayors from around the country to sit down and discuss the growing movement against the NRA and the gun violence problem facing the country. Mayor Daley, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and their counterparts from [...]
NBA Commissioner David Stern has a message for his players: If you think carrying a gun will make you safer, you’re wrong. NBA Commissioner David Stern said yesterday that he would prefer his players leave their firearms behind when they go out. “It’s a pretty, I think, widely accepted statistic that if you carry a [...]
A group of police chiefs from around the country has banded together and spoken out against the NRA’s latest legislative push: a bill that would make it illegal for police departments to share information about where firearms come from. Backed by Gil Kerlikowske of Seattle and police chiefs from other large cities, a gun-control group [...]
The gun violence continues. Every day of the week we can find a list of shootings just like this one. That’s why we call it America’s Shooting Gallery. NJ: Dispute among three people turns deadly– one of them is shot and killed near high school NY: Police officer shot at housing project IN: One man [...]
Now, we’ve already said we agree that everyone in this country has a right to self-defense. It’s true– if you are in danger and you’re out of options, you have the right to fight back, with deadly force if necessary. But the gun guys want to draw the line even closer than that. How far [...]
A school district in the suburbs of Fort Worth, Texas has ended a program that taught students to attack anyone they see carrying a firearm in the school. A suburban Fort Worth school district has halted a program teaching students to attack a gunman if he invades a classroom, administrators said Wednesday. The district will [...]
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg was in Chicago yesterday (accepting an award from our friends at the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence), and along the way, he stopped by a press conference with Chicago Mayor Richard Daley to speak up about how Congress is kowtowing to the gun lobby. Mr. Bloomberg joined Mayor Richard [...]
The violence continues on America’s streets, every single day of the week. IL: Lawyer: Neighbor shot dog in self-defense NJ: Two shot in Newark GA: 18-year-old’s fingerprints found linking him to murder and shooting spree NY: Two charged in Long Island teen driver’s shooting death PA: Dad pulls gun on soccer coach because his kid [...]
Josh Sugarmann of the VPC has more on how the gun lobby uses Americans around election time to advance their own selfish agenda. Gun guys try to pride themselves on voting “the right way” in America’s elections, but in reality the majority of them are simply voting however the NRA tells them to. In that [...]
We’re not sure how much exactly this has to do with the gun issue, but it’s such a great story, we figured we’d share it with you all the same. In Montana, authorities put up a elk decoy near a road two weeks before hunting season started. And like moths to a lamppost, the gun [...]
Election season is upon us, and the NRA is doing a little electioneering of its own. Right now, they’re buddy buddy with Senator Rick Santorum in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Aiming to energize one of U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum’s key voting blocs, top National Rifle Association officials toured the state with the senator Tuesday to highlight that [...]
High profile school shootings aren’t the only violence this country is forced by the gun lobby to deal with on a daily basis. Here’s more. AL: Police capture three suspects in shooting death of Alabama policewoman OK: Shotgun blast hurts two at gun show IL: Police officer shot, killed MO: Two arrested, three more sought [...]
Washington Ceasefire has a great idea: plant a flower at a local park for every victim of gun violence in their community. The problem is, they’re running out of places to plant flowers. Washington CeaseFire can’t plant flowers fast enough to keep up. The organization, dedicated to reducing gun violence, has planted flowers at Green [...]
We sure thought arming teachers was a goofy (and dangerously stupid) idea when a lawmaker in Wisconsin pushed it as a way to protect students in schools. But a candidate in Oklahoma has an even nuttier idea: students should use textbooks to protect themselves from firearms. One of Oklahoma’s nominees for state superintendent of education [...]
Reuters has a broad overview up about a terrible problem: gun violence is killing Americans, every day of every week. And as the article says, our leaders seem to be “in denial” about it. It’s an American way of death. More than 30,000 people die from gunshot wounds every year, through murder, suicide and accidents. [...]
The majority of Americans want stronger gun laws, and after hearing news like this every day, you don’t have to wonder why. CO: Man shot in chest dies at hospital PA: Daylight shooting leaves one badly wounded AL: Patrol officer wounded in shooting today, backup officer wounded as he arrives a few minutes later NC: [...]
Finally today, Gallup has released a new poll that says, in plain numbers, just how extreme the NRA is. All across the country, a strong majority of Americans favors stricter gun laws. Many adults in the United States would like to enact tougher regulations for firearms, according to a two recent public opinion polls. In [...]
Last week we posted about Kerry Healey, the candidate for governor in Massachusetts who has sided with the gun lobby to try and fight to take the ability of local police chiefs to approve weapon permits away from them, and instead give it to a far-removed statewide authority. We said it was a bad idea, [...]
He never thought it would happen to him– after all, he’s a “law-abiding gun owner.” He would never do anything wrong with his firearms. But sure enough, last Saturday, Ted West accidentally shot another human being, a 17-year-old boy. Ted West was aiming at a pesky squirrel when he accidentally shot a 17-year-old boy, Saturday [...]
School isn’t the only place violence happens. To get rid of it, we’ll have to get rid of the guns that make it possible. NY: Man shoots 4-year-old son, then boy’s mother, then himself in NYC park KS: Three people recovering after triple shooting early this morning TN: Shooting suspect turns himself in MN: Man [...]
Just one final reminder this week about the Freedom States Alliance 2nd Annual Come Together Online Auction. Every year, FSA holds an online auction in which the public can bid on all kinds of items– antiques, hotel stays, collectibles, autographed books and CDs, jewelry, restaurant visits, and anything else we can come up with to [...]
We’ve been covering this story in our America’s Shooting Gallery, and now a Fayetteville paper has a closer look at it. Early last week, a young woman was shot at a mall in North Carolia– we later found out that it was because someone had accidentally dropped a firearm, and it had gone off, hitting [...]
Derek Jennings at the Independent has a terrific column up about “The Smoking Elephant in the Room”– guns and their connection to the violence invading our nation’s schools. In the wake of the recent wave of carnage, President George W. Bush, renowned moralist and global promoter of non-violence, quickly convened a summit on school safety. [...]
Every day, it’s the same thing: more violence, and a lack of lawmakers willing to fight for American lives. How much more has to happen before change comes? IA: One woman dead, one man critically injured in southeastern Iowa NY: Woman applying for citizenship hits a glitch walking into the building– there was a gun [...]
The death of a three-year-old boy who found a firearm in Philly this last week was especially tragic, because his life could have been saved with a gun lock. Unfortunately for him and his family, the NRA fought for and won a law earlier this year that said selling firearms without gun locks was completely [...]
Great news for those living in Los Angeles– the City Council has approved that ordinance that would require gun owners to report lost or stolen guns within 48 hours. The law is designed to crack down on “straw buyers” who purchase weapons for criminals, juveniles and others unable or unwilling to buy their own guns. [...]
The shooting at that Amish schoolhouse two weeks ago has gotten a lot of press, and a lot of people are looking for answers. And we can’t forget about the shooting right before that, where six hostages were taken and two lives were lost at a school in Colorado. And then there’s the student who [...]
The violence continues, every single day of the week here in America. AR: Man in custody after late-night shooting in front yard MN: Man convicted of murder in shooting outside entertainment complex FL: Detectives are trying to decide whether shooting was “hate crime” or “random shooting.” Don’t pretty much all shootings involve hate? MD: Man [...]
Sometimes we talk about really serious issues here at Gun Guys, and sometimes we talk about things like Thunderwear. Oh my. The image doesn’t begin to do it the justice it deserves. “Thunderwear” is a firearms holster that you wear under your other clothing, specifically in your pants. Which pretty much tells us, once and [...]
If there’s one thing that comes along with election season, it’s lying election commercials. But if there’s two things that come along with the season, the second one is candidates for office proposing terrible ideas about firearms. In Wisconsin, we’ve already heard a proposal to actually arm teachers in classrooms, and now this. Lieutenant Governor [...]
Sad story from Chicago: two more children are hurt after gunshots ring out. Peggy Norris knows her Back of the Yards neighborhood can be violent, so she makes sure her kids go to school every day and are home before dark. Now she doesn’t even feel safe in her living room after two bullets fired [...]
Gun violence might not make national headlines every day, but it definitely happens that often. That’s why every day, you’ll find a list just like this one on top of our site. AL: Woman gets 50 years for killing ex-boyfriend over argument DR: Police issue warrant for White Sox shortstop in double shooting PA: 3-year-old [...]
Finally today, it looks like the case of James Behanna and Robert Mears is headed to the courtroom in Florida, and when it’s over, we might have a new look at License to Murder– without one firearm ever being fired. Florida’s new “stand your ground” law could take center stage during next week’s trial of [...]
John Mashek over at U.S. News and World Report has a short editorial up about Bush’s schools safety summit last week. Our great Decider decided to have a summit following a rash of tragedies involving guns in schools, but because he’s so loyal to the NRA, Bush neglected to actually mention the problem: firearms. The [...]
The NRA is constantly working on all fronts to make sure gun dealers, even gun dealers that break the law, can sell as many weapons as possible. That’s why they’re fighting like mad in Congress to get HR 5092 passed. They claim it’s a bill that would give the ATF “more tools” to use against [...]
While our President holds photo opportunity “conferences” with teachers, the real solutions to gun violence go ignored, and the bloodshed continues. OH: Teen gunned down on Dayton street corner IA: Five members of family shot to death in Iowa– couple’s son captured in Illinois IL: Boy’s uncle charged in death of 4-year-old who found firearm [...]
The Supreme Court in the state of Washington has spoken, and they’ve said it’s OK for local governments there to place local restrictions on gun shows. The state Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a city’s restrictions on a gun show, but dissenters said the majority’s “Humpty-Dumptyism” manages to circumvent state law that forbids cities from [...]
It’s been a while since we’ve heard from the NRA’s License to Murder law, but it’s still here, and in Texas, it’s fighting its way into the lawbooks. The way state Sen. Jeff Wentworth sees it, Texans should be allowed to do whatever is necessary to protect themselves and their property without facing prosecution. Even [...]
New York’s Journal News opens up on Bush and his phony photo-op “conference” on school violence. The guy held a conference to talk about people bringing guns into schools and shooting children, but he didn’t even mention the word “gun.” President Bush held a one-day summit Tuesday on school violence, his response to recent and [...]
Another week ends, and yet the shooting never does. MD: Shots fired and teen wounded near high school MD: Gas station worker shot CA: Teen shot outside Jack-in-the-Box restaurant PA: One dead in shooting in Downingtown, local high school locked down WI: Police get one in custody in fatal nightclub shooting FL: Four people (man, [...]
From the Jersey Journal, it’s the same old story– loose gun laws mean shootings abound. In the wake of a nun’s car being hit by crossfire in a Jersey City shootout, officials yesterday said that although gun assaults in the city are down from last year there are just too many guns on the streets. [...]
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