More guns on the street means more violence no matter what state you’re in. And we already have way too much gun violence in this country. PA: Shooting in apartment leaves one dead and one arrested for homicide NV: Police question witnesses about shooting outside Kmart FL: 18-year-old arrested for shooting death of another man [...]
Finally today, an editorial from the St. Petersburg Times that provides another clear view on concealed carry, especially in light of what we’ve learned this week in Florida. It should be clear by now that the NRA’s concealed carry laws cannot be allowed to stay on the books in America. When we had a problem [...]
Pennsylvania’s Centre Daily has an editorial up about yesterday’s report that Pennsylvania is number one in the rate of black homicide victimization, and that firearms make up the largest bulk of those murders. When the numbers are so bad, something has to be done. One thing that could be done is to work in communities, [...]
We can’t say we disagree with this Colorado law that’s going to work to close a loophole on concealed weapons permits there, but closing a loophole on concealed weapons law is like patching a flea-infested blanket– it’s time to get rid of the whole thing. Coloradans who want to carry concealed handguns could no longer [...]
Here’s what the availability of firearms has done to our country.. today. FL: When officers confronted man with gun, did he fall and shoot himself or did they shoot him? TN: Police looking for shooting suspect AK: Manhunt on for shooter after two people shot in a drug deal gone bad CA: No one injured [...]
The Sun-Setinel’s groundbreaking report about concealed carry in Florida has been picked up in an editorial from the New York Times, and they took the words right out of our mouths (and off of our webpage): Concealed carry isn’t doing what the NRA said it would. In fact, it’s doing the opposite– criminals are actually [...]
Reader Robert sent us this story from Arizona– yet another police officer has been convicted of selling confiscated firearms and ammunition. Two former Pima County Sheriff’s Department employees suspected of involvement in selling firearms and ammunition stolen from the department may face criminal charges, an official said Friday. Three other employees have resigned or been [...]
The Violence Policy Center has a new report out today that says in the state with the loosest gun laws in the country, handguns represent a dire threat to a specific demographic. According to the latest FBI records, Pennsylvania is leading the nation in the rate of black homicide victimization, and the weapon of choice– [...]
We’ve got violence like this happening every single day in America, and the NRA thinks more guns will help? They couldn’t be more wrong. IN: Drive-by shooting interrupts 11-year-old’s birthday party DC: Teen arrested in shooting death of 17-year-old girl at nightclub MN: Man arrested in shooting after argument about who “gets to ride shotgun” [...]
A New York gun lobby is fighting, not to keep information available to the public, but to lock it up. After a list of concealed carry holders appeared in the local paper (because just like driver’s license holders, that information is freely available, according to the law), they’re foaming at the mouth. “I was just [...]
South Florida’s Sun Sentinel has unleashed a bomb of a story– they’ve gone through concealed weapons records in the state, and found that there’s more holes in the concealed carry permit process than a sieve. All sorts of people who clearly shouldn’t have access to a weapon are easily obtaining permits to get one. Garth [...]
Criminals wander the streets with cheap Kalashnikov AK-47s, locked and loaded. A scene from the streets of war-torn Iraq, or an African town ruled by a warlord? Try the streets of Palm Beach, Florida. A report from the Palm Beach Post describes exactly how these assault rifles, which should be completely illegal to own or [...]
The shooting continues, every single day of the week. MI: Janitor at church says he shot woman accidentally MD: Double shooting seems to be result of scratched headboard during furniture move WY: Man pleads guilty to shooting friend in the head at NYE party TN: Student caught with loaded gun at school PA: Prayers and [...]
Finally, the NRA just won’t let a dumb idea die– they’re still trying to get guns in employee parking lots, even after state after state has thrown the bill out. Georgia lawmakers in both the House and Senate, backed by the National Rifle Association, are trying once again to pass a measure that would allow [...]
In Philadelphia, even the mayoral candidates are following the public’s lead– candidate Michael Nutter is planning to sue two gun shops in the city. Taking a game plan straight from Michael Bloomberg, Nutter says he’s holding these gun dealers responsible for the violence Philly is seeing. In reaction to a recent report issued by the [...]
Another suicide at a gun shop, this time striking, ironically, during a “gun safety” class. A 29-year-old Thorndike Street man, who was enrolled in a gun safety course at PSMG Gun Shop on Park Avenue, fatally shot himself at the business Wednesday. Peter Hartzel, of 104 Thorndike St., was on his third day of training [...]
Too many guns, too much violence. OH: 17-year-old found shot dead in his girlfriend’s apartment CO: “Town character,” who spent his days “spreading the good word and waving an American flag” is shot, police search for suspect IN: Most optimistic man in the world pleads not guilty to shooting someone and kidnapping his wife and [...]
Finally today, from a professor emeritus at the University of Washington School of Medicine, we get a short editorial that just blows two NRA-sponsored myths about the Second Amendment right out of the water. The first myth is that the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees private citizens the right to own handguns. The fact [...]
Well here’s some good news on gun sales: Wal-Mart is closing up shop on firearms due to lagging demand and pressure from communities. In late 2005, the discount giant decided to end gun sales at Wal-Marts where demand is relatively low, a marketing decision that has now reached three Delaware stores. In July, the store [...]
The latest push to close the gun show loophole in Virginia has failed in a Senate committee. Currently, anyone can walk into a gun show there (and many places in the United States), drop down cash, and walk out with a firearm, without ever filling out a single piece of paperwork. It’s a huge hole [...]
This is exactly what mayors are speaking out against– and it’s what we have to make stop. PA: Teens accused in killing of Iraq vet CO: Wife of police officer is shot while the wife of a sheriff employee is arrested for the crime WI: Woman’s condition improves after she’s wounded and her boyfriend is [...]
Bloomberg and his mayors are meeting in Washington this week, and the actions they’re taking to keep weapons out of criminal hands are making press all over the country. -From Boston, Mayor Tom Menino spoke out about school shootings, and echoed the thoughts of many Americans: the violence has got to end. Menino and other [...]
The Brady Campaign to Stop Gun Violence is getting press because of a recent report that singled out a gun dealer in Ohio who they sell is willingly selling guns to known straw purchasers. Costello’s Gun Shop in North College Hill is listed in a crime prevention report as an example of a place conducting [...]
A new documentary is coming out about one woman’s quest to get a firearms law on the books in Maine (that would require a waiting period for young people who buy guns), and it’s getting rave reviews. Catherine Crowley tried to change a state gun law after her 18-year-old son killed himself with a shotgun [...]
Need your daily reasons to continue the fight against gun violence? Honestly, we wish we didn’t have any. But instead, we have these. NY: Two young boys find their parents dead of gunshot wounds inside their home OR: Memorial planned for woman shot to death by her estranged husband IN: Shooting victim in critical condition [...]
The Philadelphia Daily News reports that Bloomberg’s mayors are back together today in Washington, and working to push for stronger gun laws in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. Mayor Street joins a group of 50 mayors in Washington today pushing for new strategies to stanch the flow of illegal guns into American cities. With Pennsylvania hamstrung “with [...]
More information about the shooter who opened fire in the Denny’s in Washington State last weekend has been released, including the fact that the guy had prior convictions, was known to be a troublemaker in the restaurant, and clearly should not have had access to the firearm he used to shoot five people. A 23-year-old [...]
About a week ago, Instapundit Glenn Reynolds wrote a piece in the New York Times blindly (and stupidly) extolling the idea of mandatory gun ownership as a crime prevention plan. Unfortunately for Mr. Reynolds, the stats and reality speak otherwise– more guns means more violence, and not only is a mandatory gun ownership law unenforceable, [...]
Thirty thousand people die every year to gun violence. We can do something to stop this– so why aren’t we? KY: Man arrested for shooting his father with a handgun LA: Afternoon robbery leaves woman critically injured TX: Child asleep in bed is killed in drive-by shooting WA: Man opened fire in Denny’s restaurant, injuring [...]
Finally today, one more editorial, this time from Virginia, where they’re proposing a law that would finally close the loophole around sales of firearms at gun shows. Legislators in that state and many others have gone out of their way to make sure that firearms sales are well documented– almost every gun sale requires paperwork [...]
The Hartford Courant has an editorial up about the Connecticut gun law proposed that would require gun owners and dealer to report lost or stolen firearms within a certain time period of their loss to police. The law is designed to help cops make a connection between a gun being lost or stolen, and a [...]
We had a post last week about Ted Nugent’s latest lunacy (if the NRA was a living, breathing person, it would probably be the Nuge), and now our friend Josh Sugarmann of the Violence Policy Center places Nugent in his sights. Released from his insular world of gun shows, shed concerts, and National Rifle Association [...]
We publish a list of violence just like this one, every day of the week. That’s what the NRA’s extremist policies are doing to our country. NC: Police shoot man after he fires shots at them while running away PA: Shooting at bar leads to motel standoff CA: 21-year-old arrested by police for shooting of [...]
Why is nutjob Ted Nugent in the news again? Oh right, he’s scheduled to play that legendary rock venue the “Greater Reading Sport Travel & Outdoor Show at the Greater Reading Expo Center in Muhlenberg Township.” We’re guessing that tickets there aren’t real expensive, so if Nugent wants his paycheck, he’s going to have to [...]
Another school shooting in Pennsylvania, this time in Philadelphia. How much more of this must we take before legislators there realize it’s time for a change? Joseph Donnelly was parking his car behind William L. Sayre High School in West Philadelphia yesterday morning when he heard the first gunshot. He flung open his car door [...]
An SUV near an FBI agent’s home got broken into last weekend, and a few firearms owned by the FBI are now out on the streets where criminals can use them to commit crimes. Seven weapons, including two submachine guns, were stolen last weekend from an FBI agent’s vehicle in Southwest Washington, the agency said [...]
When you have a country full of guns (just like ours), this is what happens all the time. PA: Confrontation outside school results in teen shot twice; there may have been two students with guns at scene, say police NJ: Alleged shooter has little to say in court appearance CA: Police asking public for clues [...]
The Cinncinnati Post has a short piece up about what else can be done to stop gun violence. Communities there are banding together to confront those responsible for violence in their community, and force them to cut it out. It’s time to take the next step in a strategy to fight Cincinnati’s gun violence. That [...]
Another suicide at a gun range in Massachusetts is prompting calls for stronger regulations on who can walk in and start shooting. The sign on its front door states “no permit required,†but police allege a local gun shooting range violated city regulations when it allowed a woman to walk in, obtain a gun and [...]
We can’t believe this issue is still coming up (and in the New York Times, no less– what are they thinking?), but as long as people keep idiotically suggesting the idea of mandatory gun ownership, we’ll keep blowing it out of the water. The latest offender is Instapundit Glenn Reynolds, who is somehow convinced that [...]
It’s clear we need stronger gun laws, because a list of events like this happens every single day. IL: Woman charged with reckless conduct after her grandson finds a gun in her glove compartment, shoots himself DE: Warrant issued for arrest of man sought in shooting at restaurant AL: Teen will be charged as adult [...]
We’ve said it before: it’s one of the finer ironies of the group known as the National Rifle Association that they haven’t, for a long time, represented anything even close to the interests of this actual nation. Their views are extremist and dangerous, and while they claim a large base, politically their ideas belong to [...]
Yet another editorial in this Philadelphia Inquirer about ending the rash of homicides with badly needed stronger gun laws. Just like all the others, it’s powerful. But how many more powerful editorials will it take before things change? Crime could be the top issue during the contest to succeed Philadelphia Mayor John Street. If last [...]
More today on the new proposed firearms laws in Connecticut, including a law that would require gun owners whose guns are lost or stolen to report the incident. Freshman state Rep. William Tong of Stamford yesterday kept a campaign promise, joining other Democrats in sponsoring a half-dozen proposals to curb gun violence and target lost [...]
And the violence continues. Until we strengthen our gun laws and change our gun culture, this is what happens. IN: Man in critical condition after being shot four times this morning IN: Workplace shooting suspect charged with aggravated battery, not attempted murder GA: Two teenagers shot while leaving a party NY: Gang member arrested, charged [...]
Finally, Hollis Wayne Fincher, the gun guy who wanted to argue the Second Amendment in court, has been found guilty. A federal court jury found Hollis Wayne Fincher guilty of having illegal, unregistered weapons, including machine guns and a sawed-off shotgun. Fincher, 60, had two .308-caliber machine guns, homemade versions of the Browning model 1919. [...]
Perhaps the worst thing about working for stronger gun laws is that things don’t often seem to change until something goes wrong. You can talk all day about how great a new law would be, or how much safer it would make American citizens. But until people see a problem, or an unecessary tragedy occurs, [...]
More news from Virginia about the recent push for a close, finally, to the gun show loophole there. Currently, it takes zero paperwork– zero– to get a gun at a gun show in Virginia. That’s a gaping hole in our safety against violence, and it needs to be closed. Any 11-year-old would know that, and [...]
If this doesn’t call for an outrage, nothing does. WI: Officer saved by bulletproof vest after being shot by carjacker KS: Two people hurt in drive-by shooting NC: Late night shooting leaves one man dead MN: Man found shot to death in vehicle AK: Man killed in shooting at trailer park, investigators work through night [...]
Karen Heller, a columnist at the Philly Inquirer, has a question. The gun problem in this country, she says, is big trouble for all Americans. Our people are under attack, and dying in the streets. So why don’t we seem to care about it? The less “a well regulated militia being necessary to the security [...]
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