Mayor Michael Bloomberg wrote in an op-ed in the New York Times on Feb. 28th: “I’m Not Running for President, But…”. Watching the 2008 presidential campaign, you sometimes get the feeling that the candidates — smart, all of them — must know better. They must know we can’t fix our economy and create jobs by [...]
CA: Police are searching for a gunman who wounded eight people at a busy South Los Angeles bus stop and why he opened fire into a crowd of children and adults. WA: Family never thought killer in murder-suicide would have guns. Jeffrey Calvert, 41, of Bellingham had kicked in the door to 35-year-old Christin Stock’s [...]
The Marin Independent Journal in California is to be applauded for recognizing that we not only have an easy gun availability problem in America; we have – as Gun Guys has frequently noted – a gun culture problem. In a February 24th editorial, the Marin newspaper observes: Fatal shootings have become so commonplace that it [...]
For quite some time, Gun Guys and Freedom States Alliance have been informing you about the dangers posed by the .50 Caliber Sniper Rifle: dangers to our police, to our travelers on airlines, to our elected officials, and to the national security. Unfortunately, with the exception of the State of California, these military high-powered weapons [...]
OK: Dustin Thorson, 35, had said he would kill his two children if his wife went through with a divorce last May. Monday afternoon, the Tinker Air Force Base tech sergeant kept his deadly promise when he shot Jourdain, 9, and Dylan, 4 to death. WA: Jeff Calvert, 41, kicked in the door then shot [...]
CA: Yorba Linda police hoped to interview a wounded 14-year-old boy who survived an apparent murder-suicide rampage that left five other members of his family dead. PA: Snowball fight leads to teen’s shooting on 16th birthday WI: Wis. authorities consider charges in accidental shooting IL: Memorial honors 5 victims of Ill. campus shooting FL: Shooting [...]
We’ve referred readers before to an extraordinary moving website called “Wounded in America.†It is created as a photo and essay documentary of gunshot victims in the United States who are survivors. Chicagoans Stephanie Arena and Robert Drea have assembled this dramatic exhibition because of their commitment to educating Americans about the impact of firearms [...]
Josh Horwitz, Executive Director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, raises a provocative perspective on the Washington D.C. ban on handguns case that the U.S. Supreme Court is considering. In a recent commentary in the Huffington Post, Horwitz writes: In the Heller case, the decision in question is that of the U.S. Court of [...]
Okay, we’ve talked several times on Gun Guys about how the gun lobby has been looking for new markets, including passing laws in states that would force colleges and universities to allow firearms – including concealed handguns – on campuses, whether it is the wish of the academic institution or not. We’ve noted that the [...]
To an Internet gun seller in Green Bay Wisconsin, it’s just one of those quirky things that the shooter at Virginia Tech bought a gun from the dealer’s website and the Northern Illinois University Shooter purchased gun accessories from the dealer’s Internet store. According to a recent article: The online gun dealer who sold a [...]
Michael J. Sullivan, who’s been tapped by the Bush administration to head the ATF, has been blocked in the Senate over his enforcement of gun laws. Most striking is that two of the Senators blocking Sullivan’s appointment are David Vitter (LA) and Larry Craig (ID). Senator Vitter, as you might remember, was a client in [...]
N.C.: One dead and two wounded in party shooting TN: Police in Tennessee are holding two men on attempted murder charges for shooting partygoers at the Chattanooga Theatre Centre near Coolidge Park. TX: Family feud leads to shooting of man, 15-year-old boy AR: Fayetteville police are investigating a shooting and suicide to see if they [...]
A columnist from the Chicago Tribune, Dawn Turner Trice, wrote a wonderful piece on Feb. 18th: “Let’s fight the enemy within U.S.” It’s worth quoting at length: If a man or woman campaigning to be the next president of the United States didn’t have a detailed plan to fight foreign terrorists, we’d think he or [...]
Los Angeles Times Column: ‘Prayers’ Just Won’t Do The truth is that guns make the malicious, the malcontent and the mad powerful. They confer the power of life and death on the demented and deranged — and yet we do nothing. There are more guns circulating in the U.S. today than ever before, somewhere around [...]
NH: 11-year-old girl hurt in a murder-suicide is improving after she was shot in the head by her mother. Angela Bystrack, 42, killed her husband and wounded her daughter before killing herself. TX: The bodies of Juan Cardenas Soria, 50, and Maria Navarette Porras, 43, were discovered, both apparently suffered single gunshot wounds, authorities investigating. [...]
According to a local TV station in western Wisconsin: An Internet gun dealer based in Green Bay that sold a weapon to the Virginia Tech shooter last year sold handgun accessories to the man who killed five at Northern Illinois University Thursday. Eric Thompson says that his Web site, www.thegunsource.com, sold two empty 9 millimeter [...]
(We are posting a press release from States United to Prevent Gun Violence). PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release February 15, 2008 Contacts: Barbara Hohlt (646) 594-8956 / Bryan Miller (856) 371-3038 The World Looks On In Shock and Disgust As America Endures Another Massacre – While Politicians Sit On Their Hands New York: America suffers [...]
(We are pleased to post the following joint press release from the national leading gun violence prevention organizations: the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, and the Violence Policy Center). Washington, DC–Following yesterday’s mass shooting at Northern Illinois University which left six dead, including the shooter, and 16 wounded, [...]
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 [...]
Even in Maine, common sense may be beginning to prevail. It’s not a giant leap, but it is a small step. A legislative committee has voted unanimously to restrict long gun sales to minors unless they have parental permission. Yes, you might ask, why in the world can an underage youth currently buy a rifle [...]
IL: Gunman at Illinois College Kills 6 Students, Wounds 15 CA: Oxnard school shooting called a hate crime TX: Car fire, fatal shooting are linked, police say FL: Second suspect sought in Coral Springs shooting AZ: Increased bail sought in road-rage shooting KA: Police seek suspected gunman in shooting outside Lawrence nightclub IL: Police are [...]
According to Breaking News on CNN: (CNN) — At least two people have been shot and several injured at Northern Illinois University outside Chicago, CNN affiliates are reporting. Ambulances line up at Northern Illinois University after a shooting. The gunman who opened fire in a lecture hall is dead according to DeKalb police, the Chicago [...]
Leave it to the satirical and humorous Onion news network to shed light on the gun lobby’s ridiculous talking points over gun control, this time in the guise of debating waiting periods over suicide vests. With such sad and tragic news every day over the appalling levels of gun violence in America, sometimes it’s good [...]
Leonard Pitts, a columnist from the Miami Herald, wrote a piece, “When theory and reality clash on gun control, put money on the latter”. In his column Pitts comes down on the right (read rational) side of the debate, but completely misfires in his analysis of the debate over gun control. Pitts makes the continued [...]
CA: 15-year-old, Lawrence King, was shot by a fellow student, 14, at his junior high school has been declared brain dead, and his body is being maintained on a ventilator for possible organ donation. GA: Police arrested Joshua White who was baby-sitting his girlfriend’s 3-year-old son when the boy accidentally shot himself above the eye [...]
Before you even continue reading, we urge you to sign the petition to keep guns, particularly handguns and assault rifles out of our national parks. Just click here. The majority of the senate, under NRA pressure, will likely vote to allow the carrying of loaded handguns in our treasured National Parks. Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) [...]
We recently wrote a couple of stories about a grisly Maryland family shooting and a Baltimore Sun editorial about it: “After 15-Year-Old Murders Parents and Two Brothers, Baltimore Sun Editorializes: ‘Families need to become better educated about the grim reality of bringing a gun into the home.’†As the Baltimore Sun noted: A great deal [...]
For those just catching up, the Bush administration’s own Solicitor General, Paul D. Clement, submitted a brief to the Supreme Court just hours before the deadline, asserting that the D.C. Appellate Court used the “wrong standard when it struck down the District’s ban on private handgun ownership, and it urged the Supreme Court to return [...]
AR: 12-year-old Brandon Hunter Crow was shot in the ear by a 13-year-old friend who pointed the handgun “gangster style” in Crow’s direction and pulled the trigger under the assumption that it was unloaded. MN: Donald Paul Schaefer, 64, shot and killed his wife, Susan Jean Schaefer, 57, with a handgun then killed himself. OR: [...]
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 [...]
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported a grisly rampage shooting at a city hall meeting last night on Feb. 7th. KIRKWOOD — The last things Charles Lee “Cookie” Thornton said to his family were “To God be the glory” and that he loved them. Then Thornton headed to Kirkwood City Hall, gunning down a police officer [...]
According to a local Phoenix TV station’s report posted on Feb. 7th, a rampage shooting using a military-style assault rifle was barely averted. Kurt William Havelock, 35, of Tempe, Ariz., turned himself into police on Sunday night at the urging of his family. According to authorities, Havelock was just less than a mile from the [...]
Every state has an agency that seeks to attract business. There are all sorts of pitches: tax incentives, low wages, style of life, etc. But, apparently, Oklahoma has a new angle. It’s hanging out the shingles to welcome gun manufacturers to the state, with enthusiasm and pride. According to a February 7th article, Oklahoma State [...]
GunGuys wrote about the gruesome weekend murder of four members of a Maryland family by their son and brother. The Baltimore Sun took note of the horrible tragedy in a February 5, 2008, editorial. The newspaper was having none of the usual NRA rhetoric that a gun in the home protects a family: Baltimore County [...]
CA: L.A. standoff ends with five dead including SWAT officer, gunman AZ: Charles “Chucky” Whitaker, one of two Dallas firefighters gunned down in a drive-by shooting in Peoria following the Super Bowl, died two days later in a Valley hospital. TX: Houston police are investigating the shootings of two people outside Reliant Stadium. GA: Authorities [...]
MO: Andrew Anthony Guerrero shot and killed his pregnant ex-wife, Nicolette Lyons-Reed, 23, and her 8-month-old daughter, Leah Lyons-Reed. WI: Heather A. Markwardt, 20, will be tried for providing the gun and driving the getaway car in a murder-suicide almost two years ago. James D. Butler, 22, shot his pregnant girlfriend, Trisha Bergemann, 22, before [...]
We are pleased to post this special commentary from Cathie Whittenburg, Director of the New England Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence, also an affiliate group of the Freedom States Alliance. A woman stands in the middle of chaos, a gun in each hand. She fires rapidly and repeatedly as the camera circles around her faster [...]
At GunGuys.com, we’re straight shooters: the gun industry and lobby are lying to you when they attempt to tell you that owning a gun will make you safer. Get it? They’re trying to sell you products (deadly guns) and they’ll use anything and everything they can to get you to purchase a firearm. But what [...]
CA: Ronald Deugan, 49, was shot in the head by a Border Patrol agent as he drove several suspected illegal immigrants. OH: Stacey Lee Znamenacek, 37, was shot 4 times by her estranged husband, Michael Znamenacek, 42, before killing himself. Afraid for her life, Stacey had obtained a domestic-violence protection order on Jan. 15, and [...]
Whenever the gun lobby is confronted with the fact that handguns in the home are more likely to be used against someone in the house, a relative or an acquaintance — rather than in self-defense — they always bring up the canard that people with guns prevent tens of thousands of crimes a year. We’ve [...]
Part of the sad narrative of America’s love affair with gun violence is that we historically have seen “fads” of deadly shooting outbreaks: schools, workplaces, and now malls. On Saturday, February 2, in a Lane Bryant store in the Southwest suburban suburb of Tinley Park, at least five people have died. As we write this [...]
(We are pleased to post the following information from GunFreeKids.org. NOTE: GunGuys.com does not endorse any political candidates for office. We do, however, encourage you to inform yourselves about the stances and records of the presidential candidates from both political parties before “Super Tuesday” on Feb. 5th). The 2008 Presidential Primary season is in full [...]
TX: Tiffany Michelle Johnston, the wife of a jail escapee who shot at two law enforcement officials, was sentenced to eight years in prison for giving him a gun after picking him up. CA: Geraldine Meyers, a fitness trainer who doused her ex-boyfriend with pepper spray before and after shooting him twice in the back [...]
An article from the Los Angeles Times on Feb. 1st noted that two democratic senators are seeking to widen the scope of background checks despite a similar statewide measure that failed in Virginia. The Los Angeles Times story is worth quoting at length: Gun-control advocates have been largely stymied in their efforts to get significant [...]
(We are pleased to post this alert from Freedom States Alliance affiliate, the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence). With the presidential campaign on the minds of many Americans, we would like to share information about how candidates view gun control issues. As a nonprofit organization with 501(c)(3) status, we cannot make endorsements, but we can [...]
IN: Marital trouble could be why 28-year-old Dwayne Johnson Jr. shot and killed his 8-year-old daughter Jordan with a rifle before killing himself. MD: After verbal altercation at their apartment Damien Sharmek Stevens Jr., 28, shot and killed his girlfriend, Lashawnda Makeisha Tate, 31, then turned gun on himself. CT: Luis Sanchez, 23, who wanted [...]
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