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 [...]
It is difficult sometimes to comprehend just how abysmal and deficient the American system of justice can be. According to the Houston Chronicle’s report on June 30th, Joe Horn, a man who gunned down two illegal immigrants in the back when he saw them breaking into his neighbor’s home, and who was adamantly warned by [...]
NC: A 15-month-old girl was killed when a gun her father was cleaning went off unintentionally. Deputies said the girl was sitting in her high-chair around while her father was cleaning the gun. The toddler was rushed to Rutherford Hospital, where she died. CA: Merced Police say a husband broke into his estranged wife’s home [...]
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 [...]
Guns are not televisions. They are not electronic games. They are not toys. They are not i-pods. Guns are dangerous. Guns can kill. It’s so simple to understand, but the cultural/political “sacredness” that we have applied to firearms defies this basic common sense understanding. So, as a result, once again we read about another tragic [...]
KY: An employee shot five people dead at a plastics plant before killing himself early Wednesday, police said. FL: Deltona teen survives shooting CO: Cousin: Woman held in shooting in “wrong place” WA: WA father, 81, charged in son’s shooting death MD: Shooting victim flown to Shock Trauma; suspects from Virginia CA: San Francisco police [...]
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. [...]
Shortly after midnight on June 25th, a heated argument between an employee and his boss resulted in a gun massacre at a factory in Kentucky. The employee went home to retrieve a gun then returned to the company and shot and killed five fellow employees before killing himself. According to MSNBC: Police say worker went [...]
The Chicago Tribune reported on June 24, about another young boy who was critically wounded from random gunfire from a drive-by shooting. As an 8-year-old boy critically wounded in a drive-by shooting was being wheeled into an operating room at Stroger Hospital late Monday, he turned to the doctors and nurses and said, “You guys [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from our Freedom States Alliance affiliate, Ceasefire NJ). PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release Contact: Bryan Miller (856) 371-3038 June 23, 2008 Ceasefire NJ Applauds Assembly’s Bipartisan Passage of Bill Intended to Cut Into Illegal Handgun Trafficking — Legislation Now Moves to State Senate Trenton: The New [...]
Okay, it’s the summer and time to take the kids to the zoo, or the beach, or the children’s museum, or…well out to fire off machine guns. No, we are not making this up, just read the Oklahoma News from June 22: Most fathers take their boys to play catch or fish or golf or [...]
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 [...]
TX: Man arrested in shooting of 1-year-old daughter IN: Charges filed in shooting of pregnant woman CO: Man arrested in girl’s shooting UT: A woman was injured in a drive-by shooting in Salt Lake City early Monday evening CA: Suspect in officer shooting is killed in highway shootout FL: Four days after a triple shooting [...]
An investigative report on June 22nd, from the Laguna Journal Newspaper, in California by Michael Webster, added yet more evidence that lax gun laws in the U.S. are fueling the war between drug cartels along the U.S. and Mexican border and allowing an unprecedented arms trafficking business. The illegal weapons being trafficked into Mexico from [...]
(We are pleased to post the following action alert from our Freedom States Alliance affiliate, Ceasefire NJ). Friends of Ceasefire NJ: Ceasefire NJ has learned that our “One Handgun A Month Bill,” A-339, will be up for a vote in Trenton by the full NJ Assembly on Monday afternoon. This is a critical vote for [...]
FL: A 17 year old girl called 911 after discovering her parents, Rhea Galfano, 51 and Phillip Galfano, 47, dead on the floor of their home. Deputies believe this is a murder suicide and don’t suspect foul play. Deputies have responded to the home in the past for domestic disputes, neighbors say Philip Galfano was [...]
Freedom States Alliance affiliate, the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence, honored East St. Louis Elementary school student Yhazon Kennedy, a 2nd grade student from Katie Harper Wright Elementary School, for his essay urging leaders to “take a stand” to fight gun violence. Yhazon Kennedy’s award-winning essay was part of ICHV’s 13th ‘Annual Student Essay, Poetry [...]
TX: A 12-year-old boy, William Lincoln, was killed from an unintentional shooting after a friend discharged a shotgun. Three children were home alone. There were several guns in the house that were not secured in a gun case. Investigators said they are still trying to determine where the parents of the children were at the [...]
The New York Times, on June 19th, reported a chronic and dangerous problem that the gun industry would rather you not know about: “More than 30,000 firearms are unaccounted for in gun dealers’ inventories nationwide, according to a new study by a gun control group.†According to the sponsor of the study, the Brady Center [...]
Before you cross the border into Canada, there are usually large signs indicating that handguns are not allowed into the country from the U.S. While guns are allowed for hunting in Canada, the nation has much stricter gun regulations than the U.S. and a lower gun violence rate. So it was interesting to read a [...]
IL: Suspect in custody in fatal porch shooting UT: Man wounded in Ogden drive-by shooting LA: Teenager shot to death in Algiers FL: 3 Teens Charged In Fatal Shooting MN: Belle Plaine Hunter Pleads Guilty in Son’s Shooting Death AL: Man Sought in Shooting of 12-year-old VA: Two men indicted in Norfolk shooting death SC: [...]
In New Jersey, Assemblyman Reed Gusciora’s bill to regulate powerful .50 caliber sniper rifles is now on the move as the legislation was voted out of the Assembly Judiciary Committee. (Read the full press release from Gusciora’s office, posted on the Freedom States Alliance’s campaign, .50CaliberTerror.com.) Potentially Destructive Military-Grade Weapons Pose Security Threat to NJ [...]
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 [...]
CA: Union City police suspect a murder suicide after they found a man and woman shot to death inside their Mission Boulevard apartment after a neighbor reported them missing for several days. VA: In apparent murder-suicide, Norfolk police said it appeared that a woman was shot, and that a man then shot himself. There was [...]
It’s about time! Finally the mainstream media is catching up with GunGuys.com. That’s certainly the case with a June 14th article from the LA Times that details why the perception of the NRA as omnipotent in our elections is generally a false one. As we’ve always noted, the NRA has a bark that is a [...]
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’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: guns, particularly handguns, are a prime target for theft. Why, because they are easy to steal, easy to hide, and easy to sell. So, it’s no surprise that we frequently read accounts of stolen guns from police blotters posted on the Internet. But that doesn’t even [...]
FL: Funeral shooting investigation continues TN: Fight over family dog may have triggered shooting AL: Man in critical condition after weekend shooting CA: Cops try to untangle alleged spree, shooting IL: Father Of NIU Shooting Victim Grieves For Son CA: Three arrested after drive-by shooting IL: Man gets 31 years for shooting at ex-wife’s car [...]
A report from ABC on June 12th stated: The nation’s leading gun control group filed a “friend of the court” brief back in January defending the gun ban in Washington, D.C. But with the Supreme Court poised to hand down a potentially landmark decision in the case, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence fully [...]
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution wrote on June 11th that “Georgia gun stores supplied more guns that were later recovered at crimes in other places than any other state in the nation, according to a Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence review of 2007 federal data.” As a source for guns, Georgia outranked much more populous states [...]
LA: Bobby Brantley, 32, threatened to kill his estranged wife, Theresa Brantley, 31. Twelve hours later, Brantley fulfilled his fatal promise, murdering her and her mother inside her family’s home before shooting himself after a standoff as police entered the house to save a 4-month-old boy. FL: A 14-year-old boy saw his father shoot his [...]
A supporter of GunGuys sent us this video from the “ShotShow” in 2008, the gun industry’s show and tell event where new products (read deadly weapons) are unveiled. The following video demonstrates a prototype concealed machine gun that folds up into your back pocket, and in a rather chilling fashion, looks like a flashlight that [...]
The Children’s Defense Fund (CDF), founded by Marian Wright Edelman, has long been a leading, vigorous advocate on the behalf of providing a safe and promising future for the young people of America. One of the primary obstacles to the promise of our nation for children has long been gun violence – and this has [...]
SC: A 4-year-old girl shot herself in the chest Monday after snatching her grandmother’s handgun from the woman’s purse while riding in a shopping cart at a Sam’s Club store NV: Supporters rally outside teen’s hospital; police investigate links to grad party MA: Police arrest suspect in fatal weekend shooting in Lynn IL: Man fatally [...]
When right-wing and gun extremists get it wrong, they really get it wrong. An article in the radical propaganda website WorldNetDaily on June 4th said that “gun control” is to blame for the spiraling violence in various hot spots around the world, such as in Africa where refugees who escaped Zimbabwe and fled to South [...]
NE: A 39–year–old woman got into a dispute with her former husband and went to her neighbors for help. When she reached their back porch, authorities say the ex fired 4 rounds, killing the woman. The ex-husband then drove south of town and took his own life. The woman has four children. UT: A homeowner [...]
An editorial in the New York Times on June 6, 2008 titled “Combating Illegal Guns” says that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s campaign against rogue gun dealers is showing positive results. The Times editorial states: Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s campaign against illegal guns won a notable victory this week when a Georgia gun dealer decided [...]
There appears to be an inherent contradiction in the gun lobby. On the one hand it argues that we should be afraid of an overbearing national government that wants to take away our rights. On the other hand it vigorously pursues state and federal laws that deny cities with serious gun violence problems from enacting [...]
We recently wrote about how a handgun carrier in Massachusetts felt “inconvenienced†and “made to feel an outlaw†by screening requirements in that state. In response to an effort by the state gun lobbying group in the Bay State to ease CCW requirements, an author of the tight gun control laws in Mass. wrote a [...]
On June 4th, the Chicago Tribune posted a brief article about the “5 reasons” why Sen. Obama beat Sen. Clinton for the Democratic nomination. What jumped out at us is that the Tribune also listed “5 major differences between Obama and McCain”: 1. McCain supports the Iraq War; Obama opposes it. 2. McCain opposes abortion; [...]
NC: Kevin Franklin Norman, 36, shot his wife, Elizabeth Williams Norman, 37, in the chest and killing her then fatally shot himself in the head. The couple’s daughter, a 17-year-old senior at West Lincoln High, is set to graduate on Saturday. IL: On Tuesday, family members laid to rest 47-year-old Rebecca Fontana and her 7-year-old [...]
The Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence (ICHV) hosted its 13th ‘Annual Student Essay, Poetry and Art Contest’ to honor students working to prevent gun violence. The ICHV awards ceremony hosted on June 3rd at Daley Academy on the South Side of Chicago took on a greater significance as students are getting involved in their communities [...]
On June 1, the Baltimore Sun reported that nearly half the guns used in crimes in Maryland come from other states, many with loose gun laws and located in the South. “Maryland is doing a pretty good job. It is making it much harder for criminals to get guns,” said Daniel Vice, senior attorney at [...]
A recent Boston Globe article published on June 1st reminds us that many guys who carry handguns are very sensitive, very sensitive indeed. For example, Jim Lynch felt that his screening for a permit to carry a concealed handgun (CCW) was deeply humiliating: “By the time he was finished with the process of applying for [...]
TX: Kaufman County man indicted in shooting of teen who crossed yard OK: Pregnant teen loses baby following drive-by shooting AZ: Officer Erik Hite, 43, was struck during an hour-long pursuit Sunday of a camouflage-dressed gunman who shot at homes from a car. PA: Unidentified man critical after Beltzhoover shooting IL: Man dead, woman hurt [...]
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