(We are pleased to post the following guest column from Freedom States Alliance affiliate, the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence). ICHV Insights Column by Jennifer Bishop, National Program Director for Victims and Survivors for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. My sister Nancy was 25 and my brother-in-law Richard was 28. Nancy was pregnant [...]
The Salt Lake Tribune reported on Oct. 29th, an unintentional shooting by an 11-year-old girl that may have paralyzed her 14-year-old brother as he is listed in critical condition. When will parents who own guns learn that what they were told by the gun industry — that firearms would make their lives safer — is [...]
The Associated Press reported on Oct. 31st in Stockton Springs, Maine, that a horrific tragedy involving young children was, thankfully, averted. Police say a gunman held 11 fifth-graders hostage at an elementary school in Maine but he was taken into custody without any harm to the children. Chief Deputy Robert Keating of the Waldo County [...]
We are a nation that is out of step with other industrialized countries when it comes to the issue of kids and guns. While most nations recognize that absolutely no good can come of exposing children to guns at a young age, we live in a gun culture that promotes romantic notions of generations 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. Later in the day, an 8-year-old boy, [...]
While many of us are still cleaning up after the mess left behind from the lack of government oversight of our country’s financial system, the shooting death of an 8-year-old boy with an Uzi is further evidence as to why government regulation can be a very good thing. Over the weekend, 8-year-old Christopher Bizilj and [...]
The Boston Globe reported on October 28th that lawmakers are taking a hard look at gun laws in Massachusetts after an 8-year-old boy, Christopher Bizilj, could not control an Uzi machine gun and shot himself in the head. The awful tragedy occurred in front of a weapons instructor and the boy’s own father who is [...]
(Associated Press photo printed in New York Times: Daniel Cowart of Bells, Tenn., was one of two men charged in what officials called a white supremacist assassination plot). The Associated Press reported on Oct. 27th that federal agents disrupted a plot by two neo-Nazi skinheads to rob a gun store, arm themselves and on a [...]
(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. Later in the day, an 8-year-old boy, [...]
(We are pleased to include the following blog post from Freedom States Alliance affiliate, the New England Coalition To Prevent Gun Violence). I think machine gun shoots are pathetic events. Basically, it’s a bunch of guys who get together and blow things up. They are drawn by the chance to shoot a variety of fully [...]
CNN reported the following tragic shooting on Oct. 27th, at yet another college campus. (CNN) — Police are searching for two suspects in the fatal shooting of two University of Central Arkansas students Sunday night, while two other suspects are in custody, authorities said Monday. The first suspect was apprehended in his car shortly after [...]
(As a resource to our readers, we are pleased to post the following press release from GunFreeKids.org and New Yorkers Against Gun Violence. Note: GunGuys.com does not endorse candidates for elected office). Also, listen to NY public radio interview with Andy Pelosi of GunFreeKids.org. PRESS RELEASE October 23, 2008 Contacts: Jackie Hilly (917-587-4108) / Andy [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Violence). WASHINGTON, Oct 21, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ — The U.S. Supreme Court’s Second Amendment decision in D.C. v. Heller may have the “unintended consequence” of helping to enact stronger gun laws, according to a report issued today by [...]
The Wall Street Journal posted a story on Oct. 14th about the rise of illegal guns in China. We can only hope that China, for its own sake and domestic security, clamps down on private gun ownership. The message to China should be simple: don’t repeat the mistakes of the United States by permitting rampant [...]
As posted on Newsweek on Oct. 23rd, FactCheck.org skewered the NRA’s grossly misleading and blatantly false ad: The National Rifle Association’s misleading attacks on Obama continue. A new ad shows a terrified woman grabbing a gun after an intruder smashes his way into her home. It accuses Obama of voting repeatedly for a measure that [...]
An in-depth article from the Portland Press Herald on Oct. 23rd reported that a citizen in New Gloucester, Maine erected a large sign depicting Sen. Obama in a traditional Somali dress compared to an image of Sen. McCain in a Navy flight suit. The obvious implication by the owner of the sign, Robert Horr — [...]
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 [...]
A front page story on the New York Times on Oct. 21st reported that conservative legal scholars sharply criticized Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller that stripped DC of its ability to ban deadly handguns, and other sensible measures, to save lives from gun violence. Two conservative federal judges [...]
KS: A three-year-old Topeka boy who was shot in the head today in his home is being transported from Stormont-Vail hospital to Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City. Family members tell 27 news that adults in the home were playing with a gun that went off. CA: Authorities were still trying to find out whether [...]
(We are pleased to post the following guest column from Freedom States Alliance affiliate, the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence). ICHV Guest Column by Susan D. Wright, Esq. Too many young people living in the city of Chicago are afraid for their lives. When working with youth, I ask them what they think we can [...]
(We are pleased to post this remarkable essay by Ladd Everitt, Director of Communications for the Coalition To Stop Gun Violence, from CSGV’s blog. It’s certainly a must-read column). Recently, CSGV Director of Communications Ladd Everitt met with Brian Borgelt, the former owner of Bull’s Eye Shooter Supply, while spending time in Tacoma, Washington. Bull’s [...]
An article from the Beacon News in the Chicago suburbs on Oct. 20th reported that 13 Illinois counties will hold non-binding voter referendums on election day, Nov. 4th, on whether residents should be permitted to carry deadly and hidden handguns in public places, such as child daycare centers, hospitals, shopping malls, nursing homes, sporting events, [...]
(As a resource to our readers, we are posting the following press release from the Brady Campaign. As we have noted numerous times before, GunGuys.com does not endorse candidates for elected office). WASHINGTON, Oct. 16: As the gun issue gets discussed and debated in political races around the country this election season, the Brady Campaign [...]
(We are posting the following press release from GunFreeKids.org, New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, and the Brady Campaign. Note: GunGuys.com does not endorse candidates for elected office). For Immediate Release October 15, 2008 Contact: Andy Pelosi, 914-629-6726, andy@gunfreekids.org Jackie Hilly, 212-679-2345, nyagv@nyagv.org New York, NY – Three major gun violence prevention organizations today announced their [...]
The fashion and entertainment website, TrendHunter posted photos of pop icon, Madonna, using guns as fashion accessories. Advocates and survivors of gun violence were, appropriately, outraged at her insensitivity and for glamorizing guns, especially to young women. Madonna is catching some heat for wearing Chanel’s gun heel shoes to the NYC screening of her film [...]
GA: Tyshiaunna Simmons, 14, was killed in an apparent unintentional shooting after school. Detectives think the 16-year-old male was unfamiliar with the gun as he was handling it, and the gun accidentally went off. The teen was charged with involuntary manslaughter. TX: A Montana Vista boy, Brandon Lee Garcia, 12, who accidentally shot himself in [...]
(GunGuys.com does not endorse any candidate for elected office). The Brady Campaign is targeting Illinois State Rep. Dennis Reboletti (R-46th) who represents DuPage County, a suburban enclave of Chicago, for his vote against HB 758, a bill to require background checks on all handgun sales to keep deadly weapons out of the hands of gang [...]
PA: A former Marine, Christian Squillaciotti, 33, was charged in a road-rage shooting that critically injured a motorist driving his 8-year-old daughter to her home in suburban Philadelphia. Squillaciotti was charged with attempted murder and aggravated assault. IL: Just three days before gunning down 13-year-old Sameere Conn, Sebastian Rodriguez called the boy and warned him [...]
(We are pleased to post Chicago Public Schools CEO Arne Duncan’s remarks from the ICHV Lincoln Awards luncheon). I wish we could stand here today and declare victory over gun violence. I would love to salute elected officials across the State of Illinois for having the political courage to pass common sense gun laws that [...]
The Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence (ICHV) honored Chicago Public Schools CEO, Arne Duncan, with the prestigious Abraham Lincoln Award at its 26th annual awards banquet. However, in light of yet another shooting tragedy where a Chicago Public Schools student, Kiyanna Salter, 17, was killed by stray gunfire on a CTA bus on Sunday, Oct. [...]
Sen. Barack Obama panders hard to the NRA in a new ad running in Ohio, Pennsylvania and North Carolina according to Politico. In the ad, the voiceover says that “Barack Obama supports gun rights, our right to defend ourselves, and the Second Amendment.” Obama has, unfortunately, taken the gun lobby’s bait and framed his position [...]
(We are pleased to post the following guest commentary and political cartoon by Martha Rosenberg). You’d think the National Rifle Association (NRA) would be taking bows. In June, the Supreme Court put its “Gun Confiscation Phobia” (GCP) to rest by finding the District of Columbia’s gun ban unconstitutional and affirming the Second Amendment. (Evanston, Morton [...]
The Los Angles Times reported on Oct. 6th a grisly murder-suicide in Porter Ranch where Karthik Rajaram, 45, used a handgun he purchased on Sept. 16th to murder his family before killing himself. An unemployed financial advisor apparently despondent over his troubles shot and killed his wife, his mother-in-law and three children before taking his [...]
Random gunfire claimed the life of yet another Chicago teenager, Kiyanna Salter, 17, in a horrific tragedy. According to Chicago’s CBS news station, WBBM on Oct. 6th: CHICAGO (CBS) ― A teenage girl was shot and killed Sunday night while riding a CTA bus traveling through the South Side’s Grand Crossing neighborhood. On Monday morning, [...]
(We are posting the following obituary from the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence, about our dear friend, Mike Robbins who died on Sept. 13th. Mike was a remarkable advocate, who is sorely missed by all of us). Mike Robbins, a Vietnam veteran who later became a police officer and was shot in the line of [...]
It’s become one of the oldest tricks in the cynical political playbook: manipulate working class union households to vote against their own economic interests by dividing Americans along “social issues” such as guns, religion, gay marriage, and even civil rights issues. But perhaps there is hope that at least some “Reagan democrats” are tired of [...]
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