According to the LA Times: Los Angeles police are continuing their investigation today into the murder-suicide of a Wilmington man and his family. Human rights leaders led a candlelight vigil Tuesday night outside the home where 40-year-old Ervin Lupoe shot and killed his wife and five young children, including two sets of twins. In front [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release and new study from the Violence Policy Center). FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, January 26, 2009 CONTACT: Mandy Wimmer, Communications Associate, mwimmer@vpc.org STATE’S BLACK HOMICIDE RATE OF 36.86 PER 100,000 IS NEARLY SEVEN TIMES NATIONAL OVERALL HOMICIDE RATE OF 5.38 PER 100,000 Washington, DC–Pennsylvania leads the nation [...]
The Associated Press reported on Jan. 27th, 2009: PORTLAND — The man suspected of shooting nine people and himself outside a Portland nightclub left a note in which he bequeathed his car and PlayStation 3 to a roommate and said he was sorry. In the note, released by Portland police Monday, Erik S. Ayala, 24, [...]
CNN reported on Jan. 27th, 2009 that a likely murder-suicide resulted in the deaths of a family of seven: LOS ANGELES, California — The bodies of five children and two adults were found Tuesday in a home in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Wilmington, and authorities are investigating the case as a murder-suicide, CNN affiliate [...]
We are pleased to post the following in-depth interview with Joseph Lieberman, author of “School Shootings: What Every Parent and Educator Needs To Know To Protect Our Children,†(Citadel Press, Sept., 2008). Part I is below. We will post Part II later this week. The interview was conducted by Scott Vogel, Communications Director for the [...]
A disturbing story was reported by the Seattle Times on Jan. 21st, 2009 about a man who apparently stockpiled enough powerful military weapons and arms that he could have started his own war. A 65-year-old Spokane man has been ordered held in custody on federal charges of illegally possessing automatic weapons and illegally storing explosives [...]
PC World posted the following story on Jan. 22nd, 2009: Former games journalist Jason Montes, 33, shot his wife, Serena Montes, 25, and then himself, on Sunday January 11th in what police are calling an apparent murder-suicide. Strangely no one in the games media picked up the story until this morning, when Edge posted a [...]
An article from the Indianapolis Star by Jon Murray on Jan. 19th reported a huge victory for gun violence prevention advocates, and the residents of Gary, Indiana, as the last and final lawsuit against the gun industry can now proceed to trial. As advocates and the city of Gary seek to hold the gun industry [...]
(We are pleased to post the following edited guest column from Michael Allen, the pastor of Uptown Baptist Church in Chicago, Illinois. Pastor Allen’s column was originally posted on Freedom States Alliance’s affiliate, the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence). ICHV Insights Column By Pastor Michael Allen Gun violence is a terrible symptom of what troubles [...]
According to The Tennessean on Jan. 18th, 2009: Two Clarksville men are dead after a murder-suicide outside the Al Menah Shriners Temple in North Nashville early Sunday morning, Metro police said. Travis Otey, 27, and Stephane Collier, 29, got into a fight during a party in the building around 12:30 a.m. and were taken outside [...]
The Orange County Register reported on Jan. 13th, 2009: Since Orange County’s new Sheriff Sandra Hutchens unveiled a more restrictive concealed weapons policy following her appointment by county supervisors this summer, she has explained it again, and again, and again. Yet every time Hutchens goes before the board of supervisors, the policy change comes under [...]
According to the Chicago Tribune on Jan. 14th, posted at 12:20 PM Central: Two children suffered minor injuries from shattered glass this morning after a man opened fire on their school bus on the Near Southwest Side. The gunman fired at the bus near Cermak Road and Wolcott Avenue about 11:15 a.m., authorities said. Chicago [...]
CA: Eleven days after the video-recorded shooting of an unarmed man by a BART police officer, the transit agency has still not explained the killing, and the anger and political heat around the case remain intense. TX: Dallas police released the identity of Arsenio Desmond Petty, 20, who authorities believe was involved in the Gas [...]
(We are pleased to post the following alert from Freedom States Alliance affiliate, the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence). ICHV Insights: Looking Ahead to 2009 Federal Issues On a legislative level, we know that for the last eight years, the gun lobby has basically controlled the federal agenda. This is not surprising. After all, the [...]
According to Newsday on Jan. 12th, 2009: Marital troubles may have been a factor when a New York City police lieutenant stabbed and shot his wife to death in their Selden home after the couple’s daughter tried to stop the attack, police said Monday. He then shot himself to death. Det. Lt. Jack Fitzpatrick, commander [...]
(NYT photo from Jan. 8th, 2009). Only weeks before leaving office, the Bush administration is finally coming to terms with the fact that a violent drug war is destabilizing Mexico’s government, and threatening to spill the violence across our southern border. (See New York Times article below). As major news organizations and GunGuys have consistently [...]
CA: A couple experiencing “significant” marital problems prompted the husband, Jason Montes, 33, to shoot his wife, Serena Montes, 25, and then killed himself. NV: In Las Vegas, a physician was shot dead and the man who shot her died at a hospital after turning the gun on himself at a doctor’s office. Police are [...]
Important Note: Please sign our Freedom States Alliance petition to keep deadly and hidden guns being carried in our national parks. (We are pleased to post the following press release from the National Parks Conservation Association and the Coalition of National Park Service Retirees). FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 6, 2009 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The nation’s [...]
(We are pleased to post the following guest column from Martha Rosenberg, who resides in Evanston, Illinois). The NRA lost a lot more than elections for eight seats in Congress this year. It lost some of its best legends. Like the legend that says a politician can’t get elected–or stay elected–if he or she crosses [...]
A South Carolina TV station, News Channel 15, reported a murder-suicide between young newlyweds. Investigators believe that Richie Lawhon, 30, shot his wife, Hannah, multiple times before turning the gun on himself. Police continue their investigation into the deaths of a married couple in Murrells Inlet while family and friends try to figure out why [...]
The Republican Party needs to revisit, and certainly revise, it’s political playbook if the GOP wants to rebuild the party after the devastating losses in the 2006 midterm elections, and the stunning victory of Barack Obama as the next President of the United States. If the Republicans wanted to step — indeed leap into the [...]
According to the Associated Press on Jan. 5th: JACKSON, Ohio — Police say an angry 4-year-old Ohio boy grabbed a gun from a closet and shot his baby sitter. Eighteen-year-old Nathan Beavers was hospitalized Sunday with minor wounds to his arm and side after the shotgun attack. Police say another teen was also injured. Witnesses [...]
OH: An angry 4-year-old boy grabbed a shotgun from a closet and shot his baby sitter. Nathan Beavers, 18, was hospitalized with minor wounds to his arm and side after the shotgun attack. The child was angry because Beavers accidentally stepped on his foot. OR: In Madras, a couple has died in an apparent murder-suicide [...]
(This political cartoon by Chris Britt, was published in the Springfield Journal-Register in Illinois on April 11th, 2008; re-posted with permission.) The Philadelphia Inquirer on Jan. 4th spotlighted Freedom States Alliance affiliate, Ceasefire NJ and its efforts to enact a sensible provision to limit handgun purchases to one per month. This common sense measure would [...]
The Associated Press reported on Jan. 4th, a very disturbing story about a child, who was allegedly abused, retrieved a .22 caliber handgun from his mom’s closet, waited for her to come home, and shot and killed her. A 12-year-old boy who fatally shot his mother after an argument over his chores was found guilty [...]
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