(We are pleased to post the following guest column from Freedom States Alliance affiliate, the New England Coalition To Prevent Gun Violence). There’s a new and extremely dangerous crop of gun bills springing up around the country that are designed to weaken federal authority to regulate guns. The goal is to get these new laws [...]
We strongly encourage you to watch this video by Max Blumenthal, posted on The Daily Beast, that was filmed at two gun shows. It’s about the intense fear and distortion gripping the far right-wing over President Obama’s election and their sheer paranoia over “gun control.” Of course, that paranoia is fueled by extremist talk show [...]
Every day in this country 80 people die from gunshot injuries. Another 200 people are shot, leaving injuries, both physical and psychological, that last for years. Here is a sampling of just a few of the gun violence incidents from this past weekend: On Friday, a police officer in Headland, Alabama was shot and killed [...]
The Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus, Students For Gun-Free Schools, and the North Texas Brady Campaign held a major rally in Austin, Texas on the second anniversary of the Virginia Tech to protest state legislation to permit students to carry guns on campuses at public universities. Watch this ABC News video, and see the [...]
(Image from Stop Gun Violence, based in Massachusetts). [The following press statement was released by U.S. Senators Frank Lautenberg (NJ), Jack Reed (RI), and Dianne Feinstein (CA). See fact sheet below]. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, April 21, 2009 CONTACT: Lautenberg Press Office (202) 224-3224 Reed Press Office (202) 224-4642 Feinstein Press Office (202) 224-3841 WASHINGTON, [...]
Josh Sugarmann, Executive Director of the Violence Policy Center wrote the following op-ed in the Washington Post on Sunday, Apr. 19th.
AP reported that a father shot and killed his wife and three kids in Maryland. UPI filed this longer news brief on Apr. 19th: MIDDLETOWN, Md., April 18 (UPI) — A relative checking on a family of five in western Maryland found them dead in their home Saturday morning, authorities said. The Frederick County Sheriff’s [...]
(Photo by George Kochaniec Jr., Rocky Mountain News: Grief overcomes Columbine High School students Jessica Holliday, left, and Diwana Perez moments after they fled the school during a violent rampage by two fellow students April 20, 1999). Press Release Contact: Scott Vogel, scott@freedomstatesalliance.org On 10-Year Anniversary of Columbine School Massacre, Advocates Call for Renewed National [...]
According to the Associated Press on Apr. 16th: LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — A hospital employee shot another employee to death, critically wounded another and then killed himself Thursday, police said. Police Chief Anthony Batts said the gunfire erupted just before noon at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center. Batts would not identify those involved but [...]
(We are pleased to post the following guest editorial from Cathie Whittenburg, Executive Director of the New England Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence). A driver’s license teaches road safety, vehicle inspections keep dangerous cars off the roads, speed limits safely control the movement of cars. Consumer product safety standards work to ensure that our food [...]
(We are pleased to post the following joint press release from The Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus, Students For Gun Free Schools, and the North Texas Brady Campaign). For Immediate Release Contact: Andy Pelosi 914-629-6726, andy@gunfreekids.org Public University Officials “Gagged†From Speaking Out; Parents Threaten Boycott of Texas Public Universities if Legislation Passes (Austin, [...]
Arming students is ineffective at stopping a mass shooting. On Friday, April 10th, ABC News’ 20/20 investigative report demonstrated conclusively, through repeated tests, that armed students could not stop a rampage shooting even after being clued into the experiments. A real-life encounter would be even more surprising, disorienting and virtually impossible for armed students to [...]
(New York Times: Soldiers guarded a display of weapons seized in an operation against the Gulf cartel, which operates in Mexico City. Mexico is desperate for the United States to do more to stop the steady flow of weapons over the border. In the last six months, federal agents have begun stopping cars they have [...]
Bob Herbert’s must-read New York Times column on Apr. 14: Late in the afternoon on Good Friday, in a cold, steady rain, a gray-haired 60-year-old woman sat shivering and praying on a stone step outside of 1016 Fairfield St., which is where the terrible shooting had occurred. She read from a prayer book and from [...]
An AP brief on Apr. 8th reported: CASSELBERRY, FL: Authorities in Casselberry, Florida say 44-year-old Marie Moore walked up behind her 20 year old son Mitchell Moore and shot him in the head at point blank range– then shot herself. Mitchell Moore died at the scene. His mother died at a hospital. In notes and [...]
According to the AP on Apr. 10th: A student fatally shot a female classmate before turning the gun on himself Friday in an apparent murder-suicide that prompted a lockdown at a community college west of Detroit, police said. The bodies of Asia McGowan, 20, of Ecorse, and Anthony Powell, 28, of Detroit, were discovered inside [...]
(We are pleased to post the following guest column and political cartoon by Martha Rosenberg. Her piece originally was posted on BuzzFlash.com, that supports the Freedom States Alliance). “The NRA is asking gunmen to refrain from mass shootings while key gun bills are before legislators,” says a newscaster in a recent editorial cartoon. Unfortunately, mass [...]
A murder-suicide in Alabama was reported on CNN today, on April 7th: A man suspected in the shooting deaths of four people, including his estranged wife and daughter, in northwest Alabama was found dead in an apparent suicide, police said. Kevin Lee Garner’s body was found about 200 yards behind his home in Morgan County, [...]
Breaking News on CNN: (CNN) — A lone gunman killed at least 12 people and himself Friday in an immigration services center in Binghamton, New York, a government official who has been briefed on the situation said. The gunman carried identification that said he was 42 and from upstate New York, the official said. It [...]
(We are pleased to post the following alert from Freedom States Alliance affiliate, Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence). ICHV Insights: Guest Column by Elliot Fineman April 1st, 2009 My active involvement in gun control issues began on the morning of December 31, 2006. A policewoman came to the door and wanted to talk to me. [...]
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