(We are pleased to post the following guest commentaryfrom Andrew Goddard, a Virginia gun violence prevention advocate whose son was shot and wounded during the Virginia Tech tragedy). Sen. Thune’s Amendment 1618 to the Defense Authorization Bill (S. 1390): To amend chapter 44 of title 18, United States Code, to allow citizens who have concealed [...]
Freedom States Alliance Press Release For Immediate Release, July 22, 2009 Contact: Scott Vogel (312) 243-8980, scott@freedomstatesalliance.org Major Victory Declared as Democrats Defeat NRA Sponsored Bill That Would Have Jeopardized America’s Public Safety and Threatened Law Enforcement Officials (Washington, DC) – Thirty Nine United States Senators demonstrated their “conscience and sense of duty†today by [...]
Senators who voted with the gun lobby — in support of the Thune Amendment to create a national carrying hidden and loaded handguns law — included: Senators Snowe and Collins (ME), Feingold (WI), Casey (PA), Bayh (IN), Bennett and Udall (CO), and Hagan (NC). Senators who VOTED with integrity and stood up the gun lobby [...]
Former Virginia Congressman Tom Davis wrote the following opinion piece in Politico on July 22nd, 2009: Today Congress is slated to vote on a bill that would effectively nationalize permits for those who wish to carry concealed guns. However, those of us who support conceal and carry laws must be concerned that Congress would force [...]
July 21, 2009 The gun lobby is attempting to force our communities to permit untrained and dangerous individuals from other states to carry loaded, hidden handguns in public. CALL YOUR SENATORS RIGHT NOW AND TELL THEM TO VOTE “NO!” ON SEN. THUNE’S AMENDMENT NO. 1618 TO THE DEFFENSE AUTHORIZATION Bill S. 1390. A VOTE IS [...]
The New York Times posted an EXCEPTIONAL must-read editorial on July 21, 2009: On Wednesday, the Senate is expected to vote on the latest assault on public safety in the name of gun ownership. Introduced as an amendment to the military’s budget bill by Senator John Thune, a Republican of South Dakota, this radical measure [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from Freedom States Alliance affiliate, the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence). For Immediate Release Toby Hoover, Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence, ocagv@yahoo.com www.ohioceasefire.org As U.S. Senate Debates National Hidden Handgun Law, New Study Finds That Concealed Handgun Permit Holders Killed 7 Police Officers Over Two-Year Period [...]
(We are pleased to post the following piece from Josh Sugarmann, Exec. Director of the Violence Policy Center, that was originally published in the Huffington Post on July 20th). For more than two decades a top priority of the gun lobby has been establishing and expanding state laws that allow the carrying of concealed handguns [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from the Violence Policy Center). 31 Incidents Result in Criminal Charges or Suicide of Concealed Handgun Permit Holder Washington, DC–Concealed handgun permit holders killed at least seven police officers and 44 private citizens in 31 incidents during the period May 2007 through April 2009 according to [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release from Freedom States Alliance affiliate, New Yorkers Against Gun Violence). New York Senators Must Oppose and Filibuster If Necessary The Dangerous National Concealed Weapons Amendment No. 1618, Now Part of The Defense Appropriation Bill (S1390) NEW YORK, July 17 /PRNewswire/ — New Yorkers Against Gun Violence [...]
July 16, 2009 The gun lobby is attempting to force our communities to permit untrained and dangerous individuals from other states to carry loaded, hidden handguns in public. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and your Senators can stop the gun lobby’s extremist agenda. That’s why we need you to call Sen. Reid’s office RIGHT NOW [...]
(We are pleased to post the following essay from Paul Moore, a teacher at Miami Carol City High School, whose essay was published on Counter Punch on July 13th). Anthony Smith has died nearly a week after being shot. Anthony was a young man of 17-years and a student at Miami’s Booker T. Washington High [...]
(We are pleased to post the following press release on behalf of national gun violence prevention organizations, including the Freedom States Alliance). For Immediate Release: Monday, July 13, 2009 Contacts: Scott Vogel, scott@freedomstatesalliance.org Peter Hamm, Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, 202-898-0792, phamm@bradymail.org or Ladd Everitt, Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, 202-701-7171, leveritt@csgv.org Washington, DC–America’s [...]
(We are pleased to post the following piece from Josh Sugarmann, Exec. Director of the Violence Policy Center, that was originally published in the Huffington Post on July 9th). According to Jan Libourel, the editor of Gun World magazine, “Nobody but a madman would oppose some sort of gun control laws.” Libourel is no gun [...]
Dangerous legislation is pending in the U.S. Senate that would force our communities to permit untrained and dangerous individuals from other states to carry loaded, hidden handguns in public. States currently have the power and authority to determine their own carrying concealed weapons (CCW) policies. But Congress is suddenly overreaching its power to dictate that [...]
(See the Wall Street Journal’s July 8th report, An Uphill Fight for the Right to Carry Guns on Campus). PRESS RELEASE Students for Gun-Free Schools Joined By: Freedom States Alliance Gun Free Kids.org Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Violence Protest Easy Guns.com Coalition To Stop Gun Violence For Immediate Release Wednesday, July 8, 2009 Contacts: [...]
(We are pleased to post the following blog entry from NJ.com, written by Bryan Miller, the Executive Director of Ceasefire NJ and an affiliate of Freedom States Alliance). Last December I speculated on this site that then-NY Giants receiver Plaxico Burress was more likely to gain induction into the ‘Stupid Gun Owners Hall of Shame’ [...]
(This guest commentary by Bill Berkowitz was originally posted on BuzzFlash.com on July 3rd). Packin’ Pistols for God and Country: NRA Christians Stake Claim On Patriotism and the America BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY By Bill Berkowitz If you don’t quite get that for many in this country that the connection between guns and God is as [...]
(We are pleased to post the following alert from Freedom States Alliance affiliate, the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence). ICHV Insights by Father Michael Pfleger July 1, 2009 Gun violence has always been an issue, but in the last ten years, I’ve watched it become more of an epidemic. It has grown to a new [...]
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