
On October 11 an Olive Garden restaurant in Kansas City, Missouri refused service to a uniformed police officer who walked into the business with his gun holstered on his hip.
by AWR Hawkins12 Oct 2015, 1:28 PM PST0

On October 11, the Associated Press lamented the demise of “gun violence researchers,” citing the lack of funding necessary to pay researchers enough to draw them to the field and blaming that lack of funding on the NRA and the Republican Party.
by AWR Hawkins12 Oct 2015, 10:44 AM PST0

Los Angeles Councilman Paul Krekorian is proposing a per-bullet tax for the city with the goal of raising money to stop the mass shootings he claims are happening “daily.” His tax would also apply to every gun sold within city limits.
by AWR Hawkins12 Oct 2015, 10:27 AM PST0

On October 10 Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich suggested the Second Amendment was written for another time and place and that America’s Founding Fathers could never have envisioned the situation we find ourselves in now, in the 21st century.
by AWR Hawkins12 Oct 2015, 8:53 AM PST0

A group of anti-Second Amendment students is launching a protest at the University of Texas by which they plan to show their disapproval of campus carry by carrying sex toys in plain sight on the same day that carrying a concealed weapon in class becomes legal.
by AWR Hawkins12 Oct 2015, 8:36 AM PST0

On Sunday, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, who had already slammed Ian Mercer, the father of Umpqua Community College shooter Christopher Harper-Mercer, as a “complete failure as a father,” doubled down on ABC’s This Week.
by William Bigelow12 Oct 2015, 6:15 AM PST0

On Sunday’s “This Week” on ABC, Martha Raddatz grilled GOP presidential candidate Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA) over his comments faulting the Oregon shooter’s dad for the shooting because he did a poor job raising his son the right way. Jindal called
by Trent Baker11 Oct 2015, 8:18 PM PST0

On October 10, comedian Amy Schumer appeared in a Saturday Night Live (SNL) skit to mock women and families who use guns for sport and self-defense.
by AWR Hawkins11 Oct 2015, 8:10 PM PST0

Josh Marshall, editor and publisher of popular progressive news site Talking Points Memo, took to Twitter to insult Roseburg, Oregon protestors who support the Second Amendment as “pro-Massacre activists.”
by Lee Stranahan11 Oct 2015, 6:49 PM PST0

During the October 11 airing of Meet the Press, host Chuck Todd asked Democrat presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders where he stands on allowing shooting victims to sue gun manufacturers.
by AWR Hawkins11 Oct 2015, 2:23 PM PST0

On October 11, a concealed carry permit holder shot and killed an alleged armed robber inside Cafe Azzurri in Waterbury, Connecticut.
by AWR Hawkins11 Oct 2015, 12:49 PM PST0

Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” National Journal’s Ron Fournier said Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson is “putting a target on government officials” in his interview earlier in the broadcast when he said the Second Amendment allows Americans to
by Pam Key11 Oct 2015, 12:38 PM PST0

Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson said the Second Amendment is for ” if we have a time when we have the wrong people in office, and they want to dominate the people, the
by Pam Key11 Oct 2015, 12:35 PM PST0

During the October 11 airing of Face the Nation Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump talked about his concealed carry permit, the fact that he personally carries a gun from time to time, and the importance of allowing law-abiding citizens on college campuses to be armed for self-defense.
by AWR Hawkins11 Oct 2015, 12:01 PM PST0

Governor Jerry Brown (D) signed a law Saturday that bars law-abiding, licensed citizens from carrying guns on campuses in California for self-defense.
by AWR Hawkins11 Oct 2015, 11:24 AM PST0

During the October 11 airing of Face the Nation, host John Dickerson went after Ben Carson for contending that the Jewish people would have suffered less under Nazism had they been armed. And instead of examining the substance of Carson’s observation, Dickerson tried to intimate that Carson was suggesting we are under a Nazi-like regime now.
by AWR Hawkins11 Oct 2015, 11:02 AM PST0

New Daily Show host Trevor Noah sat down for a brief interview with political commentator James Carville Saturday during the closing event of the inaugural Politicon convention, where the two discussed the 2016 presidential race and Noah’s hopes for his new show.
by Daniel Nussbaum11 Oct 2015, 9:51 AM PST0

On October 10 President Obama talked about gun control and the Oregon shooting at “$33,400-a-ticket” Hollywood fundraiser for the Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee.
by AWR Hawkins11 Oct 2015, 9:17 AM PST0

On October 8, an Indianapolis homeowner–who is also a Roller Derby girl–punched an alleged home intruder until she had driven him back into a corner, then drew “a Japanese-style sword” and used to it to keep him subdued until police
by AWR Hawkins11 Oct 2015, 8:39 AM PST0

FRANKLIN, Tennessee—“War has come to America,” Nashville talk radio host Ralph Bristol told the crowd at the fourth stop of his “Second Amendment is Homeland Security” tour event in this Tennessee city, one week after it played host to GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, who delivered a ringing defense of the gun rights at his own rally.
by Michael Patrick Leahy10 Oct 2015, 6:58 PM PST0

On September 28 Breitbart News reported that High Bridge Arms–San Francisco’s last remaining gun store–would be closing its doors for good in October after being shackled by a relentless spree of city and state-level gun control regulations.
by AWR Hawkins10 Oct 2015, 6:13 PM PST0

Speaking to Politicon in L.A. on Friday, California Attorney General Kamala Harris suggested gun control could have been secured after Sandy Hook by politicizing the autopsy photos of the dead and forcing Senators and Representatives to look at each one.
by AWR Hawkins10 Oct 2015, 4:02 PM PST0

On Friday, anyone paying attention to the news got to see at least a hint of The Roseburg Moment. It doesn’t fit either the mainstream media nor Democrat establishment’s political narrative, so it didn’t get the full court press media coverage of an Occupy Wall Street or Black Lives Matter protest, but anyone concerned about the future of freedom in America should take note.
by Lee Stranahan10 Oct 2015, 1:08 PM PST0

A concealed carry permit holder was praised for shooting an armed robbery suspect around 5 a.m. on October 10, thereby stopping the robbery of a Waffle House in Charleston, South Carolina.
by AWR Hawkins10 Oct 2015, 11:25 AM PST0

Students at Texas Southern University (TSU) are expressing fear after a third shooting since the beginning of this school year. On Friday, 18-year-old freshman Brent Randall was shot and killed along with another student who was wounded. The shooting occurred at a student apartment complex located on the edge of the university campus.
by Bob Price10 Oct 2015, 11:17 AM PST0