On October 6 Jeffrey Zalles, the president of the Marin County chapter of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, said part of the solution to shootings in gun-free zones could be a license requirement for all bullet purchasers.
Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton argued it’s “not only illogical, but offensive” to say more guns will stop mass shootings at a campaign event in Mount Vernon, IA on Wednesday. Hillary stated, “you’ve got people
On October 6, Ben Carson took heat from GOP establishment candidates and liberal political action committees for saying that he would “not just stand there” and let a gunman shoot at him unchallenged.
Wednesday on CNN’s “New Day,” in reacting to his rival Dr. Ben Carson’s controversial comments about the Oregon shooting, Republican presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) expressed his skepticism in questioning the wisdom of people who have lost their lives. Carson
Wednesday on Fox News Channels, “America’s Newsroom,” Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson addressed the controversy over his remarks that he would have fought back against the Oregon shooter even if that meant sacrificing himself. When asked if his comments
If the days since the heinous attack on Umpqua Community College (UCC) have taught us anything, it is that good people of Roseburg, Oregon, are not reacting to the actions of one criminal by calling for more gun control on everyone else.
On October 5, The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah suggested that if Republicans were truly pro-life, they would be pro-gun control.
Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday that he is ready “to move forward” with a plan to curb gun-rights.
Douglas County, Oregon County Commissioner Chris Boice (R) said “it’s unfortunate” that “we are talking about politics in the middle of this tragedy” and that gun control will be part of the atmosphere of President Obama’s visit on Tuesday’s “O’Reilly
On October 6 the Christian Science Monitor published an interview with Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson in which he stressed that campus carry is an expression of liberty and warned that banning guns from campuses leads to danger.
GOP 2016 contender Bobby Jindal writes in a blog post Tuesday that the mass shootings experienced in the United States are a “symptom of deep and serious cultural decay in our society.”
Tuesday on Newsmax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show,” Republican political consultant Mary Matalin said President Barack Obama going to Roseburg, OR on Friday to use the mass shooting to highlight gun control makes him”the Al Sharpton of Commanders-in-Chief.” In commenting on the
MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” co-host Willie Geist argued that “a criminal with a bad idea is going to get his hands on guns” “you can make more laws and still wouldn’t capture the people, the criminal element” who want firearms on
“For those who say they want to work with the administration in limiting gun violence, we would welcome the support for the Affordable Care Act and expanding Medicaid,” spokesman Josh Earnest explained to reporters during the White House press briefing.
Ohio Governor and Republican presidential candidate John Kasich stated, “I don’t think more laws are going to fix this” in a discussion on gun control on Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Wolf.” After being asked if people should be allowed to
President Obama promises to politicize mass shootings as a way to demand more gun control. But he says that’s not what he’s doing as he visits the victims of the college shooting in Oregon on Friday.
In the October 5 airing of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 (AC360) the family of Umpqua Community College shooting victim Cheyenne Fitzgerald said they wish Obama would “look where the problem really lies and quit running the gun [control] agenda.”
Left-of-center media outlets began attacking the local sheriff from the Oregon county where the recent mass shooting occurred almost immediately after the tragedy. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence jumped in, and now the full weight of CNN has joined the dog-pile attack. Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin was first attacked for his pro-Second Amendment views, then the Brady campaign and CNN began attacking him for a Facebook post he allegedly made nearly three years ago. Yes, that means they targeted the sheriff and did opposition research on a leader currently handling a mass shooting in his county.
David Jaques, the outspoken publisher of conservative paper The Roseburg Beacon, took to Fox News on Monday night to continue to make his case that President Obama is not welcome in Roseburg to push his anti-gun political agenda.
As Democrats focus on mental illness as an angle that can be used to justify more gun control in the wake of the Umpqua Community College (UCC) attack, singer Demi Lovato is standing up to say the mentally ill are a greater danger to themselves than to others and ought not be used as an excuse to further a political agenda.
Breitbart’s AWR Hawkins, one of the nation’s leading gun rights journalists, tells Nashville’s top morning radio talk show that Hillary Clinton’s proposed executive actions to end what she calls “incomplete background checks” on the purchase of guns would “stretch out background checks indefinitely.”
Hillary Clinton’s proposals include extending the instant background checks indefinitely by changing the amount of time the FBI has on extended checks. She also wants to place new regulations on sales at gun shows and for guns sold online, and she wants to expand the definition of domestic violence to include dating relationships, then use that expanded definition to ban individuals from owning guns.
In an appearance on “Fox & Friends” on the Fox News Channel, former Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson, a candidate for the Republican Party presidential nomination, sounded off on President Barack Obama’s reaction to last week’s mass shooting in
On October 5, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said Americans’ safety is being sacrificed to the “radical agenda” of the National Rifle Association (NRA) by Republicans who are nothing more than “puppets” of the NRA to begin with.
During his opening “Talking Points Memo” segment on Monday, Bill O’Reilly, host of Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Factor” sounded off on the renewed push for more gun control in the wake of last week’s shooting in Oregon. O’Reilly questioned
