During a January 4 press briefing, White House press secretary Josh Earnest cited debunked Everytown for Gun Safety statistics as one of the reasons behind President Obama’s decision to move forward with executive gun control.
Monday, President Barack Obama announced his plan to use an executive order on gun control and claimed he is confident his action will be “entirely consistent with the Second Amendment.” Obama said, “I think everybody here is all too familiar
Barack Obama insists his planned executive actions on gun control were “entirely consistent” with the Constitution – even as organizations defending the Second Amendment have warned him not to act on his own.
The Obama administration criticized members of Congress for refusing to address gun control – accusing pro-gun politicians of both parties of causing more gun deaths.
Talk radio host Rush Limbaugh questioned why “if the existence of guns…is what causes the problem” “why are we allowing the Iranians to nuke up?” on Monday. Rush stated, “If gun control really worked, why are we allowing the Iranians
During a New Year’s Eve sermon at Heal the Land Outreach Ministries in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Pastor Larry Wright disarmed a man with a rifle in one hand and an ammunition magazine in another. After disarming him, the pastor led the congregation in praying for him.
Monday at the White House press briefing press secretary Josh Earnest was asked by the Washington, D.C. correspondent for the Fox News Channel, James Rosen, if President Obama is treating the Attorney General Loretta Lynch like a Chinese food restaurant.
On January 4, the FBI released numbers for annual background checks for gun purchases showing that 2015 broke the previous one-year record by more than 2,000,000 checks.
“Every one of us has a constitutional right to protest, to speak our minds,” Ted Cruz told reporters in Iowa. “But we don’t have a constitutional right to use force and violence and to threaten force and violence against others.” He added that, “it is our hope that the protesters there will stand down peaceably, that there will not be a violent confrontation.”
President Barack Obama will reportedly announce executive gun control actions on Tuesday. The gun controls are expected to expand background checks to cover private gun sellers as well to place new reporting requirements on the backs of federally licensed firearms dealers.
Monday on CNN’s “New Day” Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump discussed President Barack Obama’s planned executive action on guns and said it means eventually “you won’t be able to get guns.” Partial transcript as follows: CHRIS CUOMO, HOST CNN’s “NEW DAY”: “You mention
On January 3, Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio pledged to undo President Obama’s “illegal and unconstitutional” executive gun control.
On January 3 Reuters reported that Freedom Watch–a group dedicated to defending freedom–will be filing a lawsuit against Obama’s executive gun control as soon as it’s issued.
On January 4 House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) released a statement characterizing Obama’s pending executive gun control as “overreach” and said, “The country will not stand for it.”
Aviation police officers at Chicago’s O’Hare and Midway airports have been advised to “run and hide” in the event of an active shooter at either facility.
With President Obama’s executive action for gun control expected this week, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump let it be known that he will “unsign” Obama’s executive gun control once he is sworn in as president.
Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, said President Barack Obama’s planned executive action on gun control is “delusional, dangerous, not to mention unconstitutional.” Fiorina, said, “President Obama has been a lawless president in his
During the January 3 airing of Meet the Press, gun control proponent Mark Kelly said “middle-aged white men” with decreased life expectancy are clinging to guns.
On January 3 Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump used a Facebook post to call out Hillary Clinton’s hypocrisy in telling the American people that guns “don’t keep you safe” while simultaneously surrounding herself with “heavily armed bodyguards.”
Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump says he opposes President Barack Obama’s effort to unilaterally impose further gun-controls, claiming it represents another sacrifice of freedom in a world where “bad guys are always going to have…guns.”
During the Saturday broadcast of “Justice” on Fox News Channel, host Judge Jeanine Pirro urged President Barack Obama to take his focus away from removing guns and instead, using guns to take down terrorists. Pirro said Obama is “dilly-dallying in
On this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” while discussing President Barack Obama’s plan to taking executive action on gun control, Republican presidential candidate Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) said the president is acting like a “petulant child” and a “dictator.” Christie
On January 7 President Obama will hold a live gun control town hall on CNN with Anderson Cooper.
During the January 3 airing of Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace pointed out that Republican presidential hopeful Chris Christie signed 10 gun control bills in 2013.
On Saturday’s “Melissa Harris-Perry” on MSNBC, host Melissa Harris-Perry reacted to report that the two officers who were involved in the shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice would not be indicted. Harris-Perry stated that if she were to shoot a
