
The gun control town hall CNN hosted for President Obama was very one-sided. The vast majority of the questions directed at Obama were leading questions centered on gun control, while the few questions or comments that were pro-Second Amendment in nature went unanswered or were only partially answered.
by AWR Hawkins7 Jan 2016, 9:00 PM PST0

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.
by AWR Hawkins4 Jan 2016, 9:26 AM PST0

On January 7 President Obama will hold a live gun control town hall on CNN with Anderson Cooper.
by AWR Hawkins3 Jan 2016, 7:24 AM PST0

On December 14, gun control proponent Gabby Giffords blasted Congress for not enacting California-style background checks following the heinous attack on Sandy Hook Elementary, which happened three years ago. California has the expanded background checks that Giffords has been pushing
by AWR Hawkins14 Dec 2015, 5:22 PM PST0

Gun control proponent Mark Kelly used the example of a man who acquired his guns “legally,” then misused them, to argue that background checks need to be expanded to cover more gun sales.
by AWR Hawkins11 Nov 2015, 8:12 PM PST0

On November 3, voters kept the Virginia Senate in the hands of pro-gun Republicans, yet Gabby Giffords’ gun control group–Americans for Responsible Solutions (ARS)–claimed victory because a Democrat they supported won a seat vacated by a Democrat.
by AWR Hawkins5 Nov 2015, 9:01 AM PST0

Syracuse University’s TRAC Reports recently revealed that Obama’s tough talk about increasing prosecution of federal gun laws was just that—talk. In fact, Obama’s annual prosecution of gun crimes has never reached the levels of prosecutions seen during George W. Bush’s last five years in office.
by AWR Hawkins27 Oct 2015, 9:18 PM PST0

On October 14 gun control proponent Gabby Giffords and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright launched a women-based coalition for gun control.
Giffords and Albright are joined by former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman (R).
by AWR Hawkins14 Oct 2015, 3:23 PM PST0

After three were wounded and one was killed on October 9 at Northern Arizona University (NAU), Vice magazine ran the headline: “Yet Another Mass Shooting Has Left One Dead and Three Injured at Northern Arizona University.”
by AWR Hawkins9 Oct 2015, 5:30 PM PST0

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.
by AWR Hawkins6 Oct 2015, 8:25 AM PST0

During the October 4 airing of CNN’s State of the Union, gun control proponent Mark Kelly reacted to the Umpqua Community College (UCC) shooting by calling for an expansion of the same background checks that the Oregon gunman passed to get his weapons.
by AWR Hawkins5 Oct 2015, 6:27 PM PST0

On September 28, the City Council in Missoula, Montana, ignored public outcry over a proposed ordinance to ban private gun sales in city limits, and ten council members voted to take the next step by planning a public hearing for the ban.
by AWR Hawkins1 Oct 2015, 8:12 AM PST0

On September 29, Breitbart News reported on a Quinnipiac University poll showing that the majority of American voters oppose more gun control—and this opposition includes roughly 3 out of 4 Republican voters and 49 percent of Independent voters.
by AWR Hawkins30 Sep 2015, 7:55 PM PST0

Americans for Responsible Solutions–the gun control group founded by Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly–tweeted numbers from the Center for American Progress Action Fund (CAP) claiming armed citizens in America have killed more people since 1989 than all wars since 1776 combined.
by AWR Hawkins26 Sep 2015, 12:14 PM PST0

On September 24 Daily Mail editor Piers Morgan claimed that Pope Francis used his speech to the U.S. Congress to eviscerate “gun-toting, blood-thirsty…bigots” vying for conservative leadership and suggested the Pope’s approach shows Democrats the way to defeat Republicans in coming elections.
by AWR Hawkins25 Sep 2015, 9:28 AM PST0

On September 24, Pope Francis scolded Congress for guns and weapons which are manufactured in America and sold around the world.
by AWR Hawkins24 Sep 2015, 5:19 PM PST0

On September 24 the gun control group founded by Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly used Pope Francis’s address to Congress as an opportunity to request a $3 donation from gun control supporters.
by AWR Hawkins24 Sep 2015, 12:37 PM PST0

Beck claimed in a blog post that he and the Palins have not had a relationship since the assassination attempt on Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-AZ) in 2011. Beck wrote that he suspected people were telling the Palins lies about him to drive a wedge between them. But Breitbart News has exclusively learned from sources close to the Palins exactly why the rift started.
by Tony Lee14 Sep 2015, 2:41 PM PST0

According to the FBI, August 2015 was the biggest August on record for background checks for gun purchases.
by AWR Hawkins6 Sep 2015, 5:07 PM PST0

On August 30, Andy Parker, the father of slain WDBJ reporter Alison Parker, indicated he has already “been in contact with Mark Kelly” and with associates of Michael Bloomberg to get his best trajectory for a gun control push.
by AWR Hawkins31 Aug 2015, 9:55 PM PST0

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest admitted Aug. 28 that the president’s plan to aggressively regulate people’s ability to defend themselves would not have stopped the live-TV shooting of WDBJ-TV reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward.
by AWR Hawkins30 Aug 2015, 6:24 PM PST0

Following Alison Parker’s August 26 shooting death at the hands of former station employee Vester Lee Flanagan, her father, Andy Parker, vowed to “shame politicians” into supporting more gun control.
by AWR Hawkins27 Aug 2015, 6:22 PM PST0

On August 20, the Essex News Daily ran a story in which Mark Kelly and Gabby Giffords claimed they “actually do not support ‘gun control’ in the traditional sense of the phrase,” but “gun responsibility.”
by AWR Hawkins20 Aug 2015, 8:20 PM PST0

On August 20, Gun Owners of America executive director Larry Pratt described the Democratic Party on the federal level as “increasingly” tyrannical and focused on passing laws to take guns away from law-abiding Americans.
by AWR Hawkins20 Aug 2015, 5:55 PM PST0

On July 24, Gabby Giffords’s husband Mark Kelly was questioned about the Lafayette theater attack, and after admitting all the facts were not yet known, he pushed for background checks and other gun controls.
by AWR Hawkins26 Jul 2015, 6:10 PM PST0