On August 1, The Economist claimed America averages one mass shooting a day, and they countered the impulse to use a gun to defend oneself from mass shooters by suggesting “the impulse to self-defense… is natural, but mistaken.”
On August 10, the Seattle City Council will vote on two proposed anti-Second Amendment ordinances, one of which will place a tax on individual bullets and a tax on each firearm purchased by law-abiding citizens within city limits.
During an August 8 picnic hosted by the Sedgwick County Republican Party, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach claimed the GOP has made Kansas “No. 1 when it comes to supporting our right to keep and bear arms,” but said the state’s Supreme Court remains “every bit” as left-wing that as California’s Supreme Court.
On August 8, Trainwreck’s Amy Schumer said the difficulty of pushing more gun control through Congress ultimately comes down to how much money the gun industry has to oppose it.
On August 7, Fox News’ John Stossel published a column in which he pointed out that the NYPD refuses to grant him a gun permit and that NYC’s gun laws are so stringent he can’t even “hold a fake gun on TV to demonstrate something.”
On August 6, residents and Bonner County Sheriff Daryl Wheeler lined up outside the Priest River, Idaho, home of veteran John Arnold to prevent the Veterans Administration (VA) from taking away his guns.
California is ranked as the fourth-worst state for gun owners in Guns & Ammo magazine’s annual listings of the best and worst states in which to own a gun. The assessment was based on many factors–from concealed carry laws, to self-defense/Castle Doctrine
On August 6–the day after Vincente David Montano allegedly attacked Carmike Hickory 8 Cinema in a Nashville suburb–CNN admitted that the gun used in the attack was not real but suggested the gun proves the need for more gun control regardless.
Homemade guns are a “growing threat” in Northern California. That’s according to Susan C. Schena of the Rohnert Park-Cotati Patch, writing in the wake of the July 21 murder suicide in which 21-year-old Scott Bertics allegedly killed his 19-year-old ex-girlfriend and himself with a legally made homemade gun.
The attacker who allegedly wounded three people at the Carmike Hickory 8 Cinema in Antioch, Tennessee, theater on August 5 was armed with a hatchet, peppery spray, an airsoft gun, and a suspicious package which turned out to be a “hoax device.”
Carmike Cinemas, the chain which owns the Tennessee theater attacked today, has been boycotted over their gun free policies in the past.
On August 5, police in Antioch, Tennessee, killed a 51-year-old suspect who allegedly opened fire in a movie theater. The suspect was armed with a hatchet and a gun.
According to Conan O’Brien sidekick Andy Richter, I did a terrible thing the other day during a radio appearance; I questioned the current queen of the ruling class — Senator Chuck Schumer’s cousin, comedienne Amy Schumer, after she made a
During a July 31 luncheon for the American Bar Association’s International Human Rights Award Luncheon, former Justice John Paul Stevens said he agreed with the Supreme Court of the United States’ (SCOTUS) decision that the 14th Amendment protects gay rights but rejected the claim that the 14th Amendment protects gun rights too.
On August 3, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman ordered an immediate end of “realistic toy gun sales” after finding that some retailers were allegedly selling toy guns lacking a state-required “bright, 1-inch-wide orange stripe ‘down both sides of the barrel and the front end of the barrel.'”
On August 3 the 12-person jury in the trial of Aurora theater gunman James Holmes unanimously decided he is eligible for the death penalty.
The Navy has been denying reports that charges may be filed against Lt. Commander Timothy White, who returned fire against Chattanooga jihadi Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez with a weapon he was not supposed to have.
On August 2 CNN’s Fareed Zakaria tried to stir Congressional action on gun control by citing a study which claims 207 mass shootings in the first 207 days of 2015. Zakaria said the claim of one mass shooting every day
On August 3 comedian Amy Schumer joined her cousin, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), for a gun control push in the wake of John Russell Houser’s alleged attack at Grand Theatre in Lafayette, Louisiana.
Following the shooting that left two dead at a Lafayette theater during a July 23 showing of Trainwreck, comedian Amy Schumer received an open letter imploring her to join the fight for gun control fight. The letter also urged her
On July 30, New Yorkers Against Gun Violence (NYAGV) launched a campaign to pressure Apple into removing the popular pistol-shaped emoji from the iPhone platform.
On July 27 The Seattle Times ran a column highlighting so-called flaws and loopholes in the National Instant Criminal Background Check (NICS) system for gun purchases and suggested the system will not work correctly as long gun sales by a “private party” are allowed.
When gun scholar John Lott met Barack Obama for the first time in 1996, he said Obama told him, “I don’t believe that people should be able to own guns.”
On July 28, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) admitted his latest gun control push is “going nowhere” because there is zero support for his new gun control push among the Republicans who control the Senate.
Less than a week after John Russell Houser allegedly opened fire inside a Grand Theatre in Lafayette, Louisiana, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT), called on their colleagues to join together and pass more regulations on gun shows.
