Just after midnight on January 22, an armed man drove up beside a pedestrian in Dallas, Texas, demanded money, and was then shot and killed when the would-be victim turned out to have a concealed carry license and a handgun on his person.
On January 23, the Tampa Bay Times reacted to campus carry legislation being considered in Florida by suggesting, having guns on campus for self-defense is “imprudent” and will not make campuses safer.
On January 22, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America founder Shannon Watts seized upon the tragic news of a toddler shooting his 9-month-old brother to argue that toddlers shooting children is the “new normal.”
In a preamble to January 22’s Forty-First annual March for Life in Washington DC, pro-life leader and National Clergy Council president Reverend Rob Schenck stressed that supporting gun control is part of being pro-life. According to USA Today, Schenck said:
On January 15, Breitbart News reported that Michigan Governor Rick Snyder (R) bucked the NRA and stood with Gabby Giffords against pro-gun bill SB 789.
On January 16, The Washington Post (WaPo) reported that guns may serve a defensive purpose—that defensive gun uses may be slightly higher than 3 million each year—but we will not know until the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) begin their research into guns as a public health issue.
During a state of the industry presentation at the 2015 SHOT Show in Las Vegas, National Shooting Sports Foundation president Steven Sanetti said background checks for retail gun sales “are up 104 percent since 1994,” yet “violent crimes are at their lowest
On January 21, Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety announced that its three month study of online gun sales in Vermont turned up “seven … people [who] were prohibited by law from possessing firearms.”
Speaking to attendees at the National Shooting Sports Foundation’s SHOT Show on January 20, comedian Bill Engvall referenced making a mistake and going along with gun control pushes during an appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher in 2011. In a tone of utter seriousness that was a complete departure from his well-known comedic persona, Engvall said he was wrong and that he realizes he should have stood up for more guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens, not more gun control.
HBO’s Bryant Gumbel tells Rolling Stone magazine that the NRA is ‘a curse on the American landscape.”
On January 12, Breitbart News reported that action film star Liam Neeson stood in front of a poster of himself holding a handgun for Taken 3, and cursed America’s pro-gun culture. Reacting to the terror attacks in Paris he said, “There are too many [bleeping] guns out there, especially in America.”
The Sandy Hook Commission (SHC) voted to inform Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy (D) that guns pose a far greater threat than mental health issues and further gun restrictions are needed now.
Following the deaths of two French police officers during the January 7 Charlie Hebdo attack and another officer death during an attack the following day, French police are demanding more guns and guns that are more powerful.
Video has been released showing a man armed with a machete kicking in a Pocatella, Idaho, apartment door last year, then getting shot by the apartment resident.
Breitbart News previously reported on a January 15 rally in which Washington State representative Matt Shea (R-4th Dist.) pledged non-compliance with I-594 and other Second Amendment supporters openly carried and exchanged guns in the state’s House Gallery to show their own refusal to
As 2014 was a terrible year for the gun control lobby (GCL)–a year in which Gabby Giffords, Mark Kelly, the Brady Campaign, and the machinations of Moms Demand Action were thoroughly rejected–the new plan for the GCL appears to be “Motion-Is-Progress.”
Following reports that Ohio terror suspect Christopher Cornell bought two AR-15 rifles prior to being apprehended by the FBI, at least one news outlet is pointing out that Adam Lanza also used an AR at Sandy Hook—a firearm perfect for “spray and pray” attacks.
Billionaire and Wynn Resorts co-founder Elaine Wynn has joined Michael Bloomberg’s push to ban private gun sales in the state of Nevada.
On January 15—just over two months after winning a gubernatorial re-election with the NRA’s endorsement—Michigan Governor Rick Snyder (R) bucked the NRA and stood with Gabby Giffords in opposing a bill which would have “revised” his state’s concealed carry law.
Papa John’s Pizza says the DeKalb County, Georgia delivery woman who shot an armed robber that put a gun to her head will not be fired. She will, however, be “reassigned.”
On January 14, Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe (D) gave his State of the Commonwealth address, in which he called for a limit on the number of handguns Virginians can buy each month and a law to allow concealed carry permits to be revoked from those who fail to pay child support.
South Carolina state senator Larry Martin (R) has successfully pushed a bill through subcommittee that bans the possession of guns and ammunition not only for people who caused “bodily injury” via a domestic disturbance, but those who “could have” as well.
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence says the threats against House Speaker John Boehner’s life show a need for more gun control now.
On Tuesday, an armed man approached a patron in a Taco Bell parking lot, demanded he drop his pants, and was subsequently shot and killed.
In 2014, Los Angeles had more gun control–notably a ban on “high capacity” magazines, a trigger lock requirement, and numerous other new gun controls passed the previous year. Yet they also saw violent crime rise “14.3 percent,” driven by “aggravated assaults”–assaults in which a weapon was used during the attack.
