In response to reports that the Phoenix-based Dart center was taking money from one of Michael Bloomberg’s gun control groups to underwrite an upcoming April workshop on “journalism” and gun violence, Dart executive director Bruce Shapiro acknowledged the receipt of “$48,000” from Bloomberg’s group but says that will not influence the workshop’s lesson plans.
On January 13 Rush Limbaugh explained that gun control is a class issue — “hip versus unhip, cool versus uncool.” The push for more gun control is espoused by those on the periphery of elitism as a way for them to bring themselves closer to the best seats and tables at an Upper East Side dinner party.
W.F. Burns Middle School principal Princella Holley suggested stockpiling “cans of food such as corn and peas in classrooms” so students could grab them and “hurl” them at school attackers as a “last resort.”
Family members of two of the first graders killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary attack sued Newtown and the Newtown board of education, alleging inadequate school security.
The Coalition To Stop Gun Violence (CSGV) is targeting Clint Eastwood’s upcoming film American Sniper, a movie which tells the story of American hero Chris Kyle.
On January 9, Breitbart News reported four armed robbers allegedly stormed the She’s a Pistol female gun store in Shawnee, Kansas, and became engaged in a shootout with co-owner Jon Bieker after the robbers allegedly punched John’s wife, Becky Bieker.
Standing in front of a poster of himself holding a handgun in Taken 3, the latest installment in a film series that relies on gunplay to heighten action sequences, Liam Neeson spoke to the attacks on Charlie Hebdo by offering condolences, then saying: “There are too many [bleeping] guns out there, especially in America.”
A new Pennsylvania law brought local gun regulations in line with the state’s firearm preemption rules by allowing residents to sue their municipalities.
On January 9, MSNBC’s Eugene Robinson suggested a Paris-like terror attack in the US would produce “a lot more carnage” because of our lack of gun control and the availability of firearms. He did not mention that the terrorists in
GlobalPost co-founder Charles Sennott argued that Islam should not be blamed for the terrorist attacks in France in the same way that “gun culture”was not blamed for Timothy McVeigh and Christianity is not blamed for anti-abortion violence on Saturday’s “Melissa Harris-Perry”
On January 8, Attorney Generals (AGs) from 26 states filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court over a San Francisco gun control law which requires “locked storage for handguns.”
Washington Post columnist and MSNBC analyst Eugene Robinson argued that if attacks like the Charlie Hebdo attacks in France happened in the US “we would expect to have a lot more of that sort of carnage” because “weapons are universally available”
On January 8, 2014—four years after Jared Loughner’s attack on Gabby Giffords and other innocents at a Tucson Safeway—President Barack Obama met with Giffords in Phoenix, Arizona and praised her gun control efforts.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) says former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, a fellow likely 2016 GOP presidential candidate, is a “moderate.” Calling a Republican who’s seeking the GOP nomination a “moderate” is a clear insult in Republican presidential primary politics. During that selection process, each of the candidates is likely to focus on highlighting conservative credentials to please GOP base voters. Paul further hinted Bush would be open to tax increases and more government spending, positions no candidate is likely to take while trying to win the nomination.
In the wake of the January 7 armed terrorist attack in Paris, real estate tycoon and social commentator Donald Trump said the attack proved the truth of the maxim, “When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.”
The FBI’s December figures show 2.3 million background checks for gun purchasers were conducted in one month alone.
PBS’s new special, Gunned Down: The Power Of The NRA, makes it clear the Obama administration trusted Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) to beat the NRA on gun control in 2013.
During the January 7 terror attack on the Charlie Hebdo headquarters, several Paris police officers fled, unable to disarm the threat, because they themselves were unarmed and outgunned.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s (R) administration is proposing more gun control in the form of “security requirements” for firearm retailers, wholesalers, manufacturers–and employees of the same–in the state. The proposals originated with the State Police and are the result
France’s gun control laws are stricter than California’s, but they proved unable to stop the masked gunmen who carried out a “terrorist attack” by charging into the Paris headquarters of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical magazine, shooting and killing “as many as 12 people” and wounding 10 others on January 7.
Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts says the media is wrong and “the NRA is losing.”
Two months after taking a beating in the 2014 midterm elections, the gun control lobby is revamping its language and redirecting its energies toward what it views as vulnerable states.
On January 1, Salon published an interview in which Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America founder Shannon Watts said that more gun control is needed and the path to securing it includes bypassing Congress.
Americans for Responsible Solutions (ARS)–the gun control group founded by Gabby Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly–is seeking advice and trying to raise money “in the wake of repeated legislative and election defeats,” according to The Washington Times,
Democrat Wendy Davis, who made national news for running one of the year’s most aggressively catastrophic campaigns, clawed her way back into the headlines this week with her comment that the “one thing” she would do differently in her race against Republican Greg Abbott is to abandon her support for the open carry of firearms.
