On December 17 the Los Angeles Times provided details of a 2012 terror plot based on court documents. The plot was not carried out, but the details of it show that an armed citizenry could have thwarted it in its tracks.
President Obama says that stopping the next terrorist attack in the United States will be just about as hard as stopping the next mass shooting.
White House communications director Jen Psaki says President Obama will be reviewing executive actions he can take to go around Congress on gun control in “weeks, not months.”
House Democrats pushed an “assault weapons” ban on December 16 that included a prohibition against the manufacture of such weapons, and on that very day, an ABC News/Washington Post poll showed that the American people were pushing back and doing so in greater numbers than ever before.
Prosecutors have filed papers in court alleging that San Bernardino attacker Syed Farook and Enrique Marquez planned to carry out an attack in 2012 that included bombing Riverside City College, then shooting drivers and passengers along a crowded stretch of 91 freeway in a secondary attack.
This week, U.S. Rep. Donald Payne Jr. (D-NJ-10) introduced national gun buybacks with a program called the Safe Neighborhoods Gun Buyback Act.
On December 17, Assistant Homeland Secretary Alan Bersin said he had not heard about the effort to use the no-fly list for gun control background checks and suggested any effort to do so would be “apples and oranges.”
On December 16, Vanity Fair ran a column claiming President Obama has “no f**ks left to give” on gun control, which is their way of saying his lame duck status means he has no reason to hold back in efforts to institute all the gun control he can before leaving office.
On December 16, President Obama met with Michael Bloomberg to discuss ways executive action may be used to circumvent Congress for more gun control.
During a post-debate interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on December 15, Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz described how political correctness prejudices President Obama and Hillary Clinton against law-abiding American citizens.
On December 16, former General Electric CEO Jack Welch said affluent seniors are buying up handguns in the face of the growing terror threat.
On December 16, satirist Dan Joseph released “The Gun Control Song,” mocking President Obama’s habit of responding to high-profile shootings by calling for more gun control while “blood is still fresh on the ground.”
As part of their continued push for more gun control, President Obama and his senior advisor Valerie Jarrett met with former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to discuss the issue at the White House.
Five days after Breitbart News reported that President Barack Obama had not scheduled plans to attend or send representatives to any of the funerals of the 14 San Bernardino attack victims, the White House announced that the President has added a Friday stop on his way to Hawaiian holiday to visit–sans media–with some of the grieving families.
On December 16 an ABC News/Washington Post poll showed that an “assault weapons” ban faces the largest opposition among the American people ever.
On December 16, Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI-1st) will introduce the “Assault Weapons Ban of 2015” to ban all manufacturing of “assault weapons.”
On December 13, protesters with AR-15s slung over their shoulders crashed a Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America rally in Missoula, Montana.
During the December 15 under card GOP debate in Las Vegas, Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum said we should not be able to deny Second Amendment rights “based on a list kept by the government that no one knows how they get on it or how they get off of it.”
On December 14–the 3rd anniversary of the heinous attack on Sandy Hook Elementary–President Obama used a Facebook post to try to shame Congress into passing gun controls that would not have prevented the Sandy Hook attack from happening.
On December 14, Newtown Police Chief Michael Kehoe said police departments and the various branches of the military need to use the leverage of purchase contracts to pressure firearm makers into building smart guns.
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
A strong contender for dumbest “Star Wars” story is MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry sobbing over the crypto-racist messages she distilled from the central character of the saga. “I could spend the whole day talking about the whole Darth Vader situation,” she wailed. “Yeah, like, the part where he was totally a black guy whose name basically was James Earl Jones, who, and we were all, but while he was black, he was terrible and bad and awful and used to cut off white men’s hands, and didn’t, you know, actually claim his son. But as soon as he claims his son and goes over to the good, he takes off his mask and he is white.”
The latest Gallup poll shows more than twice as many Americans are concerned about terrorism than are concerned about “guns or gun control.”
Although background checks on Black Friday were record-setting, SK Arms in Midland, TX, says sales the day after President Obama’s terrorism/gun control speech were even bigger.
Organizers of Crossroads of the West gun show in Del Mar, CA, expected a weekend crowd large enough to exceed twice the normal show attendance.
