
On January 6–the day after President Obama announced executive gun controls to prevent “mass violence” in America–the Associated Press reported that Obama’s actions would not have stopped one mass shooting in recent memory.
by AWR Hawkins6 Jan 2016, 8:13 AM PST0

With Barack Obama announcing an executive expansion of background checks that is certain to draw ire–and lawsuits–from conservatives and gun rights groups around the country, it is important to remember that House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) supported a very similar background check expansion just two years ago.
by AWR Hawkins5 Jan 2016, 8:50 AM PST0

Arne Duncan gave his final speech as education secretary on December 30, expressing his “frustration” that Congress has not passed more gun control and his hope that more such control will be secured to keep school children safe.
by AWR Hawkins1 Jan 2016, 12:55 PM PST0

On January 4, President Obama will meet with Attorney General Loretta Lynch to finalize the executive gun controls expected to be announced next week.
by AWR Hawkins1 Jan 2016, 8:55 AM PST0

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.
by AWR Hawkins14 Dec 2015, 5:51 PM 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

The Washington Post’s fact checker took a look at recent mass shootings and concluded there is no evidence that stronger gun laws would have prevented any of them.
by John Sexton10 Dec 2015, 5:52 PM PST0

Stephen Koff, Washington Bureau Chief for the Cleveland Plain Dealer has been trying to interview Democrat Senate candidate Ted Strickland about his views on gun control in light of the terrorist attack in San Bernardino.
by Mike Flynn8 Dec 2015, 7:22 PM PST0

A CNN anchor acknowledged Sunday that gun control didn’t stop the triple-murder shooting in Colorado.
by AWR Hawkins29 Nov 2015, 4:49 PM PST0

On November 17 GQ magazine published an interview with President Obama in which he indicated his last year in office will be one of “sustained attention” to gun control.
by AWR Hawkins17 Nov 2015, 9:24 AM PST0

In the wake of the heinous December 2012 attack on Sandy Hook Elementary, Vice President Joe Biden was tasked with coaxing Congress into supporting the gun control measures put forth by Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), but Biden failed to deliver.
by AWR Hawkins12 Oct 2015, 5:06 PM PST0

On October 11, the Associated Press lamented the demise of “gun violence researchers,” citing the lack of funding necessary to pay researchers enough to draw them to the field and blaming that lack of funding on the NRA and the Republican Party.
by AWR Hawkins12 Oct 2015, 10:44 AM PST0

Speaking to Politicon in L.A. on Friday, California Attorney General Kamala Harris suggested gun control could have been secured after Sandy Hook by politicizing the autopsy photos of the dead and forcing Senators and Representatives to look at each one.
by AWR Hawkins10 Oct 2015, 4:02 PM PST0

On October 2, entertainer Bette Milder lamented her belief that we have reached a point in time where we must show allegiance to the NRA or “shut the f**k up.”
by AWR Hawkins5 Oct 2015, 12:29 PM 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

A father is outraged after learning that an “active shooter protocol” at his children’s school, Stevenson Elementary in Heath, Ohio, includes encouraging his eight-year-old son to throw books at the gunman.
by AWR Hawkins16 Sep 2015, 11:49 AM PST0

On August 11 Sandy Hook Promise founder Nicole Hockley pointed to the Lafayette theater shooting and the August 9 shooting in Ferguson as justifications for more gun control.
by AWR Hawkins12 Aug 2015, 4:26 PM PST0

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
by AWR Hawkins2 Aug 2015, 7:52 AM PST0

The Washington Post ran a piece on the reported July 2 DC Navy Yard shooting, declaring that mass shootings are now as American as “apple pie, baseball.”
by AWR Hawkins2 Jul 2015, 7:48 PM PST0

On June 29, The Washington Post (WaPo) called out gun control Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) for his “misleading” and exaggerated claims regarding school shootings since the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newtown, Connecticut.
by AWR Hawkins30 Jun 2015, 7:51 AM PST0

During a June 24 appearance on CNN, gun control proponent Mark Kelly said he thinks Obama was right for politicizing the Charleston shooting one day after it happened.
by AWR Hawkins24 Jun 2015, 5:22 PM PST0

On Tuesday, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said the United States is the “only advanced country” where public “mass violence” occurs, and more gun control is needed now to keep Charleston-like attacks from happening again.
by AWR Hawkins23 Jun 2015, 2:51 PM PST0

On June 20, The Fresno Bee editorial board ran an editorial showing that gun control is not working, yet calling for more gun control to prevent an attack like the heinous one in Charleston, South Carolina, from ever happening again.
by AWR Hawkins22 Jun 2015, 9:02 AM PST0

The city of Chicago has some of the most stringent gun controls in America. And as of June 9, it has also had over 1,000 shootings already this year.
by AWR Hawkins9 Jun 2015, 1:05 PM PST0

Researchers at the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health say polls making it look like Americans have abandoned gun control are the result of poorly worded questions. If the questions were worded differently, those polls would show that Americans actually want more gun control laws passed.
by AWR Hawkins5 Jun 2015, 6:13 PM PST0