A new report from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) shows that while “70 percent” of all public schools put kids through school shooting scenarios/drills, only “43 percent” have armed security.
On April 22, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and Everytown for Gun Safety attended an Oregon House Rules Committee hearing in support of Senate Bill 941—the same gun control bill being supported by Sandy Hook Promise, the group for whom Tim McGraw is raising money on July 17.
On April 22 families of 11 Sandy Hook Elementary victims made clear that they are not affiliated with Sandy Hook Promise, the gun control group for whom Tim McGraw is raising money.
On Sunday, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) appeared on CBS’s Face The Nation to announce the he has decided not to run for governor of West Virginia in 2016.
In 2008, country singer Tim McGraw supported Barack Obama for president, saying he liked Obama’s “ideas.” In 2015 McGraw is supporting Sandy Hook Promise, a gun control group that wants to implement Obama’s ideas concerning expanded background checks.
On April 14, Breitbart News reported that country singers Tim McGraw and Billy Currington would be headlining a gun control fundraiser for Sandy Hook Promise on July 17.
On July 17, country singers Tim McGraw and Billy Currington will headline a fundraiser for gun control group Sandy Hook Promise in Connecticut.
Congressional Democrats plan to introduce national gun buyback legislation for “assault weapons.”
New Jersey state senate president Stephen M. Sweeney has three words for gun owners who have initiated a recall effort against him–“Bring it on.”
On April 2, a group of California teachers protested the fact that the California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS) is still invested in guns–particularly Bushmaster Firearms–more than two years after Adam Lanza’s heinous attack on Sandy Hook Elementary.
Two years after the heinous attack at Sandy Hook Elementary, California teachers are “mad” that their pension fund is still invested in Bushmaster firearms.
Lawsuits against Nancy Lanza’s homeowners insurance have been filed by nine parents of Sandy Hook victims.
On Sunday, CBS News Sunday Morning aired video of gun control proponents Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly shooting handguns and rifles, then panned to video of the couple sitting in their Tucson, Arizona, home where Giffords talked about the possibility of running for office again.
As Democrats continue to circle the wagons to preserve gun-free zones, Representative Mike Thompson (D-CA-5th Dist.) is suggesting gun owners support protecting children with background checks, which did not stop Adam Lanza from committing his heinous crime at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
On March 4, gun control proponent Gabby Giffords will join Democrat lawmakers to push for expanded background checks on Capitol Hill.
On February 28, Salon focused on the growing GOP push for campus carry, calling it a “bizarre” attempt to impose a “lethal solution to the campus rape crisis.”
On February 24, Fox News’s Greg Gutfeld said the terror threat against Minnesota’s Mall of America (MOA) has exposed the “obvious truth” that “the phrase ‘gun-free zones’ is liberal of ‘sitting duck.'”
Over the weekend, the Somalia terror group al-Shabaab released a video calling for attacks that included targeting Minnesota’s Mall of America (MOA). In response, MOA reminded shoppers that law-abiding citizens with concealed carry handgun permits are barred from carrying guns on their premises for self-defense.
The Washington Post looks across the pond and demonstrates that Europe’s expanded background checks prove useless in the face of a booming black market for guns and radicalized Muslims looking to commit terrorism.
On February 17 the University of Texas Student Government (SG) voted to oppose legislation Texas lawmakers are considering which would allow students with concealed carry licenses to carry a gun on campus for self-defense.
In what is presented as an effort to mentally prepare students and faculty alike on how to react to an active shooter on campus, “certain schools” located in Oregon, Florida, and New Jersey have adopted “unannounced active-shooter drills.”
Attorneys who filed suit against Bushmaster firearms for the families of ten Sandy Hook Elementary School victims allege that the rifle maker is “forum shopping” by removing the case to federal court, and that Bushmaster’s ultimate goal is “to avoid answering for their conduct.”
On February 12, the Sandy Hook Advisory Commission Report to Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy (D) referenced over nine minutes with no armed resistance while Adam Lanza carried out his heinous acts on December 14, 2012.
On Sunday, MSNBC aired Melissa Harris-Perry’s interview of Attorney General Eric Holder and he said the “single failure” of his tenure as AG was the failure to secure gun control.
On January 26, Breitbart News reported that Virginia’s Republican-controlled Senate Courts of Justice panel rejected Governor Terry McAuliffe’s (D) recent gun control proposals, including a one-handgun-a-month purchase limit and new regulations on gun shows. On February 3, The Washington Post reported that
With seven pro-Second Amendment bills before the Colorado state legislature on February 22—including some that would repeal certain gun laws instituted in 2013—Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America urged Democrats to dig in and oppose the repeal of gun control.
On January 28, The Future of Freedom Foundation (FFF) vice president, Sheldon Richman, reacted to American Sniper by writing that Chris Kyle “was no hero” and that he really couldn’t see a difference between Kyle’s actions and those of Adam Lanza.
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.
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 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.
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.
PBS’s new special, Gunned Down: The Power of the NRA, includes looks at other gun rights groups–like Gun Owners of America (GOA)–and actually credits GOA with dragging Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) into the light when he tried to cloak his 2013 gun control push with words like “compromise” and “loopholes.”
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.
On December 17, North Central Connecticut’s Journal Inquirer (JI) reported that by suing Bushmaster firearms, Newtown parents and their attorney have effectively sued every gun company. Written by managing editor Chris Powell, the JI column shows this is so because “the lawsuit’s