On Monday, a University of Colorado student, Roberto Zamora, allegedly walked through a neighborhood, yelling and beating on doors, then broke into a home, where he was shot and killed.
On May 5 country singer Brantley Gilbert posted a Facebook photo of his new tattoo and took his support of the Second Amendment “to another level.”
The Texas State Senate has passed a bill that would establish a sales tax holiday for firearms and ammunition. Senate Bill 228, authored by Senator Brandon Creighton (R-Conroe), would create the sales tax holiday on the last weekend in August before hunting season, beginning at 12:01 a.m. on that Friday, and lasting until midnight on the following Sunday.
On May 5 CNN reported that the two gunmen who attacked Garland’s Curtis Culwell Center acquired their guns “legally.”
On Monday, Gabby Giffords cheered Oregon’s house for supporting SB 941 — a bill to require background checks for all gun sales, public or private. She did not mention that her attacker, Jared Loughner, passed a background check to acquire the gun he then used to attack her in 2011.
On May 2 World War II veteran Arthur Kamberis walked out of a Walgreens’ store and was confronted by an alleged robber who tried to take his wallet. Kamberis fended him off for a time by beating him with a cane before being aided by a passerby who intervened.
When Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi opened fire outside the Muhammad cartoon event Sunday night in Garland, Texas, they were killed by a traffic cop working after-hours security for the event to pick up extra money.
On April 21 Comedy Central’s Inside Amy Schumer ran a parody ad in which Schumer complained that guns are easier to acquire than birth control pills.
On May 4 actress Melissa Joan Hart appeared in a new gun control PSA in which she suggests gun control should be a topic of causal conversation.
On Sunday, two Islamic gunmen enraged by a Muslim cartoon contest opened fire at Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas. The were immediately killed by good guys with guns.
The San Bernardino County Sheriff Department’s taser policy aligns with a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruling which requires law enforcement to refrain from using Tasers against persons who do not post an “imminent threat” to the officer or the public.
On May 3 Breitbart News reported that two gunmen approached the Mohammed Art Exhibit and Contest at the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Texas, and began firing. Their attack was cut down by good guys with guns who were there to stop bad guys.
On May 3, a suspect allegedly pounded on the door of a Pleasant Grove, Utah, home, forced his way inside, and was shot and killed by the homeowner.
When armed men attacked people gathered in Garland, Texas, on May 3 over Prophet Muhammad cartoons, armed police cut them down.
On April 25 Cassidy Kramer tracked bears along Alaska’s Noatak River. She passed on the first few she found and then finally killed her bear as “it was running up the side of a mountain.”
Representative Mike Thompson (D-CA-5th) believes the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) should investigate the NRA over their ongoing “political efforts” against gun control.
As Senate Bill 941 continues to make its way through Oregon’s legislature–ostensibly to reduce gun violence and do away with Sandy Hook-style attacks–many people are realizing the that bill’s true impact will be seen in higher gun prices without any real preventative against the kind of attack Adam Lanza carried out on December 14, 2012.
On May 1, a Pittsburgh homeowner shot and killed two at the same address where police arrested four people for an alleged home invasion earlier in the week.
On April 30, an alleged robber walked up behind a manager at a Houston, Texas, check cashing store, put a gun to his head, and got shot twice in the chest. He died from his wounds.
On April 29 two men were shot and killed in Baltimore, and April 30 witnessed the shooting of five more, one of whom died.
On April 29, a homeowner in East Knox County, Tennessee, reportedly awoke to the sound of glass breaking, drew a bead on the alleged intruder, and blew the suspect out of the house with one shot. When police arrived, they found him dying on the porch.
In the latest round of arguments against the Campus Carry bill now making its way through the Texas legislature, Newsweek magazine suggests allowing law-abiding citizens to carry guns on campus could result in fearful professors giving students higher grades than they otherwise deserve.
On April 30, Micheal Moore tweeted his “demand” that police be disarmed and “every African-American currently incarcerated for…nonviolent offenses [be] released from prison today.”
Actress Melissa Joan Hart–Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Melissa and Joey–will be spokeswoman for Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America’s new gun control campaign when it kicks off Mother’s Day week on May 4.
On April 23, Hillary Clinton’s campaign reportedly hired Scott Hogan, state director of Everytown for Gun Safety, to organize for her campaign in Minnesota.
