
On December 31 Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) claimed there were 372 mass shootings–or more than one mass shooting a day–during calendar year 2015. On the other hand, Mother Jones editor Mark Follman reported four mass shootings for the whole year and USA Today reported approximately 22.
by AWR Hawkins1 Jan 2016, 3:10 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 16, President Obama met with Michael Bloomberg to discuss ways executive action may be used to circumvent Congress for more gun control.
by AWR Hawkins17 Dec 2015, 8:48 AM PST0

On Monday, 24 Senate Democrats urged President Obama to circumvent Congress by using executive action to expand background checks to cover private gun sales.
by AWR Hawkins24 Nov 2015, 8:52 AM PST0

On November 12 a CBS News report focused on Everytown for Gun Safety’s efforts to secure more gun control revealed that President Obama has “assigned White House lawyers” to look for a way that executive action can be used to expand background checks to include private gun sales or at least some sales by private gun owners.
by AWR Hawkins12 Nov 2015, 9:48 AM PST0

On October 3, Mark Carman posted a YouTube video in which he equated gun rights with motorcycle ownership–arguing that the licensing requirement for the latter provides some standard to guide licensing requirements for the former–and the White House responded by inviting him to come visit on November 16 and 17.
by AWR Hawkins11 Nov 2015, 1:21 PM PST0

On November 10 the Los Angeles Times reported that some universities in Texas are assessing how and where they can create gun free zones to keep law-abiding students with concealed handgun licenses (CHLs) from carrying guns for self-defense.
by AWR Hawkins11 Nov 2015, 12:52 PM PST0

On October 13, Breitbart News reported that Wisconsin state representative Jesse Kremer (R-Kewaskum) and state senator Devin LeMahieu (R-Oostburg) are pushing a bill to expand campus carry into college buildings and classrooms in Wisconsin and to change it from strictly open carry to concealed carry as well.
by AWR Hawkins2 Nov 2015, 5:57 PM PST0

Retired University of Texas (UT) Economics professor Daniel S. Hamermesh had agreed to teach through 2017 to give the school time to find his replacement, but he is now cutting ties to protest the new campus carry laws in the state of Texas.
by AWR Hawkins29 Oct 2015, 11:12 AM PST0

During the October 28 Republican debate in Boulder, Colorado, presidential hopeful Donald Trump criticized gun free zones as being “target practice for the sickos and for the mentally ill.”
by AWR Hawkins28 Oct 2015, 7:17 PM PST0

After a week of polls showing the American people reacted to the Umpqua Community College (UCC) shooting with stronger support for gun rights than gun control, a Washington Post-ABC News poll released October 26 shows that an overwhelming majority of Americans also believe Congressional focus ought to be on fixing our mental health system instead of talking about more gun laws.
by AWR Hawkins26 Oct 2015, 7:55 AM PST0

A Gallup poll released on October 20 shows that a majority of Americans believe more concealed carry equals less crime.
by AWR Hawkins23 Oct 2015, 8:21 PM PST0

On October 21, a CNN/ORC poll showed that opposition to expanded gun control is higher after the attack on Umpqua Community College (UCC) than before the attack.
by AWR Hawkins21 Oct 2015, 2:27 PM PST0

In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, Roseburg pastor Randy Scroggins answers those who have made the bizarre claim that the shooting that left nine victims dead and nine injured is a fake.
by Lee Stranahan14 Oct 2015, 9:19 PM PST0

In the push for gun control undertaken in the wake of the heinous attack on Umpqua Community College, the left has presented the usual dichotomy to the American people–one that pits law-abiding citizens against citizens with mental illness. Lost in this dichotomy is a third and very important category–namely, citizens who are evil or are driven by evil intent.
by AWR Hawkins14 Oct 2015, 11:54 AM PST0

In the wake of the October 1 shooting that left nine dead at Umpqua Community College (UCC), Princeton University has announced that it will be augmenting its policy on gun-free Department of Public Safety officers so as to provide those officers access to rifles that can be used in the event of an attack.
by AWR Hawkins13 Oct 2015, 5:55 PM PST0

This might restore a little of your hope for America’s future: In an exclusive conversation with Breitbart News, three students from Umpqua Community College show more common sense about guns and safety on college campuses than mainstream Democratic politicians.
by Lee Stranahan12 Oct 2015, 8:02 PM PST0

On October 10 Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich suggested the Second Amendment was written for another time and place and that America’s Founding Fathers could never have envisioned the situation we find ourselves in now, in the 21st century.
by AWR Hawkins12 Oct 2015, 8:53 AM PST0

During the October 11 airing of Face the Nation Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump talked about his concealed carry permit, the fact that he personally carries a gun from time to time, and the importance of allowing law-abiding citizens on college campuses to be armed for self-defense.
by AWR Hawkins11 Oct 2015, 12:01 PM PST0

On October 10 President Obama talked about gun control and the Oregon shooting at “$33,400-a-ticket” Hollywood fundraiser for the Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee.
by AWR Hawkins11 Oct 2015, 9:17 AM PST0

Never one to not make an outlandish political statement or remark, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s latest remark about mass shootings and killings in the United States has been fact-checked.
by Javier Manjarres9 Oct 2015, 8:29 PM PST0

Eight days after a gunman opened fire in Roseburg, Oregon, with weapons acquired through a background check, President Obama is weighing the option of using an executive order to circumvent Congress and make background checks a requirement for certain private sellers.
by AWR Hawkins9 Oct 2015, 6:16 PM PST0

After three were wounded and one was killed on October 9 at Northern Arizona University (NAU), Vice magazine ran the headline: “Yet Another Mass Shooting Has Left One Dead and Three Injured at Northern Arizona University.”
by AWR Hawkins9 Oct 2015, 5:30 PM PST0

Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) stated, “There may be no specific law” that would have prevented the shooting in Oregon on Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead with Jake Tapper.” Blumenthal was asked, “can you point to a law, or a
by Ian Hanchett9 Oct 2015, 1:40 PM PST0

On October 9 Charles Haywood–Purdue University associate professor of business law–contended that “the common sense solution” to campus shootings is campus carry, a mechanism that allows students and faculty the legal avenue of being armed on campus for self-defense.
by AWR Hawkins9 Oct 2015, 12:31 PM PST0