Mark Kelly, a gun control proponent like his wife, Gabby Giffords, specifically cites Trump’s support of concealed carry for self-defense in the wake of the June 12 Orlando Pulse attack. In that attack, 49 unarmed, defenseless patrons were gunned down in a gun-free zone.
On October 15, gun control proponent Gabby Giffords was in Newtown, Connecticut, pushing the same background check her attacker passed to acquire his handgun.
Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) is sponsoring a presentation of the Guns in the Hands of Artists exhibition in Washington DC October 3-7.
The gunman who opened fire on random persons in Houston on September 26 passed a background check for the rifle and the handgun he used during the attack, reports say.
In a September 8 interview that ran in Glamour magazine, pop singer Kesha said we need to “monitor” gun owners and the guns they own.
On August 22 Gabby Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly praised Senators Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Mark Kirk (R-IL) for caving on gun control. Giffords and Kelly subsequently announced that their gun control group–Americans for Responsible Solutions–is endorsing Toomey and Kirk in the November elections.
During his July 27 speech at the Democrat National Convention, gun control proponent Mark Kelly described the absence of new gun laws as one of America’s “greatest moral failures.”
Kesha was playing a late night concert coinciding with the Democrat National Convention in Philadelphia, at an event sponsored by Gabby Gifford’s gun control group, Americans for Responsible Solutions.
“If we’re going to make progress, the message we have to take is that we’re going to be single-issue voters. I don’t care about e-mails or anything else, (but) we need to vote for Hillary Clinton because she is someone who is going to make progress on gun control,” Ed Rendell says.
Americans for Responsible Solutions (ARS), and others argue that the favorable of the NRA is too great, and success on gun control cannot be achieved by targeting them by name.
Governor Mike Pence (R) is a strong advocate for the Second Amendment who brings an undeniable pro-gun voting record to Donald Trump’s presidential aspirations.
But Politico reports that Paul Ryan is standing his ground, for now. And that he met with Representatives John Lewis (D-GA-5) and John Larson (D-CT-1)–two leaders behind last month’s gun control sit-in–in hopes of talking them into forgoing more disruptions of House business.
A Quinnipiac University poll released June 30 shows a majority of voters believe all would-be gun buyers should be required to pass the same background check Orlando gunman Omar Mateen passed for his firearms.
In the weeks after the Orlando terror attack, Gabby Giffords has been fighting for more gun control, while gays have been fighting for more guns.
General David Petraeus is forming a gun control group with Gabby Gifford’s husband Mark Kelly.
The June 1 murder -suicide on the gun-free UCLA campus was yet another proof that universal background checks do not stop a determined attacker.
Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck said Friday that UCLA gunman Mainak Sarkar purchased his firearms “legally.”
Gabby Giffords’s gun control group — Americans for Responsible Solutions — is spending seven figures to air an ad against pro-gun Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH).
Proponents of more gun control for American citizens are frequently people who live their lives surrounded by good guys with guns. Moreover, gun control proponents are also people who use tragedies as an opportunity to push more gun laws even when said laws would have done nothing to prevent the tragedy that occurred.
On May 16, Gabby Giffords took part in a “gun control forum” in Los Angeles, where she stumped for Hillary Clinton and more gun control laws. Neither Giffords nor Kelly pointed out that the cities making headlines for gun violence–Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, New Orleans, New York City, Seattle, and St. Louis–are Democrat-run.
On May 9 — less than two years since universal background checks were hoisted onto the backs of law-abiding citizens in Washington state — Gabby Giffords was in the state campaigning for special protective orders that will allow firearm confiscation.
On Mother’s Day, Barbara Parker–the mother of on-air shooting victim Alison Parker–will be joining Moms Demand Action to campaign for the very background checks that Alison’s attacker passed prior to getting a gun.
The suspect in the May 5 shooting in Beltsville, Maryland, was the subject of a stay away order that included a prohibition on personal gun possession.
With the impotency of Chicago’s myriad gun controls on full display for the world to see, Gabby Giffords is pushing for the city to add one more: background checks for licensed gun dealers.
Gun grabbers are ubiquitous in the current 21st century Democratic Party and, with effort, one or two gun grabbers can be found in the Republican Party as well.
Gabby Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly have launched a new group in Virginia to push gun control; it’s their same message, with different packaging.
Gun control proponent Gabby Giffords met with Oregon “law enforcement leaders” at the YWCA in Portland on Friday to contend that the universal background checks instituted last year and the closure of the “gun show loophole” in 2000 are not enough; more gun control for Oregon is needed now.
During a February 15 campaign stop in Denver, gun control proponent Gabby Giffords called Hillary Clinton “courageous” and assured would-be caucus voters that Clinton will fight for gun control by “[standing] up to the gun lobby.”
During the January 31 airing of This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Democrat presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton said she is endorsed by Gabby Giffords to “stand up to the gun lobby.” Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly launched Americans for Responsible
On January 17 actress Amy Schumer accepted a Critics’ Choice award and closed her acceptance speech by thanking the two victims who were shot and killed during a showing of Trainwreck in Lafayette, Louisiana.
Breitbart contributor AWR Hawkins, the nation’s leading journalist on gun rights, told a standing-room-only audience at the South Carolina Tea Party Coalition Convention “Democrats use emotion, denial, and shame to get you to move against the second amendment [the right to keep and bear arms].”
Following President Obama’s reiteration of executive gun control during the January 7 town hall on CNN, radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh revealed five things Obama’s gun control will not stop.
Gun control proponent Gabby Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly have chosen to endorse Democrat presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders because of Clinton’s stronger gun control stance.
Former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is set to endorse Hillary Clinton for president, reports Politico.
The gun control town hall CNN hosted for President Obama was very one-sided. The vast majority of the questions directed at Obama were leading questions centered on gun control, while the few questions or comments that were pro-Second Amendment in nature went unanswered or were only partially answered.
President Barack Obama will reportedly announce executive gun control actions on Tuesday. The gun controls are expected to expand background checks to cover private gun sellers as well to place new reporting requirements on the backs of federally licensed firearms dealers.
On January 7 President Obama will hold a live gun control town hall on CNN with Anderson Cooper.
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
Gun control proponent Mark Kelly used the example of a man who acquired his guns “legally,” then misused them, to argue that background checks need to be expanded to cover more gun sales.
On November 3, voters kept the Virginia Senate in the hands of pro-gun Republicans, yet Gabby Giffords’ gun control group–Americans for Responsible Solutions (ARS)–claimed victory because a Democrat they supported won a seat vacated by a Democrat.