On August 8, Trainwreck’s Amy Schumer said the difficulty of pushing more gun control through Congress ultimately comes down to how much money the gun industry has to oppose it.
Carmike Cinemas, the chain which owns the Tennessee theater attacked today, has been boycotted over their gun free policies in the past.
In the week since John Russell Houser allegedly shot and killed two people in Lafayette, Louisiana’s Grand Theatre, gun sales in the area have risen and concealed carry applications are “through the roof.”
During a recent appearance on Newsmax TV, Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz said the Second Amendment is an “absurd thing” in our constitution and that our legal framework needs to be adjusted “to create a presumption against gun ownership instead of a presumption in favor of gun ownership.”
With claims that alleged Lafayette gunman John Russell Houser was committed to a mental institution in Georgia gaining steam, Carroll County Probate Judge Betty Cason is making it clear she never ordered him committed.
On July 24, Gabby Giffords’s husband Mark Kelly was questioned about the Lafayette theater attack, and after admitting all the facts were not yet known, he pushed for background checks and other gun controls.
On July 24, the day after John Russell Houser allegedly killed two people in a Louisiana Grand Theatre, Pitch Perfect’s Rebel Wilson took to Twitter to announce that America needs to institute an Australian-like gun ban.
On July 24 the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) announced that Lafayette theater gunman John Russell Houser bought his gun “legally” at a pawn store in Alabama in 2014.
Within a few hours of the July 23 shooting at Lafayette’s Grand Theatre, Shannon Watts took to Twitter to repudiate those who have tried to discourage her from immediately seizing on tragedy to promote gun control and made clear she remains dedicated to doing so regardless.
The Lafayette, Louisiana, Grand Theatre–site of the tragic July 23 attack in which a gunman killed two, wounded at least seven others, then took his own life–is a gun free zone.
