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Police say the man who opened fire in the gun-free Henry Pratt Company facility in Aurora, Illinois, had his Firearm Owner’s Identification (FOID) card revoked and possessed his gun illegally.

Gun control advocate David Hogg is urging fellow gun control proponents to fight efforts to arm Florida teachers for self-defense.

Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt) Trustees voted to preserve a gun-free environment by keeping police officers unarmed on campus.

The Baltimore City school board voted down a measure that would allow police officers to be armed in schools for the defense of students and teachers.

Pittsburgh Mayor William Peduto (D) is pushing firearm confiscation orders, bans on commonly-owned semiautomatic firearms and “high capacity” magazines. 

The deputy who stood by while the February 14, 2018, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting was taking place asked a judge to rule that he had “no legal duty” to protect the students.

Police say the deputy who died responding to the November 7 Thousand Oaks attack died from friendly fire.

Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri is leading an investigation into the February 14, 2018, Parkland high school shooting and insists teachers must be armed to stop attacks.

The Crime Prevention Research Center shows that 97.8 percent of mass shootings over a 68-year period occurred in “gun-free zones.”

Chicago Mercy Hospital, the site of Monday’s heinous shooting, is a state-mandated gun-free zone. Moreover, Mercy’s parking lot–the spot where the shooting began–is mandate gun-free as well.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) tweeted Sunday to claim no one is immune from gun violence and it is time for Congress to pass more gun laws.

The site of the Thousand Oaks, California, mass shooting was a state-mandated gun-free zone. 

Actor Ashton Kutcher responded to Wednesday’s shooting in Borderline Bar & Grill by begging Ivanka Trump to convince her father to push “gun control now.”

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA-15) reacted to Wednesday night’s Thousand Oaks, California, shooting by blaming the gun laws in Arizona and Nevada.

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) mocked President Donald Trump for speaking in favor of armed security in places of worship following the October 27 attack on the Pittsburgh synagogue.

A University of Utah student athlete was allegedly shot dead on campus Monday evening by her ex-boyfriend before he shot himself.

An armed man was arrested in an Amarillo, Texas, church Sunday morning and his wife allegedly cased the building.

Thursday’s shooting in Cincinnati’s Fifth Third Bank occurred in a gun-free zone.

Veteran actor James Woods responded to Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) post-Jacksonville calls for new gun laws by suggesting she ban “gun free” zones so innocents are no longer vulnerable to murdering attackers.

Bismarck, North Dakota, is seeking fifteen AR-15s for school resource officers (SROs), and they want to store those guns at the schools, where officers could quickly grab them in the event of an attack.

Turning Point USA is holding a High School Leadership Summit in D.C. and is offering travel and lodging scholarships to any student from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the site of the heinous February 14 attack.

Cities and townships are using zoning restrictions to hedge in “gun store free zones” around the country. This includes over 20 such zones in California alone.

Patrick Ryan (D) is a New York Congressional candidate who believes the First Amendment has limits and therefore the Second Amendment must be limited as well.

During the May 20 airing of Breitbart News Sunday, Gun Owners of America’s Erich Pratt observed that liberals have created “safe zones” where would-be victims cannot fight back.

A broadly applicable lesson from the Santa Fe High School shooting is that our nation’s school safety threat does not come from AR-15s or “high capacity” magazines but from gun-free zones.

Actor James Woods took to Twitter on Sunday and said the American people know how to secure our schools, because we successfully secured our airports after the terror attacks on 9/11 — but Democrats will not support the steps necessary to accomplish that safety.

Obama administration education secretary Arne Duncan is suggesting Americans pull students from school until Congress passes gun control.

If the heinous attack on Santa Fe High School teaches us anything it is that the left’s favorite gun controls are impotent to stop school shooters.

The good guy with a gun who shot an alleged shooter at Illinois’ Dixon High School has been identified as Mark Dallas. He is a school resource officer.

The Washington Post fact-checked President Trump’s claim that “98 percent of all mass public shootings” occur in gun-free zones and gave him two Pinocchios on Thursday.

When President Donald Trump spoke to the NRA convention on Friday, he suggested fewer people could have died in Paris on November 13, 2015, if Parisians had been allowed to be armed for self-defense.

Nashville Mayor David Briley (D) demanded more gun control laws after a man, who had his firearms seized in 2017, opened fire on an Antioch, Tennessee, Waffle House.

While speaking to the Global Education and Skills Forum in Dubai actress Charlize Theron made clear her belief that it is “outrageous” to even discuss allowing armed teachers to defend students.

The NRA is pushing for enhanced school safety measures by pointing out that Congress must take protecting our kids as seriously as they take protecting themselves. 

The White House put out a release reflecting President Trump’s desire that our schools should be as safe as our airports, stadiums, and government buildings.

Virginia Delegate Nick Freitas (R-30) took Democrats to task Friday over gun control, welfare policies, slavery, Jim Crow laws, and opposition to arming teachers for self-defense.