President Barack Obama tells CNN’s Fareed Zakaria his greatest regret from the past eight years was his inability to further restrict the Second Amendment via more gun control.
“The President-elect and officials from across Louisiana will be in attendance to ensure that a conservative voice is elected, make sure that we have another Republican voice in the U.S. Senate,” Trump’s spokesman Jason Miller told reporters on Wednesday morning.
During a Wednesday morning discussion on burning the American flag, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) said to Breitbart News Daily SiriusXM host Raheem Kassam, “I would have to agree with Justice Scalia, who said government shouldn’t be the one enforcing those values.”
A few days ago, I wrote that the post-2016 ideological pendulum-swing within the Democratic Party makes it likely that President Donald Trump will face a weak Democratic challenger in 2020. And yet, as we shall see, over the long run, the news for the Democrats might improve — thus Republicans must never grow complacent.
In an interview published September 28, Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) said there is nothing wrong with politicizing mass shootings and even indicated such politicization should begin “within an hour” of such a heinous incident.
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.
Democrat vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine claims he never loses to the NRA, but he has.
Speaking at an August 8 town hall in Rocket Center, West Virginia, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) criticized his state’s recently enacted constitutional carry law, suggesting that relying on the Second Amendment alone as a carry permit will actually increase ambush incidents for police officers.
Hillary Clinton suggested the passage of universal background checks–like those passed by the Orlando gunman, the San Bernardino attackers, the Aurora movie theater gunman, and both Fort Hood attackers–would be a way to unite Americans against terror.
“This platform’s language just says (to abortion opponents) you are no longer welcome,” said Kristen Day, executive director of Democrats for Life, reports USA Today. “This has been the general message pro-life Democrats are receiving across the country.”
All the media hype and Democrat talking points aside, gun control is so unpopular that even Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) voted against Monday’s expanded background checks proposal.
In the wake of the Orlando terror attack Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has proposed legislation that would ban gun purchases for anyone who has been on a watch list “in the preceding five years.”
During the June 16 airing of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, gun control Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) let his mask slip by expressing frustration that due process is preventing the pursuit of more gun control.
On June 15 Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) joined Democrats’ filibuster for gun control and suggested the Orlando terror attack provides an “opportunity” to secure new gun laws.
On Wednesday’s “Fox & Friends,” on the Fox News Channel Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) said that President Obama “should have said ‘radical Islam.’” And that he would do so “in a heartbeat.” Manchin stated that Obama “should have said ‘radical
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.
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.
Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) introduced gun control legislation Monday after the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence accused him of failing to be the gun control advocate he promised to be.
Senator Jon Tester (D-Mont.) says more gun control would not have prevented the heinous December 2012 attack on Sandy Hook Elementary.
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.
Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) is running a pro-gun control ad in hopes of attracting Democrat voters in the buildup to Pennsylvania’s April 26 Primary.
FBI figures show that February 2016 was the tenth consecutive month of record background checks for retail gun sales in the U.S.
On February 22, the West Virgina Senate voted 24-9 in support of legislation removing the requirement for a license to carry a concealed handgun in the state.
Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-IN), Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND), Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), and Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) are refusing — at this point — to say whether they would support an Obama nominee to the United States Supreme Court to
On February 16, Arizona’s Senate Committee on Federalism, Mandates and Fiscal Responsibility approved legislation to nullify the enforcement of Obama’s executive controls within the state.
The Republican-led West Virginia House voted Feb. 8 to eliminate the existing requirement for people to get concealed carry permits if they want to carry a concealed gun.
Speaking at the Tina Brown Live Media’s American Justice Summit on January 29, Eric Holder reflected on his time as attorney general and described the “inability” to secure more gun control as his “biggest failure.”
West Virginia state Representative Saira Blair (R-Berkley) has introduced legislation to residents of her state to carry concealed handguns without a permit.
After President Obama’s State of the Union speech, members of Congress dismissed his call for the restoration of a “better politics” in America. “It was a walking contradiction in terms straight out of a utopian faculty lounge,” Rep. Dave Brat
On January 11 The Atlantic pointed out that President Obama is busy about the business of pushing gun-control, but is careful not to utter the words “gun control” while push for gun control.
On January 4, the White House released a fact sheet which previews the executive gun control Obama will announce Tuesday, and it reveals there is no numerical threshold of sales that a private seller has to cross before being considered “engaged in the business of dealing in firearms.”
On December 29, Democrat presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton responded to a question on guns by outlining seven specific new gun control laws she wants to institute if elected.
On December 14–the 3rd anniversary of the heinous attack on Sandy Hook Elementary–President Obama used a Facebook post to try to shame Congress into passing gun controls that would not have prevented the Sandy Hook attack from happening.
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
Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) stated that “we have very little background, very little knowledge” on the 20 million people who came to the US last year from favored nations under the visa waiver system on Wednesday’s “Your World with Neil
On December 3 the Senate rejected Senator Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) push to expand background checks nationally in the wake of the attack in San Bernardino, California.
Syracuse University’s TRAC Reports recently revealed that Obama’s tough talk about increasing prosecution of federal gun laws was just that—talk. In fact, Obama’s annual prosecution of gun crimes has never reached the levels of prosecutions seen during George W. Bush’s last five years in office.
On October 7, Democrat presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton interrupted her numerous pledges for gun control just long enough to try to discredit the NRA and discourage its membership.
On October 6 Jeffrey Zalles, the president of the Marin County chapter of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, said part of the solution to shootings in gun-free zones could be a license requirement for all bullet purchasers.
If the days since the heinous attack on Umpqua Community College (UCC) have taught us anything, it is that good people of Roseburg, Oregon, are not reacting to the actions of one criminal by calling for more gun control on everyone else.
