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December 20, 2012
When Rep. Gabby Giffords and 18 other Americans were gunned down in front of a Tucson, Ariz., supermarket in January 2011, I thought Congress would start to move on gun control legislation. Giffords was, after all, one of their own members. I was disappointed.
December 19, 2012
WASHINGTON â€" Manufacturers of the popular AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, the type of weapon used last week in the Newtown, Conn., killings, girded for the worst Tuesday as gun control moved to the forefront of the legislative agenda in the nation's capital and retailers pulled the weapon from store sales floors and websites.
December 19, 2012
WASHINGTON â€" After four days of self-imposed silence on the shooting that killed 26 people inside a Newtown, Conn., elementary school, the nation's largest gun rights lobby emerged Tuesday and promised ‘‘to offer meaningful contributions to help make sure this never happens again.''
The National Rifle Association explained its unusual absence ‘‘out of respect for the families and as a matter of common decency'' after Friday's shooting that left 20 children dead, all ages 6 or 7.
The National Rifle Association explained its unusual absence ‘‘out of respect for the families and as a matter of common decency'' after Friday's shooting that left 20 children dead, all ages 6 or 7.
December 19, 2012
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) -- Mourners overlapped at back-to-back services as funerals began in earnest in a Connecticut town that lost 20 of its children and seven adults to a gunman, with emotions and tempers in tatters amid a global crush of media attention to a community once known mostly for its bucolic atmosphere and sterling school system.
December 19, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) â€" Congressional gun rights supporters showed an increased willingness Tuesday to consider new legislation to control firearms in the aftermath of the Connecticut school shootings â€" provided it also addresses mental health issues and the impact of violent video games.
December 19, 2012
WASHINGTON â€" Manufacturers of the popular AR-15 semi-automatic rifle, the type of weapon used last week in the Newtown, Conn., killings, girded for the worst Tuesday as gun control moved to the forefront of the legislative agenda in the nation's capital and retailers pulled the weapon from store sales floors and websites.
December 19, 2012
WASHINGTON â€" After four days of self-imposed silence on the shooting that killed 26 people inside a Newtown, Conn., elementary school, the nation's largest gun rights lobby emerged Tuesday and promised ‘‘to offer meaningful contributions to help make sure this never happens again.''
The National Rifle Association explained its unusual absence ‘‘out of respect for the families and as a matter of common decency'' after Friday's shooting that left 20 children dead, all ages 6 or 7.
The National Rifle Association explained its unusual absence ‘‘out of respect for the families and as a matter of common decency'' after Friday's shooting that left 20 children dead, all ages 6 or 7.
December 18, 2012
The White House on Tuesday said President Obama will actively support efforts to reinstate a federal ban on assault weapons, prevent the sale of high-capacity ammunition clips and close the “gun show loophole” that helps people avoid background checks.
The move came as Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) told House Republicans at a closed-door conference they needed to “have a discussion on guns,” while the National Rifle Association spoke out for the first time since 20 schoolchildren were killed by a lone gunman in a crime that shocked the nation.
The move came as Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) told House Republicans at a closed-door conference they needed to “have a discussion on guns,” while the National Rifle Association spoke out for the first time since 20 schoolchildren were killed by a lone gunman in a crime that shocked the nation.
December 18, 2012
House Democrats will deploy a task force to study legislation in the wake of the shootings in Newtown, Conn. last week, including examining changes to gun laws and the issues of mental illness and youth violence, Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.) announced on Tuesday.
“We are resolved in our caucus that the time to act is now,” Larson, who got emotional speaking about the shootings, said. “And that we know that taking no action, is to be complicit to a future event.”
“We are resolved in our caucus that the time to act is now,” Larson, who got emotional speaking about the shootings, said. “And that we know that taking no action, is to be complicit to a future event.”
December 18, 2012
House Democrats are huddling today to develop gun control laws, starting with a ban on “assault weapons” and “assault clips,” the chairman of a new gun control task force said today.
“This is not a war on guns,” Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif., who will chair the Democratic task force, said today. “[O]ur communities and our neighborhoods and our society receive no benefit from military-type assault weapons on the street or assault clips in the hands of anyone.” Thompson emphasized that they're “not going to try and take law-abiding citizens' guns away from them.”