Concealed Carry - Page 25

Republican lawmakers in Florida and Michigan are currently pushing legislation to make it legal for concealed pistol license (CPL) holders to carry guns on college and university campuses for self-defense.

On October 26 The New York Times ran an editorial suggesting the idea that average Americans make the country safer by getting a concealed carry permit is a “myth.”

On October 26 Washington Post columnist Christopher Ingraham took on the contention that more concealed carry permit holders equals less crime by pointing out that 29 concealed permit holders have allegedly carried out “29 mass shootings since 2007.” Since there

After a week of polls showing the American people reacted to the Umpqua Community College (UCC) shooting with stronger support for gun rights than gun control, a Washington Post-ABC News poll released October 26 shows that an overwhelming majority of Americans also believe Congressional focus ought to be on fixing our mental health system instead of talking about more gun laws.

When the pro-gun control film “Armor of Light” opens on October 30, it will do so with the caveat that “card-carrying” members of the NRA get in free.

On October 21, Pew Research Center released findings that show the annual rate of firearm-related homicides in America declined by nearly 50 percent between 1993 and 2013.

A Gallup poll released on October 20 shows that a majority of Americans believe more concealed carry equals less crime.

UCLA law professor Adam Winkler suggested the NRA’s demise is “inevitable” because Americans feel safer than they did in the 1970s and 80s.

In a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, the majority of Americans said they see the Democrat Party as “outside the mainstream” on guns. Ironically, almost an identical majority view the Republican Party as “within the mainstream” as it pertains to guns.

The idea of guns behind the pulpit has been gaining momentum in black churches for years and that momentum increased exponentially following the June attack on Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston in June.

A Detroit pastor is in police custody after pulling a Glock handgun and shooting a 25-year-old suspect who allegedly entered the church armed with a brick during services on October 18.

In the wake of the October 1 attack in the gun-free facilities of Umpqua Community College, the University of Maryland has released active shooter response guidelines that advise students to “run” and “hide.”

On October 10, Breitbart News reported that a concealed carry permit holder witnessed an armed robbery in progress at a Charleston, South Carolina, Waffle House and intervened by shooting and fatally wounding the suspect.

On October 11, a concealed carry permit holder shot and killed an alleged armed robber inside Cafe Azzurri in Waterbury, Connecticut.

During the October 11 airing of Face the Nation Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump talked about his concealed carry permit, the fact that he personally carries a gun from time to time, and the importance of allowing law-abiding citizens on college campuses to be armed for self-defense.

Governor Jerry Brown (D) signed a law Saturday that bars law-abiding, licensed citizens from carrying guns on campuses in California for self-defense.

A concealed carry permit holder was praised for shooting an armed robbery suspect around 5 a.m. on October 10, thereby stopping the robbery of a Waffle House in Charleston, South Carolina.

Daniel Hamermesh, who left his position as a professor at the University of Texas due to Texas’ campus carry legislation argued the law will “lead to a much higher grade[s] for students, because who wants to give a student a

On October 5 Rush Limbaugh described concealed carry as a “deterrent” and an example of peace through strength on the individual level. He segued into these comments by pointing to the ease with which Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump talks

After Chris Harper Mercer opened fire on the Umpqua Community College (UCC) campus, killing 10 people on October 1, Breitbart News reported that the UCC was a gun free zone—a zone that is so gun free even the security guards were not allowed to carry guns.

On September 27 an argument among a group of illegal gamblers at a Georgia “event center” escalated into a shootout which wounded ten people aged 16 to 29. The next day gun control proponent Shannon Watts tried to use the altercation to smear the NRA.

On September 21, an alleged bank robber in Warren, Michigan, pointed his gun at an elderly customer, who pulled his own gun and shot the suspect in both arms and one leg. The alleged robber then “staggered” out of the bank and collapsed.

In a suit that falls just after unarmed history professor Ethan Schmidt was gunned down on the Delta State University campus, a University of Missouri law professor is suing to have his school’s prohibition against guns for self-defense declared unconstitutional.

On September 18, Donald Trump released a position paper in which he took the strongest stand on Second Amendment policies that any of the Republican primary hopefuls have taken to date.

In a policy paper released to explain the importance of key Second Amendment issues, Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump stresses “concealed carry…is a right, not a privilege” and contends for national recognition of the concealed carry permits from every state.

With crime rates and gang activity that no law has been able to fix, Panama’s Public Safety Minister Rodolfo Aguilera says his country is ready to follow in the U.S.’s footsteps and make it easier—rather than harder—for citizens to carry guns on their persons for self-defense.

A father is outraged after learning that an “active shooter protocol” at his children’s school, Stevenson Elementary in Heath, Ohio, includes encouraging his eight-year-old son to throw books at the gunman.

On September 9, an alleged burglar entered a home in the 200 block of Richmond Avenue in Dayton, Ohio, and later died from a wound he received when the female homeowner opened fire.

On September 2 a 17-year-old allegedly walked up to a car in which an exterminator was sitting, pointed a gun at him, and demanded his sunglasses. The exterminator–Joe Lanier–has a concealed carry permit and responded by firing “seven times.”

On July 2 Breitbart News reported that we made sure our Glock 43 was unloaded, then submerged it, froze it into a solid block of ice, let it thaw, and repeated the whole process until the gun had been frozen four times.

Houston Rockets center Dwight Howard will not face charges over the discovery of a handgun in his carry-on bag as he entered security at George Bush International airport.

Video has surfaced of a confrontation between a mother and a gang of teenagers she believed were threatening her 15-year-old son at Fleet Park in St. Charles County, Missouri.

Kristi and Rod Beber have been foster parents to “over a hundred kids,” but they fear they are about the lose the ones they have now because Rod grabbed a gun and went out the front of the house to protect the family during an alleged disturbance in their front yard in April.

On Tuesday, a new law takes effect to address the concern that some government owned/affiliated businesses and attractions in Texas ban concealed carry on their premises in a manner reserved for privately-owned establishments.

On August 25 protesters from “Safer Communities” and the “Stop Concealed Carry Coalition” planned to protest the opening of Mariano’s Fresh Market in the Chicago suburb of Northbrook because both gun control groups want the grocer to ban concealed carry by persons with permits to carry concealed.

On August 23, Mother Jones published an article showing that, on average, fewer people are killed in “public mass shootings” in the U.S. versus other countries.