As the nation took to backyard BBQs and paused to celebrate the birth of our nation, the incessant gang warfare in and around the Chicago area continued without a hitch with 37 shootings and six deaths over the three-day weekend. The tragic toll included the death of a 39-year-father and his two young girls in a nearby Chicago suburb.
On Thursday, California lawmakers designated $5 million to fund the “California Firearm Violence Research Center.”
Shots were reportedly fired outside a Syracuse anti-gun violence concert around 2 a.m. Sunday morning.
During the month of May, gun-controlled Chicago witnessed “nearly 400” shot and 66 persons killed.
Democrat-run New Orleans witnessed 23 armed robberies and two homicides during Memorial Weekend.
A rapper on Chicago’s South Side was shot and killed early Tuesday morning while rapping about guns for a music video in a local park.
During an April 15 interview on the set of Barbershop: The Next Cut, actor Ice Cube said he will vote Democrat in the upcoming presidential election as a way to ‘put a lid’ on gun manufacturing.
On April 11, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton spoke at the Gun Violence Prevention Discussion (GVPD) where she reiterated the false claim that approximately “90 people a day die from gun violence.”
During the March 13 CNN Democrat Town Hall in Ohio, Hillary Clinton responded to a question about gang-related gun violence by pushing stricter gun control for law-abiding citizens.
The gang-affiliated father of the 9-year-old Chicago boy who was murdered execution-style late last year has now been arrested and charged in the shootings of three other people, police say.
The weekend’s death toll in Chicago has now pushed the city’s murder rate to over 100 deaths a full two months earlier than last year and at least 200 percent higher than this time in 2015.
Police are pleading for residents to lay aside the “anti-snitch” culture in the African-American majority Pinewood neighborhood of Miami-Dade, Florida, as they seek help from residents to find the group of men who shot and killed a six-year-old boy as he was walking last week.
At the White House, President Obama lectured America’s governors about the dangers of gun violence in their states, reminding them of what he called a “hard truth.”
Jeb Bush is being ridiculed for a February 16 tweet containing a photo of a handgun and the word, “America.”
A man in Michigan has been convicted of brandishing a gun and threatening three teens who were flying the Confederate flag last summer.
The city council of the District of Columbia thinks it just might have the best way to stop a rising crime rate: Pay residents not to commit crimes.
Chicago’s interim police superintendent John Escalante is struggling to explain the wild jump in shootings in the Windy City, and he thinks he has at least part of the explanation: it’s social media’s fault.
According to police, a woman who reported she was raped at gunpoint said she met her rapist on the dating website eHarmony.
Following President Obama’s January 5 executive gun control announcement, the White House emailed “talking points” to celebrities which they, in turn, tweeted out in support of the new controls.
During the first ten days of 2016, “three times as many people were shot in Chicago” as were shot over that same period in 2015.
President Barack Obama was expected to make gun violence a central theme of his State of the Union address on Tuesday evening, but he only mentioned it once.
Hillary Clinton visited the Ellen DeGeneres Show on Monday, where the comedian and talk show host heaped praise on the Democrat presidential frontrunner, calling her “smart,” “qualified” and “everything [she would] want in a president.”
GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson joined The David Webb Show on SiriusXM with conservative radio host David Webb and reacted to the cop who was ambushed and shot “in the name of Islam” in Philadelphia.
On January 7, Baltimore Sun deputy editorial page editor Tricia Bishop penned a column in which she explained that licensed gun owners scare her more than gun-toting criminals.
President Obama’s statement on gun control Tuesday included an attempt to dismiss claims he ultimately wants to undermine the 2nd Amendment.
On January 1, the Chicago Tribune reported that the number of shooting victims in gun-controlled Chicago for 2015 was 2,986.
As the nation celebrated New Year’s Day, most spending the day off work with family, the denizens of Chicago were working overtime to rack up victims. This year, on New Year’s Day, Chicago gang warfare racked up 2 deaths and 15 shot.
Gun crime convictions are down more than 33 percent compared to a decade ago, but the Obama administration’s gun control push has risen sharply.
Despite an overall drop in crime, Washington D.C. has nonetheless experienced a whopping 54 percent increase in its murder rate for 2015, the city reports.
As most citizens of the Windy City were gearing up for Christmas Day, others were still engaging in gangland shootings, and in the 48 hours leading up to the blessed day, three people were killed and seven were wounded—including a well-known local rap artist.
On Christmas Eve, an off-duty officer, working mall security, shot and killed a man who allegedly pointed a gun at him during an altercation inside a Charlotte, North Carolina, mall.
On December 22 the Chicago Tribune reported that the number of shooting victims in gun-controlled Chicago year-to-date is 2,887.
As part of their continued push for more gun control, President Obama and his senior advisor Valerie Jarrett met with former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to discuss the issue at the White House.
On December 16, Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI-1st) will introduce the “Assault Weapons Ban of 2015” to ban all manufacturing of “assault weapons.”
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
The weather in Chicago was unseasonably warm for much of the week, and those balmy temps carried over into the weekend. Unfortunately the shootings continued, and the weekend brought yet another large number of wounded and dead Chicagoans. 27 were wounded—including a five-year-old boy—and two killed this weekend.
On December 10, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said it is “tragic” that Americans are pouring into gun stores to buy weapons because America is already “awash in guns.”
On December 10, the House GOP shut down Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA-12) efforts to force a vote to add the no-fly list to background checks.
With the House GOP opposed to adding the imprecise no-fly list to background checks, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA-12th) says it is “unconscionable” to oppose gun control that would not have stopped the San Bernardino attack.
In the middle of an active shooter situation, with dead bodies still warm, wounded victims still on the scene, and killers still on the run, Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton sought to exploit the mass shooting for political gain.
