Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) stated that background checks would not have prevented the Sandy Hook shooting while discussing President Obama’s plans to take executive action on gun control on Monday’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” on MSNBC. Murphy said the president “has
During the December 27 airing of Meet the Press, film director Spike Lee talked about the number of persons shot and killed in Chicago and suggested those deaths do not get attention because “it’s not Sandy Hook.”
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 4 the family of San Bernardino gunman Syed Farook spoke through their attorney to say they doubted the FBI account regarding their son, as well as questioning the details of the heinous attack on Sandy Hook Elementary.
Representative Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) 2014 gun control vote could present another obstacle to this path to the Speakership of the House.
Calls for more gun control almost always follow a public crime or terror attack in which the attacker–or attackers–use a gun. Yet many of the most infamous attacks take place in gun free zones–places where law-abiding citizens disarm themselves to comply with the rules while criminals take advantage of disarmed masses and open fire.
During a Monday appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) defended his post-Sandy Hook gun control push as something that “made sense” in 2013 and something that “makes sense now.”
On April 17 Rolling Stone columnist Andrew Leahey tried to counter pro-2nd Amendment activists’ pushback on Tim McGraw’s Sandy Hook Promise gun control fundraiser by mocking Breitbart News’s reporting and then downplaying the group’s anti-gun agenda.
The Catholic University of America’s Student Association General Assembly (SAGA) passed a resolution to allow concealed carry permit holders to carry guns on campus for self-defense, but administrators demand they remain unarmed.
On April 12, Gabby Giffords’s protégé and gun control supporter Ron Barber announced that he is not going to challenge pro-gun Representative Martha McSally (R-AZ-2) for her seat in 2016.
On April 9, Breitbart News had the opportunity to talk with Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) about guns and gun rights, and he told us that the Second Amendment “serves as a fundamental check on government tyranny.”
With less than two years left in his presidency, Obama says it is “heart-breaking” that his administration has not been able to pass more gun control.
President Barack Obama tells students he’s disappointed Congress refused to pass gun restrictions after the Sandy Hook elementary massacre.
During Tuesday’s airing of “Olbermann” on ESPN2, host Keith Olbermann reacted to Chipper Jones’ tweet saying that the Sandy Hook incident was a hoax, which he later apologized for. According to Olbermann, Chipper should use his fame and reach out
NYPD officer killer Ismaaiyl Brinsley previously acquired guns by stealing them, according to a new report.
