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Gun critics need to learn from NRA success
The NRA rates how favorable officials and candidates are to its cause. There’s a lesson there for the other side. Give the highest rating of “4 Doves” to someone if you like their position on gun restrictions. Make guns an…
December 30, 2012
Kelly Cameron Addresses The Gun Divide In Columbus, Ohio
About the school shooting in Newtown, Ct., “This was the last straw for me. I can’t get those children’s faces out of my mind.” — Kelly Cameron, Columbus, Ohio Chapter COLUMBUS, Ohio — The place guns should have…
December 29, 2012
Noah Pozner’s Family Remembers and Mourns Youngest Child Lost in Newtown Rampage
Missing Noah: The slain boy’s mother has dreamt of searching an empty house calling out in vain for him. She told President Obama about the dream, and he told her Noah would answer her calls if she listened…
December 29, 2012
This Is What Teachers Learning to Shoot Guns Look Like – from The Atlantic Wire
The apparent post-Newtown craze for gun-rights activists to transform teachers into gun-class students has arrived despite the fact that no armed civilian has killed a mass shooter in the past three decades.
December 29, 2012
The Deadly Fantasy of Assault Weapons – The New York Times Editorial
“There is an allure to this weapon (the Bushmaster rifles) that makes it unusually attractive, The way it looks, the way it handles — it screams assault weapon. — Scott Knight, former chairman of the International Chiefs of Police Firearms…
December 29, 2012
A Tougher Assault Weapons Ban – The New York Times Editorial
New legislation proposed by Senator Dianne Feinstein in response to the Newtown, Conn., murders would provide a far more effective ban on military-style assault weapons…
December 28, 2012
New Paltz, New York Passes Resolution Supporting Action To Control Gun Violence
Click to download resolution in PDF format. The Town of New Paltz will seek laws that promote and enhance the safety of our children, and their right to grow up and live full and productive lives, free…
December 27, 2012
Hartford Courant Editorial: Ban On Studying Gun Violence Should Be Lifted
CDC Muzzled: Unbiased research on gun violence could save lives 5:47 p.m. EST, December 27, 2012 In 1997, a craven Congress, doing the bidding of the pro-gun lobby, withdrew funding used for gun-violence research by federal agencies such as the…
December 27, 2012
Massacre mobilizes moms
I think I was afraid of the vitriol that I might face or my children might face, she said, but now I don’t feel I can affort to be quiet. —Dawn Emsellem Click on photo to read…
December 25, 2012
Gunman Who Ambushed Firefighters Left Chilling Note
I still have to get ready to see how much of the neighborhood I can burn down, and do what I like doing best — killing people. — William Spengler who shot four, killed two firefighters Before setting his house…
