Article: Gun shows face a cease fire
Gun shows face a cease fire Some promoters seeking sites for exhibitions get cool response By Rick Karlin, published Friday, March 14, 2013, in the Times Union ALBANY — Are gun show promoters finding...
View ArticleIf it ain’t broke don’t fix it? I don’t think so.
In reference to my first blog “Don’t bring your guns to town, Mr. Petronis“: When it comes to the threat of gun violence, I speak from experience. I’m also a moderate who has shot guns and I have many...
View ArticleJohn Lennon, Newtown and the Karma Tax on Guns
You could call it a karma tax. I don't know if this is a new idea, but it is darn good idea.
View ArticleDo you feel safer with the Safe-Act?
As of March 15th, private sales of firearms between friends, neighbors or co-workers are a practice of the past, courtesy of our NY State’s new Safe-Act. No longer can you give grandpa’s old Winchester...
View ArticleAmerican watershed moments.
The vile smell of charred flesh, burnt computers, insulation, carpeting, asbestos and steel from the fires at ”Ground Zero” were only recently extinguished when my wife and I managed to escape for a...
View ArticleFirst U.N. treaty regulating the international arms trade passes in historic...
The United States was one of the 154 votes in favor a historic U.N. Arms Trade Treaty that will regulate the international sale of weapons. A final draft of the document calls for the signed countries...
View ArticleNew poll shows that a vast majority of Americans favor stricter gun laws
The Morning Joe (Joe Scarborough)/Marist poll conducted March 25-March 27. polled 1,219 national respondents by both landline phone and cellphone. It has a stated margin of error of plus-minus 2.8...
View ArticleNow Oregon takes up gun control
These two bills represent a reasonable and necessary set of steps that this Legislature can and should take.
View ArticleThe President in Connecticut
I know that some of these proposals inspire more debate than others, but each of them has the support of the majority of the American people. All of them are common sense. All of them deserve a vote....
View ArticleSandy Hook Families On the Road For Change
"We're just private citizens who are now part of a club we never wanted to be in." Bill Sherlach who lost his wife during the assault on Sandy Hook School.
View ArticleThe tweet heard round the world
“I don’t understand why it wouldn’t be common sense, really, to prevent things from happening again instead of just picking up the pieces after, because that’s what I’m dealing with right now." Erica...
View ArticleA parent speaks for the President
"Please help us do something before our tragedy becomes your tragedy." Francine Wheeler
View ArticleSupreme court rejects challenge to NY gun law
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is staying out of the gun debate for now. The justices on Monday declined to hear a challenge to a strict New York law that makes it difficult for residents to get a...
View ArticleThe dead are still dead
The truth is that about 12,000Americans become gun homicide victims every year. According to FBI figures between 2006 and 2010, 561 children age 12 and under were killed by firearms.
View ArticleWhy is the gun lobby so fearful?
It is highly doubtful that hysterical gun buying will make our country safer.
View ArticleHow the gun lobby helps terrorists get guns
“America is absolutely awash with easily obtainable firearms. You can go down to a gun show at the local convention center and come away with a fully automatic assault rifle, without a background...
View ArticleWho are you?
When the Albany Times Union newspaper asked me to write on this blog, I jumped at the chance to add my moderate gun control views. I felt the blog was a great way to have discourse, like the live TV...
View ArticleThe acme of excellence
When I saw the actual vote on CSPAN I could not help but see the long range damage that these arrogant politicians were doing to their careers.
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