1 year after Newtown a new study
"We have concluded that rather than focusing primarily on mental health, future gun violence prevention policy efforts should focus on preventing access to firearms by persons exhibiting dangerous...
View ArticleLove, tragedy, creativity and dignity
Thank you to all who created this Newtown neighborhood memorial and to the photographer for seeing it.
View ArticleRevealing the NRA’s grip on congress
As (Mark) Kelly would later tell me, he thought that (Congressman) Flake’s tortured reasoning — combined with the fact that the N.R.A. spent more than $345,000 on his Senate race last year — seemed...
View ArticleAnti gun control group calls for defiance of SAFE Act
"…. we must defeat Cuomo and the gang of thugs who usurped our Civil Rights by not complying with their “assault weapons” registry." Verbatim quote from NY2A Document.
View ArticleA New Jersey Mayor takes on the NRA
After proposing an initiative to survey gun manufacturers bidding to supply firearms to local law enforcement, Mayor Fulop was the target of baseless and offensive criticism from a member of the...
View ArticlePro Gun Control Groups Unite
“We will soon be stronger than any gun lobby, and, together our groups will change our nation’s culture of gun violence." Shannon Watts, Founder, Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense In America
View ArticleJames Porter, NRA President, In his own words
“I get so sick and tired of all these people with this fake president that we got who wants to say, ‘Well, you know he hadn’t done anything bad for gun owners. I say, let me tell you something bad that...
View ArticleChurch turns firepower into lovepower
"One of the weapons the church took in this year was a “chopper” (sawed off shotgun). The person who brought in that weapon was about 14 or 15 years old" Pastor Kee told reporters.
View ArticleToby Keith’s: Great Food, Rockin’ Country Music – NO GUNS
Since Mr. Keith's restaurant opened in Woodbridge it has been doing gang-buster business and there has been no fall-off in customers or fun since the "NO GUNS ALLOWED" sign was posted.
View ArticleGun ownership, carrying a gun linked to heavy alcohol use
Binge drinking, chronic heavy alcohol use, and drinking and driving are all more common among gun owners than among non-owners, even after adjusting for age, sex, race, and state of residence.
View ArticleThe Mayor’s Own Words
When it comes to gun reform and protecting ordinary citizens, the failure of Washington to act is horrific. But that doesn’t mean we give up.
View ArticleZimmerman’s Girlfriend in her own words
Ms. Scheibe describes a more violent dispute with Mr. Zimmerman than her original 911 call revealed.
View ArticleThe President, the menatlly ill and guns
Two changes proposed by the President call for the background check system to allow states and mental health providers more discretion in reporting information about potentially violent people.
View ArticlePortraits of the children
The portraits illustrate the value of each life and the great loss of potential that they represent.
View ArticleChild gun deaths rise 60% in ten years
The number of children and teens who die in hospitals from gunshot wounds has increased by 60% over the last decade according to the first study of child/gun deaths.
View ArticleThe Lessons of Physical Therapy By Gabrielle Giffords
"We’re not daunted. We know that the gun lobby, which makes money by preventing sensible change, relies on dramatic disappointments to wound us, reduce our power, push us back on our heels." Gabrielle...
View ArticleN.Y. Anti Gun Control Groups Appeal Fed. Court Decision
The legal claim is that the SAFE Act infringes on “fundamental constitutional rights to lawfully possess, keep, bear and use firearms for self-defense and other lawful purposes.”
View ArticleGuns, blood and money
According to recent FBI data there were 230 justifiable homicides involving a private citizen using a firearm in self-defense while the same year, there were 8,275 firearm homicides.
View ArticleKalashnikov, Einstein and the Inevitable Karma Trap
"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." Bhagavad Gita
View ArticleSupreme Court takes up straw purchases
"The law’s purpose of being able to trace firearms would be undercut if the only record was of the straw purchaser. What you’re saying is they did a meaningless thing. That was the compromise. They...
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