OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — The head of the National Rifle Association is attacking President Barack Obama’s call for mandatory background checks for gun owners. The NRA’s Wayne LaPierre says those who favor mandatory background checks may be, quote, “insane.” LaPierre says background checks won’t make schools safer. Instead, he says, the checks will let […]
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A town of 140 people in western Maine is considering an ordinance making gun ownership mandatory, the latest of a handful of communities nationwide to pass or consider such a rule even though the measures are widely considered unenforceable. All three members of the Board of Selectmen in Byron favor it, […]
CHICAGO (AP) — A 50-state study says those with the most gun laws have the fewest gun-related deaths. The research doesn’t prove that the number of laws makes a difference. And some experts say this kind of comparison is hard to do because states are different in so many ways. The authors are from Boston […]
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — A Virginia Beach pizza shop owner is showing his support for firearm rights by giving gun owners a 15 percent discount. The discount is given to anyone who brings a gun or concealed handgun permit to All Around Pizzas and Deli. Owner Jay Laze tells news media outlets that he’d […]
A Republican senator from Illinois said Thursday he had asked permission from the mother of slain Chicago teen Hadiya Pendleton to name his gun-safety legislation after the girl. Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill) said in a statement that he met with some Illinois families who lost loved ones to gun violence and asked the permission of […]
President Barack Obama has adopted a new style of governing for his second term in the White House: Get with the program – or get out of the way. It’s a refreshing change from his conciliatory approach to Congress in previous years. And it couldn’t have come at a more opportune time. Obama is using […]
There is no argument that over the course of history many of this nation’s gun-control laws were intended, at least in part, to keep them out of the hands of African Americans. During slavery, most certainly, enslaved people and freedmen were barred in the South from owning guns. After the Civil War, the Union army […]
Hadiya Pendleton, a 15-year-old honor student in Chicago slain in a park just days after returning from the inaugural celebration in Washington, D.C., will be buried on Saturday. The family of the teenager has announced that visitation will be from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday at Calahan Funeral Home, located at 7030 Halstead. A […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two days before President Barack Obama‘s first trip outside Washington to promote his gun-control proposals, the White House tried Saturday to settle a brewing mystery by releasing a photo to back his claim to be a skeet shooter. Obama had set inquiring minds spinning when, in an interview with The New Republic […]
Friday on the Tom Joyner morning show, D.L. Hughley a weekly contributor, offered his take on getting conservatives attention he said, “stop calling them gun deaths… call them really late, late term abortions.” Read what else he had to say below. And another school shooting in Atlanta, it’s just like it’s getting ridiculous. It’s getting […]
I’m weary of writing about young black children being gunned down in the prime of their lives; senseless shootings after silly arguments that result in gunfire and a trail of tears. On Thursday, it happened again: a 14-year-old student was shot outside an Atlanta middle school and another student was arrested by police. Atlanta police […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Banning some assault weapons and requiring background checks for all firearms purchases aren’t a serious attempt to reduce gun violence, a top National Rifle Association official warned Tuesday as Congress geared up for the year’s first hearing on the subject. Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the NRA, said the country must […]
