WASHINGTON (AP) — Braced for a fight, President Barack Obama on Wednesday unveiled the most sweeping proposals for curbing gun violence in two decades, pressing a reluctant Congress to pass universal background checks and bans on military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines like the ones used in the Newtown, Conn., school shooting. A month […]
MONROE, Conn. (AP) — The Newtown schools superintendent says preparations have been made for a “normal” day, yet it will likely be anything but that as classes resume for Sandy Hook Elementary School students for the first time since a gunman killed 20 of their classmates. With their original school still being treated as a […]
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The father of the gunman who killed 26 people in a Connecticut school shooting has claimed his son’s body. A spokesman for the family said Monday that Peter Lanza claimed the remains of Adam Lanza. He didn’t say when the remains were claimed. The 20-year-old Adam Lanza killed 20 first-graders and […]
How many more colleges? How many more classrooms? How many more movie theaters? How many more houses of faith? How many more shopping malls? How…
NEW YORK (AP) — A new movement has taken off to honor the 26 people killed at a school in Newtown, Conn. The campaign sparked from a question NBC News correspondent Ann Curry asked herself after Friday’s massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School: “What can I do?” The answer she arrived at was performing 26 acts of kindness. […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s largest gun-rights lobby called Friday for armed police officers to be posted in every American school to stop the next killer “waiting in the wings.” The National Rifle Association broke its silence on last week’s shooting rampage at a Connecticut elementary school that left 26 children and staff dead. “The […]
D.L. Hughley jokes with the crew about the mystery illness that makes women crazy before taking a serious look at gun control in the country.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says his administration has received an outpouring of support for stricter gun laws following last week’s elementary school massacre in Connecticut, telling respondents to an online petition, “We hear you.” The president said in a video released Friday that he has been encouraged that many gun owners have said […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says his administration has received an outpouring of support for stricter gun laws following last week’s elementary school massacre in Connecticut, telling respondents to an online petition, “We hear you.” The president said in a video released Friday that he has been encouraged that many gun owners have said […]
So after last week’s commentary on the recent tragedies in the NFL, the subject I most wanted to avoid this week is death. Sadly, the horrific and overwhelming events at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, CT this past week have pretty much made that impossible. What I would like to do today is focus – […]
Stephanie Robinson reflects on life after the recent tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
This afternoon, President Barack Obama confirmed that Vice President Joe Biden will lead a panel to combat gun violence in the aftermath of Friday’s mass shooting in Newtown, Conn, and he is calling for proposals to be handed to him by January. “The fact that this problem is complex can no longer be an excuse […]
