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• “The intel on this wasn’t 100 percent.” Using quasi-military jargon, Comet Ping Pong shooter admits “Oops! My bad”

• Florida woman issues death threats to Sandy Hook parents in belief that the mass murder of children was a hoax
  

• Road rage killer of Joe McKnight arrested four days after slaying
  

• Gun attack on DC pizzeria fanned by fake, salacious news about child trafficking

• The I-95 iron pipeline lives on, from Virginia to New York City

• National “gun rights reciprocity” bill being readied for a new Congress
  

• Some people buy firearms for fear of losing their guns; now minorities are buying for fear of losing their lives

• NY Jets star running back, Joe McNight, shot dead by white driver who is set free after road rage incident
  

• Texas Governor Greg Abbott opines that armed students at Ohio State would have prevented multiple kniving attack

• Smart gun technology advances and improves but NRA opposition remains implacable
  
  

• Ten casualties, one death, in NOLA Thanksgiving weekend mass shooting

• President-elect Trump declines to disavow Sandy Hook hoaxers

• One toddler escapes reasonably intact, but we still insist on shooting our own children

• Citizen initiative petitions in West focus on ammo sales, not just guns

• Last stand in Georgia: a 3% militia guards its guns to fight an imagined coming tyranny
  

• “When assassination became a fetid political punch line” targeting Hillary Clinton

• Nearly 90% of handguns nused in NY crime come from outside the State through the I-95 Iron Pipeline
  

• Is any federal legislative attempt to prevent gun violence futile?

• The collateral costs of campus-carry at UT-Austin

• Decline a bad credit card at Burger King? Time for a death sentence!
  
  

• SC Governor Nikki Haley asks for “prayers” after teenager shoots up grade school, injuring 3 and killing own father

• Every day, on average, seven children and teens are killed by guns in America

• Seattle mass shooter arrested: motive unknown

• Murderous mass mayhem at Macy’s in Seattle-area mall: 5 dead

  

• Missouri Democratic congressional candidate Jason Kander tries to cut craziness. We sincerely wish him luck

• “Gun super-owners … own 17 guns apiece, according to … research” from Harvard and Northeastern universities, 3% owning 50% of the nation’s guns

• Precious Land’s “life” without a life in Chicago
  

• In the Department of Great Ideas: All guns all the time for everybody, including those who randomly shoot unsuspecting teenagers in pact with the devil

• The facts behind guns and suicide in America. Still more facts. And more still!
  

• Party schmarty: GVP groups back congressional candidates regardless of party affiliation

• Another summer of record-breaking morbidity by firearms in the Land of the Brave

• Remington and Glock sue Mass. AG over State’s consumer protection safety investigation
  

• Our new normal: Have a problem with someone? Shoot him!

• Conflicting views as U Texas campus-carry law takes effect. Read the voices of affected people here

• Maine governor Paul LePage wishes he could point a gun between opposing legislator’s eyes

  

• Managing gun addiction withdrawal under a liberty-trashing socialist regime

  

• 13 youths wounded in Bridgeport CT night-time shooting spree

• Lebanese-American Christian murdered in Oklahoma as “dirty Arab” by hateful neighbor. Thank you, Donald Trump!

  

• Fear of flying no longer concerns the actual flight; it’s the loaded guns seized at checkpoint

• A toy Kalasnikov for the kiddies at Moscow international airport
  

• Five slain, including pregnant woman, in Alabama domestic abuse atrocity

• Guns, rural economic dislocation and Trump support. Gun safety advocates need to read this

•  “He left a gun with a chambered round where a 2-year-old could get his hands on it. That’s irresponsible.” Alabama DA Bryce Graham Jr. That child is now dead

• Does candidate Clinton really want to abolish the Second Amendment? Not according to Politifact

• Prime suspect in NYC Imam shooting, Oscar Morel, now under arrest
  

• Hopefully NYC police have caught Muslim-hating murderous racist

• Do Trump’s “Second Amendment people” get to define what constitutes actionable “tyranny?”

  

• We are indeed a nation beset by terrorism, but from not from the expected suspects

• Muslim imam and associate fatally shot in Queens, NY

• Nearly 2,500 shooting victims this year in Chicago alone
  

• Standing your ground may be one thing, but standing someone else’s ground?

• How DARE he be in a place — any place — and black at the same time!

• A bad joke by Trump or a cowardly insinuation to commit an assassination?

•  Gov. Branstad urges Iowa State fair-goers, “Leave your guns at home”

• Heart transplant child, plus four others, shot to death in PA in apparent murder-suicide
  
  

• California assault rifle owners outraged that they soon must do with their toys what they already must do with their road vehicles

• The terrorist weapons of choice: Anyone can get them in America
  

• ISIS creed: US gun law is dumb, dumb, dumb

• What bullets do to children, told by someone who knows

• From under the damp rocks in dark places, gun zealots play the abuse card on Massachusetts AG Maura Healey

  

• Dems show spine, at last, on GVP

• VP nominee Tim Kaine battles the NRA bear — and wins

• Mothers of the Movement share their grief and resolve at the DNC
  

• Support nationwide grows for nationwide action on preventing gun violenc

• More gasoline on the tinderbox. Thank you Rudy!Chicago’s Becoming a Man program reduces gun violence, promotes school graduation

• Mayor of Bloomington, Indiana talks about how the foreclosure of local gun control forecloses his ability to protect constituents

• Flight from sane discourse: 2nd Amendment zealots urge Democrats to bar security protection at its Convention

• Massachusetts assault rifle ban loophole to close, still leaving tens of thousands of AR-15 copycats in private hands

• Hillary Clinton asks America to end the madness

• Novelist Ann Patchett riffs on childhood, guns and death growing up near Nashville

• Second Amendment zealots, the New Black Panthers and lenient open-carry in Cleveland: welcome to the Republican National Convention!

• CDC remains mute on gun violence research despite death and injury rates

• Facebook Live captures another street shooting: three injured, one critically

• At the Republican National Convention: Let them shoot guns?

• The NRA post-Dallas: tone deaf and brain dead

• “Mr. Ryan, however, did not immediately suggest any legislative response”

• Three U Texas prof file lawsuit to block State campus carry law

• Consequences for a country awash in guns and rage

• Five dead, seven injured in sniper ambush of Dallas police

• Concert Across America, September 25, 2016. Participate!
  

• Domestic abuser loophole for unfettered gun acquisition: women die as result

• Yet again, Paul Ryan backs away from compromise legislation to keep guns from terrorists

• The deadly beat of gun-enabled domestic violence lethality goes on in Las Vegas

• Not only in America: What happens when firearms are everywhere

•  California Gov. Brown signs into law assault rifle ban and  BG checks

• Guns and domestic violence: raising the prospects for death

• US House Dems sustain heat on gun control

• For $10,000 would you turn in somebody you know shot a 4-year old boy in the face?

• Florida Gunshine State Guv remains warm, snug and cozy in NRA pocket

• Christian to the core, pastors applaud the murder of gays in Orlando

• Supreme Court rules “no” to guns for all convicted domestic abusers

• Rank and file House member stands up by sitting down for gun sanity

• If 50 slain in Orlando was bad, the number killed nationwide during the following week has been 4+ times worse

• “How many more mothers; how many more fathers need to shed tears of grief…?” Rep. John Lewis, D. Ga.

• California Gov. Brown signs into law assault rifle ban and  BG checks

• Guns and domestic violence: raising the prospects for death

• US House Dems sustain heat on gun control

• For $10,000 would you turn in somebody you know shot a 4-year old boy in the face?

• Florida Gunshine State Guv remains warm, snug and cozy in NRA pocket

• Christian to the core, pastors applaud the murder of gays in Orlando

• Supreme Court rules “no” to guns for all convicted domestic abusers

• Rank and file House member stands up by sitting down for gun sanity

• If 50 slain in Orlando was bad, the number killed nationwide during the following week has been 4+ times worse

• “How many more mothers; how many more fathers need to shed tears of grief…?” Rep. John Lewis, D. Ga.

• GOP Senator Susan Collins leads “no fly, no buy” initiative

• Congress punts, leaving the states to tackle gun violence

• Shooting victims’ families stiffed again by US Senate

• Hello stupid; good-bye gun safety, yet again

• A yearbook of arrested potential: children’s lives squandered to gun violence

• Bling! Bling! You’re dead! Now let’s push silencers for our lethal toys

• Prospects poor for post-Orlando gun legislation

• Will US Supreme Court hear case challenging state authority to ban sale of assault weapons?

• A bright future senselessly trashed: Colorado teen allegedly slays college-bound ex-girlfriend with father’s poorly secured gun

• Get the art of this deal. Only in America! Buy a used car? Get a free AR-15

• GOP Senator Susan Collins proposes compromise on post-Orlando gun legislation

• Gen. Stanley McChrystal pleads for an end to American gun madness

• “There is too much gun crime in the USA, and high powered weaponry is too easy to get.” Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly. (Yes, really!)

• Enabling terrorism in America by feeding terrorists military-style weapons to kill maximum people in minimum time

• Very funny comics being really unfunny about Orlando

• Exploiting tragedy with fear-mongering: The Donald is at it again
  
  

• With deadly, dulling, morbid regularity, America shoots itself inexorably to death

• It’s only a matter of time for the next mass shooting in America; and usually not much time

• Single mass shooting casualties in Orlando top 60 (now 100); at least 20 (now 50) dead: another sunny Sunday in the Gunshine State

• Is anybody safe? The Voice singer Christina Grimmie slain by stranger with gun in the Gunshine State

  

• The scourge of American gun glut goes global

• Prison sentencing reform be damned says the NRA

• In the Gunshine State: He shoots pregnant woman to death, but still has his gun

• 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rules that 2nd Amendment fails to guarantee right to concealed carry in public by ordinary citizens

• Four Casualties including one slain, in Boston school shooting

• When innocent bystanders are slain in America, again … and again … and again

  

• Horrible holiday weekend in Chicago

• Campus shootings at all levels of schooling: The new normal in America

• Guns, grief and race in America

• What, in the name of God, would Jesus say? More guns in church?

• Shooting at UCLA: at least two dead; others injured

• Debate: conflicting perspectives on campus-carry

• Putting the lie to NRA scare-mongering on sensible gun control

• What conservative icon George Will said about gun violence and the Second Amendment in 1991

• Real-world consequence of federal failure to control the interstate flow of firearms

• Safer on-campus in Texas with campus carry? One professor’s perspective

• Feds seek death penalty for Dylann Roof in Charleston SC mass slaying

• Lax gun law states lead the nation in killing by firearms

• Missouri on the cusp of more gun violence; only Governor Jay Nixon can stop the plunge to madness

• The greatest madness occurs away from the glaring spotlight. It’s even worse than the reported madness that outrages us

• Hillary rebuts Trump on guns in America

• Meet the trumpeter who would bravely blow all the bad guys away!

• Does Hillary want violent criminals to run free on US streets? Um, yeah, according to The Donald

• Clinton and Trump: conflicting views on guns in America

• The real story on guns and race in America

• Is “a little less abusive” OK for permitting gun ownership?

• Why federal oversight of gun regulation is necessary

• Disputing Malcolm Gladwell: Mass shooting results from community decay and marginalization

• A life lost; the agonized cost of another senseless shooting

• If elected, will Hillary expand Executive Action to advance gun violence prevention?

• Four innocents shot in DC suburb: Law enforcement officer arrested

• One week; five shootings by toddlers. Yes, toddlers! And we’re too gridlocked to take preventative measures

• On the roots of urban violence: Symptoms and causes

• Pure madness: If I were an elected school board member I’d quit on-the-spot

• Georgia Guv Nathan Deal vetoes campus carry in his State

• Guns on Texas campuses: virtually any classroom or faculty office is fair game

• Gun-slinging makes women safer says the NRA. Wrong, wrong, wrong!
  
  

• President Obama promises new action to promote smart gun technology development and sales

• Sandy Hook families push back against slaughter despite tools denied them by a feckless Congress

• One day after Pike County Ohio, six more adults and children gunned down in rural Georgia where guns are allowed anytime, anywhere by any willing buyer

• Eight slain in Pike County, Ohio: “The victims … included a woman, her children and her grandchildren”

• Hillary Clinton to meet Sandy Hook families about gun violence prevention

• Campus carry coming soon to Tennessee? If Governor Haslam signs bill

• Urban murder rates rise where economies struggle: Baltimore, Chicago, DC and Detroit

• US Senate in gun lobby’s grip: Gabrielle Giffords written shortly after Sandy Hook

• “As close as you can get without enlisting!” Gun-manufacturer ad. When enlisted others shoot back

• Senseless gun violence continues grisly urban spike: Minneapolis reports 90% year-over-year increase

• Sean Payton, Will Smith’s former coach, calls for gun sanity in response to senseless street slaying (radio)

  

• NRA’s “Eddie Eagle” gun safety program for kids makes kids responsible for their own safety

• Think Chicago’s bad for spiraling gun carnage? Try Memphis

• Guns on campus and the fundamental purpose of scholarship

• More fuel for the Iron Pipeline from the Carolinas

• America’s doctors urge restoration of fed funding for firearm research:
  But what do they know?

• And now, the unveiling of official state guns

• Guns in schools: ramping-up the rythm

• Children, guns and death: American snapshot, 2011

• In the Department of Great ideas! Guns that look like iPhones

• Racism and gun rights activism: A correlation?

• Docs or Glocks? Discussing firearms as critical to public and family safety
  
  

• Packing heat at the GOP Convention? Maybe a better idea than originally thought

• Zarriel Trotter, youthful spokeschild against gun violence gunned down in Chicago

• For sale to the NRA: One legislative upper chamber of an entire nation

• Gun-rights advocate Jamie Gilt faces misdemeanor charge after being shot by 4-year-old son

• SC nominee Merrick Garland’s views on gun policy unknown: Doesn’t stop gun community from trashing him

• Kids shooting their parents: A grim afterthought of American history

• How do schools protect pupils when the cops are 45 minutes away?

• Parsing the Second Amendment, and other stories at the political firewall

• Controversy arises over recent study suggesting massive potential drop in gun deaths from gun control legislation

• Party ’till you drop! Six dropped in PA from coldly calculated mass murder

• Score two points for madness: WVa legislature overrides Governor Tomblin’s veto of permitless open carry legislation. West Virginians will soon pack heat, no questions asked

• Chicago is now a war zone killing field, becoming more lethal by the day

• Donald Trump accepts endorsement of Sandy Hook hoaxer

• Seven days, 7-years old or younger, 7 children accidentally shot in the Land of the Brave

• Was the late Justice Antonin Scalia soft on gun control? Yes, according to the current GOP wannabe prez crop

• Score a point for sanity: WV Gov Tomblin vetoes bill allowing concealed carry without permit of training

• AZ Senate approves bill allowing guns in public buildings, except where politicians go to work

• Missouri apes the Gunshine State with proposed “Stand Your Ground” legislation

• The Orwellian Gospel according to Saint Wayne: “Hillary doesn’t care about women” because she stands against gun violence

• What are the boundaries of the constitutional right to bear arms?

• Three Muslim youths executed by gunfire in Fort Wayne Indiana: A lethal boost for politically-inspired bigotry

• Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas SPEAKS! Questions attorney arguing restriction from gun ownership by convicted domestic abusers

• Citing new “campus carry” law, U Texas Architecture Dean quits post

•  Just a few days after Kalamazoo, this time in Kansas. Multiple shooting deaths, scores injured

• Is the federal regulation of firearms constitutional under the Supreme Court’s Heller decision?

• Florida State Senator Miguel Diaz de la Portilla, GOP and NRA member does the right thing — twice. That’s progress!

• James B. Dalton charged with six murder counts from Kalamazoo mass, murderous shooting spree

• Mass murder in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Just for the hell of it. Just for the bloody hell of it!

• U Texas President, Gregory L. Fenves, reluctantly establishes policy for compliance with a State campus-carry law he declines to support

• A parent’s grief, made heavier by the burden of guilt

• How will Justice Scalia’s death impact gun violence prevention? Not much in the short term it appears

• Ted Nugent, Jewish citizens, the NRA and bigotry: an inconvenient cauldron to boil GOP presidential candidates

• A recurring meme: Jewish supporters of gun safety are “Nazis in disguise:” Thank you Ted Nugent and the NRA

• Facebook and Instagram to ban private gun sales postings on the Web

• Black lives, black deaths and the American culture of guns

• Chris Cox, NRA’s agent for God, guns and the folks who make and sell them

• Trouble in gun paradise: Grisham versus Cotton in Texas

• Bernie Sanders defends gun record in Iowa

• Push-back on charge that gun “control” advocates are “supercilious” and “condescending”

• Now, in Canada: a remote, rural Saskatchewan school shooting

• The cost crisis of gun violence: $230 billion per year

• Sundance Film Festival, 2016: Focus on the consequences of our killing fields

• Why presidential action alone cannot stop the gun carnage

• Mandatory US safety standards for toys, cars, OTC meds, car seats, cribs, etc., but not for the most lethal products of all: guns

• Keeping guns away from abusers

• Bernie sanders’ aides double-down on gun record

• A Christmas gun for Marco!

• The courage of NBA players; the mendacity of Marco and Wayne

• USA versus the civilized world: The gap in gun deaths grows wider

• Father kills son; mother kills daughter; teen kills father (and so forth) in cases of mistaken identity (Guns make homes safer!)

• Poll shows strong popularity of President Obama’s recent initiatives on gun safety

• In Texas, is newly permissive OC and CC legislation backfiring?

• THE problem is guns acquired illegaly? No, that’s A problem, one of many

• Obama will leave empty seat at SOTU for America’s gun victims

• A viewpoint from Canada: The individual right co carry guns is a sacred constitutional right. Except that it isn’t

• Study in delusion on a train: “I am the gun owner you hate”

• Taking America back again — to Senator Joseph P. McCarthy?

• Almost every day a child brings a gun to school

• Yawn! Here we go again; Obama links gun violence to guns. Yep, again!

• The founders’ original intent on the 2nd Amendment, direct from the framers’ themselves

• President Obama’s op-ed on guns and making American lives better

• Sandy Hook conspiracy denialist and professor James Tracy terminated at FAU

• There’s GOLD in them thar guns! The crux of the problem

• Our national disease of mass shooting: Is it contagious?

• “So, just because it’s hard, that’s no excuse not to try”

• How the mentally ill acquire guns: Hint; it’s a piece of cake

• Who’da thunk? The NRA reacts badly to the President

• President Obama mourns loss of innocent life: Pledges executive action

• NY Times editorial on President Obama’s executive action

• Pushing back on the $32.5 million annual NRA lobbying/campaign machine

• The fine whine of the GOP: Obama accused of abusing power

• President Obama mulls New Year action to curb gun violence

• Happy New Year with open carry of almost any gun almost anywhere in Texas!

• End the madness in Texas

• Real lives of real people ripped to shreds by bullets

• Gun sanity heroes for 2015

• Guns and race

• Delaware city held hostage to gun violence: CDC steps in to help

• Please, don’t bother us with pesky facts. The anti-science, anti-research congressional cabal

• NBA joins with Everytown for Gun Safety to advance the cause for sensible controls

• Why the NRA hates gun research: Because the truth hurts the gunny cause

• Just out for an evening joy ride: Oklahoma driver shoots randomly at other cars, killing two innocent people

• Gun industry execs: What they know about how their products fall into criminal hands and how they suppress that knowledge

• Tenured FAU professor and conspiracist taunts Sandy Hook parents for “faking” deaths of their own children

• Fed budget again contains rider nixing national research on guns

• LA County supervisors propose mandatory gun insurance

• Nearly half of all NYC shootings, and 40% of gun deaths, stem from gang activity

• Open Carry devotee objects to prohibition against overt gun display at voting station

• When will all of this gun madness end? A conundrum from western North Carolina

• A sunny, summery June 10th in Oregon and another school shooting

• President Obama responds to Oregon school carnage

• Oregon school shooter was enrolled 15 year-old freshman armed with AR-15 assault weapon and plenty of ammo

• Newtown, CT Action Alliance Statement on Recent Surge of School Shootings, June 12, 2014

• Former CO State senate President John Morse discusses what happened to a “good guy with a gun”

• Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) counters GOP with House Bill 4707

• Willful ignorance: Congressman Jack Kingston (R-GA) labels President Obama a “gun grabber” and pledges no support for research on gun violence

• The American Psychological Association on the history of freezing federal research on gun violence in America

• Very bad news: NY Times cans its serial Gun Report

• NY Times op-ed columnist attempts to justify the demise of editorial aide Jennifer Mascia’s daily Gun Report

• More Perspective on NY Times‘ cancellation of its daily Gun Report

• DEPARTMENT OF BRILLIANT IDEAS! Too many school shootings? No problem; get the numbers down by calling massacre by a different name

• When gun-slinging goes bad! Georgia man shoots self in penis. Reconsiders his 2nd Amendment rights

• The kind of person we need in government

• NJ Guv Christie’s veto of ammo clip limit legislation deemed “cowardice”

• “Dynamic Grip Recognition” for iGuns: child-proof smart gun technology

• When gun zealotry becomes zealous opposition to guns: the mysterious conundrum of iGuns

• How do YOU score on the Everytown for Gun Sense questionnaire?

• Bloomberg gun coalition will poll 2014 candidates for Congress

• Going local: Town Council in CT establishes street booth seeking citizen signatures to send message to Congress

• Children at Gunplay

• Car deaths versus highway deaths in America: the gap narrows to near parity

• NJ Governor Christie: Straight-talking tough guy or bullying coward?

• Free to Pack Heat in Washington, D.C.

• California gun laws, death and injury

• Myopia about guns turned to outright blindness

• At 73, too young to lose: In memoriam James Brady, 1940-2014

• Dueling background check initiatives in Washington State: What if both measures win?

• Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy takes battle to gun lobby in re-election bid

• Guns in public places for the sightless: NRA pitches brilliant new Iowa law

• James Brady’s death now ruled homicide 30 years after shooting

• NRA TV spot ignores real issues to launch ad hominem attack on Bloomberg and “elitist liberals”

• AFRS requests support for petition to stop Texas from allowing liquor sales at gun shows

• Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick signs tougher state gun regulation into law

• CA on cusp of legislation permitting cops to cross-check welfare checks with gun ownership database

• 9-year-old girl kills instructor at AZ shooting range: “What in the name of Jesus is wrong with us, Americans?“

• The wound never heals for a child who accidentally kills: From someone who knows first-hand

• More “kids killing kids” news from America: from the archives but no less tragic

• Destroying the seed corn: American kids die by gunfire 11 times as often as children in other high-income countries

• A more measured contrary view on the AZ shooting range tragedy

• NRA responds with its customary grace to tragic slaying-by-child at AZ shooting range

• One of these folks isn’t welcome at Kroger. Guess which one?

• Pueblo Colorado County Commissioner candidate for GOP, Dr. Tom Ready, questions whether Sandy Hook actually happened

• Assault weapons are only a small part of a huge problem driving destruction by shooting

• Seven more innocents gunned down in Florida. Grandpa with gun violation history kills daughter, 6 grand-kids and self. On Capitol Hill, still nada.

• Shooting sprees by-the-bushel: Mass firearms assaults spiral ever upward in the Land of the Brave

• Yesterday, today and tomorrow: The NRA forever? Maybe not

• Empower families to help fight the scourge of gun violence committed by the mentally ill

• Debating 101. The gunnies and the gamies: threats of violence and death spiral unabated

• State of NY NRA affiliate gets cranky about the Safe Law for gun sense

• 9 year old girl was slain by a stray bullet in northern California

• Anita Sarkeesian, advocate for reduced video game violence, forced to cancel her appearance at Utah State University

• NRA floods airwaves in “close call” state political races with non-stop televised fear-mongering

• Here’s what school days increasingly look like for America’s kids

• Bipartisan, cross-regional urban prosecutors align forces against gun violence

• NRA poster boy for under-medication, Wayne LaPierre hawks fear based on gross falsehood

• Koch Brothers to fire cash directly at voters from cannons on polling day; Supreme Court allows by 5-4 vote

• Washington State voters ponder two opposing ballet measures on guns

• Faiths United to Prevent Gun Violence call to join Sabbath Weekend for gun sense, December 11-14

• Mike Weisser, responsible gun broker from Ware, MA: NRA scourge

• Catastrophe at your doorstep! The NRA claims that guns everywhere, and nothing else, will keep you safe from the nation’s gathering doom

• Direct voter action across the country flies in face of election results for public office: Washington State approves gun sale background checks by landslide

• Fifth teenager dies from Marysville WA school shooting rampage

• What is Wasington State’s citizens’ initiative I-594?

• Colorado Democrats win back seats lost in 2012 gun recall election of state senators Morse and Giron

• The mid-terms: A good day for the GOP; a rotten day for the NRA; a superb day for gun sanity

• Newtown CT Action Alliance urges gun sense citizens to participate in National Vigil for Gun Violence Victims, Washington DC, 12/11-14/2014

• Abramski v. United States: Supreme Court upholds conviction of former police officer for straw gun purchase

• David Wheeler, father of Sandy Hook slain child, speaks out

• Machine guns as high-end toys for the über-rich “where the captains of industry are proud to bring their clients”

• Approaching 100 school shootings since Sandy Hook: New atrocity in Portland Oregon

• Dr. Vivek Murthy confirmed as US Surgeon General

• Brady Center announces court victory in NJ requiring State to enforce 12 year old gun sense law

• Virginia Guv Terry McAuliffe honors campaign pledge to advance gun control

• Pew Research Center asks loaded question?

• Pew Research Center reports Americans now favor gun rights over gun controls

• Bitter irony: Eye-for-an-eye death penalty sought in Kansas for lethal shooting at Jewish Center

• Mommy, where do guns come from? From states with no gun control like Georgia, dearest, whence they come to kill cops

• The Iron Pipeline grows wings, now flooding NYC with smuggled guns by air express

• Idaho mom shot dead by two-year-old son in WalMart: How insane will we get before we stop this senselessness?

• Christmas cojones for Congress in 2014? Sorry again. Gun sense political action re-sets its sights on states

• The logic of truth will prevail: Guns kill; more guns kill more people; assault guns multiply the death toll; guns do not prevent crime, they simply make crime more devastating

• A string of family gun carnage involving children, and still the NRA resists smart gun technology

• Armed bartender with known history of mental health disorder threatens, US House Speaker, John Boehner’s life

• When crazies get guns: Gunshots fired from vehicle speeding past VP Joe Biden’s Delaware home

• By State of Connecticut Judiciary Committee vote of 30-3, gun sense advocate Auden Grogins becomes Judge Grogins

• South Carolina legislator proposes 3 weeks PER YEAR of mandated curriculum on the 2nd Amendment only, nearly a full school year

• Beloved cardio doctor shot to death at Boston’s Brigham and Womens hospital. Shooter turns gun on self

• Queens father kills three, including his own children, then shoots himself

• Two dead in NYC Home Depot shooting

• Defensive gun ownership: A packet full of myths

• Start small and end with a bang: Domestic violence as predictor of mass shooting

• American Sniper as national morality tale

• Re-opening wounds in Colorado: The gun debate gradually shifts toward sanity

• Hate crime or not, NC’s Craig Hicks, a man with a record, had no trouble getting a gun to kill three in Chapel Hill

• Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) assaults states rights; files federal bill requiring all states to honor minimum-standard concealed-carry regulations of any other state

• The answer to on-campus violence according to FL State Rep Dennis Baxley? More guns on campus!

• Senator John Cornyn’s bill is just “awful, awful, awful!” according to NY Senator Chuck Schumer

• But wait! Guns really DO kill people?

• It’s OK to go back shopping now: Whew! Only ONE 20-year-old children’s museum receptionist dead

• University of Texas Chancellor William McRaven, US Navy Special Forces Director opposes “campus carry” at UT

• The long-term human cost of America’s gun lust

• Scott Walker: Riding gunshot for gunnies in Wisconsin

• Hillary Clinton speaks out on gun out-of-control

• NRA Board member Charles Cotton shamed into rescinding his “blame the victim” absurdity

• NRA Board member Charles Cotton blames Pastor Clementa Pinckney for his own slaying

• Amazing Grace: President Obama comforts grieving Charleston victims’ families and friends

• How does YOUR state rank for ease of gun access?

• Speaker Boehner leads memorial delegation to Charleston but goes no further, geographically or legislatively

• Guns in your face, 24/7

• President Obama calls-out gun lobby, post-Charleston

• Cojones for Congress! Post-Charleston, House and Senate wimp out (again!) on gun sense

• California counties’ “good cause” requirement for concealed-carry under legal challenge by gunnies

• Johns Hopkins study credits CT gun law with reducing in-state gun homicide rate by 40%

• US shootings compared with ten other advanced democracies

• Tortured logic: Comparing progress on gun control with gay marriage

• From Boothbay Harbor Maine, the gruesome odometer of death keeps spinning out-of-control

• First “gunnie” vote since Charleston: US House Appropriations Committee sinks funding for gun research

• Background check loophole allowed Dylann Roof to buy firearm illegally

• Trial date set for Tulsa deputy sheriff who killed restrained, unarmed man; says he confused stun gun with handgun

• Empathy in Charleston: Teaching our young to understand the consequences of violence

• Dateline Chattanooga: Four marines slain in the hail of a gunman’s bullets

• James Holmes found guilty in Aurora, CO mass killing

• Convicted sex offender slays two, injures others, during wild spree in Maine

• U.S. Navy Petty Officer Randall Smith, slain in Chattanooga, leaves wife and 3 daughters behind

• Westboro Baptist reportedly planning to protest funerals of slain servicemen (spreading the hatred young; after all, it’s the Christian thing to do — see image below)
  

• Guns for youth gangs in NYC: The iron pipeline lives so that American youth can die

• Semi-automatic gun assaults: now from drones, first in CT, soon coming to a state near you!

• Obama admits US gun laws are his biggest frustration

• US shootings compared with ten other advanced democracies

• Oh no, not again! Another mass movie theater shooting, this time in Lafayette, LA; so far 3 dead, 9 injured

• Land of the Brave: 204 mass shootings — and 204 days — in 2015 so far. A video string of mayhem

• Why do mass murderers go on shooting rampages?

• Louisiana Governor Jindal to other states: Follow our example!

• John Houser and Dylann Roof: Violent and unstable yet they still bought guns — legalChattanooga shooting victim remembered as model Marine and man

• Senseless in Boston: Grisel Sanchez, slain 31-year-old mother two boys, ages 11 and 14, and a 13-year-old daughter

• In the boroughs of New York: 2 shootings, 1 dead and 11 injured

• The USA is a nation whose people are 20 times more likely to die of gun violence than those of most other developed countries

• The absurdity of gunnie fulmination against common sense

• Dylann Roof desires to plead “Guilty;” his attorney counters “Hold on!”

• Zakaria: “It is not an act of fate that has caused 150,000 Americans to die over the past 14 years….”

• Senator Chuck and comedienne Amy Schumer join together to combat gun violence

• Two shot, one critically injured outside J. Cole concert in NJ: the iron pipeline lives!

• What we can expect in a 24/7 culture of all-guns-all-the-time: It never stops

• Once upon a time, it was one mass shooting a year. Now it’s one a day: new incident in Nashville movie theatre

• Detroit: Eleven-year-old boy slays 3-year-old girl with loaded gun found in father’s closet

• The madness continues. Another day, another mass shooting: 5 kids, 3 adults slain in Houston, TX

• Ted Cruz interrupts campaign bus tour to pay respects to the Chattanooga slain; does nothing but bray for more guns in Senate

• Five dead in one Boston-area night of mayhem

• FBI data tell us that many more police offers die from gunfire in high gun ownership states than where ownership is low

• National media ignore greater incidence of gun death from domestic abuse than from mass public shootings

• Where does a family go for some peaceful, gun-free rest and recreation? Fewer and fewer places every day

• From those marvelous folks who brought us “Stand Your Ground” and “Campus Carry:” The NRA laboratory from Hell!

• Facing sudden spike in violence, Boston re-launches gun buy-back program

• Shooting up the National Park System, then trashing it: Thank-you President Obama!

• One year later: Business as usual at Last Stop shooting range in AZ where 9-year-old girl shot an instructor to death

• Uzis for tiny tots? Petition for age limits on recreational auto-assault rifle shooting by kids

• At least two slain in Roanoke, VA: It just never, ever ends in this Land of the Brave

• Roanoke VA mass shooter dies of self-inflicted gunshot after taking two other lives

• Kristof: We know what Roanoke mass shooting teaches, and who should learn it. But we don’t

• Vester Flanagan’s (AKA Bryce Williams) murderous selfie: outrage or voyeurism?

• Is the Roanoke carnage a story about guns, about today’s media or about us?

• Alison Parker’s father, Andy, vows drive to strengthen gun violence prevention

• New York Times readers react to live TV massacre in Roanoke, VA

• Small steps: Halting progress in the struggle toward gun sanity in America

• What’s a gun worth in the State of Virginia?

• Four gun casualties at Boston celebration, one dead. Does this qualify as “mass shooting?”

• A move conservatives must love: Walmart drops sale of semi-auto assault rifles due to “market conditions”

• 2015 Urban murder rate spikes dramatically in several US cities

• Attorney in Governor Cuomo Administration critically-injured by random gunfire in Brooklyn

• Vicki Gardner, survivor of Roanoke VA killing spree, is released from hospital, hurt but alive

• American dream foreclosed: NY State attorney Corey Gabay remains in critical care with poor outlook after being shot in the head at a community celebration

• Suicide by shooting of unsecured home guns accounts for two-thirds of American gun deaths annually: teens particularly at-risk

• Series of random roadside shootings unnerves Phoenix AZ

• Family of five wiped out in Minnesota by killer who should never have had a gun: No apparent mention in NY Times

• Sign petition to end multi-million $$ federal tax break for gun lobby group!

• Six slain in NYC: The one-by-ones hurt just as much as the mass shootings

• In Chicago: One weekend; eight dead; forty-five wounded; one profitable iron pipeline. Urban madness without end; 2,213 shootings so far in one Chicago year

• Support the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence by telling Congress to cancel funding for the gun lobbyist, the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF)

  

• Oregon County Sheriff where college shooting occurred declared refusal to enforce gun control law in 2013

• Ten dead; several others wounded in mass carnage at Oregon Community College

• One mass shooting per day keeps our futures away!

• A sorry, gruesome, but only partial, account of lethal mass-shooting sprees in the Land of the Brave

• In search of a sense of shame: The ever-toxic “Mayor of 9/11” slimes Obama on Oregon mass killing

• The President deals with gun tragedy, again, again and again

• Mass shooter’s father issues call for stricter gun regulation in America

• Knowing his mental instability, registered nurse and shooter’s mother reinforced son’s fascination with guns

• Nicholas Kristof speaks out on gun madness, post-Roseburg, OR

• Charles Blow on fear driving the nation’s pathological obsession with guns

• Leadership 102: Bernie Sanders demurs on strong gun control

• Leadership 101: The Donald joins Jeb! in declaring that nothing can be done about America’s spree of slaying

• Background checks or campaign checks: Congress could care less about whose voice the NRA represents

• One of these countries is not like the others. Guess which one? (Firearms homicides in advanced democracies as numbers slain per 100,000 population)

• Why Ronald Reagan was for the Brady Bill in 1991

• “The Second Amendment is more sacred than spilled blood.” Dr. Ben Carson, 2016 GOP candidate for President

• Explainer: What is the status of gun control in America today?

• In rural Roseburg many see more guns as guarantors of future safety

• Mass shooting as contagion: Can you catch it like a virus? Maybe so

• GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson walks backward on victim-blaming: finds it rather awkward

• How the world sees the American firing squad of mass shooters. Do you care? We do

• Sisyphean Senate Democrats try to push boulder up hill. Good on them for trying

• 90 a day keeps our potential at bay. Mass shootings get the media coverage but the day-to-day grind of death jacks up the numbers

• President Obama weighs added executive action to advance gun sanity in America

• GOP presidential hopeful Kasich declares “Guns are not the problem”

• Philip Van Cleave says background checks a “waste of time”

• Just as soldiers don’t like to talk about war, hunters avoid talking about guns. But their voices are critical

• The Asperger’s Syndrome mass killer: THERE IS NO SUCH THING!

• Children raised in fear: Since Roseburg OR mass shootings by Halloween will bring us close to 100 school lockdowns
  

• Malcolm Gladwell on the growing banality of student-on-student school violence

• Wisconsin gun shop held liable for straw purchase that resulted in shooting two police officers

• Too many gun killings on college campuses? The solution? More guns! Woo-hoo!

• More senseless killing in Chicago: 6-year-old slays 3-year-old brother with father’s unsecured gun left on fridge

• No Donald, you do NOT have a clue as to what President Obama is “thinking about”

• Walt Disney grand-niece, Abigail, talks about directing documentary film about evangelism and gun violence in America

• More guns = more suicide attempts and more “successful” suicides

• The self-serving fantasy that concealed carry makes Americans safer

• … But it happens routinely, today (10/26/15) in Henderson County, NC

• Post-traumatic aftermath of child-on-child shooting with unsecured gun; it lasts a lifetime …

• Youth basketball: Ambassadors against senseless gun violence

• Los Angeles City Council passes safe gun storage law

• Who would Jesus shoot?

• Four more senseless slayings in quiet Colorado Springs neighborhood

• Michigan debates open versus concealed carry in public schools; no thought given to “no carry” or local school discretion

• Obama closes loophole by sharing data with police forces on native American reservations

• Domestic abuse in Maine claims four lives from gunfire

• Gunny fantasy-talk about campus open-carry: “Mere facts will fail to sway us”

• NJ Governor and presidential hopeful Chris Christie vetoes bill to control gun possession by convicted domestic abusers

• Huge majority of Michiganders polled oppose open carry of guns in any educational setting; State Legislature prepares to ignore this clear preferenc

• Taking on the NRA

• How gun traffickers get around state gun laws through iron pipelines

• Guns in Ohio headed for day care centers for infants, toddlers and children

• Robert Lewis Dear, Colorado Springs shooter, lived life as loner with several brushes with law enforcement

• Demonizing Planned Parenthood: Fomenting the culture of hatred

• President Obama wrongly declares “This is not normal”

• The toxic atmosphere of hatred ginned-up against Planned Parenthood

• GOP agitprop: Incitement to terrorism

• Breaking news! CDC fails to study guns in new gun study

• Rice University joins private sister institutions in opting out of Texas new “campus carry” law

• Yet again! Yet again! Yet again! More mass carnage, this time in San Bernardino
  

• Bonanza Black Friday gun sales soar! More than two BG checks per second according to FBI
  

• Post San Bernardino: Who have we become?
  

• What distinguishes “murder” from “terrorism?”

• “Zumbo’d?” Marginalization or ostracism for telling the truth

• What manner of person accuses the parent of a slain child of perpetuating a hoax?

• Senator Kelly Ayotte fails NH voters on crucial gun safety issue

• Ban all white men at US border entry points?

• CT bans gun sales to buyers on terrorist watch lists

• The partisan gun debate: Snowballs from hell

• “I’m guilty …. I’m a warrior for the babies!” yells Robert L. Dear at hearing

• Guns and suicide: too many guns unsecured in homes

• NRA labels “weird” Texas Open Carry flaunting assault rifles in citizens’ faces at family restaurants. (See also next item)

• Oopsy daisy! NRA says “sorry!” for its brief flirtation with sanity. (See also previous item)

• Smart guns aim to dumb down gun industry

• Where does the public set the bar to prohibit gun sales to mentally disturbed people?

• Massachusetts gets more serious on monitoring distribution of firearms but “the real battle continues to be at the federal level”

• John Cassidy compares national gun legislation: “It’s the ready availability of deadly weapons [in America] that converts individual pathologies into mass murder”

• John Lott of Fox News: More guns in private hands at Isla Vista might have stopped Elliot Rodger. Yes, and they might have resulted in far greater carnage

• Adam Gopnik asks, Where’s the blunt, plain talk from gun sanity advocates? Are we all mute?

• Mark Barden: Stand-up guy for Newtown; hero for the rest of us

• The carnage continues while Congress runs for cover

• NRA continues to hold US Surgeon General appointment hostage for stating obvious: that guns present public health problem

• Jennifer Mascia’s grim Memorial Day holiday gun report for America, May 27, 2014

• Human potential foreclosed: here’s who died in made-in-America Memorial Day weekend gun carnage, v.2014

• Lax federal gun control creates sieve around strict state regulations, rendering local control helpless

• Memorial Day is meant to memorialize fallen soldiers, not to create human memorials by mowing them down in cold blood. In memoriam: Madness in California and South Carolina, 2014

• No guns at Chipotle, please; nor at Starbucks or Jack-in-the-Box

• NRA smack-down of smart gun research, development, marketing and sale

• Eleven year-old girl shot in eye. Milwaukee gun buyback program launched as result in “Ceasefire Sabbath”

• The Sound of Silence as Simon & Garfunkle never imagined

• Public opinion on regulating guns in America: What the polls say

• Fun ‘n games with guns. Uncle shoots 11-year-old boy between the eyes, apparently thinking the gun wasn’t loaded

• American women win gold! More deaths by gunshot than in any other developed country in the world. By far

• A security blanket for shooters: Aid and comfort for victimizers. After all, the victims are already dead

• Former Homeland Security Secretary, Tom Ridge resigns from Everytown’s Board once Everytown grows teeth

• The NRA meets its potent new foe: Moms. Accompanying video

• Guns everywhere; carnage anywhere: Give us this day our daily news

• Gun lobby as 1st Amendment trampling gang of anti-American thugs

• Washington State takes back guns from domestic abusers

• By federal court order California may have to gut strict rules on concealed carry permits

• Support the GOP; win an assault rifle. Woo-hee!

• Rare stand-up politician, former Colorado Senate President John Morse speaks out on the battle for gun safety

• Michael Bloomberg plans $50 million challenge to promote cojones and gun sanity in Congres

• But we deal with the tragic mess they leave behind

• A view from abroad: Does America need UN monitoring to protect innocent citizens?

• More innocents shot to death in America. That’s OK, at least the number didn’t top 20 in a single rampage

• Gun-banning SC restauranteur tumbles into vortex of 2nd Amendment rage

• Local laws restraining statewide Kansas open-carry to be crushed by “states rights” State Government

• Attempted murder, resulting in victim’s death: Convicted for the attempt but not the murder? The strange tale of Floridian Michael Dunn

• Defining Stand Your Ground: The problem with the ‘reasonable’ standard is that it’s not reasonable

• If you think a GOP House of Representatives is bad, just follow Mike Bloomberg and discover the delights of a McConnell-led Senate

• “We don’t get to move on…” 60 Minutes interview with Newtown families: Part 1 and Part 2. (Viewer comments: fascinating national mirror)

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