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Sen. Ayotte confronted by daughter of Newtown victim at town hall meeting
The daughter of the slain principal of Sandy Hook Elementary School confronted Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) at a town hall meeting on Tuesday for voting against legislation to expand criminal background checks. “You had mentioned that day the burden on owners of gun stores that the expanded background checks would…
Conservative radio host: Families of Newtown shooting victims can ‘go to hell’
Minnesota radio host Bob Davis last week said last Friday he would like to personally tell the families in Newtown, Connecticut whose children were murdered to “go to hell.” On his show Davis & Emmer, which is broadcast by Twin Cities News Talk AM 1130, he attacked the families of…
John Kerry: Fewer foreign students coming to the U.S. because they fear gun violence
Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday said that fewer foreign students are traveling to the United States to study because they fear gun violence. During an interview in Tokyo about recent tensions with North Korea, CNN foreign affairs correspondent Jill Dougherty asked Kerry if other countries had expressed concerns…
Republican senator to Newtown families: Gun debate has nothing to do with you
Republican Sen. James Inhofe (OK) told reporters on Monday that the relatives of people slain at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut should know that the debate over gun safety doesn’t have “anything to do with them.” According to Huffington Post, Inhofe believes that President Barack Obama is exploiting…
Shop that sold Newtown massacre guns had its license revoked
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has pulled the firearms license from a gun store in East Windsor, Connecticut, that sold the gun used in the Newton, Connecticut massacre that killed 26 people, including 20 children, at Sandy Hook Elementary School, according to a Thursday report in…
Connecticut responds to Newtown with groundbreaking gun control laws
Three months after a gunman killed 20 students and six adults at Sandy Hook elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut is passing one of the… …
America under the gun
“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” – The Weapon Shops of Isher, by A.E. van Vogt Well, it happened. Or, rather, “it” didn’t happen. Senator Dianne Feinstein, despite her hopes, has failed to get her assault weapons ban of 157 different models of assault weapons…
North Carolina teachers flock to free concealed carry class
Educators in North Carolina gathered at a gun range on Saturday to attend a free concealed carry class. So many teachers arrived for the class that the gun range was forced to turn many of them away, according to local news station WSOCTV. The Rowan County Wildlife Association hosted the…
Father of Newtown victim: Second Amendment should be ‘upheld and regulated’
During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, the father of a 6-year-old boy killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December said he didn’t understand why anyone needed an assault weapon. “It just breaks my heart that something like that could happen in this country,” Neil Helsin said while…
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Sandy Hook Parents: There will be change. There has to be.
Sandy Hook Promise: There Will Be Change (via Moyers & Company) This week, we spent time with Francine and David Wheeler, parents of six-year-old Ben Wheeler, one of the 20 children and six educators shot and killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Francine and David moved…
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