All posts tagged "Gun Control"

WASHINGTON — Top Trump administration officials have challenged long-held GOP orthodoxy on the Second Amendment in recent weeks — bringing condemnation from gun rights groups but notably not Republicans in Congress.

Democrats say this is yet another example of a dangerously divisive hypocrisy that holds the left and right to different standards.

“What we're seeing is complete hypocrisy. It's both stunning and crazy,” Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) told Raw Story at the Capitol this week. ...

Florida's state attorney general announced Monday that law enforcement should stop arresting or prosecuting people who openly carry firearms in public, while Democrats in the state argue this could further harm tourism.

Attorney General James Uthmeier issued a legal interpretation, "citing a state appeals court ruling last week that found a decades-old ban to be unconstitutional," the New York Times reports.

“Open carry is the law of the state,” he wrote Monday via X. ...

The mass shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis on Wednesday in which two children were killed and 17 people injured was simply yet another product of too-lax gun laws, said a teacher who survived the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting nearly 13 years ago.

Abbey Clements, now executive director of Teachers Unify to End Gun Violence, spoke to Raw Story the day after a 23-year-old shooter fired into the church at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis.

The children at the Pre-K-through-eighth-grade school were attending mass. ...

WASHINGTON – It’s been 11 years now – to the day – since most Americans learned how easily a person could use an AR-15 assault rifle to kill 20 six- and seven-year-olds, along with six adults, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

Hundreds more mass shootings have followed — at churches, concerts, shopping centers, supermarkets and, of course, many other schools. A commonality: sociopathic killers often choose AR-15s over less efficient killing machines.

While the sorrow remains real and raw, the politics of guns have only grown more heated, divisive and partisan in recent years. They’re also now used as political props....

He's failed and sorry. And after Wednesday night's mass shooting in his hometown — he wants to make things right by fixing gun laws.

Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) came forward on Thursday with a mea culpa and admitted to a marked change of heart from past postures where he was laissez faire on gun laws.

"I have opposed efforts to ban deadly weapons of war like the assault rifle he used to carry out this crime," the politician and former Marine infantryman said. "The time has now come for me to take responsibility for this failure. ...

When Edward Snowden leaked that the NSA was indiscriminately spying on all Americans by monitoring their emails and phone calls, there was very little blow-back toward the Obama Administration. The media quickly chose their preferred narrative that implied Snowden was a traitor instead of honing in on the fact that the government was clearly violating the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution.