Thousands immediately petition White House to address gun control, mental health
Six petitions have been started on the White House's website today calling for the president to address issues related to mass shootings. All the petitions had at least a hundred signatures as of 4...
View ArticleRush Limbaugh: Liberals already hatching a plan to blame Newtown shooting on...
Even as details about the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting are still emerging, Rush Limbaugh claims that the shooting will be used by liberals to attack conservatives, second amendment and...
View ArticleAs nationwide debate about gun control heats up, NRA goes silent (updated)
The National Rifle Associated, NRA, has stayed silent ever since the news of Friday's events broke.
View ArticleGame changer? Gun control backers think they have momentum in Washington.
By DAN FREEDMAN and RICK DUNHAM Advocates of stricter gun legislation, emboldened by a shift in public opinion following last week’s school shootings in Newtown, Conn., pushed Monday for a renewed...
View ArticleGetting specific: Obama endorses a new assault weapons ban
By CHARLES J. LEWIS President Obama, joined by the entire congressional delegation from Connecticut, today endorsed a new federal ban on assault weapons in the wake of the Newtown school massacre where...
View ArticleNRA breaks silence, pledges ‘meaningful contributions’ to prevent further...
The National Rifle Association on Tuesday broke its silence over the Newtown, Conn., tragedy just enough to say it would offer “meaningful contributions” aimed at preventing another mass-shooting...
View ArticleConnecticut congressman lashes out at Rick Perry, ‘fantasy of...
By CHARLES J. LEWIS Connecticut congressman Jim Himes today challenged Texas Gov. Rick Perry about his contention that teachers with concealed gun permits should be allowed to carry weapons in schools....
View Article“Not some Washington commission,” Obama says of his gun task force
By CHARLES J. LEWIS President Obama invoked the Newtown school massacre Wednesday in tasking Vice President Joe Biden to come up with ideas on fighting gun violence and in urging House Speaker John...
View ArticleNRA’s big announcement: Put guns in ‘every school that wants it’
The embattled National Rifle Association today stuck to its guns — in the hands of “good guys’’ — as the best answer to school shootings such as the one in Newtown, Conn., that took 26 lives. Speaking...
View ArticleKamala Harris has competition
We want to say this in a non-sexist way: Kamala Harris has competition. She has competition in the battle for smartest, toughest, fairest, most effective Attorney General in the USA. She also has...
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