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Gun-control efforts in recent years have focused on renewing a federal ban on assault-type weapons that expired in 2004 and requiring background checks for buyers at gun shows. Those efforts have fallen short. Gun-rights advocates prevailed with a law shielding gun-makers and dealers from civil lawsuits brought by victims of gun violence.
Gun control has been treated with a mix of silence and discomfort in the presidential campaign, a response that may become insupportable once the nation finds its voice in the aftermath of the Virginia Tech mass murder.
College students across the country have been strapping empty holsters around their waists this week to protest laws that prohibit concealed weapons on campus, citing concerns over campus shootings.
In 2003, for the United States, the Centers for Disease Control reports that 28 children under age 10 died from accidental shots.
When it comes to restricting private individuals' Second Amendment rights, it seems that the world must turn upside down to justify gun control.
The Pennsylvania teenager arrested last night for plotting a Columbine-style attack on Plymouth-Whitemarsh High School in Plymouth Meeting, PA had started the "Imperial Cobra Army," in which he fantasized that he could recruit children as young as 10 to commit violent acts.
"It can happen anywhere," said Darnell Rodgers, a senior at Cleveland, Ohio's SuccessTech Academy, after he was shot in the elbow by 14-year-old Asa Coon while at school yesterday.
A recent study shows a definite link to the reduction in smoking habits for those who work in a smoke free environment, with those who just give up the habit rather than bucking the trend.
This news seems to playing right into the hands of Rudy Giuliani. Especially because his opponents on the Democratic side can easily be assigned the role of bleeding-heart liberals as soft on crime and heavy on gun control.
From his official website: "The Second Amendment
If Mahmoud Ahmadinejad goes crazy, would Rudy Giuliani be focused or would he take a call from his wife about whether she could redecorate Air Force One?
The press piled into a hall near a pile of NRA swag bags to watch Rudy stride into the ballroom. Would the tough guy kowtow to the powerful lobby he once lambasted as extremist? Would he pull a Romney and pretend to be an avid hunter of small varmints?
Rudolph Giuliani's appearance in front of a group he once linked to extremists was a big test of how his liberal record on gun control will play out with Republicans as he runs for president.
Rudy Giuliani said Sept. 11 changed his perspective on gun rights, but was unapologetic for the gun laws he imposed as New York City mayor at the National Rifle Association's "American Values" summit Friday.
On Sept. 28, she told Rep.
I've been thinking a bit about the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America.
With the recent release reports regarding the Virginia Tech shooting last spring, as well as a new story here on TnT on the subject, I thought I'd address a flawed article I found soon after this happened.
Despite the recent spate of shootings on our streets, we pride ourselves on our strict gun laws. Every time an American gunman goes on a killing spree, we shake our heads in righteous disbelief at our poor benighted colonial cousins.
The measure would require that, starting in 2010, every semiautomatic handgun sold in California would have to automatically "microstamp" each bullet cartridge in two locations as it is fired. The microscopic stamping would identify the gun's make, model and serial number.
Its 46 Pages, get ready for a long read.
I carry openly. I do this for political reasons-the same reason I make it a point to sit in the smoking section at restaurants when I go out to eat by myself, even though I don't smoke. But that's another story.
The District today asked the Supreme Court to uphold the city's ban on private ownership of handguns, saying the appeals court decision that overturned the law "drastically departs from the mainstream of American jurisprudence."Most legal experts believe the court will accept the …
More than 100 gun-rights advocates, most carrying handguns on their hips and wearing buttons saying "Guns Save Lives," came to the City Council on Tuesday night to protest what they called harassment of law-abiding gun owners by city officials.
The United States has 90 guns for every 100 citizens, making it the most heavily armed society in the world, a report released on Tuesday said.
Senior police officers have been warning for several months that a growing number of teenagers in big cities are becoming involved in gun crime. [...]
Ted Nugent threatens Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton during a performance- with machine guns in hand! This was recorded at one of Nugent's concerts about a week ago.
Former Senator Fred D. Thompson of Tennessee, who has not officially declared his presidential ambitions, took a not-very-veiled swipe yesterday at the leading Republican candidate, former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani of New York, for supporting gun control.
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