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*Dang, it’s enough to make you wonder if your opinion or even your vote even matters. We’re talking about the way the NRA and Congress (mostly Republicans) just outright said screw you to President Obama, the families of the Newtown, Conn. massacre victims and even 90 percent the American public that was in favor of [...]
*President Obama’s “Organizing for Action” arm retweeted Yoko Ono’s photo of her murdered husband John Lennon’s bloody glasses Thursday night, just as the Senate was preparing a new gun-control package. The picture, published on Yoko Ono’s account a day earlier, contained the text: “Over 1,057,000 people have been killed by guns in the USA since [...]
*A Republican senator from Illinois said Thursday he had asked permission from the mother of slain Chicago teen Hadiya Pendleton to name his gun-safety legislation after the girl. Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill) said in a statement that he met with some Illinois families who lost loved ones to gun violence and asked the permission of [...]
*D.L. Hughley offered an interesting take on how to reach those conservatives who don’t believe in any tougher gun laws, suggesting that we “stop calling them gun deaths… call them really late, late, late term abortions.” Speaking on the Tom Joyner Morning show today, the comedian in his weekly commentary for the show spoke about [...]
*While announcing his initiatives on gun control Wednesday, President Obama nominated B. Todd Jones, the U.S. Attorney for Minnesota, for permanent director of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). No one has been confirmed as director of the $1.12 billion agency since its law enforcement functions were split off from the [...]
*Washington, DC — Rev. Al Sharpton and National Action Network (NAN) issued the following statement in the wake of Rev. Sharpton’s attendance at the White House as the President and Vice President unveiled their gun control proposal. “Given the many murders in cities across the country and the mass shootings in churches, malls, movie theatres [...]
*President Obama’s unilateral White House action on gun control is a good start. But Obama took the action precisely because he knows that gun control legislation is a virtual dead letter in Congress at least for the time being. To force the issue, Obama would have to spend precious time, energy, and resources jawboning anti-gun [...]
*The National Rifle Association has released a new video calling President Obama “an elitist hypocrite” for dismissing the group’s suggestion to put armed guards in schools while his own daughters have Secret Service protection. “Are the president’s kids more important than yours?” the narrator asks. “Then why is he skeptical about putting armed security in [...]
*It appears that CNN’s Piers Morgan has made himself a target for NRA wack jobs. First we hear that folks are trying to get Piers Morgan deported for his thoughts on gun control, now he’s confronted by the same wack job that started the petition. British journalist and television host Piers Morgan sat down with [...]
*Seems these days a segment of Americans are brushing their teeth with gunpowder and just shootin’ off the mouth! Social media is becoming a shameful cesspool of shameless foul and damaging communication (‘e-mail netiquette’). So much for the phrase, ‘Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.’ Cowards and thugs [...]
*In the heat of gun control debates, VP Joe Biden made an assessment on the issue, opening up the doors to criticism and commentary from people like … T.I. The Georgia based rapper/actor decided to share his thoughts about the issue. If you recall, T.I. was caught with illegal weapons and therefore has some experience [...]
*Al Sharpton made an interesting argument on his radio show the other day regarding gun control. He stated that if America decides to regulate guns any further, the country may have to deal with knives. “In any civilized society you do not see massacres continue to happen, from Tucson to Aurora to Columbine to Virginia Tech [...]
*The New Year is here. People are gathering up their goals and hopes for 2013. Some have lost their loved ones naturally and others because of tragedy. Sybrina Fulton, mother of slain teen Trayvon Martin, is among those mourning the premature loss of their loved ones. Ten months after Trayvon was shot and killed by George Zimmerman, his mother [...]
*According to Mark Twain there are lies, damn lies, and then statistics. Meaning statistics can skew facts to tell a completely different story. With that in mind, and understanding that I did not authenticate the sources for these statistics, it is noteworthy that: The United States receives more immigrants legally (and illegally) than any other [...]
*In a Sunday appearance on ABC’s “This Week,” Newark, N.J. Mayor Cory Booker (D) delivered an emotional argument for more gun control, highlighting personal tragedy in the process. “I don’t know if anybody here has seen anybody shot,” Booker said. “I have. I don’t know if anybody here has had to put their hand in [...]
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