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*Discussing the prospects of gun control initiatives prompted by the Newtown, Conn. massacre, a former president of the National Rifle Association drew a comparison between attempts to ban guns and racism. Former NRA president Marion Hammer appearing on an episode of the NRA news show The Daily News on Wednesday. Host Ginny Simone said toward [...]
*Several hours after a national moment of silence was observed for those killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, the National Rifle Association made its first public comments about the tragedy, suggesting armed faculty and teachers could have prevented the shootings and calling on every school in the nation to have armed police guards [...]
*One week after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting that took the lives of 20 children and six adults, Michelle Obama has published an open letter addressing the tragedy in Connecticut’s Hartford Courant. The First Lady writes: “As a mother of two young daughters, my heart aches for you and your families. Like so many Americans, I wish there [...]
*Derek Jeter called the mother of Victoria Soto, a young teacher killed while protecting her first-grade students at Sandy Hook Elementary School in last week’s Newtown tragedy. Jeter telephoned Donna Soto on Wednesday, the same day she buried her daughter, who was a huge fan of the New York Yankees, reports ESPN.com. Carlee Soto, Victoria’s [...]
*President Barack Obama this afternoon confirmed that Vice President Joe Biden will lead a panel to combat gun violence in the aftermath of Friday’s mass shooting in Newtown, Conn, and he is calling for proposals to be handed to him by January. [Scroll down to watch.] “The fact that this problem is complex can no [...]
*David Sirota, a columnist for Salon.com, insists that those who commit the kind of mass shooting that was carried out at Sandy Hook Elementary School are most often white men – the only group in America that is “not allowed to be profiled.” Sirota made his comments Sunday on MSNBC”s “Up with Chris Hayes” during [...]
*During her reporting of the Sandy Hook shootings on CNN over the weekend, correspondent Soledad O’Brien has not been shy about exposing her frustration with the lack of action taken to curb the nation’s gun violence. John Lott, the gun advocate who recently had a heated encounter with Piers Morgan, continued to argue in favor [...]
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