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Police Vow To Solve Shootings Of 19 In New Orleans

Bernadette Lee — Mon, 13 May 2013 12:22:47 +0000

A ten-thousand-dollar reward is being offered for information leading to arrests.

Georgia Town Passes Law That Says Each House MUST Have Firearm

JayCee — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 20:15:40 +0000

With the gun debate that is raging, the pro-gun group will be spreading this story like wildfire. Nelson, Georgia’s city council approved the law, called the “Family Protection Ordinance“, by a landslide vote: 5 – 0. According to ABC News, The new law requires every head of household “to maintain a firearm, together with [...]

School Suspends Boy, 7, For Biting Pastry in the Shape of a Gun

Drew Weisholtz — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:27:22 +0000

The issue over guns in our schools has taken on a very strange twist in one Maryland school. A second-grader at Park Elementary School in Baltimore was suspended for two days after his teacher claimed he saw the seven-year-old bite his breakfast pastry, i.e., Pop Tart into the shape of what appeared to be a [...]

Obama Reveals Gun Control Initiatives

Chris Reynolds — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:47:15 +0000

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama is announcing a $500 million package of executive actions and legislative proposals aimed at reducing gun violence a month after a mass shooting in Connecticut killed 20 elementary school children. The package includes a call on Congress to ban military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazine and it would close [...]

Gabrielle Giffords And Husband Create Gun Control Initiative

Chris Reynolds — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 15:14:10 +0000

Former U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly have launched a gun control initiative on the second anniversary of the Arizona shooting spree that wounded Giffords and left six others dead.

The Associated Press reports that Giffords and Kelly's politic