Perceptions, By Gerry Warner Op-Ed Commentary A “good guy with a gun.” Can you believe that’s the absurd – obscene even – solution many Americans offer for the gun mayhem engulfing the “land of the free and home of the brave” as their jingoistic national anthem so stridently proclaims. I guess that’s why a patriotic
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NRA Executive Vice President and CEO Wayne LaPierre. JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images NRA leader Wayne LaPierre survived a confidence vote on Saturday. The NRA board is set to vote on Monday over whether to renew LaPierre’s status as the executive vice president. The annual NRA convention forged ahead over the weekend in Houston following
CNN’s Jim Acosta confronted a National Rifle Association board member over a spate of horrific recent mass shootings and the group’s resistance to allowing legislative change that could prevent them. “For years, your group has blocked new gun safety laws and pushed for the most relaxed rules on firearms,” Acosta opened the interview with Kansas
White House officials and Senate Republicans declined invitations to appear on Sunday news shows, coming days after the devastating shooting at a Texas elementary school left 19 children and two teachers dead. On Sunday’s broadcast of “Face the Nation,” CBS’s Margaret Brennan said: “The White House did decline our invitation for a member of the
HOUSTON — The National Rifle Association annual meeting over the holiday weekend drew a smaller than expected crowd, according to attendees and exhibitors, adding to the sense that the preeminent gun lobby was on the ropes. Some speculated that the horrific school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, just days before the convention and the ensuing cascade
Former US President Donald Trump said the Texas school massacre is not a reason for tightened gun controls as Americans should be allowed firearms to defend against “evil.” rump headlined a National Rifle Association (NRA) event in Houston three days after the massacre which killed 19 students and two teachers. Speaking at the event, Trump
There come moments in the political life of our nation when we must rely on a single figure to step forward and lead with wisdom, reason and courage in the face of opposition intent on exacting a cost. For U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, that moment is now. We ask the Republican from Texas to rise
A Florida state representative appeared to threaten President Joe Biden on Twitter after the president’s remarks about the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, in which 19 children and two adults were killed. “I have news for the embarrassment that claims to be our President – try to take our guns and you’ll learn why the
A GOP congressman in the Buffalo area has said he’d back an assault weapons ban just two years after receiving a National Rifle Association endorsement. Rep. Chris Jacobs (R-NY), who is set for a GOP primary battle in August, told reporters he would get behind gun control efforts in Congress including an assault weapons ban
“It’s long past time to make Congress act.” That line popped up this week on the Twitter feed from David Hogg, a survivor of a 2018 school massacre that killed 17 people in Parkland, Florida, and a well-known voice in the effort to reduce gun violence. It popped up in a lot of places, actually.
The US’ biggest gun lobby gathered Friday for its annual meeting in Houston, Texas, just days after a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde stoked a fervent push to reduce gun violence and enforce firearms laws across the country. Former President Donald Trump and some other prominent Republicans, including Senator Ted Cruz, Republican
Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story! People in the islands have felt some distance from the horrors of mass shootings in the past, even while acknowledging Hawaii’s own tragedy. In 1999, seven people were killed at the Xerox Corp. building in Honolulu, just months after the infamous Columbine High School massacre in
Republican congressman Chris Jacobs of Orchard Park, New York has reversed his stance on gun control and said he would support measures to ban or restrict access to guns. Mr Jacobs, who was endorsed by the National Rifle Association (NRA) only two years ago, made the comments in the wake of deaths from mass shootings
As the US supreme court creeps right, a broad view of the second amendment emerges Trump’s presidency saw three new rightwing judges, each backed by the powerful gun lobby movement As the world looks on in horror following mass killings in Buffalo, New York and Uvalde, Texas, the US supreme court is set to issue
HOUSTON — For a brief moment in 2012, it seemed like a national stalemate over guns was breaking. Adam Lanza, a 20-year-old gunman, had forced his way into a Connecticut elementary school and massacred 26 people, mostly children, with an AR-15-style rifle. Flags flew at half-staff. A sporting goods chain suspended sales of similar weapons.
Why appeals to altruism won’t budge the US gun lobby The industry has been ‘OK looking away’ from tragedies, says an ex-insider. Change will only come with huge pressure Even the murder of 19 elementary school children in Texas could not deter America’s gun industry from enjoying its annual celebration of the weapons that slaughtered
15 hours ago Storyful Republican Senator Ted Cruz was confronted by gun-reform activists at a Houston restaurant on Friday night, May 27, hours after he spoke at the NRA Convention which drew protesters. Video taken by the group Indivisible Houston shows Benjamin Hernandez pretending to pose for a photo with Cruz at the Uptown Sushi