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On the anniversary of the tragic event, activists called on Congress with the message: "There are too many gun violence victims — and there is something we can do about it. Close the gun show loophole" The events received a tremendous amount of attention and media coverage.
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Charleston Gazette; July 2, 2008
Editorial: Gun quiz, Sensible answers
HERE'S a simple test to determine where you stand on gun control:
Q: Should convicted violent criminals be allowed to carry pistols or assault weapons?
Q: Should children be allowed to carry loaded guns to school?
Q: Shou ...read the full article.
- Charleston Gazette
Conde Nast Portfolio; July 1, 2008
Arming the Drug Wars
Alfredo Beltrán Leyva was arrested on January 21 in Culiacán, capital of the Mexican state of Sinaloa. The circumstances of his arrest lived up to his high standing in Mexico's criminal underground, caught, as he was, driving a ...read the full article.
- James Verini
Dallas Morning News; July 1, 2008
Balance of Opinion: Ruling rekindles gun-control debate
The Supreme Court last week offered definitive endorsement of an individual's Second Amendment right to own firearms, but the debate rages on in the punditsphere.
Steve Chapman welcomes the 5-4 ruling as a rebuke of recent legi ...read the full article.
- Nancy Kruh
Wall Street Journal; June 30, 2008
Some Gun Rules We Can All Agree On
Finally. After decades of ideological debates over the meaning of every word and comma contained in the U.S. Constitution's one-sentence Second Amendment, the Supreme Court has issued a ruling that should largely settle the matter ...read the full article.
- MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG and THOMAS M. MENINO
Sacramento Bee; June 30, 2008
Editorial: Court's decision moves gun fight to Congress
A sharply divided Supreme Court has settled the issue for now. The Second Amendment to the Constitution does confer upon individuals the right to bear arms.
In the wake of the ruling, big-city mayors across the country are expr ...read the full article.
- Sacramento Bee
Cox Newspapers; June 30, 2008
Gun control ruling may have a silver lining
THE gun lobby has finally won its dream ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court, but could it be that this is just the breakthrough which can finally lead to sensible gun control?
Going beyond even what the Bush administration had a ...read the full article.
- Tom Teepen
New York Times; June 27, 2008
Editorial: Lock and Load
Thirty-thousand Americans are killed by guns every year -- on the job, walking to school, at the shopping mall. The Supreme Court on Thursday all but ensured that even more Americans will die senselessly with its wrongheaded and d ...read the full article.
- New York Times
Washington Post; June 27, 2008
Editorial: Handguns Supreme; Despite the high court's misguided ruling, the District may still have some options.
IT IS deeply disappointing, though not surprising, that the Supreme Court yesterday struck down the District's gun laws after finding that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms.
Writing for the four j ...read the full article.
- Washington Post
Washington Post; June 27, 2008
Historic Decision Renews Old Debate
With yesterday's decision, the Supreme Court pushed the gun issue back to the forefront of the nation's agenda, opening a new chapter in what has been one of the most contentious and divisive debates in American politics for the p ...read the full article.
- Dan Balz and Keith B. Richburg
USA Today; June 27, 2008
Our view on the Second Amendment: Ruling reflects America's ambivalence on guns
On hot-button cultural issues, the Supreme Court typically doesn't stray far from public opinion. So that's where the court found itself Thursday with its landmark Second Amendment ruling, right where the majority of Americans are ...read the full article.
- USA Today
Wall Street Journal; June 26, 2008
In a First, High Court Affirms Gun Rights
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution guarantees individuals the right to keep handguns in the home, ending a debate about the Second Amendment's 18th-century language while opening new battles over the polit ...read the full article.
- JESS BRAVIN and SUSAN DAVIS
Atlanta Journal-Constitution; June 23, 2008
Cities will pay a heavy price if handgun ban is overturned
The U.S. Supreme Court will soon rule on whether Washington, D.C.'s decades-old handgun ban is constitutional.
It's been nearly 70 years since the high court has heard a firearms case that tests the scope of the Second Amendmen ...read the full article.
- Shirley Franklin
Washington Post; June 22, 2008
Line Blurs Between Play, Gunplay: Popularity of Replicas Among Adults and Kids Alarms Police
An alarm went off one night at Potowmack Elementary School in Sterling, and a surveillance camera recorded the scene: five intruders in masks and hoods darting through hallways and corridors, their assault rifles pointed.
In mi ...read the full article.
- Donna St. George
New York Times; June 19, 2008
Many Guns Go Missing From Shops, Study Says
WASHINGTON -- More than 30,000 firearms are unaccounted for in gun dealers' inventories nationwide, according to a new study by a gun control group.
Further, the group, the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, says its finding ...read the full article.
- AUSTIN BOGUES
Newsweek Magazine; June 16, 2008
The Science of Gun Control: Local background checks are more effective at reducing suicides and homicides than federal checks.
There's nothing simple about gun control, a tangle of legal, political and public-health issues complicated by cultural preferences and regional biases. Passions run high on all sides. Lifelong hunters who grew up with firearms, u ...read the full article.
- David Noonan
Atlanta Journal-Constitution; June 15, 2008
Editorial: Every three hours, more tragedy
Who dies in greater numbers from firearms, police in the line of duty or preschoolers?
The answer -- contained in a searing new report by the Children's Defense Fund -- is surprising and disturbing. In 2005, the most recent yea ...read the full article.
- Maureen Downey, for the editorial board
Toledo Blade; June 14, 2008
Editorial: Dilemma of shooting first
THERE are many reasons to like Gov. Ted Strickland. His position on National Rifle Association-backed attempts to create an armed society is not one of them.
This week, the governor unwisely signed into law a bill that weakens ...read the full article.
- Toledo Blade
Fayetteville Observer; June 13, 2008
Editorial: Safety check: Bill would prevent N.C. version of the Virginia Tech massacre.
North Carolina has moved a step closer to preventing the kind of tragedy that saw 32 Virginia Tech students and faculty shot and killed last year.
It's not the perfect solution, of course. No rules, regulations or laws can comp ...read the full article.
- Fayetteville Observer
Albany Times Union; June 12, 2008
Editorial: A city, and a gun
The community that still mourns the death of Kathina Thomas in Albany's West Hill has a new battle to wage. It must act upon the unsettling possibility that not only was a 10-year-old girl murdered by a stray bullet, but one from ...read the full article.
- Times Union
Florida Sun-Sentinel; June 12, 2008
Florida No. 2 in nation for exporting guns used in crime
Florida, perhaps best known for exporting oranges, is now No. 2 nationwide for shipping out another commodity: guns.
The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence said Wednesday that Florida supplied more guns used in crimes outside ...read the full article.
- Megan O'Matz
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