Go to Source BY DANFES, AGENCY As America witnessed its 74th school shooting this week since the “massacre of innocents” at an elementary school 18 months ago, President Barack Obama said he was ashamed that America can’t put a stop to them.   “We should be ashamed of that,” Obama said, hours after a 14-year-old was […]

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Go to Source Some carried photos of loved ones cut down by a bullet. Others held signs imploring Congress to act. And nearly all shouted out “Not one more,” a tear-stained rallying cry embraced by those who believe the U.S. needs tougher gun control laws.   More than 1,000 demonstrators — including nearly 100 from […]

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Go to Source   Sen. Ginny Burdick, who has championed efforts for new restrictions on guns, “stands for a safer Oregon,” Mayor Charlie Hales said Saturday, adding that “as mayor, I stand with the Senator.”   Hales issued the statement in response to an Oregonian report that Burdick has received a death threat for gun ownership comments she has made since […]

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Go to Source   A bystander was seriously wounded in a shooting early Saturday outside the Casino Royal at 7007 E. Harry, police say.   The victim, a 22-year-old man, was hit in the left thigh as two other men fired guns after a private party at the club between Woodlawn and Rock Road at […]

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Go to Source In the wake of another school shooting, this time in Oregon, President Obama last week was asked what he was going to do to stop these kinds of incidents.   Obama said there was nothing to be done until there was a “fundamental shift in public opinion where people say, ‘enough. .. […]

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Go to Source   Since the Newtown massacre, Mark Glaze has been the face of the gun-control movement. The executive director of former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Mr. Glaze led the futile 2013 fight for expanded background checks and has been regular on cable news after each successive mass shooting.   Now […]

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Go to Source By John Harper If you’ve read our article on their Linux powered gun you might be familiar with the name Tracking Point. Well, the company is working on new features for their guns employing very modern technologies. Their next thing: shooting around corners.   Even thought the prospect sounds a bit cartoonish, they have […]

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Go to Source     As seniors at Reynolds High School prepared for Thursday night’s graduation ceremonies, a fuller picture of the 15-year-old freshman who shot and killed another student this week before turning his gun upon himself is beginning to emerge.   Jared Michael Padgett, 15, is survived by his parents and five siblings. […]

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Go to Source   With prospects for gun control legislation largely stalled or non-existent across the United States, and with a growing tally of mass shootings in Portland, Seattle and Las Vegas fresh in American minds, a group of Iowa middle school teachers is trying to pioneer a method of mitigation methods that would protect against someone intending to commit […]

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Go to Source President Obama spoke out once again in favor of stronger gun controls in the wake of a school shooting in Oregon on Tuesday that left a student dead and a teacher injured.   “We’re the only developed country where this happens. And it happens weekly,” he said.   The president was on […]

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