According to Reuters, police said that a man shot to death by police during Black Friday sales at an Alabama shopping mall was likely not the gunman in a shooting there that wounded two people. Police said Emantic Bradford was holding a handgun when he was killed by an officer who believed he was responsible for shooting at a 12-year-old girl … [Read more...]
312 Days Into 2018 And There Have Been 307 Mass Shootings In The U.S.
According to a report by Business Insider, the deadly shooting at a bar in a Los-Angeles area suburb which claimed the lives of thirteen people, was the 307th mass shooting of 2018. The nonprofit Gun Violence Archive, which tracks shooting in the US, defines a mass shooting as a single incident in which four or more people, not including the … [Read more...]
Synagogue Shooter Appears In Federal Court
According to Reuters, the man accused of shooting worshipers at a synagogue appeared in federal court. Robert Bowers faces 29 criminal counts, including federal hate crimes for attacking the Tree of Life Synagogue on Oct. 27th. The 46-year-old is accused to killing 11 elderly worshipers attending a service at the synagogue, while wounding six … [Read more...]
How State Gun Laws Have Changed Since the Las Vegas Shooting
Following 2017 shootings like those in Las Vegas and Parkland, Florida, Ohio Republican Governor John Kasich formed a panel that would reexamine state gun laws across America. The panel was designed to be bipartisan in an attempt to produce legislation that would satisfy both Republicans and Democrats. Ultimately, the legislative … [Read more...]
California Updates its Gun Laws
Jerry Brown just made it more difficult for Californians to get permits to carry concealed weapons by signing a “bill that sets tougher standards for Californians to get a county sheriff’s permit to carry a concealed weapon.” The new measure, Assembly Bill 2103 introduced by Assemblyman Todd Gloria (D-San Diego), requires all concealed carry … [Read more...]
Texas Wins Again in Lawsuit Over Campus Carry
Three professors at the University of Texas at Austin suffered another legal defeat in August in their longshot campaign against a Texas law allowing concealed weapons on college campuses. A three-judge panel of the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the state of Texas, upholding the now three-year-old law that prevented … [Read more...]
3D Gun Printing Activist Accused of Sex with Underage Girl
(CNN)The creator of the world's first fully printed 3D gun has been charged with sexual assault on a child in Texas, the Austin Police Department said Wednesday. Cody Wilson, 30, had sex with 16-year-old girl he met on an adult dating site, Austin Police Cmdr. said Wednesday at a news conference. Wilson is the founder of Defense Distributed, … [Read more...]
Department of Justice Fights “Undetectable Firearms”
What is now called the Undetectable Firearms Modernization Act has been around for several decades in some form or another; this Act prohibits the possession of firearms that don’t set off metal detectors and other screening devices you’d find in airports, courthouses, and now, most schools in the United States. With so much attention being given … [Read more...]
NRA Claims Financial Crisis, Blames Cuomo and NY State
NRA Claims Financial Hardship - Latest Twist in Murder Insurance Lawsuit Is the NRA going broke? The National Rifle Association is often called the most powerful lobby in the United States but, in a recently amended lawsuit, they allege they’re facing unprecedented financial hardship – and they place the blame squarely on the state of New York … [Read more...]
Are Boston Schools Gradually Segregating?
With so much focus on school violence and the nationwide effort to do something to protect our children from mass shootings, other school issues have been placed on the back burner for school authorities, parents and students in recent years. According to the Boston Globe, Boston public schools seem to be reverting back to segregated student … [Read more...]
