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Police kill armed 8th-grader in Texas school

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

CBS News - By CBS News - Jan. 04 (News Report) - Police shot and killed an armed eighth-grader who "engaged" officers in the main hallway of his middle school on Wednesday, the South Texas school district said.

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Norway Mourns 91 Dead in Twin Attacks

Sat, 23 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - Jul. 23 (News Report) - "He was shooting people at close range and starting to shoot at us. He stood first 10 metres from me and shooting at people in the water," he said. "When I saw him from the side yelling that he was about to kill us, he looked like he was taken from a Nazi movie or something. "He tried everyone, he kicked them to see if they were alive, or he just shot them.

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Arizona Lawmaker Pointed Loaded Gun At Reporter's Chest

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Alexander Belenky - Jul. 12 (News Report) - Arizona state Sen. Lori Klein (R), a gun-rights champion, keeps a loaded raspberry-pink handgun in her purse, and during an interview with Arizona Republic reporter Richard Ruelas, she took it out and pointed it at him.

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Critic of ATF gun-trafficking program raised no objection when briefed last year

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Jerry Markon, Sari Horwitz - Jun. 22 (News Report) - A chief Republican critic of a controversial U.S. anti-gun-trafficking operation was briefed on ATF’s “Fast and Furious” program last year and did not express any opposition, sources familiar with the classified briefing said Tuesday.

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New Report: U.S. Encouraged Gun Sales to Drug Cartels, 70% of Seized Mexico Guns Are From U.S.

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Jun. 15 (News Report) - Some 70 percent of guns seized in Mexico from 2009 to 2010 came from the United States, according to a new report from three U.S. senators. The report finds Mexican drug cartels are arming themselves with U.S. military-style weapons and urges a strengthening of U.S. regulations to stem the flow of guns to Mexico. It comes as lawmakers are holding hearings into a once-secret government plan to encourage U.S. gun shops to sell thousands of guns to middlemen for Mexican drug cartels. The operation, called "Fast and Furious," focused on using middlemen to gain access to senior-level figures within Mexico’s criminal organizations.

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Report describes gun agents' 'state of panic'

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Kim Murphy - Jun. 15 (News Report) - Federal gun agents, concerned about weapons sales to Mexican drug suspects, begged to make arrests but were rebuffed, according to a congressional report on a controversial investigation.

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NRA Takes Aim at Obama's Re-Election

Sun, 01 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By James Hohmann - May. 01 (News Analysis) - 'Liberals are frustrated with Barack Obama for not aggressively pushing gun control, but you wouldn't know it from the National Rifle Association's annual meeting. With no clearly preferred Republican candidate among the 70,000 people who descended on the convention center here this weekend, Obama's name came up more than any other.' James Hohmann, Politico

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Rep. Grimm and the FBI

Sun, 01 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Evan Ratliff - May. 01 (Comment) - 'Williams recalls that Grimm then told him that the husband 'don't know who he's fu***** with ... I'll fu****' make him disappear where nobody will find him.' (Grimm has denied saying this.)' Evan Ratliff, The New Yorker

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Border agents unwittingly freed suspects near border with weapons from federal sting

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Center for Public Integrity - By John Solomon, David Heath, Ricardo Sandoval Palos - Mar. 24 (Investigative Report) - The episode — confirmed by the Center for Public Integrity through interviews, internal agency memos and court records — highlights major gaps in the U.S. war on Mexican gun and drug cartels: America’s frontline agencies aren’t always coordinated fully and often feel powerless to arrest suspected gun runners in the absence of tougher federal laws.

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N.R.A. Declines to Meet With Obama on Gun Policy

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Jackie Calmes - Mar. 15 (News) - More than two months after the Tucson shootings, the administration is calling together both the gun lobby and gun safety groups to find common ground. But President Obama has no plans to take the lead in proposing further gun control legislation, aides say, and the nation’s major gun rights group is snubbing the invitation.

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Suspect in Tucson shooting rampage enters plea

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Sari Horwitz - Mar. 10 (News Report) - TUCSON, Ariz. -- The suspect in the Tucson shooting rampage that critically injured U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords pleaded not guilty Wednesday to federal charges accusing him of killing six people and wounding 13 others.

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Texas may soon allow guns on college campuses

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Houston Chronicle - By Jim Vertuno - Feb. 20 (News) - The Lone Star state legislature is about to pass a bill forcing colleges to let students and professors to take handguns into the classroom.

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From Tuscon to Virginia Tech: Shooting Survivor Calls for Gun Control

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Colin Goddard, Amy Goodman, Rocky Anderson - Jan. 27 (Opinion) - We speak with Colin Goddard, a survivor of the Virginia Tech shooting massacre who, after recovering and finishing his degree, decided to work with the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, the nation’s largest gun control organization. His story is told in Living for 32, a new documentary that just premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. We also hear from former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson about a bill passed Wednesday by the Utah House of Representatives to make the Browning M1911 pistol the official state gun.

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20 arrested in gun smuggling case

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Kim Murphy - Jan. 26 (News) - Federal authorities indict the men on charges of buying hundreds of weapons in Arizona and conspiring to sell them to drug cartels in Mexico.In a case aimed at stemming the flow of U.S. weapons to the Mexican drug war, federal authorities indicted 20 men Tuesday on charges of buying an estimated 700 weapons in Arizona and conspiring to transfer them across the border, chiefly to the Sinaloa drug cartel.

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Nasty words: Toxic v ballistic rhetoric

Sun, 16 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Economist - Jan. 16 (Opinion) - What's scary about extreme right-wing rhetoric, to a great extent, is the way it's bound up with a legitimation of private violence as a defence of freedom. This has not always been the exclusive domain of the right. In the late 1960s and 1970s, it was extreme leftist groups such as the Black Panthers and the Weathermen whose rhetoric legitimated armed violence as a defence of "the people". It was appropriate for cooler heads then to denounce such rhetoric as scary on its own terms, and crippling to democratic politics. That lesson was effective: even the most inaccurate and excessive rhetoric on the left these days doesn't invoke violence. For the same reasons, today's right should drop its habit of couching political points in violent terms.

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What the "right to bear arms" really means

Sun, 16 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Salon - By Saul Cornell - Jan. 16 (Opinion) - After an immediate cathartic and emotional response, the two sides in the gun debate fall into their familiar postures. Proposals for new gun regulation are made, prompting push-back from gun rights advocates, who circle their wagons, issue warnings about the threats to our Second Amendment rights, and -- in a more recent twist -- begin calling for a relaxation of existing gun regulation so that citizens can more easily defend themselves.

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Extremist Killing Is as American as Apple Pie: Murders Grow on the Far Right Four Decades After Martin Luther King - Truthout.com

Sun, 16 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

truth-out.org - By Stephan Salusbury - Jan. 16 (News Analysis) - The landscape of America is littered with bodies. They've been gunned down in Tucson, shot to death at the Pentagon , and blown away at the Holocaust Museum , as well as in Wichita , Knoxville, Pittsburgh, Brockton, and Okaloosa County, Florida. Total body count for these incidents: 19 dead, 26 wounded. Not much, you might say, when taken in the context of about 30,000 gun-related deaths annually nationwide. As it happens, though, these murders over the past couple of years have some common threads...

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In Tucson Shooting, Jigsaw Picture of Loughner

Sat, 15 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Dan Barry, Jo Becker, Serge F. Kovaleski, Michael Luo - Jan. 15 (News Report) - Moments after the swirl of panic, blood, death and shock, the suspect was face down on the pavement and squirming under the hold of two civilians, his shaved head obscured by a beanie and the hood of his dark sweatshirt. Deputy Sheriff Thomas Audetat, a chiseled former Marine with three tours in Iraq to his credit, dug his knee into the gangly young man’s back and cuffed him. With the aid of another deputy, he relieved the heroic civilians of their charge and began searching for weapons other than the Glock semiautomatic pistol, secured nearby under a civilian’s foot, that had just fired 31 rounds.

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No One Listened To Gabrielle Giffords

Sat, 15 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Frank Rich - Jan. 15 (Opinion) - In March 2010, few of our leaders wanted to see what Giffords saw — that the vandalism and the death threats were part of a tide of insurrectionism that had been rising since the final weeks of the 2008 campaign.

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Philanthropy Must Challenge the Idea That Gun Violence Can’t Be Stopped

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Chronicle of Philanthropy - By Ellen S. Alberding - Jan. 14 (Opinion) - We see this latest tragedy and ask, How could this happen? How could it not happen, when we systematically make it easier for angry and troubled people to get ever-more-powerful guns, and harder for the police and public-health people to stop the mayhem? Those words appeared in The Chronicle of Philanthropy 2007, in the days after the Virginia Tech massacre.

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Are More Gun Laws for Mentally Ill Off Target?

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Emily Badger - Jan. 13 (Special Report) - Attempting to do so, though, has never particularly proven to improve public safety. And if anything, says Paul Appelbaum, director of the Division of Law, Ethics, and Psychiatry at Columbia University, channeling so much attention toward the mentally ill distracts us from the much larger problem of gun violence and further stigmatizes the mentally ill who are rarely responsible for it.

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Glock Pistol Sales Surge in Aftermath of Arizona Shootings

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Bloomberg - By Michael Riley - Jan. 12 (News) - Instead of hurting sales, the massacre had the $499 semi-automatic pistols -- popular with police, sport shooters and gangsters -- flying out the doors of his Glockmeister stores in Mesa and Phoenix.

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Speaker Boehner says no to new restrictions on firearms

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Hill - By Mike Lillis - Jan. 12 (News) - Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is rejecting gun-control legislation offered by the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee in response to the weekend shootings of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and 19 others in Arizona.

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Shooting Suspect Waives Bail and Is Ruled ‘a Danger’

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Marc Lacey - Jan. 11 (News) - Jared L. Loughner, his head shaved bare and his hands and feet in restraints, was led Monday into a federal courtroom, where he agreed not to contest his continued imprisonment but offered no hint of how he would respond to the murder and attempted murder charges linking him to the Tucson shootings that left six dead and 14 injured.

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Jared Loughner, Mental Illness and How Budget Cuts Have Slashed Behavioral Health Services in Arizona

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, H. Clarke Romans - Jan. 11 (Interview) - While federal investigators and the news media try to uncover the motivation behind Saturday’s shooting rampage in Tucson, the picture emerging of the accused gunman, Jared Lee Loughner, is of a severely disturbed 22-year-old. Loughner’s apparent mental health problems have shone a spotlight on issues surrounding mental health treatment in Arizona, which made drastic budget cuts to behavioral health services in 2010. We speak with H. Clarke Romans of the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Southern Arizona.

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