Celtics and Warriors add voices to calls for gun control laws
"We feel very strongly as a league that it is time for people to take notice and take part in what should be a nationwide effort to limit gun violence," Warriors head coach Steve Kerr said.
Mother of Japanese boy killed in '92 U.S. shooting hopes her book will promote stricter gun control
Mieko Hattori, 70, from Nagoya, whose son, Yoshihiro, 16, was gunned down in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1992, is working on a story for children that calls for stricter gun control measures in the United States. She came up with the idea after meeting a ...
Florida school opens for class with new security after February massacre of 17 but worries remain
The Florida high school where a gunman killed 17 people in February opened on Wednesday for a new school year with three armed guards and other new security measures that some parents and students worried would not be enough. Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in ...
Victims and survivors of mass shootings in Texas took part in a final round of talks on Thursday with Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who is seeking ways to stop gun massacres after a shooter killed 10 people in a Houston-area high school. The talks are ...
Conservatives steal liberal term as Illinois counties declare 'sanctuary' status for gun owners
Several rural Illinois counties have taken a stand for gun rights by co-opting a word that conservatives associate with a liberal policy to skirt the law: sanctuary. At least five counties recently passed resolutions declaring themselves sanctuary counties for gun owners — a reference to ...
FDR's gun-control strategy was based on taxes
His administration gave gangsters 3,700 reasons to stop buying machine guns.
NRA chief slams Democrat anti-gun 'elites' after Florida school massacre
The head of the National Rifle Association lashed out at gun control advocates on Thursday, saying Democratic elites are politicizing the latest mass school shooting in the United States to erode the country's constitutionally guaranteed gun rights. NRA chief executive Wayne LaPierre echoed President Donald ...
George Clooney to join Florida teens in gun control march on Washington
George Clooney and his wife said on Tuesday they are donating $500,000 to the "March for Our Lives" rally in Washington and will walk with students in support of gun control following last week's shooting at a Florida high school that left 17 dead. "Our ...
America's never-ending struggle: Gun rights versus gun control
There are at least two sides to every issue, and gun ownership in America is no exception.
NRA opposes outright U.S. legal ban on 'bump stocks' like those used by Las Vegas sniper
The powerful U.S. gun lobby, the National Rifle Association, said on Sunday it would oppose an outright ban on bump-stock devices that the killer in the Las Vegas massacre of 58 people used to turn rifles into automatic weapons and strafe a crowd with ...
Strict gun laws mean Japan sees fewer shooting deaths
The number of gun deaths in Japan totaled six in 2014, compared with 33,599 in the United States, according to GunPolicy.org, a website run by the University of Sydney. While the U.S. is dealing with the aftermath of yet another deadly attack after Sunday night's ...
Mass shootings are America's new normal
Congress's failure to act over the last 12 years has transformed the U.S. into a nation awash in military hardware.
