Gun Control
6/30/2008 | Gun Control, Presidential Issues
Gun ruling's impact on election unclear
The Washington Times
The landmark Supreme Court decision last week that voided the District's 32-year-old ban on handguns may have rekindled the gun-control debate on the national landscape, but local officials and political analysts don't expect it to last for long. Those wishing to make political hay of the issue for the presidential candidates - such as National Rifle Association leaders who already have filed lawsuits against gun bans in Chicago and San Francisco and vowed to pump the issue during the fall election - may be disappointed.
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Supreme Court to issue decision on D.C. gun case
My Way News
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court is meeting to issue its final three opinions of the term, including defining Americans' right to own guns. The challenge to the ban on handguns in Washington, D.C., is the biggest case left on the court's docket. It also is expected to resolve disputes over a campaign finance law and contracts negotiated during the Western energy crisis in 2001. The justices won't return to the bench until Oct. 6, the start of their next term.
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Supreme Court meets Monday morning
Yahoo News
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court begins what almost certainly is its final week of work before its summer break with 10 cases left to decide. Among the big issues are gun rights and the death penalty for rape of a child. The court is meeting Monday morning to issue opinions and announce whether it has accepted any new cases to argue during the next term. The justices still have not handed down decisions in a landmark Second Amendment case on the meaning of the right to keep and bear arms.
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Gun rights is biggest issue for court to decide
My Way News
WASHINGTON (AP) - One momentous case down, another equally historic decision to go. The Supreme Court returns to the bench Monday with 17 cases still unresolved, including its first-ever comprehensive look at the Second Amendment's right to bear arms. The guns case - including Washington, D.C.'s ban on handguns - is widely expected to be a victory for supporters of gun rights. Top officials of a national gun control organization said this week that they expect the handgun ban to be struck down, but they are hopeful other gun regulations will survive.
3/19/2008 | Governmental Control, Gun Control
Supreme Court set to back gun rights
Financial Times.Com
The US Supreme Court appears ready to rule that Americans have a constitutional right to keep a gun in their home for self-defence, a ruling that could help Republicans in the upcoming presidential election. Hearing the most important gun rights case in nearly 70 years, the justices on Tuesday spent 98 minutes engrossed in a lively debate about British and American legal traditions relating to the right to bear arms, especially in self-defence.
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Guard's hands "didn't even shake" as she shot gunman
DenverPost.com
COLORADO SPRINGS — Amid deafening cracks of gunfire, smoke-spewing canisters and the flight of thousands of New Life Church members, Jeanne Assam said she suddenly saw the hallways clear and a gunman come through the door. "I took cover. I identified myself. I engaged him. I took him down," the 42-year-old former law officer and volunteer church security guard said Monday at a news conference in the Colorado Springs police station. "I just said, 'Holy Spirit, be with me.' I wasn't even shaking," Assam said. "I give the credit to God. I say this very humbly. God was with me." Assam, a member of New Life for only a few months, admitted she had been without sleep since Sunday's midday shootings at Colorado's largest church. The episode left two injured and ended the lives of two teen sisters and the gunman, 24-year-old Matthew Murray. Police declined to confirm Monday whether Assam's weapon, which she reportedly emptied in the exchange, inflicted Murray's fatal wound or whether it was self-inflicted.
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'Now I'll Be Famous': Omaha Gunman Kills 8, Himself
ABC News
Kicked out of his home, fired from his job and dumped by his girlfriend. People who knew Robert Hawkins, the young man police say killed eight people then himself inside a Omaha, Neb., mall Wednesday, say he was an "introverted troubled young man." Five people were also injured during the afternoon shooting spree inside the Westroads Mall. The sound of gunfire sent people fleeing in all directions while others hid in clothes racks and dressing rooms. Hawkins was found dead on the third floor of the Von Maur department store after apparently opening fire on shoppers on lower floors. He was wearing a military-style haircut and black outfit, witnesses said. Police Chief Thomas Warren said the shooting appeared to be random. He would not release the victims' identities Wednesday night and gave no motive for the attack, but promised more details in a news conference scheduled for this morning.
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Ohio Gunman Had Mental Problems
Time
(CLEVELAND) — A 14-year-old student who opened fire at his high school, wounding four people before killing himself, had a history of mental problems and was known for cussing at teachers and bickering with students. Asa H. Coon, who had been suspended for fighting, warned classmates of an attack — but none took him seriously. "When he got suspended, he was like 'I got something for you all,'" said student Frances Henderson, who said she often got into arguments with Coon. "I guess this is what he had." Police believe Coon targeted the two teachers he shot Wednesday. He also shot two students while others hid in closets and bathrooms or ran out of SuccessTech Academy alternative school. Students gathered outside, many in tears, hugging one another and talking on cell phones. Parents were angry that firearms got into a school equipped with metal detectors that students said were intermittently used.
8/14/2007 | Gun Control
Shooting at Church Kills 3, Wounds 5
CR Daily
The gunman ordered children out of the sanctuary, then opened fire, killing three people and wounding at least five others in the middle of a service for Micronesian worshippers. Police said the shooting Sunday followed an altercation Saturday night between the suspect and a family that belonged to the congregation. It wasn't clear if the suspect was part of the congregation or if the family was in the sanctuary during the attack. The suspect, a man in his 40s from the Pacific islands, was being held in the Newton County jail pending charges authorities expected to announce on Monday.
8/13/2007 | Gun Control, Freedom of Religion
3 Killed in Mo. Church Shooting
Breitbart.com
NEOSHO, Mo. (AP) - A gunman opened fire in the sanctuary of a southwest Missouri church Sunday, killing a pastor and two worshippers and wounding several others, authorities said. One of the victims was the Rev. Kernal Rehobson, 44, who led the local congregation of predominantly Micronesian worshippers holding the service at the First Congregational Church, police said. The other two victims were male members of the congregation, who were "what we would call deacons," said Dave McCracken, Neosho police chief. Their names were not released because relatives were still being notified.
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Appeals Court Refuses to Reconsider D.C. Gun Ban Ruling
FoxNews.com
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Tuesday refused to reconsider a ruling that struck down the District of Columbia's long-standing handgun control law, setting up a potential showdown in the Supreme Court over the Second Amendment. The decision by the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit comes nearly two months after a three-judge panel rejected the city's argument that the Second Amendment right to bear arms applies only to state militias. The panel ruled 2-1 that the city cannot prevent people from keeping handguns in their homes. The ruling also struck down a requirement that owners of registered firearms keep them unloaded and disassembled.
4/25/2007 | Gun Control
Police: No Motive in Virginia Tech Shootings
FoxNews.com
BLACKSBURG, Va. — Computer files, cell phone records and e-mails have yielded no evidence about what triggered Seung-Hui Cho's massacre at Virginia Tech last week and whether he hand-picked his 32 victims. In an interview Tuesday with The Associated Press, State Police Superintendent Col. W. Steven Flaherty said authorities have found no evidence that could begin to explain the massacre that ended when Cho took his own life.
4/23/2007 | Education, Gun Control
Va. Tech Students Return to Campus
Time
(BLACKSBURG, Va.) — Still grieving and increasingly wary of the media spotlight, Virginia Tech students returned to their beleaguered campus Sunday, preparing to salvage the final weeks of a semester eclipsed by violence. The scene on campus resembled move-in day in late summer, with parents helping their children carry suitcases into dormitories. There were tears and hugs goodbye. But instead of excitement for the year ahead, there was simply determination to endure and regroup in the fall.
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Poll: Tragedy Hasn't Changed Views On Guns
CBS News
(AP) The nation is profoundly split along gender, racial and other lines over gun violence and what the government should do to control it, despite near-universal sorrow over the Virginia Tech shootings, an AP-Ipsos poll has found. Women and minorities are far likelier than men and whites to view gun violence as a major problem, to worry about being shot, and to want stricter firearms laws, said the survey, which was taken after the killings.
4/21/2007 | Gun Control
Man Kills Hostage, Self at NASA Building
Associated Press
HOUSTON (AP) - A NASA contract worker took a handgun inside an office building Friday at the Johnson Space Center and fatally shot a hostage before killing himself, police said. A second hostage escaped with minor injuries. The gunman was able to take a snub-nosed revolver past NASA security and barricade himself in the building, which houses communications and tracking systems for the space shuttle, authorities said. NASA and police identified him as 60-year-old William Phillips. He had apparently had a dispute with the slain hostage, police said.
4/20/2007 | Gun Control
Gunman Barricaded Inside NASA Building
ABC News
April 20, 2007— Houston police say that a white male who had barricaded himself with a weapon inside Building 44 at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, killed himself and one other hostage. A female hostage was also discovered duct taped at the scene, she is receiving medical attention, but is believed to be alright. ABC News local affiliate KTRK repors that the suspect is 60-year old William Phillips Jr.
4/20/2007 | Gun Control
Common Ground on Gun Control?
Time
The revelation that Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui's brief stay in a Virginia psychiatric facility did not prevent him from legally buying handguns has prompted outrage from gun control advocates. But at a time when any real gun control legislation is close to a political impossibility, even some Second Amendment activists agree that the criteria used to deem someone mentally unfit to purchase a firearm may need to be reformed. The first significant federal gun control law, passed back in 1968 in reaction to the Kennedy assassination five years earlier, prohibited anyone involuntarily committed to a mental institution from buying firearms. Forty years later, that still remains the standard for most federal and state gun buying restrictions. The problem is that involuntary commitment was the norm four decades ago; family members, doctors and law enforcement could easily commit troubled souls to psychiatric hospitals with scant paperwork and little concern for individual or privacy rights. When Cho agreed to a voluntary committal to a psychiatric facility in 2005, he was benefiting from the advocacy of civil libertarians who had worked to give mental health patients a say in their treatment.
4/19/2007 | Gun Control, Terrorism
Gunman Sends NBC Final Message
Time
Between his first and second bursts of gunfire, the Virginia Tech gunman mailed a package to NBC headquarters in New York containing photos of him brandishing guns and video of him delivering an angry, profanity-laced tirade about rich kids and hedonism. "You had a hundred billion chances and ways to have avoided today," 23-year-old Cho Seung-Hui says in a harsh monotone, in an excerpt shown on "NBC Nightly News." "But you decided to spill my blood. You forced me into a corner and gave me only one option. The decision was yours. Now you have blood on your hands that will never wash off."
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Threats Rattle Schools in 10 States
Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Campus threats forced lock-downs and evacuations at universities, high schools and middle schools in at least 10 states on Tuesday, a day after a Virginia Tech student's shooting rampage killed 33 people. Threats in Louisiana, Montana and Washington state directly mentioned the massacre in Virginia, while others were reports of suspicious activity in Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma, Tennessee, North Dakota, South Dakota and Michigan. In Louisiana, parents picked up hundreds of students from Bogalusa's high school and middle school amid reports that a man had been arrested Tuesday morning for threatening a mass killing in a note that alluded to the murders at Virginia Tech.
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Shooter showed 'big warning signs,' students say
CNN.com
BLACKSBURG, Virginia (CNN) -- Cho Seung-Hui exhibited warning signs long before his deadly shooting spree on the Virginia Tech campus, fellow students and professors said. As disturbing details emerged about the resident alien from South Korea, students gathered by the thousands in the heart of their campus Tuesday night for a candlelight vigil. Meanwhile, one professor recalled being so concerned about Cho's anger that she took him out of another instructor's creative writing class and taught him one-on-one. The former chairwoman of Virginia Tech's English department, Lucinda Roy, said the anger Cho expressed in the fall 2005 course was palpable if not explicit.
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