Gun Control
12/19/2012 | Gun Control
Helping children through trauma
OneNewsNow
In light of last week's shooting at Connecticut elementary school, the head of a Christian counselors' organization is offering tips on how parents can help their kids deal with the trauma.
Tim Clinton, president of the American Association of Christian Counselors, says a traumatic event is one that shatters one's sense of safety. And hearing reports about what happened last Friday at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown can frighten children.
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Fast and Furious weapons were found in Mexico cartel enforcer's home
Associated Press
High-powered assault weapons illegally purchased under the ATF's Fast and Furious program in Phoenix ended up in a home belonging to the purported top Sinaloa cartel enforcer in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, whose organization was terrorizing that city with the worst violence in the Mexican drug wars.
In all, 100 assault weapons acquired under Fast and Furious were transported 350 miles from Phoenix to El Paso, making that West Texas city a central hub for gun traffickers. Forty of the weapons made it across the border and into the arsenal of Jose Antonio Torres Marrufo, a feared cartel leader in Ciudad Juarez, according to federal court records and trace documents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
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Bipartisan opposition to U.N. gun control proposal
OneNewsNow
A gun-rights advocate finds it very telling that 12 Democratic senators oppose an Obama-backed United Nations gun-control treaty.
According to the U.S. News and World Report, the 12 Democrats joined 45 Republicans in an effort to halt progress on the Obama-backed U.N. effort that could bring international gun control to the United States and put severe restrictions on U.S. gun owners.
The U.N. Arms Trade Treaty, which was opposed by the Bush administration, would regulate the international trade of arms, including firearms used by hunters and sportsmen.
Larry Pratt (GOA)"The treaty would call for the complete registration of every firearm in America and the confiscation of firearms that are not on the approved list of suitable for civilian use," reports Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America.
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Amid ‘Fast and Furious’ Scandal, Obama’s New Anti-Crime Strategy Includes Stemming Gun Flow to Mexico
CNS News
Even as the Obama administration still faces question about a botched gunrunning operation in which federal law enforcement officials knowingly allowed guns be transported Mexican drug cartels, a new White House report calls for cracking down on the “illicit flow from the United States of weapons and criminal proceeds” to criminal gangs.
The White House on Monday released the report titled “Strategy to Combat Transnational Organized Crime,” referring to terrorist, drug trafficking and other criminal organizations operating across national borders.
The 38-page report lists 56 “priority actions,” including an executive order to seize the assets of transnational organized crime (TOC) networks as well as legislative proposals such as updating racketeering and money laundering laws.
“We must also stop the illicit flow from the United States of weapons and criminal proceeds that empower TOC networks,” says the report, which specifically addresses the flow of guns into Mexico.
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Obama Expected to Boost ‘Gun Safety’ by Executive Order
Associated Press
Six months after Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot, the White House is preparing to propose some new steps on gun safety, though they're likely to fall short of the bold measures activists would like to see.
Spokesman Jay Carney said that the new steps would be made public "in the near future." He didn't offer details, but people involved in talks at the Justice Department to craft the new measures said they expected to see something in the next several weeks.
Whatever is proposed is not expected to involve legislation or take on major issues, like banning assault weapons, but could include executive action to strengthen the background check system or other steps.
"The president directed the attorney general to form working groups with key stakeholders to identify common-sense measures that would improve American safety and security while fully respecting Second Amendment rights," Carney said Thursday. "That process is well under way at the Department of Justice, with stakeholders on all sides working through these complex issues, and we expect to have some more specific announcements in the near future."
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New York Times Calls for Congressional Action on Gun Control
CNS News
A day after opining that "it is legitimate to hold Republicans...responsible" for the anger that has produced violent threats against politicians, the New York Times on Tuesday sounded a call for gun control.
"The ludicrously thin membrane that now passes for gun control in this country almost certainly made the Tucson tragedy worse," said the newspaper editorial. "Members of Congress are legitimately concerned about their own safety now, but they should be no less worried about the effect of their inaction on the safety of all Americans."
The editorial urges lawmakers to "stand up to the National Rifle Association and its allies," which "have made the country a far more dangerous place."
The newspaper specifically urges Congress to take up a bill proposed by Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.), that would ban "the extended ammunition clip used by the Arizona shooter." (The Times, in referring to the gun's magazine, repeatedly uses the wrong term. An ammunition "clip" is not the same thing as a gun's magazine.)
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Supreme Court Rules That Gun Rights Apply to Local Laws
New York Times
The Second Amendment’s guarantee of an individual right to bear arms applies to state and local gun control laws, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday in a 5-to-4 decision.
The ruling came almost exactly two years after the court first ruled that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to own guns in District of Columbia v. Heller, another 5-to-4 decision.
But the Heller case addressed only federal laws; it left open the question of whether Second Amendment rights protect gun owners from overreaching by state and local governments.
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Republican: Will Sotomayor represent 'all of us'?
Associated Press
A GOP senator said Thursday he will use hearings on Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court to ask whether she intends to be a justice "for all of us, or just for some of us." With the Judiciary Committee set to open hearings July 13, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said Sotomayor must explain whether she believes in colorblind justice in light of a 2001 speech in which she said she hoped a "wise Latina" usually would reach better decisions than a white man without similar life experiences. Cornyn's comments came as Republicans step gingerly in the debate over President Barack Obama's first high court nominee. Sotomayor would be the first Hispanic and the third woman to serve on the court.
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Obama to Seek New Assault Weapons Ban
ABC News
The Obama administration will seek to reinstate the assault weapons ban that expired in 2004 during the Bush administration, Attorney General Eric Holder said today. Wednesday Attorney General Eric Holder said that the Obama administration will seek to reinstitute the assault weapons ban which expired in 2004 during the Bush administration. As President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to reinstitute the ban on the sale of assault weapons," Holder told reporters. Holder said that putting the ban back in place would not only be a positive move by the United States, it would help cut down on the flow of guns going across the border into Mexico, which is struggling with heavy violence among drug cartels along the border. "I think that will have a positive impact in Mexico, at a minimum." Holder said at a news conference on the arrest of more than 700 people in a drug enforcement crackdown on Mexican drug cartels operating in the U.S. Mexican government officials have complained that the availability of sophisticated guns from the United States have emboldened drug traffickers to fight over access routes into the U.S.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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