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Mother's Day Shooting

New Orleans' love affair with guns, in 'black and white'

Trymaine Lee
NBC NEWS - For Louisiana, the stakes could not be higher: it has the worst gun murder rate in the nation, and the highest the rate of children killed with guns...
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Mother's Day Shooting

19 shot at New Orleans Mother's Day parade

Andrew Rafferty, NBC News
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Gunmen opened fire on people marching in a neighborhood Mother's Day parade in New Orleans on Sunday, wounding at least 19...
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"Rocky" the zombie is said to resemble President Obama. (Photo courtesy of zombieindustries.com)

NRA bans target that 'looked like Obama'

Lilly Workneh
theGRIO REPORT - A zombie target, that some say resembles President Obama, is being sold by one vendor for gun shooting purposes...
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New NRA President Jim Porter (Courtesy ThinkProgress)

NRA president calls Civil War the 'war of Northern aggression'

Carrie Healey
theGRIO REPORT - New president of the National Rifle Association Jim Porter believes all Americans should have military weapons training.
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NRA attendee, John Joseph of Sebastian, Fla., waits in line outside the George R. Brown Convention Center before the opening of the National Rifle Association's 142 Annual Meetings and Exhibits at the George R. Brown Convention Center Thursday, May 2, 2013, in Houston. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Johnny Hanson)

NRA official: 'Culture war' more than gun rights

Jim Vertuno and Juan Lozano, Associated Press
HOUSTON (AP) — The National Rifle Association kicked off its annual convention Friday with a warning from its incoming president that its members are engaged in a 'culture war'...
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A national disagrace: 12-year-old accidentally shoots, kills 14-year-old

David A. Love
OPINION - The epidemic of gun violence continues in America, but our leaders fail to stop it.
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President Obama

Obama plans executive action on guns

Nedra Pickler, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Blocked by Congress from expanding gun sale background checks, President Barack Obama is turning to actions within his own power to keep people from buying a gun who are prohibited for mental health reasons...
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Mark Barden, the father of a victim at Sandy Hook Elementary School, joins U.S. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden in making a statement on gun violence in the Rose Garden of the White House on April 17, 2013 in Washington, DC. Earlier today the Senate defeated a bi-partisan measure to expand background checks for gun sales. Also pictured are family members of gun violence victims, and victims of gun violence, Gabby Giffords, Jimmy Greene, Nicole Hockley, Jeremy Richman, Neil Heslin, Jackie Barden, Natalie Barden and James Barden. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Obama push for gun controls reaches dead end

Steven R. Hurst, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama's push for tighter gun controls was pulled from consideration in the Senate on Thursday...
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Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., right, and Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., finish a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 10, 2013, announcing that they have reached a compromise on background checks for gun buyers in the aftermath of the horrific Connecticut school shootings in December 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate rejects expanded gun background checks

Alan Fram and David Espo, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Senate has rejected a bipartisan effort to expand federal background checks to more firearms buyers in a crucial showdown over gun control...
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As the U.S. Senate takes up gun legislation in Washington, DC , Mike Acevedo puts a weapon on display at the National Armory gun store on April 11, 2013 in Pompano Beach, Florida. The Senate voted 68-31 to begin debate on a bill that would significantly expand background checks for gun sales. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Obama 2012 coalition ignored on gun control

Perry Bacon Jr.
theGRIO REPORT - Despite very strong support from Democratic voters, bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines aren't even included in the main gun control bill the Democratically-controlled Senate is considering..
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