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Gunman Opens Fires At Grocery Store In Boulder, Colorado
March 23, 2021

Boulder’s assault weapons ban blocked 10 days before mass shooting

Boulder, Colorado had a ban in place preventing the use of assault weapons that was blocked just days before the…
January 4, 2016

Chris Christie calls President Obama a 'petulant child' for executive action on guns

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is slated Monday to finalize a set of new executive actions tightening U.S. gun…
May 2, 2013

12-year-old accidentally shoots, kills 14-year-old brother: Another example of gun culture run amok

OPINION - The epidemic of gun violence continues in America, but our leaders fail to stop it.
March 14, 2013

Federal spending bill has six pro-gun provisions

WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan Senate bill preventing a federal shutdown would make four long-standing gun protections permanent, including one…
January 16, 2013

Obama, Biden announce proposals to curb gun violence

(AP) - President Barack Obama will unveil proposals Wednesday to curb gun violence, his response to the December massacre of…
January 7, 2013

Banning assault weapons is not enough

OPINION - In the wake of the political cowardliness by most in Washington and with many Americans still clinging to…
December 17, 2012

How the assault weapons ban has been assaulted

theGRIO REPORT - The recent massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut—the second worst school shooting in U.S.…
December 16, 2012

Senate Democrats will try to bring back the assault weapons ban

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democratic lawmakers said Sunday that military-style assault weapons should be banned and that a national commission should…
December 16, 2012

Michael Eric Dyson on 'Meet the Press': Address mental illness, but also guns

VIDEO - On 'Meet the Press' this week, Professor Michael Eric Dyson sparred with former Education Secretary Bill Bennett and…
December 16, 2012

Obama in Newtown: ‘We’re not doing enough’ to protect our kids

NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — He spoke for a nation in sorrow, but the slaughter of all those little boys and…
July 26, 2012

Rev. Jesse Jackson to meet family of a Colorado movie theater shooting victims

AURORA, Colo. (AP) - The Rev. Jesse Jackson is visiting Aurora to meet with theater shooting victims and renew his…