GOP Adjourns Session Of US Lower House Amid Sit-in Over Gun Control

The US Republican Party adjourned, early Thursday, a session of the House of Representatives amid an hours-long sit-in staged by the Democratic Party, which is demanding the adoption of tougher gun controls, local media reported.

Sputnik News
By Sputnik News

Over 100 Democrats began a sit-in on the House floor shortly before noon on Wednesday, demanding House Speaker Paul Ryan put two pieces of gun legislation to a vote. Republican lawmakers voted in favor of adjourning the session shortly after midnight in an effort to put an end to the 16-hour long sit-in. The next session of the House is scheduled

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‘Too Many’: Obama Hopes New Measures Will Reduce Gun Deaths

The president has been criticized by Republicans for bypassing Congress, while gun control reformers say the changes fall short.

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By teleSUR
An emotional President Barack Obama pauses to wipe away tears as he recalled the 20 first-graders killed in 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School, while speaking in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2016, about steps his administration is taking to reduce gun violence. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

President Barack Obama unveiled his four-point plan on gun reform Tuesday, a set of executive actions that most Republicans have already denounced as violating the Second Amendment, but what some gun reform campaigners say is not enough. “Instead of thinking of how to solve the problem, this has become one of our most polarized partisan

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Australian Deputy Prime Minister Calls For Travel Warnings After More US Gun Violence

Mr Fischer said a person is 15 times more likely to be shot dead in the US than in Australia and that travel advice should reflect this, as it does for Mexico.

Sydney Morning Herald
By Sydney Morning Herald
An officer stands guard near a Planned Parenthood clinic Friday, Nov. 27, 2015, in Colorado Springs, Colo. A gunman opened fire at the clinic on Friday, authorities said, wounding multiple people. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Tim Fischer says he's "sick and tired" of Americans being warned about a potential terrorist attack in Sydney given the US is unable to control its deadly gun culture. As the latest mass shooting unfolds in California, the former deputy prime minister - who led the charge for tighter gun control laws alongside prime minister John Howard -

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The Facts That Neither Side Wants To Admit About Gun Control

Gun control is designed to stop people from killing each other, at least that’s what we are always told.

Justin King
By Justin King
gunsmith

(TFC) Washington, DC  – A church was shot up by a lunatic. The US government never lets a tragedy or crisis pass without attempting to find a new way to restrict the American people. So, we can expect a renewed push for gun control. There is a lot of propaganda about gun control. So much so that the truth has been lost. The National Rifle

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Do More Guns Really Mean More Safety? Ask Australia

Australia’s experience with guns proves that America’s problems with guns are not natural, nor are these problems simply the price we must pay for freedom. Australia is no less free a place for banning guns and is quite a bit safer because of it.

Jeffrey Cavanaugh
By Jeffrey Cavanaugh

Another month, another set of American gun massacres. This time it was the killing of three people at a movie theater in Lafayette, Louisiana, where a right-wing gunman took it upon himself to open fire on theatergoers watching an Amy Schumer movie on July 23. Just a few days prior, a troubled young Muslim man opened fire on a military recruiting

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Ferguson’s Isn’t Just About Race — It’s About Guns Too

These charts show just how bad gun violence is in the US, compared to developed peers.

Simran Khosla
By Simran Khosla

The world's eyes have turned once more to Ferguson, Missouri, after a grand jury decided Tuesday not to indict Darren Wilson, a white police officer who shot dead Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, in August. The decision sparked a night of violent unrest in Ferguson, with photos emerging of the St. Louis suburb on fire, and its

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