‘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.

teleSUR
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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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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Iowa Grants Gun Permits To The Blind

No one questions the legality of the permits. State law does not allow sheriffs to deny an Iowan the right to carry a weapon based on physical ability.

USA Today
By USA Today

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Here's some news that has law enforcement officials and lawmakers scratching their heads: Iowa is granting permits to acquire or carry guns in public to people who are legally or completely blind. No one questions the legality of the permits. State law does not allow sheriffs to deny an Iowan the right to carry a weapon

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NYC Installs Microphones On Streets For ‘Gun Crime’

“We are always concerned about secondary uses of technology that is sold to us for some unobjectionable purpose and is then used for other purposes. If [ShotSpotter] is recording voices out in public, it needs to be shut down.”

Jackson Marciana | Counter Current News
By Jackson Marciana | Counter Current News
NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 23: Police and private security personel monitor security cameras at the Lower Manhattan Security Initiative on April 23, 2013 in New York City. At the counter-terrorism center, police and private security personel monitor more than 4,000 surveillance cameras and license plate readers mounted around the Financial District and surrounding parts of Lower Manhattan. Designed to identify potential threats it is modeled after London's "Ring of Steel" system.

The New York Police Department has begun installing monitoring systems on city streets as part of what they describe as an effort to curb “gun crime.” One such example was reported back in 2007, in East Oakland. Fusion.net reports an anecdote about a gunshot victim, Tyrone Lyles, whose dying words helped convict his killer back in 2007. “Why

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Is This Country Crazy? Inquiring Minds Elsewhere Want to Know

It’s past time to wake up, America, and look around.

Ann Jones
By Ann Jones

Alice Butler-Short, a supporter of Virginia Republican Senate candidate Ed Gillespie displays her American flag shoes while she waits for poll results at the election night party at Embassy Suites hotel in Springfield, Va., Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014. Photo: Cliff Owen Americans who live abroad -- more than six million of us worldwide (not

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