The GVP Report - December 10 , 2013 |
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► ► Providence, Rhode Island Journal, Exeter showdown: Recall election over gun permits divides town. On Saturday, Dec. 14th, Exeter residents will vote whether to recall four Town Council members because they want the attorney general to handle all local applications to carry concealed weapons. ► Consortium for Risk-Based Firearm Policy, new report, Guns, Public Health, and Mental Illness: An Evidence-Based Approach for State Policy highlights recommendations based on research into how to curb gun violence, looks at what works, what doesn't and how to balance the complex mix of rights and public safety. ► ► House passes plastic gun ban extension, Schumer wants tougher bill. The U.S. House passed a 10-year extension of the 25-year-old ban on plastic guns. The Senate also renewed the ban, but did not address 3-D printed guns. ► Colorado State Senator Edie Hudak resigns seat to end recall threat, hold Democrats' Senate majority. Hudak resigned rather than risk facing a recall election. ► 5280, The Denver Magazine, The Colorado Woman. When the state Legislature's female leadership took on gun control in early 2013 everyone knew the debate would be red-hot. But no one predicted the sexism and violent threats that would be fired. ► ► Media Matters, Shoddy Polling on "Stricter Gun Control." CNN is promoting a poorly-worded poll question to suggest that there is "fading support" for new laws that strengthen firearms regulation.
► America, The National Catholic Review, Inexcusable Inaction. Sad to say, no one should be surprised by the next Sandy Hook. U.S. politicians consistently refuse to legislate common sense gun control measures,and U.S. voters let them get away with it. ► Fareed Zakaria, CNN, The real tragedy of America's gun violence. One of the most important tasks for a government is to keep its citizens - especially its children - safe, on the streets and in their schools. Every other developed country in the world is able to fulfill this basic mandate. America is not. ► Mark Munger, Duluth, Minnesota, News Tribune, A judge's view: Let tragedies bolster political will to end gun violence. Some of the folks who've done terrible things were mentally ill. Others were simply alienated. They were all angry men, feeling aggrieved, with ready access to firearms. ► ► Nat Rudarakanchana, International Business Times,Private Equity and Social Responsibility: The Odd Courtship Between Private Finance and Public Causes, looks at the Campaign to Unload, a coalition critical of investments in gun manufacturers and their protest against Cerberus Capital Management. ► Jodie Gummow, Alternet, Latest Fatal 'Stand Your Ground' Shooting Prompts Call to Amend Self-Defense Laws. The fatal shooting of a 72-year-old man who suffered from Alzheimer's raises questions about 'stand your ground/shoot first' laws in the U.S. ► Lt. Col. Robert Bateman, Esquire,It's Time to Talk About Guns and the Supreme Court. We crossed the line some time ago, it has just taken me a while to get around to the topic. Sadly, that topic is now so brutally evident that I feel shame. Shame that I have not spoken out about before now - shame for my country, shame that we have come to this point. ► Kevin O'Holleran, Washington Post Opinions, Support for gun control helped a candidate win in Virginia. More than a year out from Election Day, dealing with gun violence was a fundamental messaging point for Mark Herring, the new Virginia attorney general-elect.
► The Guardian, ALEC facing funding crisis from donor exodus in wake of Trayvon Martin row. The rightwing lobbying group has lost more than 40 corporate members and 400 state legislators over the past two years. ► Raquel Okyay, Guns & Patriot, in an interview with Skip Coryell, firearm expert, explains why Women are the 'Holy Grail' of the gun rights movement. ► Erich Pratt, Gun Owners of America, argues that the 1988 Undetectable Firearms Act was poorly written and shouldn't be reauthorized. In part because the Bill of Rights guarantees that gun rights "shall not be infringed." |
► Texas Gun Sense pushing for changes in gun show rules. They want Travis County Expo shows to have background checks on all gun buyers. ► Sandy Hook Promise, One year later: How Sandy Hook parents are working to prevent gun violence.
► Judy Stadtman, Project for Safer Communities New Hampshire, op-ed What Leads a Gun Owner to Kill? ► Heeding God's Call holds gun violence prayer vigil outside of Miller's Sporting Goods store in Upper Chichester, PA. ► Heather Martens, Protect Minnesota, urges state panel to ban concealed weapons permit holders from bringing weapons into the State Capitol.
Alma, Arkansas police report that a grandfather, Tim Adams, shot and killed his two grandchildren and his daughter's boyfriend before turning the gun on himself. Adams opened fire as his daughter, boyfriend and two children drove up to his house. He shot the boyfriend and the 4-month-old baby boy, then chased his daughter as she ran inside with the wounded infant. Adams then returned to the car and shot and killed his 4-year-old granddaughter. His daughter was not wounded. |
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