The GVP Report - February 18, 2014 |
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► ► Think Progress reports that at least 26 children and teens have died in Florida "stand your ground/shoot first" cases. See the Tampa Bay Times comprehensive list of "stand your ground" victims in Florida. ► Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence notes a developing trend in state gun legislation. Many states have introduced legislation to repeal or limit the use of shoot first laws. In Georgia, 23 protesters from the group Moral Monday were arrested for refusing to leave a state senator's office after he blocked an effort to repeal the state's "stand your ground/shoot first" law. ► ► A divided federal appeals court struck down California concealed-weapons law saying they violate the Second Amendment right to bear arms. Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence looks at how this extreme Ninth Circuit decision is out of sync with other court rulings. ► ► The Seattle Weekly looks at a recent House hearing in Washington state on a background check bill. Gabby Giffords testified in favor of stronger background checks. Critics called her a "gun celebrity."
► Tonyaa Wethersbee, CNN, The Extermination of Jordan Davis: An Empty Verdict, A Hollow Victory. Apparently someone on the jury believed Davis' cursing and arguing over the volume of his music equaled a serious enough threat to make Dunn reasonably fear for his life. ► Police Chief Mike Masterton, guest opinion, Idaho Statesman. I wasn't allowed to speak at a recent hearing about guns on college campuses. Arbitrarily ceasing debate raises suspicion about intent. ► Hilton Head, South Carolina, Island Packet Editorial: No need for guns in bars and restaurants. A recent law allowing concealed weapons permit holders to carry guns in bars makes them - as well as the unarmed - less safe. ► Joel Beers, OC Weekly, Our Favorite Occultist Musician Writes a Song About Gun Violence. "It's satirical all right, but I'm pretty serious about it," says Lon DuQuette. "The problem of gun violence in this country is insane. But the problem is more fundamental than having so many guns. The problem is this culture of fear." Listen to I'm Scared. ► ► The Gun Violence Archive carries on the work of Slate.com's 2013 toll of deaths by gun violence. GVA maintains a database of gun usage including robberies, burglaries, assaults, accidents, suicides and murders. ► Lexington, Kentucky, Herald-Leader Editorial: KY Lawmakers Should Resist NRA's Deadly Illogic on Domestic Violence. Nothing more vividly illustrates the insanity of our gun politics than a move to arm victims of domestic violence in Kentucky. ► Joe Nocera, New York Times, The Gun Report: One Year Later. The clearest message The Gun Report sends is the most obvious. Guns make killing way too easy.
► Media Matters, An NRA Operative is Running The Washington Times Editorial Page. Former NRA president David Keene is serving as the paper's opinion editor while still acting as a spokesman for the gun lobby and serving as one of its top leaders. ► Gun Owners of America outlines to its members how the Fight Against Obama Anti-Gun Policies Continues on Multiple Fronts. ► ColoradoPols.com reports that a Pueblo Recall Organizer Admits Lying to Petition Signers. Victor Head gave false information in order to obtain recall petition signatures against a Colorado state senator. |
► Colorado Ceasefire testified against a bill aimed at overturning Colorado's background check law. The bill failed. ► For the second quarter in a row Americans for Responsible Solutions has raised more money through its super PAC than any other super PAC in the country. ► Marylanders to Prevent Gun Violence and the Brady Campaign have both filed legal arguments in support of Maryland's assault weapons ban. The law is being challenged in federal court by gun rights activists.
► Andrew Goddard, Virginia Center for Public Safety, is featured in the article After Va Tech, A Long Struggle Over Gun Laws. ► Violence Policy Center, Jordan Davis Killing Part of Disturbing National Trend of Concealed Carry Killers. Report finds individuals legally allowed to carry concealed weapons responsible for at least 622 deaths since May 2007. ► Leah Barrett, New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, letter to the editor in New York Times, Safe Storage of Guns. ► John Rosenthal, Stop Handgun Violence, supports the 44 recommendations issued by a special task force looking at Massachusetts' gun laws. ► Toby Hoover, Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence, speaks out against Ohio's guns in bars law.
15-year-old Adrian Broadway, of Little Rock, Arkansas, was with a group of friends playing a prank on another teen. They had dumped leaves, eggs and mayonnaise on a car when the homeowner, 48-year-old Willie Noble, ran out of the house and started shooting at the car of teens as they drove away. Adrian was shot in the head and died of her injuries. Noble has been charged with first-degree murder. |
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
We do not accept a law that views our children as collateral damage
We do not accept a law that views our children as collateral damage
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Courts uphold gun laws
Courts uphold gun laws
The GVP Report - February 4, 2014 | |||||||||
► A U.S. District judge upheld Connecticut's toughest-in-the-nation assault weapons ban, calling it a constitutionally valid means of balancing gun rights and the government's interest of public safety and crime control. The Louisiana Supreme Court upheld two state firearm statutes ruling that the 2012 constitutional amendment passed by the voters "was not meant to invalidate every restriction on firearms." ►  Young Guns: A Diane Sawyer Special takes a look at children and guns. Segments include: Can you really hide guns from children?; and Young kids drawn to guns.►In a new study in Pediatrics, Hospitalizations Due to Firearm Injuries in Children and Adolescents, John Leventhal et al find about 20 children per day in the US are injured by guns seriously enough to require hospitalization and more than 6% die from their injuries. Study author Dr. Robert Sege tells NPR that the effects of gun violence on children and teens are long lasting and wide ranging. ► ProPublica, The PTSD crisis that's being ignored: Americans wounded in their own neighborhoods. Patients are not getting treatment for PTSD. They're not even getting diagnosed. "The rates of PTSD we see are as high or higher than Iraq or Afghanistan." ►  A Florida man has built a gun range in his side yard and under state law it's totally legal. Notes a county commissioner, "without any oversight, somebody's neighbor could set up a gun range and invite his friends over and have a good old time shooting."► While sentencing a white supremacist to prison for being a felon in possession of assault rifles, a U.S. District Judge noted that this trial "illustrates how easy it is for anyone to buy firearms online or on the street." ►  A report in the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Active Shooter Events from 2000 to 2012, finds that the frequency of active shooter events has increased in recent years and a definite increase in the number of people shot and killed in these incidents.► ThinkProgress, There has been an average of one school shooting every other school day so far this year. 2014 is off to a deadly start: in the first 14 school days of the year, there have been at least 7 school shootings.
►  Cenk Uygur, The Young Turks,A Sensible Safe Smart Gun Law - Guess Who Hates It, talks about Smith & Wesson's refusal to comply with California's new microstamping law. "Why are they opposed to this law? It's because they want to sell more guns to criminals."► Portsmouth, New Hampshire Herald, Speak In Support of Background Checks Law Now. Will a reasonable bill aimed at keeping guns out of the hands of convicted felons once again be shouted down, or will we strengthen our lawmakers' resolve by letting them know the true will of the people of New Hampshire? ► Carrie Larson, Daily Kos, NRA, Walmart, Guns and GREED. Walmart's role as the nation's largest seller of guns and ammunition has been widely reported; their role in supporting a pro-gun political agenda has not been widely understood. ► Dana Milbank, Washington Post. After the Aurora movie shooting a group of D.C. women resolved to meet outside the White House every Monday until the nation comes to its senses on guns. They've missed only a couple of Mondays since then. ► Glennon Doyle Melton, Share This With All the Schools, Please. Chase's teacher watched Columbine knowing that all violence begins with disconnection and that children who aren't being noticed will eventually resort to being noticed by any means necessary. So she decided to do something about it in her classroom, every week. ►  New York artist, Jon Burgerman 'Head Shots' series shows New Yorkers the other side of the poster. Burgerman appears bloody and defeated in front of the gun-toting movie posters in the NY subway system.► Dan Rodricks, The Baltimore Sun, A gun culture and violence as the answer make the worst possible, even in Columbia. "Although easy access to guns is supposed to be an issue of personal freedom, look how it restricts us with metal detectors and fears that going to the movies or to school or to the local mall may be a fatal decision." ► LZ Granderson, CNN, When a city's gun laws get shot down. Whatever ordinances the mayor comes up with have to be reasonable, otherwise the city is back in court. Groups, like the NRA, keep suing. Innocent people, like Baker, keep dying.
► Media Matters, 5 things to know about the NRA's takeover of one of America's largest gun shows. #1 - NRA ousted the previous owners for refusing to allow assault weapons post-Newtown. ► Joe Nocera, From your friends at the NRA. The following are verbatim excerpts from emails sent by the NRA. ► Bloomberg Businessweek, A bolder gun industry brings out battlefield-style weapons. The strategy assumes that consumers want to buy versions of the firearms depicted in cable news reports from war zones. ►  New ammunition for sale - Radically Invasive Projectile (R.I.P.). The geometry at the tip of the bullet has much to do with the way the projectile travels through human tissue and promises to "take out all vital organs." |
 ► Virginia Center for Public Safety held their 21st Vigil and Advocacy Day. Activists could not bring American flags inside the capitol because the sticks were seen as a security risk. Yet gun rights groups were allowed to enter the building with handguns and assault rifles.► Washington Ceasefire to launch bus campaign in Seattle. The ASK (Asking Saves Kids) ads will run throughout 2014. ► Moms Demand Action launches campaign asking Facebook and Instagram to prohibit gun sales and trades. ► Penny Okamoto, Ceasefire Oregon, Background checks do in fact reduce gun violence. ► Gabby Giffords, Americans for Responsible Solutions, testified on Washington state initiative to expand background checks."The nation is counting on you." ► Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, co-counsel for plaintiffs, hails Milwaukee judge's decision to allow wounded officers' case against top crime gun dealer to go to trial. ► Connecticut Against Gun Violence opposes amnesty to gun owners who failed to register assault weapons and high capacity magazines. ► Sandy Hook Promise parents Nicole Hockley and Mark Barden testified in favor of New Hampshire background check bill. ► Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence video of their panel discussion The Fight Over the Second Amendment and Smart Gun Laws.  ► New Mexicans for Gun Safety holds rally at state house to urge the governor to take up background check bill.
62-year-old Rodney Black, of Barboursville, West Virginia fatally shot his new neighbor and the neighbor's brother without warning. Black told authorities he thought the victims were breaking into a building he owned. But Black does not own the building nor were the victims on his property. Black has been charged with first-degree murder. The victims, 60-year-old Garrick Hopkins and 61-year-old Carl Hopkins both leave behind wives and children. |
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