CeasefireUSA: The GVP Report - May 27, 2014 |
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► ►Democrats push to restart CDC funding for gun violence research. New legislation would increase CDC funding from zero dollars to $10 million. The NRA calls the push "unethical" and an "abuse of taxpayer funds." ► A federal judge upheld Washington D.C.'s tough gun registration laws, finding that the regulations crafted in response to the landmark D.C. v. Heller Supreme Court decision "pass constitutional scrutiny." ► Spitting, Stalking, Rape Threats: How Gun Extremists Target Women. Mark Follman, Mother Jones, explores the dark side of America's war over guns. Also see his follow-up story, No, the Spitting Attack on a Paralyzed Mom Was Not a Hoax. ► ►Why Don't We Know How Many People Are Shot Each Year in America?Doctors and researchers have been advocating for better gun injury data for decades. But fierce political battles over gun violence research has meant that we still don't know basic facts. ► Unfinished receivers, a gun part that is sold separately, lets some people get around laws. The metal piece that holds the critical mechanisms that allow guns to fire are unregulated and readily available online, enabling people to build an assault rifle themselves. ►Jersey City, NJ is the first municipality in the nation to require gun companies that supply its police department with weapons to disclose more about their business practices. Questions include how firms dispose of old weapons and comply with background check laws. ►
► Cliff Schecter, The Daily Beast, How the Gun Nuts Try to Excuse Away the Santa Barbara Slaughter - and Why They're All Wrong. As terrible as this was, it could hae been much worse if he had been able to buy an assault weapon and high-capacity magazine. ► Mark O'Mara, CNN legal analyst,I'm a gun owner and I want gun control. We have a problem with gun violence in this country. I think this much is not in dispute The real debate is this: What do we do about it? ► Mark Heisler, Forbes contributor, America 2014: Waiting to Hear If Your Daughter is Among Victims of Latest Mass Shooting. You read these stories all the time. Mass shooting. Community-wide horror. Here's one you don't ever want to have to do: I google "UCSB shooting victims" with our daughter's name. ► ► John Feinblatt, New York Daily News op-ed, Death rides the Iron Pipeline. Georgia's lax gun laws help criminals here kill. All 155 of the weapons recovered recently by the NYPD came from one place: Georgia. 90% of all crime-related guns recovered in NYC come from out of state. From states like Georgia with lax gun laws. ► Matt Grossman, Sunlight Foundation guest author, Money Can't Buy You The NRA. In the history of major policy change it is nearly always a slow, arduous process of internal coalition building between interest groups, legislators and administrators. ► Deborah Rogers & Howard Segal, Bangor Daily News, Maine op-ed, Campus lifestyles, easy access to guns: A cocktail for violence at US colleges. The age of onset of some severe psychiatric conditions, turbulent university life, pressure to do well academically and to fit in socially may "trigger" mental illness for the vulnerable. ►Qudsia Raja, YWCA USA, To Keep Women Healthy, We Must Protect Them From Gun Violence. If you're a woman in the U.S., you're more likely to die at the hands of a gun than in any other developed nation in the world. ► Brandy Zadrozny, Pediatricians take on the NRA over gun safety. Over the past three decades, the American Academy of Pediatrics has been an outspoken voice on the issue of gun control, a position that has landed it on the NRA's list of enemies.
► California Congressional Candidate Sends Pro-Gun Robocall Hours After Deadly Mass Shooting. Republican Congressional candidate Tony Strickland, who used to represent Santa Barbara as a state senator, sent hundreds of robocalls touting his endorsement by the NRA one day after the UCSB shooting. ► Open Carry Texas tells its members "to cease taking long arms into corporate businesses unless invited." This comes after incidents at Jack in the Box and Chipotle. For more information about the men who took their assault rifles into a Dallas Chipotle go here. ► Friendly Fire. Vivek Murthy, nominee for surgeon general, earned the ire of the NRA, and the NRA scared off the necessary rump of Democrats. ► Fox chief investigative reporter, Emily Miller, fabricates Hillary Clinton quote "Nobody should have guns" and "there's too many guns." In fact, Clinton expressed the opposite sentiment, referencing "the right of people to own guns." |
► The first Youth Leadership Summit of Gun Violence Prevention, organized by the Junior Newtown Action Alliance, was attended by more than 100 people. ► Everytown for Gun Safety new report Closing the Gaps: Strengthening the Background Check System to Keep Guns Away from the Dangerously Mentally Ill. ► Jeri Bonavia, Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort, op-ed Sheriff Clarke, Stop Inciting Violence.
► New Jersey Million Mom March and Heeding God's Call join the Brady Campaign to announce a lawsuit to force New Jersey to enforce the provisions of its 2002 smart gun law. ► Moms Deman Action thanks Chipotle for asking customers to leave their guns at home in quick response to Moms' petition. ► Million Hoodies announces its first-ever Power Summit in Philadelphia on June 13 and 14, a two-day Freedom School for local college students to strategize and design action plans to address gun violence and criminal justice issues in their communities.
22-year-old Elliot Rodger, of Isla Vista, California, posted his "Day of Retribution" video on YouTube, e-mailed his parents a 140-page manifesto about his plans for mass murder and suicide and went on a killing spree that left 6 dead and 13 injured before committing suicide. Rodger fatally stabbed three men in his apartment, shot two women to death in front of a sorority house, shot a man to death inside a deli, exchanged gunfire twice with police and shot and injured over a dozen people while he drove from block to block near the University of California, Santa Barbara. The father of one victim told reporters, "We don't have to live like this. Too many have died. We should say to ourselves, 'Not. One. More.'" |
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
How the NRA rewrote the Second Amendment
How the NRA rewrote the Second Amendment
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Media fails when it comes to reporting on new gun laws
Media fails when it comes to reporting on new gun laws
CeasefireUSA: The GVP Report - May 13, 2014 |
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► ► States Move to Keep Guns Out of the Hands of Domestic Abusers. Lawmakers in Minnesota and Louisiana overwhelmingly passed bills this month barring people convicted of domestic violence from possessing or purchasing guns. ► ► Waseca, Minnesota, Dad Agonizes Over Son's Dark Side. David LaDue questions himself about the signs he might have missed after his son is charged with plotting to kill his family and massacre as many people as he could with bombs and guns at the local junior and senior high school. ► New report from Center for American Progress, Oil and Gas Industry Investments in the NRA and Safari Club International: Reshaping American Energy, Land and Wildlife Policy, looks at how the growing influence of the oil and gas industry is influencing the NRA to lobby against American land and wildlife conservation. ► Montana killing: Deadly clash of teenage mischief, pot and self-defense?The killing of a German exchange student renews international criticism of US 'stand your ground/shoot first' self-defense laws. ► How Chicago is using psychotherapy to fight crime - and winning. The program is called Becoming a Man and consists of weekly sessions with groups of no more than 15 high school boys. ► U.S. Supreme Court declines to consider a challenge to New Jersey law that restricts most residents from carrying concealed handguns in public. The court lets stand a lower court ruling upholding the law that requires citizens prove a "justifiable need" to carry a gun in public.
► ► Philip Cook and Kristin Goss, The Gun Debate: What Everyone Needs to Know. This new book thoroughly covers the latest research, data and developments on gun ownership, gun violence, the firearms industry and the regulation of firearms. ► Michael Vincent, Australian news correspondent, No Sense in US Gun Violence, can't understand "why no one in this country is shocked that a child not only has access to a gun but will use it to take a life." ► Heather Digby Parton, Salon.com,"Look at my gun!" Why NRA's scary "open carry" craze is not about freedom. Freedom for a man with a gun trumps freedom for parents of kids who feel endangered by him. Our scary new reality. ► ► Saul Cornell, Fordham University, History and 'Heller': The Past as a Two-Edged Sword. In D.C. v. Heller, Justice Scalia engaged in a revisionist exercise, rewriting history to further his ideological agenda. Heller's misuse of history borders on the scandalous. ► Joe Henderson, The Tampa, Florida Tribune,For NRA, even minor setback means war. After the state Senate votes down an NRA backed bill, their lobbyist attacks the Florida Sheriffs Association that testified against the bill. ► Jeff Beer, Fast Company, Are Your Retirement Investments Helping Gun Companies? A new psa can tell you and help you get your money out. ► David Frum, The Atlantic, Why gun-rights backers win while other conservative causes lose. The NRA offers an outlet for the right's cultural anxieties that is clothed in a populist message of empowerment. ► Chad MacDonald, Quiet Mike, John Lott: The Key to Defeating Gun Lobbies. We need to silence the man most responsible for the misinformation being spread about gun control.
► Gun bans in state Capitols but not bars draw cries of hypocrisy. The push to permit guns in more public areas largely ends at the doors of America's statehouses. ► The NRA just created its own Netflix to convince young people that guns are cool. The NRA would like you to meet Colion Noir. He's the host of their new show which premieres May 11 on NRA Freestyle. This is just one of the new shows the NRA plans to launch. ► 6 Crazy Campaign Ads with Candidates Shooting Guns at Things. These six candidates decided it was important to let the voting public know that in addition to their other qualifications, they're also pretty handy with guns. ► Missouri House passed a bill to allow more individuals to use deadly force in self-defense. Unlike Stand Your Ground/Shoot First laws, the basis for this bill is not fear of imminent death or great bodily harm but rather protecting against "unlawful entry." The bill could allow babysitters, bar patrons and shoppers to use deadly force. |
► Carole Stiller, Million Mom March/Brady Campaign, talks about the MMM going from a march to a movement. ► Rev. Carlos Jayne, Iowans for Gun Safety, objects to allowing legislators and the public to carry guns into the state Capitol. ► Moms Demand Action take to Capitol Hill in the second annual "Moms Take The Hill" event in Washington, D.C. ► Violence Policy Center study, Hispanic Victims of Lethal Firearms Violence in the U.S., finds homicide is the 2nd leading cause of death for Hispanics ages 15 to 24. ► Arizonans for Gun Safety present Otis Smith with its first Smith Family Torchbearer Award for his ongoing efforts to curb gun violence. ► Protect Minnesota worked to get the gun-toting Republican rep from Good Thunder to support a bill that would get guns away from domestic abusers. The bill was recently signed into law. ► Gun Sense Vermont launches a campaign to pass a bill next session to require background checks for all gun sales. ► Everytown for Gun Safety released a report, Not Your Grandparents' NRA, that highlights the extreme changes in the NRA since it began after the Civil War.
40-year-old Porfirio Hernandez, of Jonesboro, Arkansas, had recently been released from a mental health treatment facility when he shot and killed three people and injured four more before taking his own life. A 12-year-old girl was killed and an 8-year-old and 10-year-old were injured in the shooting. Police are trying to determine how Hernandez knew the victims and how he obtained the .357 magnum handgun. |
