Gun sales surge ahead of US elections
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Gun sales surge ahead of US elections

China Daily  

By BELINDA ROBINSON in New York | China Daily Global | Updated: 2024-09-10 09:54 Students and faculty gather at Apalachee High School in Winder, US state of Georgia, to mourn the school shooting victims on Sunday. Liu said that over the past two months, his sales have been slow, attributing it to a new 11 percent tax on gun sales and ammunition imposed in July by California's Democrat-controlled legislature to fund violence prevention. About 16.7 million firearms were sold in the United States last year, a 4 percent decline from 2022, according to SafeHome.org, which analyzed the FBI's national instant background-check data. A Quinnipiac University poll conducted in June found that only 4 percent of likely voters considered gun violence the most important issue in choosing a president, with the economy taking precedence. Carl Bogus, a law professor at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island, told China Daily that the Republican Party considers the gun lobby to be an "essential" part of its political coalition.

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Georgia lawmaker proposes new gun safety policies after school shooting
1 month, 1 week ago

Georgia lawmaker proposes new gun safety policies after school shooting

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — A Georgia state Senate Democrat wants to make it a crime for people to give children access to guns and require a 10-day waiting period for assault rifle purchases unless someone is licensed to carry weapons, two proposals highly unlikely to gain Republican support. But some of the policies Sen. Emanuel Jones of Decatur proposed Wednesday, including tax …

Dems blast 'evil' Trump team over debate watch party at gun store near GA school shooting
3 months, 1 week ago

Dems blast 'evil' Trump team over debate watch party at gun store near GA school shooting

Raw Story  

A coalition of young voters called Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his team "evil" after the Republican National Committee decided to hold a debate watch party at a gun store near the site of last week's mass shooting at a Georgia high school. Ahead of Trump's debate Tuesday night with Vice President Kamala Harris, several Democratic groups issued a …

Gun sales surge ahead of US elections
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Gun sales surge ahead of US elections

China Daily  

Students and faculty gather at Apalachee High School in Winder, US state of Georgia, to mourn the school shooting victims on Sunday. MEGAN VARNER/AFP In the first four months of this presidential election year, nearly 5.5 million legal firearms were purchased in the US, according to FBI data, while the candidates from both major parties have starkly different positions on …

Gun sales surge ahead of US elections
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Gun sales surge ahead of US elections

China Daily  

Students and faculty gather at Apalachee High School in Winder, US state of Georgia, to mourn the school shooting victims on Sunday. MEGAN VARNER/AFP In the first four months of this presidential election year, nearly 5.5 million legal firearms were purchased in the US, according to FBI data, while the candidates from both major parties have starkly different positions on …

Gun sales surge ahead of US elections
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Gun sales surge ahead of US elections

China Daily  

By BELINDA ROBINSON in New York | China Daily Global | Updated: 2024-09-10 09:54 Students and faculty gather at Apalachee High School in Winder, US state of Georgia, to mourn the school shooting victims on Sunday. Liu said that over the past two months, his sales have been slow, attributing it to a new 11 percent tax on gun sales …

Inside Georgia school shooter's gun-obsessed, abusive home: Report
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Inside Georgia school shooter's gun-obsessed, abusive home: Report

India Today  

As a Georgia community grapples with the devastating consequences of a school shooting that left two students and two teachers dead, details have emerged about the troubled home life of the 14-year-old shooter, Colt Gray. Gray has been charged in the deaths of students Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, both 14, and teachers Richard Aspinwall and Christina Irimie in Wednesday’s …

JD Vance’s school shooting remarks trigger war of words between Kamala Harris and Trump campaigns: ‘These morons do...’
3 months, 2 weeks ago

JD Vance’s school shooting remarks trigger war of words between Kamala Harris and Trump campaigns: ‘These morons do...’

Hindustan Times  

Georgia high school mass shooting has brought back the issue of surging gun violence to the forefront of political discourse ahead of the US presidential election in November. Former President Donald Trump's VP candidate JD Vance and Vice President Kamala Harris opened up about their completely different views on how to tackle gun violence following the horrific Apalachee High School …

JD Vance denounces school shootings as ‘fact of life’ in wake of Georgia tragedy: ‘Psychos are going to go…’
3 months, 2 weeks ago

JD Vance denounces school shootings as ‘fact of life’ in wake of Georgia tragedy: ‘Psychos are going to go…’

Hindustan Times  

JD Vance said Thursday that he lamented that school shootings are a “fact of life" and argued the US needs to harden security to prevent more carnage like the shooting this week that left four dead in Georgia. Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, said he doesn't like the idea of his own kids going to a school …

Biden, Harris condemn gun violence after Georgia school shooting: ‘We cannot continue to accept this as normal’
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Biden, Harris condemn gun violence after Georgia school shooting: ‘We cannot continue to accept this as normal’

Hindustan Times  

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have released scathing statements after the shooting at Georgia’s Apalachee High School on Wednesday morning, September 4. Joe Biden, Kamala Harris condemn gun violence after Georgia school shooting ‘We cannot continue to accept this as normal’ In a statement released by the White House and shared to X by Joe Biden, the president said he …

US News: Deadly Georgia School Shooting claims 4 lives, injures 9; Biden and Harris condemn violence
3 months, 2 weeks ago

US News: Deadly Georgia School Shooting claims 4 lives, injures 9; Biden and Harris condemn violence

Live Mint  

Four individuals, including two students, were killed in a school shooting at Apalachee High School in Georgia. The White House is calling for tighter gun regulations amid ongoing concerns about gun violence in the US At least four people, including two students, were killed and nine others injured when a fellow student opened fire at Apalachee High School in Winder, …

America's Most Pressing Issue That Harris-Trump Debate Missed – Guns
3 months, 4 weeks ago

America's Most Pressing Issue That Harris-Trump Debate Missed – Guns

The Quint  

Some people were surprised that Kamala Harris, in her first and only debate with Donald Trump, was able to deliver a knockout. Others may have been surprised that Trump, known for his overweening confidence and bluster, looked uncomfortable as he sparred with Harris. It had to do with the moderators, who failed to ask a single question about gun violence, …

Georgia lawmaker urges panel to consider better firearms safety rules to deter child gun deaths
4 months ago

Georgia lawmaker urges panel to consider better firearms safety rules to deter child gun deaths

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — A Georgia state senator is trying to change the terms of an entrenched partisan debate, saying he’s not interested in restricting gun ownership but in preventing the fatal shooting of children. Jones told the first meeting of the Senate Safe Firearm Storage Study Committee that his aim “is not a gun bill,” but instead he wants to build …

Trump urges gun owners to vote, calls himself ‘best friend’ of NRA
7 months ago

Trump urges gun owners to vote, calls himself ‘best friend’ of NRA

LA Times  

Former President Trump urged gun owners to vote as he addressed thousands of members of the National Rifle Assn., which officially endorsed him just before he took the stage Saturday at the group’s annual meeting in Dallas. “We’ve got to get gun owners to vote,” Trump said. But let’s be rebellious and vote this time.” Trump has claimed that the …

Harris plans to visit the Parkland school where 14 kids were killed in 2018
9 months, 1 week ago

Harris plans to visit the Parkland school where 14 kids were killed in 2018

NPR  

Harris plans to visit the Parkland school where 14 kids were killed in 2018 Enlarge this image toggle caption Saul Martinez/Getty Images Saul Martinez/Getty Images Vice President Harris will visit Parkland, Fla., this month to walk the halls of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School with family members of victims killed in a mass shooting there in 2018. On March 23, …

After school shooting, Tenn. gun laws likely to remain lax
1 year, 8 months ago

After school shooting, Tenn. gun laws likely to remain lax

Associated Press  

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — As Nashville residents reeled from a fatal grade school shooting that left six dead, a federal judge quietly cleared the way to drop the minimum age for Tennesseans to carry handguns publicly without a permit to 18 — just two years after a new law set the age at 21. “Let’s not let another preventable tragedy unfold …

Georgia School District Allows Some Of Its Employees To Carry Guns
2 years, 5 months ago

Georgia School District Allows Some Of Its Employees To Carry Guns

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING ATLANTA — Georgia’s second-largest school district on Thursday approved a policy allowing some employees who aren’t certified police officers carry guns in schools, but excluded teachers from those who can be armed. The 4-2 vote by suburban Atlanta’s Cobb County school board split along partisan lines as opponents including gun control activists shouted “Delay the vote!” and …

Explained | Why can’t America solve its gun problem?
2 years, 6 months ago

Explained | Why can’t America solve its gun problem?

The Hindu  

The story so far: On May 24, a gunman went on a shooting rampage at Robb Elementary School in the small town of Uvalde, Texas, killing 19 children and two teachers. Neither Mr. Biden, nor any of his Democratic predecessors have succeeded in getting common-sense gun control reform passed in the U.S. Congress owing to Republican lawmakers’ refusal to budge …

US school attack: Stand up to the gun lobby
2 years, 6 months ago

US school attack: Stand up to the gun lobby

Hindustan Times  

The grisly murder of 19 children by an 18-year-old gunman in a Texas elementary school brings America’s puzzling aversion to gun control to the fore again, along with the disappointing reality that with midterm elections coming up, little is likely to change legislatively, especially in gun-friendly states such as Texas. The rampage at Robb Elementary School in the heavily Latino …

'Long past time for action': Obama hits out at Republicans, gun lobby after Texas shooting
2 years, 6 months ago

'Long past time for action': Obama hits out at Republicans, gun lobby after Texas shooting

India Today  

Former US President Barack Obama on Tuesday, May 24, lashed out at the “gun lobby in the country and alleged that it was being backed by the Republicans. Obama said: “Nearly ten years after Sandy Hook—and ten days after Buffalo—our country is paralyzed, not by fear, but by a gun lobby and a political party that has shown no willingness …

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