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A Columbine Anniversary Threat Was Scrawled in a Bathroom at Temple
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 4/12/2013
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The FBI and the Philadelphia Police have been alerted to a threatening message written in a bathroom stall of an academic building at Temple.
Here's what was written: "April 20th I'll bring honor to Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold" and "April 20th you will all learn the meaning of suffering." Harris and Klebold were the Columbine shooters, and the shooting occurred on April 20th.
While some students seemed worried, at least one brushed it off: "It takes away the seriousness. People scribble on bathrooms all the time. That's high school type of stuff." Perhaps she's forgotten: Harris and Klebold were high schoolers. [Fox 29]
Found in Adam Lanza’s Home: Over 1,700 Rounds of Ammunition
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 3/28/2013
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In the days after the Newtown massacre in Connecticut, investigators found an astonishing trove of gun-related paraphernalia in shooter Adam Lanza's home. A very small sampling of the findings:
1700 rounds of ammunition
15 knives and/or Samurai swords
2 rifles, a revolver and one BB gun
NRA certificates for Lanza and his mother Nancy;
Book: NRA guide to basic pistol shooting
Book: How to Train Your Brain to Be Happy
Receipt for gun range in Oklahoma
Playstation II and Xbox 360
Holiday card from Nancy Lanza to Adam, including check to purchase a gun
New York Times article on 2008 Northern Illinois University shooting
The full list, which became available when
PA Gun Background Checks Have Tripled Since Sandy Hook
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 2/28/2013
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Since the Sandy Hook shooting, background checks on firearm sales have nearly tripled in Pennsylvania. Though the state's background check process has recently improved, this jump is most likely due to a spike in gun sales, as occurred all around the country after the Newtown massacre.
Speaking of which, gun stock-piling isn't the only response gun owners had to the Sandy Hook massacre (and the inevitable, but actually never going to happen) gun control legislation it will spur. Susquehanna County, in far northeastern Pennsylvania, has passed a law declaring that federal laws restricting gun rights won't apply to it. That's not
Gun-Rights Advocates Heckle Father of Murdered Sandy Hook Boy
By Joel Mathis 1/29/2013
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Sometimes it's just a good idea to shut the hell up. For gun advocates, that time would've been, say, Monday at the Connecticut Legislature, where the father of a boy killed in the Sandy Hook Massacre was shouted down by gun-rights activists:
The sometimes boisterous public hearing -- after nearly four hours of testimony from State Police, parents of slain Newtown first-graders and city mayors -- seemed dominated by gun owners, who railed at more than 90 proposed bills.
"The Second Amendment!" was shouted a couple of times by as many as a dozen gun enthusiasts in the meeting room as Neil Heslin,
Protests Force Postponement of Harrisburg Gun Show
By Joel Mathis 1/24/2013
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A casualty of the post-Sandy Hook culture war: The Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show, planned to start Feb. 2 in Harrisburg, has been delayed in the face of protests over the display—or lack of—of firearms there.
Organizers posted the announcement to the show's website today:
Reed Exhibitions has decided to postpone, for now, the Eastern Sports and Outdoor Show given the controversy surrounding its decision to limit the sale or display of modern sporting rifles (also called ARs) at the event. The show was scheduled to take place February 2-10 in Harrisburg, PA.
“Our original decision not to include certain products in the
President Obama’s Gun Agenda is Too Big
By Joel Mathis 1/18/2013
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President Obama this week chose to do Something Big about guns. But he should’ve started small. He should’ve started with the bad guys.
He should’ve started with one item—background checks—and thrown his political capital into that.
Why? Because background checks keep guns out of the hands of known bad guys. And while that single action on its own wouldn’t have prevented the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre—sometimes it’s the unknown bad guys who get guns—expanding the system of background checks for gun buyers might, over time, reduce the overall level of day-to-day gun violence that permeates our urban lives.
How would that work?
It
New York’s New Gun Law Conflates Violence, Mental Illness
By Liz Spikol 1/16/2013
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Huzzah and hallelujah, that's what I should be saying in response to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's tough gun control law that he signed with lightening speed as of yesterday. The New York Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement (SAFE) Act—the first piece of legislation to come out of the Newtown shooting—increases the kind and number of banned weapons, enhances background checks and refines rules for gun storage.
But it also has a section titled "Provisions Related to Persons with Mental Illness," which "will require mental health professionals, in the exercise of reasonable professional judgment, to report if an individual they are
Joe Biden’s Choice: Crack Down on Fake Guns, Or Real?
By Joel Mathis 1/14/2013
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Real guns are great. It’s the fake guns—the ones you see on TV, on film, and in video games—that pose the real danger to our society.
Overstatement? Perhaps. But consider this: Vice President Joe Biden’s gun violence task force is expected to release its recommendations tomorrow, exactly a month after the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre that ended with 27 people dead. And Biden’s task force ended up spending about as much time meeting with entertainment industry executives as it did with the NRA.
The NRA left its meeting decrying the Obama Administration’s “agenda to attack the Second Amendment.”
The entertainment execs—who included
