Tag: Gun Control
Perry Advocates Dinner, a Movie and a Handgun
These concepts of gun-free zones are a bad idea. I think that you allow the citizens of this country — who have been appropriately trained, appropriately backgrounded, know how to handle and use firearms — to carry them. I believe that, with all my heart, that if you have the citizens who are well trained, and particularly in these places that are considered to be gun-free zones, that we can stop that type of activity, or stop it before there’s as many people that are impacted as what we saw in Lafayette.
— Rick Perry (R), telling CNN that if people could bring their guns to the movies, they could prevent the movie theater shootings.
Ted Cruz Jokes About Gun Control
You know the great thing about the state of Iowa is, I’m pretty sure you all define gun control the same way we do in Texas — hitting what you aim at.
— Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), dropping “a few gun control jokes during his latest swing through Iowa, days after the shooting deaths of nine people in a Charleston, South Carolina, church,” the Huffington Post reports.
Obama Says He Hasn’t Given Up on Gun Control
I am not resigned. I have faith we will eventually do the right thing. I was simply making the point that we have to move public opinion. We have to feel a sense of urgency.
— President Obama, quoted by Politico, saying his comments after the Charleston shootings do not reflect surrender on gun control measures.
Video: ‘Open Carry’ Is Apparently Only Legal When White People Do It
Two men — one white, one black — in jurisdictions where it’s legal to walk around with assault weapons, go out in public with rifles. A policeman questions the white guy and sends him on his way. With the black guy, it’s a different story.
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What Australia Can Teach America About Gun Safety, After a Few Years of Detox
Watch the funniest — and most sensible — arguments for gun control yet.
It will be interesting to see what kind of refutations appear in the comments.
