The National Rifle Association has spent much of the past year under siege, ardently defending gun rights following mass shootings in Colorado and Connecticut and fighting back against mounting pressure for stricter laws in Washington and state capitols across the country.
Under the law, Kansans could manufacture and sell semi-automatic weapons in-state without a federal license or any federal oversight. Bills similar to Kansas’ law have been introduced in at least 37 other states.
Any questions about the spinelessness of our current crop of politician was put to rest last week, as the Senate failed to pass even the most watered-down gun control legislation. Leave it to the nation's cartoonists to cut through the nonsense and hold these dopes accountable.
And now for a few choice words about the recent Senate vote that scuttled universal background checks on gun purchases. Gutless, Craven, Chicken-Hearted Invertebrates. Dastardly, Lily-Livered Yellow-Bellied Cowards.
Disappointment. Disgust. Grossly unfair. That's how some families who lost loved ones at Sandy Hook view the Senate's defeat this past week of the most far-reaching gun control legislation in two decades, as they pledged to keep fighting for measures to prevent gun violence.
Is it time for an update to our antiquated gun laws? States United To Prevent Gun Violence thinks so. Check out their effective new ad about the need to update our gun laws for the 21st century.
Throughtout the gun control legislation process, when it came to the General Assembly drafting policy, Newtown's State Rep. (and proud ALEC member) Dan Carter went out of his way to stress the need for "bi-partisanship." So much for that.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy was expected to sign a wide-ranging bill that includes sweeping new restrictions on weapons and large capacity ammunition magazines, a response to last year's deadly school shooting in Newtown.
Following a total of more than 13 hours of respectful and at times somber debate, the House of Representatives and the Senate voted in favor of the 139-page bill crafted by leaders from both major parties in the Democratic-controlled General Assembly.
The National Rifle Association (NRA), the chief gun industry lobby in the United States, doesn’t just want to stop gun reform here — it is also working to keep guns in the hands of warlords and those who deploy child soldiers abroad.
