Year: 2015

On July 30, New Yorkers Against Gun Violence (NYAGV) launched a campaign to pressure Apple into removing the popular pistol-shaped emoji from the iPhone platform. NYAGV believes Congress will pass more gun control if Apple removes the emoji.  Thus, a video accompanying the campaign says that by removing the emoji, Apple can “show [that] America

New regulations to reduce gun ownership target veterans, the elderly President Obama wants to take away people’s guns. Last week, he lamented to the BBC that his biggest frustration as president was not getting major gun control passed during his presidency. How much does he dislike Americans having guns? He obviously doesn’t even trust soldiers

On July 28 the Los Angeles City Council voted to limit ammunition magazine size to the same 10-round capacity Elliot Rodger used in his 2014 Santa Barbara attack. According to the LA Times, Los Angeles residents “will have 60 days to remove, surrender or legally sell or transfer [all magazines with a capacity over 10

The real lives of actual Americans often interfere with the narrative pushed by the political left, perhaps most often when the subject is the use of Second Amendment rights for self-defense. A Texas pastor, Benny Holmes of New Beginnings Church in Baytown, Texas, near Houston, proved that again Tuesday morning, when he heard someone breaking

Gun control is still going nowhere in Congress. And in fact, with every major mass shooting in America, gun-rights supporters seem to be digging in even further — and bringing the rest of America along with them. Former Texas governor Rick Perry, a 2016 GOP presidential candidate,argued after last week’s deadly shooting at a Lafayette,

During a recent appearance on Newsmax TV, Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz said the Second Amendment is an “absurd thing” in our constitution and that our legal framework needs to be adjusted “to create a presumption against gun ownership instead of a presumption in favor of gun ownership.” Dershowitz said: We have tried an

The country had one mass shooting in 2001, but a resulting anti-gun referendum failed to pass. The Swiss will not give up the gun. Can their system work in the U.S.? “We will never change our attitude about the responsible use of weapons by law-abiding citizens,” says Hermann Suter, vice president of Pro-Tell, the country’s

With much of the attention focused on “gun-free” military recruiting centers, a recent armed robbery and assault of a clerk in a Chevron station convenience store in Mesquite, Tex., reminds us there are plenty of higher-risk jobs where employees are on their own. This is the fourth robbery at this particularly outlet this year, Fox

John Russell Houser, the “drifter” who murdered two and wounded several more in a movie theater in Lafayette, Louisiana, was crazy as a loon. That isn’t unusual in such cases, but what is unusual is that Houser was involuntarily committed to a mental institution in 2008. That fact should have prevented him from buying the

FRANKLINTON, LOUISIANA — In what is either a sign of the best of times or the worst of them, a group of pastors and priests from across Louisiana have gathered together to complete the range requirements to get their concealed carry permits.  WWL-4 covered the story. “Churches left their doors open all the time so