WY: Should Guns Be Allowed in Schools?
The Evanston school board opened a preliminary discussion on whether to allow guns in schools at the Tuesday, June 20, meeting. The discussion was instigated because of the Wyoming Legislature�s passage this spring of House Enrolled Act 93/House Bill 194: School Safety and Security. The act allows school boards to decide whether to allow employees to carry firearms on school property.
The recent shooting of Republican U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise and four others, including two U.S. Capitol Police officers, was a direct result of political anger. So was the awful shooting of former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and others. America is outpacing the rate of gun violence in recent years.
Woodbridge has enacted a ban that prohibits people from bringing firearms and other projectile-based weapons into town-owned property. The ban affects Town Hall, the library, hiking trails and any other property or building owned by Woodbridge, according to the New Haven Register. There are similar bans in at least five other Connecticut towns.
Violence in America seems to be more in the public spotlight in the last few years. Shootings in schools and cities, on ball diamonds in Alexandria, Va., rioting in the streets, employee dissatisfaction and terrorism have led to the hotly debated topic of gun control around the country.
Six teens from Fort Lauderdale, ages 14 to 16, stole a Porsche and a man�s $200,000 life savings from a home in Fort Pierce, then claimed they blew the money on luxury cars, jewelry and gold teeth, police say. The homeowner, Brett Browning, reported the burglary April 27 after coming home to find his garage door open and his 2014 Porsche Cayman, valued at $50,000 to $60,000, gone. Also missing was a .380-caliber Ruger pistol, a revolver and a safe containing more than $200,000 cash, according to the St. Lucie County Sheriff�s Office.
Louisiana jurors have acquitted a man of murder charges in the 2016 stabbing death of an Air Force sergeant. Bossier (BOH'-zher) Parish jurors on Friday said Benjamin Shaw wasn't guilty of second degree murder, although there's little factual dispute that he stabbed Tech. Sgt. Zechariah Casagranda in a fight that began with an elbow thrown on the dance floor, escalating into a deadly stabbing in the parking lot.
The Protecting the Second Amendment Act (S 1397), introduced June 21 by Sen. Luther Strange (R-Ala.) and co-sponsored by Texas Republican Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, proposes to repeal a 2011 rule that Federal Firearms License holders in Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas, report same-buyer purchases of two or more rifles during a five-day period to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE).
Recently, the Hawaii Rifle Association (HRA) hosted a Honolulu community event which doubles as a fundraiser for shooting activities in Hawaii and a firearms education event. The Shooting Sports Fair is a two-day event at Kokohead Shooting Complex, a public range in an extinct volcano on the island of Oahu. HRA provides the firearms and ammunition. Guests receive a safety briefing, purchase scrip, and move around the ranges to fire whatever they desire. More expensive ammunition costs more scrip.
The U.S. Supreme Court has once again avoided an opportunity to rule on whether the Second Amendment protects a right to bear arms outside the home, with Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Justice Neil Gorsuch, writing a blistering dissent.
�We should have granted certiorari in this case,� Justice Thomas wrote. �The approach taken by the en banc court is indefensible, and the petition raises important questions that this Court should address. I see no reason to await another case.
MA: Was Fatal Brockton Stabbing Murder or Self Defense?
Kirsten Smith smoked a cigarette in her backyard Friday afternoon as her boyfriend bled out and his body grew cold inside the home they shared. That�s how a prosecutor described the scene when Brockton police officers arrived at the Maguire Road home, about 1:07 p.m. Now, the question both sides have to answer is � was it murder or self defense? Smith, 53, was arraigned Monday in Brockton District Court on a charge of murder, but her defense attorney claims she was strangled by the man prosecutors say is the victim.
No criminal charges will be filed concerning a fatal shooting that occurred in Rogue River on April 23. According to the Jackson County District Attorney�s Office, Christopher Haase was acting in self-defense when he shot and killed David Anthony Vaughn.
After years of debate and preparation, a major shift toward firearms on Kansas college campuses has arrived. Beginning Saturday, universities and colleges in Kansas must allow concealed carry on campus or provide adequate security measures like metal detectors for their facilities.
The Chicago Police Department on Monday showcased a mobile ballistics lab that allows technicians quick access to crime scenes and the ability to determine if shell casings left behind match those from other shootings. The van, and technicians to operate it, are on loan from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives through July.
Andalusia police say a husband and wife are facing charges of stealing more than 100 guns from Fletcher�s Outdoors. Police say Timothy DuBose and Claudia DuBose are charged with first-degree theft of property. Police say store management noticed discrepancies in the book used to track gun purchases. Police say the thefts involved rifles, shotguns and pistols, as well as ammunition, scopes, other equipment and fishing gear.
Kent Police and other members of a newly created South King County regional task force say they are reducing the skyrocketing number of gun crimes. The task force arrested 26 people � most of them gang members � last week in an effort to curtail gun crime. Agencies created the task force two months ago to target known violent offenders.
At least 12 times in the past school year, Duval students were caught with guns at school and half those weapons had belonged to a parent, a relative or, in one case, a girlfriend�s parent, district data show. The latest incident didn�t make that list of firearm arrests. It involved a first-grader at Neptune Beach who last month brought a gun magazine loaded with bullets to school. The official school letter to parents called it a �prohibited� item.
The St. Louis Zoo is no place to carry guns, a judge has ruled. St. Louis Circuit Judge Joan Moriarty on Friday ruled that a gun rights activist from Cincinnati who had pressed the issue, along with anyone else with knowledge of the order, is barred from concealing or carrying guns inside the zoo, a publicly-funded institution.
Acting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez Monday announced that a 24-year-old man from North Carolina has been sentenced to 10 years in prison following his guilty plea last month to first-degree criminal sale of a firearm in connection with trafficking 33 firearms from his home state into Brooklyn.
Gun owners with children younger than 18 in the household are more likely than those who aren�t parents to say they keep all their guns locked and unloaded while they�re at home, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. Even so, 44% of gun-owning parents say there is a gun that is both loaded and easily accessible to them all or most of the time when they�re at home.
In 2013, suicide surpassed homicide as the third leading cause of death for kids in the US, a ranking it has retained ever since. The recession that began in 2007 is one reason suicide rates rose in the late 2000s and early 2010s. Guns are another. From 2002 to 2007, rates of firearm suicides among US kids were falling. But from 2007 to 2014, that figure increased 60% and is now the highest it has ever been, according to a study published recently in Pediatrics.
A reward of up to $10,000 is being offered in the theft of firearms from a Louisville business. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the National Shooting Sports Foundation are offering the reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those involved in the theft of firearms from J&M Pawn in Louisville.
Twenty-two years ago my sister-in-law and three nieces, ages six, three and six months, were shot dead at point blank range by her husband, the children�s father, in Scotts Mills. At the time of this shooting, my sister-in-law and her husband were in the midst of a divorce and she had taken out a restraining order against him. Yet, even with that restraining order, her husband was able to acquire a shotgun that morning. If he would have never gotten his hands on a gun, I might be celebrating my nieces� birthdays today.
Although he says he hates to politicize a tragedy, a Michigan lawmaker is linking the gun rights debate to an attack this month at a Virginia baseball field. State Rep. John Reilly, (R-Oakland Township), sent a letter on Monday to Senate Majority Leader Arlan Meekhof imploring him to work with his colleagues to pass legislation that would allow citizens to carry concealed guns without a permit in Michigan.