Gun Laws Around The World (PHOTOS): How Weapon Ownership Restrictions Vary

Closing the Gap
When Jared Loughner walked into the Sportsman’s Warehouse in Tucson, Arizona, to purchase a Glock 19 on November 30, 2010, he had every right to walk out the legal owner of the semi-automatic Handgun. In hindsight, after he used that weapon to kill six innocent people and wound more than a dozen during an attempted Assassination of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, it is easy to question that sale. Given current U.S. Gun Laws, however, there was no reason to prohibit the transacti...

How Violent Talk Blocks Sane Gun Laws
WASHINGTON — The slaughter in Tucson hasn’t shaken us out of bad political habits. Instead of promoting a sober conversation about the dangers of violent political talk, it has reinforced divisions between left and right. Even responsible Conservatives have dismissed any suggestion that Saturday’s attack is reason enough to condemn the threats of violence that have become standard to the discourse at the extremes of their side of politics. More importantly: We have not focus...

How Violent Talk Blocks Sane Gun Laws
The slaughter in Tucson hasn’t shaken us out of bad political habits. Instead of promoting a sober conversation about the dangers of violent political talk, it has reinforced divisions between left and right. Even responsible Conservatives have dismissed any suggestion that Saturday’s attack is reason enough to condemn the threats of violence that have become standard to the discourse at the extremes of their side of politics. More importantly: We have not focused at all on how the...

The Problem With the Militarization of Rhetoric
Washington—The slaughter in Tucson hasn’t shaken us out of bad political habits. Instead of promoting a sober conversation about the dangers of violent political talk, it has reinforced divisions between left and right. Even responsible Conservatives have dismissed any suggestion that Saturday’s attack is reason enough to condemn the threats of violence that have become standard to the discourse at the extremes of their side of politics. More importantly: We have not focused a...

Why Gun Control (Still) Won't Work
It has been a dismal decade for Gun Control advocates. They lost the federal so-called assault weapons ban when it expired in 2004. The Supreme Court made history by proclaiming an individual right to own Firearms for self-defense. A Democratic president came into office vowing not to take away anyone's guns. So it's no surprise that anti-gun forces would take the Mass Shooting in Tucson as a rare opportunity to reverse their fortunes. It's also no surprise that their proposals are models of fut...

For Once, Washington Gets it Right
Anyone walking around Capitol Hill this week would have been struck by the stillness and quiet -- and especially by how vividly this contrasted with the acrimony swirling online, on Cable News, and on Talk Radio over who should bear the blame for last weekend's massacre in Tucson that gravely wounded Representative Gabrielle Giffords and killed six others. Critics like to claim that Washington is the catalyst for this sort of rage. But right now, they'd be hard-pressed to turn up much evidence....

MSNBC Ed Schultz Has (Live TV) Proctology Moment
MSNBC’s Ed Schultz desperately needs a proctologist because he just inserted his own head up his own rear - and on national television, no less. It must hurt even worse considering Schultz began his broadcast by having so much fun using the Tucson tragedy to bash Conservatives.  First off, he began by smearing the armed services.  The cause of the horror at Tucson was because of “the crisis of under treated Mental Illness among our Veterans and other mentally ill Amer...

After the Arizona shooting: coming together for gun control (The Christian Science Monitor)
As President Obama and other leaders try to pull the nation together in the aftermath of the Arizona shooting, Americans can also try to draw closer on a highly divisive issue related to the rampage: lack of Gun Controls in the United States. Debate on this topic has long been polarized. And after every recent massacre by someone who should not have had a gun, little changes in the nation’s Gun Laws. The gun lobby paints those who support reasonable gun restrictions as simply “antigun,”

Changing gun laws would test advocates, NRA
As a leading Gun Control advocate in Congress prepares a bill in response to the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, we look at the political clout of the National Rifle Association. Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, a New York Democrat whose husband was killed in the 1993 Long Island railroad shooting, is getting ready to file Legislation seeking to ban the type of high-capacity weapon clip used by alleged Arizona shooter Jared Loughner. McCarthy told the Huffington Post today that she is realistic about...

Jared Loughners gun: The assassins weapon of choice
Glock helped create the modern U.S. gun market — and has become a preferred killing tool for criminals and the mentally disturbed. Gun-control advocates hope last weekend’s Arizona massacre will finally bring scrutiny to the secretive—and many say, sinister—Austrian company that made the semi-automatic pistol used to grievously wound Representative Gabrielle Giffords and leave six others dead. The family-run gunmaker, the Glock company, headquartered in a small Austrian v...

Tom DeLay Says He Would Welcome Guns at His Public Events
Unrepentant but facing three years in Prison on a money-laundering conviction, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay maintained his innocence Thursday and also said he hasn't changed his hard-line stance on Gun Control in the wake of the Arizona shootings. DeLay, who represented a Houston-area district, was one of the Most Powerful and feared Republican members of the House of Representatives in the first half of the last decade -- and also an ardent backer of Gun Rights. On NBC's "Today" show,...

New poll shows Americans still not buying media spin on Tucson shootings
The last poll from CBS that showed Americans rejecting the “extreme Rhetoric” blame game was taken in the first couple of days after the shooting.  This Gallup Poll for USA Today was conducted on Tuesday, with plenty of time for the media’s “magical thinking,” as Allahpundit put it, to mold Public Opinion.  It’s still no sale: Most Americans reject the idea that inflammatory political language by Conservatives should be part of the debate about the forces ...

Arizona Shootings Unlikely to Change Gun Culture
Now is the time for mourning the Victims of Saturday’s mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona, but it’s not the time for new gun-control laws aimed at preventing such tragedies in the future. That’s the political consensus in the wake of the attack on Representative Gabrielle Giffords at a “Congress on Your Corner” event at a Safeway Supermarket. A deranged gunman killed six of Giffords’ constituents, including a Federal Judge and a 9-year-old girl, with a Glock 19 ...

Obama's Message In Grief: Talk In A Way That Heals
President Obama paid tribute the Victims of the Tucson, Ariz., shootings Wednesday, urging Americans to change the nation's vitriolic public dialogue by "talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds." Obama, speaking at a memorial service at the University of Arizona, somberly called for an end to the political recriminations that have ignited in the days since a gunman killed six people and injured 13 others, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ). Enlar..

In wake of tragedy, New York gun laws unlikely to change
The tragedy in Arizona leaves us with many questions.  We wonder why Jared Loughner did what he did.  We wonder why no one stopped him until it was too late.  Many across the country now wonder how this tragedy will effect Gun Laws in their state.  In the wake of the shooting, gun sales have increased dramatically in several states.  Many fear increased restrictions on Gun Ownership and stricter requirements for dealers and buyers.  Here in New York, Gun Laws are am...

Stricter gun laws need to be put into effect
Flowers and balloons left at the sight of the shooting in Arizona.      Following the horrific incident in Tucson, Ariz. over the weekend, it really got me thinking about stricter Gun Laws and even a complete ban. Six people were killed on Saturday after the gun man, who is identified as 22-year-old Jared Loughner, went on a rampage outside a Supermarket. Among the dead is a nine-year-old girl.      It seems all too easy to purchase a gun: go to a store, ...

Who Killed the Assault Weapons Ban?
Wed Jan. 12, 2011 3:43 AM PST If the Federal Assault Weapons Ban had been renewed in 2004, there's a good chance that its restriction on high-capacity gun magazines would have prevented the Tuscon shooter from killing so many people. So who's to blame for allowing this common sense law to lapse? Certainly not the American public. During the 2004 debate on renewing the ban, the Annenberg Election Survey at the University of Pennsylvania released a poll showing that 68 percent of the public&mdash...;

Presidents Unscripted and Emotional Tuscon Moment
Appearing grim-faced and weary before a packed crowd of 14,000 at the University of Arizona’s McKale Memorial Center, President Barack Obama set about the difficult task of healing in the wake of the recent Mass Shooting in Tuscon, Arizona.  Last Saturday’s tragedy left six people dead and fourteen wounded, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) the Centrist Democrat targeted by 22-year old gunman Jared Loughner and left in critical condition.  Also fatally shot was feder...

Giffords opens her eyes for the first time since the shooting
Tuscon, Arizona (CNN) - When President Barack Obama said Wednesday night that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords had opened her eyes for the first time since being shot on Saturday, an overflow crowd of nearly 30,000 people at a memorial event erupted into cheers that the congresswoman may have heard in her Hospital room. Obama said he learned of the eye-opening from Giffords' husband, Astronaut Mark Kelly. "She knows we're here, and she knows we love her,and she knows that we will be rooting for her thro...

Obama to the nation: We can be better than this
Summoning the soul of a nation, President Barack Obama on Wednesday implored Americans to honor those slain and injured in the Arizona shootings by becoming better people, telling a polarized citizenry that it is time to talk with each other “in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.” Following a Hospital bedside visit with Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the target of the Assassination, he said: “She knows we’re here, and she knows we love her.” In an electrifying mo...

From the Gun-Carrying Hero at the Arizona Shooting
Gun owner liberal Ed Schultz is set straight on the ridiculousness of Gun Control by one of the men who helped subdue the Arizona shooter. (The man himself carries a concealed weapon.) When are people going to learn that outlawing the ownership of objects will not prevent them from being owned by people who still want them? If that were the case, there wouldn’t be any marijuana, LSD, Cocaine, or Heroin left in this country. (This post is a follow-up to my previous post of the murdered 9-...

Uncivil and dishonest public discourse
President Obama gave an uplifting and inspiring Speech last night in Tucson, at the memorial ceremony for the Victims and heroes of the tragedy.  Obama’s words were meant to soothe the helplessness and anger Americans were experiencing due to the killings.  In one segment of the speech, he attempted to show how we need to approach solutions to the problem of a madman acting on his own. “The loss of these wonderful people should make every one of us strive to be better in ou...

Americans contemplate toning down their rhetoric
Angry and grief-stricken over the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday, Alicia Berhow typed out a Facebook posting she'd later regret. As she recalls, it went something like, "Sarah Palin, you disgust me." This Story Americans contemplate toning down their Rhetoric Audio: Jared Loughner's 2007 court appearance Investigators Probe Loughner's gun purchase, examine finances Loughner family expresses sorrow for 'heinous' attack; doctors say Giffords making progress A Tucson Y...

Why there's no more debate on gun control
FORTUNE -- The tragic shooting on Saturday of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D) and 19 others has renewed a national conversation about whether our Gun Laws need tightening. But the chatter for the most part has so far ignored a curious fact: in Congress, the arena where any new restrictions would be decided, the debate effectively ended years ago. Even over the last two years, when Democrats controlled both the White House and Congress, Gun Rights advocates led by the National Rifle Associati...

Investigators probe Loughner's gun purchase, examine finances
TUCSON - Federal and local investigators are trying to determine how Jared Lee Loughner came up with the money to buy the weapon and ammunition he allegedly used to shoot Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 18 other people at a Tucson constituent event Saturday, Law Enforcement sources said Wednesday. This Story Americans contemplate toning down their Rhetoric Audio: Jared Loughner's 2007 court appearance Investigators Probe Loughner's gun purchase, examine finances Loughner family expresses sorrow f...