No Signs Obama Will Shift On Gun Control After Giffords Shooting

Will Tucson Tragedy Shift Gun Control Debate?
Roanoke Firearms store owner John Markell holds a Glock 19 Handgun, the model used in both the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre and the recent shootings in Tucson, Ariz. Sales of the handgun surged after both events. In the wake of the tragic shooting in Tucson Saturday, pundits have spent countless hours debating the role of Sarah Palin in the story - despite the fact that there is no evidence that alleged shooter Jared Lee Loughner is a Palin supporter or had ever seen or heard her Rhetoric. What ...

Louisville lawmaker working to ban guns from state Capitol
Louisville, Ky. (WHAS11)- The Arizona shootings have sparked a debate over Gun Control in the country and if guns should be allowed in State Capitols. Currently in Kentucky, guns are permitted, but two lawmakers in Louisville want that to change. State Representative Darryl Owens called last Saturday's shooting, killing six people and injured others including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, frightening, tragic and unnecessary. It is also why he has contacted House Speaker Greg Stumbo, to ban...

Louisville lawmaker working to ban guns from state Capitol
Louisville, Ky. (WHAS11)- The Arizona shootings have sparked a debate over Gun Control in the country and if guns should be allowed in State Capitols. Currently in Kentucky, guns are permitted, but two lawmakers in Louisville want that to change. State Representative Darryl Owens called last Saturday's shooting, killing six people and injured others including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, frightening, tragic and unnecessary. It is also why he has contacted House Speaker Greg Stumbo, to ban...

Tragedy Renews Debate on Gun Control Law
The tragedy in Arizona is renewing a heated national debate on Gun Control. Those who want stricter laws are using the shooting to make their case. Saturday's shooting rampage in Tucson that killed six and wounded 13, has Democrats in Washington calling for stricter limits on high-capacity ammunition magazines. Suspected shooter Jared Loughner's pistol carried 33 rounds. "There is no reason for a citizen to have these large capacity clips," Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, D-N.Y., said. "Police, militar...

Democrats denounced the rhetoric, Republicans denounced the violence
My weekly column in the Charleston Daily Mail: Saturday’s snow in Poca was a reminder of why I like December snow but hate snow in January and February. The novelty has worn off. That afternoon, I drove into the cold to fill the tank of my wife’s car. Coming back, I could not make it up the hill, so I parked the car and walked home. “You know all those dumb things I have done over the years?” I asked my wife when I made it home. “Well, you can add this to the list...

Speaker Boehner Rejects New Gun-Control Laws
Speaker Boehner said he will oppose the gun-control Legislation offered by Rep. Pater King (R-NY) following the Tucson shooting on Saturday. Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is rejecting gun-control Legislation offered by the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee in response to the weekend shootings of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and 19 others in Arizona. Rep. Pete King (R-N.Y.) announced plans Tuesday to introduce Legislation prohibiting people from carrying guns within 1,000 feet of ...

A Scramble To Control Narrative Of Tucson Massacre
Gun rights advocates and right-wing radio talkers have accused their critics of exploiting the massacre in Tucson, Ariz., for political gain. Firearms control Activists have responded to the Saturday shooting by decrying the right's increasingly mainstream theme of "Second Amendment" solutions to "government tyranny" and Sarah Palin's online 2010 campaign map, which featured gun-sight cross hairs over targeted districts. Mental Health experts, cautioning against stigmatizing those with treatable...

Sen. Barbara Boxer In Her Own Words
At a Press Conference in Southern California Tuesday, Sen. Barbara Boxer talked about the Mass Shooting in Arizona that left six people dead and 14 others injured included Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Sen. Boxer's remarks in her own words: Like many Americans, I have been deeply affected by political Assassinations in my lifetime – John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr. – three figures who inspired me. And it took years and years and years – maybe 15 or 20 years &nda...;

Palin: Journalists incite hatred after AZ shooting
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Sarah Palin has posted a nearly eight-minute video on her Facebook page condemning those who blame political Rhetoric for the Arizona shooting that gravely wounded U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Last spring, Palin targeted Giffords’ district as one of 20 that should be taken back. Palin has been criticized for marking each district with the cross hairs of a gun sight. In the video posted Wednesday, the 2008 GOP vice Presidential Candidate said vigorous debates...

Gun Controls Golden Opportunity
As a result of Saturday’s tragedy in Tucson there have been renewed calls for tighter Gun Control laws across the nation. Arizona is one of the most gun-friendly states in the union, causing some on the left to conclude that if the Grand Canyon State had tighter controls on Gun Ownership, six lives would have been saved and Representative Gabrielle Giffords wouldn’t be lying in a Hospital bed. There’s more here than just the usual sort of Monday morning quarterbacking that occu...

Poll: In the Wake of Arizona Shootings, Americans Split on Gun Control
(Credit: CBS) CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto. In the wake of Saturday's shootings in Tucson, Arizona, Americans are split over whether Gun Control laws should be made stricter, according to a new CBS News Poll. According to the poll, 47 percent of Americans believe that Gun Control laws should be more stringent in the wake of the Arizona shootings. Meanwhile, 36 percent believed the laws should remain the ...

Poll Finds Growing Support for Stronger Gun Control
In the wake of the shootings in Tucson on Saturday, the number of Americans who say Gun Control laws should be made stricter has increased since last spring, but nearly 6 in 10 Americans think stricter laws would have had little effect on preventing the violence which claimed the lives of six people and injured fourteen others, according to a CBS News poll. Just 32 percent of Americans think the harsh tone of recent political campaigns had something to do with the violence in Arizona, while 57...

Angle beats back criticism in Arizona shooting aftermath
Washington (CNN) - In the aftermath of the Arizona shootings, some critics have accused Republican Sharron Angle of spewing potentially dangerous political Rhetoric in her recent bid for Nevada's Senate seat. Now, Angle is responding: releasing a statement on Wednesday that denounces any form of violence - and calls the criticism of her dangerous. "I condemn all acts of violence. The despicable act in Tucson is a horrifying and senseless tragedy, and should be condemned as a single act of ...

Safer Streets 2011: Conservatives now reaching for gun control?
The liberals, we expect to be anti-gun. They want to grow government so they eliminate liberty's safeguards one by one and try to replace you with officials or some policy. And when you complain and use your First Amendment rights of redress of grievance, they try and shut you up. But, Golly, Batman, what do you do when Conservatives start thinking like liberals right after they've been elected and seated? Now Peter King (R) New York is trying to make it a Crime to be armed within a thousand f...

Bloomberg looks to get the drop on Guns owners
Like clockwork NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg hits the trail again in the wake of Arizona shooting in renewed hopes to tighten regulations for purchasing guns. His hope is to make gun registration more difficult and eventually give the U.S.  Attorney General unlimited power to impose fees and regulations on gun show operators,  ”  he would  additionally require information that “could include how often the seller had used the gun, if the gun had ever been used for se...

Gun-law arguments heat up after Arizona shooting
TUCSON, Ariz. | Jared Lee Loughner had trouble with the law, was rejected by The Army because of a history of drug use and was considered so mentally unstable that he was banned from his college campus, where officials considered him a threat to other Students and faculty. But the 22-year-old had no trouble buying the Glock semiautomatic pistol that authorities say he used in the Tucson rampage Saturday that left six dead and 14 injured, including Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Mr. Loughner...

Sen. Leahy On Gun Control: Easy Answer Vermont has Low Crime Rate and Doesnt Have Gun Control
Tuesday, January 11, 2011 By Eric Scheiner Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) will link his home state of Vermont’s low Crime Rate to the restraint the state has shown towards Gun Control Legislation, but claims that may not work for all areas of the country. At an event focusing on the upcoming agenda for the Senate Judiciary Committee at the Newseum in Washington, a member of the audience referenced the weekend shootings in Tucson, Arizona asking; “In the wake of last weekend do you think ...

Morning Quick Hits
It’s been one year since the Earthquake in Haiti. Maggie has more on that as well as more morning news. China tested a new stealth fighter jet, causing tension ahead of a visit by Defense Secretary Robert Gates. One has to wonder what they’re up to. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords continues her slow recovery. Her future is uncertain but things are looking positive. It’s now been confirmed that Jared Loughner was well known to police in Tucson prior to his Murder spree. It’s dou...

Obama's oratory faces test as Tucson mourns its dead
Goodwill ... tributes accumulate at the Hospital where Gabrielle Giffords is being treated. Photo: Simon Mann TUCSON: Two scenes, kilometres apart in Arizona's southernmost metropolis, spoke volumes of a city coming to grips with the trauma of mass Murder. Outside a Safeway Supermarket in Casas Adobes, an FBI forensic team continued annotating the scene of Saturday's shootings as a handful of shoppers passed warily. ''This was hell,'' said a local cafe worker, three days after 20 people were str...

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...;

Boehner: No New Gun Control
The Hill reports: Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) is rejecting gun-control Legislation offered by the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee in response to the weekend shootings of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and 19 others in Arizona. Rep. Pete King (R-N.Y.) announced plans Tuesday to introduce Legislation prohibiting people from carrying guns within 1,000 feet of members of Congress. King, who has previously called for the removal of illegal guns from the streets, made the announceme...

Boehner and the gun lobby
Whatever room is left on the floor of the House by representatives of Big Business is occupied by the extraordinarily -- not to say insanely -- omnipresent gun lobby.  If we have anything more dangerous and certifiably crazy in our midst than Jared Loughner, it's the gun lobby and the members of Congress who represent its interests.  Republican representative Pete King of New York has raised the possibility of at least limiting the carrying of weapons near members of Congress.&...

CBS Attacks 'Permissive Gun Laws' And Gun-Toting Tea Partiers in Wake of Shooting
On Monday's CBS Evening News, anchor Katie Couric used the Tucson shooting to go after Gun Ownership: "As we reported, Jared Loughner purchased his gun legally....Saturday's attack is now putting the state's Gun Laws under a magnifying glass." In the report that followed, correspondent Dean Reynolds declared: "Arizona has among the most permissive Gun Laws in the nation." Reynolds portrayed Arizona's commitment to Gun Rights as a danger: "The right to ke...

Boehner opposes gun-free zone measure
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- House Speaker John Boehner opposes a Gun Control bill proposed by a fellow Republicans in response to the Tucson shootings, his spokesman says. Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., chairman of the Homeland Security Committee said Tuesday he would introduce Legislation forbidding anyone to carry Firearms within 1,000 feet of members of Congress. King said the Legislation is meant to protect the public as well as officials. "The fact is they do represent the people who elect them...

Detroit Free Press, Detroit News blame 2nd amendment for Arizona shooting
Deranged lunatics hell-bent on killing people will always be able to procure a weapon no matter the Gun Laws. All gun restrictions do is take weapons away from law-abiding citizens. When seconds count to save your life, the police are only minutes away. The liberal MSM just don't get the simple fact that the Founding Fathers wanted us to have the right to Bear Arms for a very good reason. The Detroit Free Press - the same outfit that predicted unprecedented violence when Michigan adopted far l...