Gun Control

Results are in on a new Siena College poll in New York State on the subject of gun control.

Starting today, some employees of the Huntington Independent School District in Lufkin, Texas will be carrying loaded weapons on campus.

Gun rights advocates will be at the state capital today to call on law enforcement officials to disobey portions of New York’s gun-control law.

The vote to expand gun background checks fell six votes short of passing in the United States Senate on Wednesday evening.

The New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, New York’s largest gun rights group, as promised, sued state officials in federal court in an attempt to reverse several provisions of the NY SAFE Act gun control law.

Dueling rallies for and against the new gun law were held at the state capital on Tuesday. At noon, a group of roughly 75 adults and young people from the group One Million Moms for Gun Control held a press conference on the capitol’s western staircase. The group praised the passage of the SAFE act gun law.

New York State Senate passed legislation Monday that will toughen New York’s assault-weapons ban and lower the number of bullets in a magazine from 10 to seven. The measure passed, 43-18, and heads to the State Assembly, which will vote on it Tuesday morning.

A coalition of nearly 100 state legislators called for prompt passage of a specific, comprehensive state plan to reduce the firepower available to criminals and stop many preventable acts of gun violence.

First let me say that this post is in response to emails, social media posts and conversations all sparked by the Newtown elementary school shooting.  It was never my intention to "touch the third rail of American Politics" (gun control) on this website, especially in the week before Christmas...

Gun control has always been a major issue of debate in America — right up alongside the more recently heated topics of abortion, same-sex marriage and health care — but the tragic shooting of 71 people during a Colorado theater’s showing of ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ has given this controversy a brand new spotlight.