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Maine Lawmakers Learn More about Guns + Mental Health Issues

Renee Nelson — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 09:32:16 +0000

This would have been very interesting to attend. It was an informational meeting with law enforcement and lawmakers on gun violence. The take away message for those who attended was that in order find the solutions, we need to dig deeper into the mental health issues not just the kinds of weapons used.

President Calls for Assault-Weapon Ban, Stronger Background Checks

Chris Chaberski — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:09:48 +0000

Wednesday afternoon, President Obama proposed numerous measures in response to a string of recent mass shootings across the country, including one at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in which 20 children and six adults were murdered by a gunman. Obama called for a ban on assault weapons, like the one used in Newtown, [...]

Charlie Daniels Rails Bob Costas for Comments on Gun Control

Billy Dukes — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:58:46 +0000

Bob Costas’ gun control comments during halftime of NBC’s ‘Football Night in America’ on Sunday (Dec. 2) left many — including country music’s own Charlie Daniels — unsettled. The famed broadcaster used a minute and a half of airtime to quote and praise an article written by Fox Sports columnist Jason Whitlock, who called for [...]

Was Bob Costas's Gun-Control Rant Inappropriate? — Sports Survey of the Day

BJ Ragone — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 15:58:16 +0000

Most of us tune into ‘Sunday Night Football’ and expect to see one of the weekend’s big games. What you don’t expect is a lecture on gun control. Over the weekend, there was a terrible tragedy in Kansas City. Javon Belcher took the life of his girlfriend, and then himself. During the Sunday-night game between [...]