Gun Control

"It is disgraceful this is what passes for Republican rhetoric now," said a local Democrat in light of Candice Keller's comments.

The El Paso Police Department initially tweeted that there were reports of "multiple shooters" but only had one person in custody.

At least four people are dead, including a six-year-old boy after the shooting at a food festival in Gilroy, California.

"We need gun reform and we need it now," said Democratic California Representative Eric Swalwell.

"The Second Amendment is not a second-class right and adults over the age of eighteen but under twenty-one are not second-class people," a firearms advocate said.

"I know it sounds horrible, but I think it's a very logical approach for the situation we're in," said Boston rabbi Dan Rodkin.

I submitted my son Joaquin's basketball shoes. Before he was murdered in the Parkland school shooting, he wanted me to coach his basketball team.

"Handgun licensing saves lives for the same reason drivers' licensing saves lives," one of the bills' sponsors said.

"Handgun purchaser licensing laws function to reduce gun violence by better screening out individuals," the report found.

"I'm sorry to interrupt, but you keep saying, we're not helpless. So, I'm saying: what would have prevented this tragedy?" Tapper asked Booker again, after the 2020 candidate failed to address the specifics of gun control.

"If I have an aggressive kid in my class and he gets a hold of my gun, what then?" asked one teacher.

"Australia has strict gun laws and they still own guns AND the country is safe from unnecessary gun violence. See how that works?"

The NRA has strayed far from its original mission. 

This deadliness can and should be countered with non-violent gun control.

"The campaign, the family, the business, the transition in the administration all approached by Russians? It was eye opening."

In February 2018, a gunman opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killing 17 people.

The new laws will take effect on April 12, but the Mongrel Mob gang has said it will not give up its guns.

The case is "ripe for an appeal," local officials said.

"Instead of training children, teachers, houses of faith & concertgoers to prep for being shot," the United States needs to introduce tighter gun control laws, New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has asserted.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez compared New Zealand's swift action on gun control following the mosque attacks with persistent U.S. inaction after mass shootings.

Progressive Twitter users lamented the massacre and used it as an example of the consequences of weak laws on gun ownership.

"As a New Zealander, I can't imagine a country that is less likely to ignore this and do nothing as the United States has done after Columbine, Sandy Hook and all the others," said gun control expert Philip Alpers, a researcher at the University of Sydney and founding director of GunPolicy.org, which tracks gun laws around the world.

Police require over 700 hours of training to carry a firearm. Teachers in one Ohio school district will need just 27.

The Fraternal Order of Police in the state also opposed the bill, which passed through the House overwhelmingly

"sheriffs that are non compliant will be shot. by me."

The background checks bill is a critical first step towards ending our gun violence crisis.

The presidential hopeful expressed her frustration at Congress's failure to tighten gun control in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre.

The key plank of Democratic policy will be to increase background checks on those who buy guns online and at gun shows.

The recommendation is part of a lengthy report aimed at making schools safer.

Most teachers do not want to be police officers; they want to teach.