3 crime scenes. 4 victims.
Police say a convicted felon fatally shot four people yesterday before turning the gun on himself. One of the victims includes Sharon Kay Berkshire, 39, who reportedly filed a domestic violence case against the gunman.
Yesterday’s tragic shooting is a reminder that a majority of mass shootings involve domestic or family violence.
A 12-year-old girl died Sunday after she was accidentally shot by a younger sibling at their home in Kaysville, investigators said.
“Such events offer a tragic reminder that firearms need to be securely stored in homes, ‘at minimum a trigger lock, at maximum a safe. A safe is your best bet for weapons safety,’ the lieutenant said.
A tweet from the Davis County Health Department Sunday night said: 'We urge all families to lock up firearms and discuss gun safety with children.’”
Sometimes the conversation at the Thanksgiving table gets taken over by a certain someone with strong opinions and shaky facts – a cousin, an uncle, or a who-invited-her kind of guest.
Our handy guide for busting common myths about guns was so popular last year that we’ve updated it for 2014 to help you set the table straight this year.
51 years ago today, a bullet took the life of President John F. Kennedy. It was the first of several assassinations in a turbulent decade, and Congress ultimately took action. Five years after JFK’s death, Congress passed a law prohibiting certain dangerous people from buying guns including felons, domestic abusers, and the severely mentally ill. This law is still the centerpiece of our federal gun laws.
Every day, 86 Americans are killed by gun violence. How many potential leaders and gifted minds were taken from us before their time? We will never know the true cost or what might have been.
Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong takes a stand against gun violence! As a parent, he knows what’s to be lost if America doesn’t correct its course to protect our children from senseless shootings.
Coming soon to a theater near you?
A report released by the City of Aurora, Colorado recommends that movie theater owners begin to educate the public on what to do during an active shooting situation: http://every.tw/1wDHfkO
The gun lobby wants more guns in more places, with fewer safeguards to keep guns out of dangerous hands. This is one of the consequences.
Concealed carry laws may be associated with a 33% rise in gun crime.
’“Right-to-carry laws are associated with substantially higher rates’ of aggravated assault, robbery, rape and murder.”
Majority of Kroger Customers Want an End to Open Carry
After more than 300,000 petition signatures and nearly 13,000 phone calls demanding that the nation’s largest supermarket chain stop allowing the open carry of guns in its stores, a new poll conducted by Benenson Strategy Group released today shows 64 percent of Kroger shoppers polled believe people should not be able to openly carry guns in Kroger stores.
Despite this opposition to Kroger’s policy allowing open carry of firearms — and even though a majority of states allow people to openly carry firearms without a background check, training or permit — Kroger so far has sided with a small group of gun extremists and refused to change its policy.
While Kroger has not yet changed its open carry policy, in recent weeks, New Seasons Market, a chain of more than a dozen grocery stores located in Oregon and Washington, and Panera Bread recently joined other major brands, including Target, Starbucks, Chipotle, Sonic, Jack in the Box, and Chili’s, in asking guests to leave their firearms at home.
Kroger claims to be a ‘Family of Stores,’ so where are their family values?
This was one of the favorite sayings of Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung, the late principal of Sandy Hook Elementary School.
This banner was seen flying over Watertown, Connecticut in honor of the grand opening of Dawn Hochsprung Playground.
“Be nice to each other, it’s really all that matters"
—Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung
More than 300,000 supporters have asked Kroger leadership to end the open carry of guns in their stores.
Here are three of them.
