Because you know nothing is better with our national parks than gun toting jackassery.
The Bush administration formally proposed Wednesday to scrap a longtime ban against bringing loaded weapons into national parks and wildlife areas.
Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne announced the beginning of a 60-day public comment period on the proposed update to the nation’s gun regulations.
Under the plan, an individual could carry a concealed weapon in national parks and wildlife refuges if he or she is authorized to do so on similar state lands in the state where the national park or refuge is located.
I guess its an improvement over the Republican idea to drill the national parks for oil. But not much of one.
MSNBC has declared the following ad to be too controversial to air. I can’t possibly see anything remotely controversial about it. And you get the sense that if the people advertising were the drug companies and financial services firms MSNBC runs on a constant loop, it wouldn’t be so “controversial”.
You know what else is “controversial”? Dead people, killed by the weapons they obtain at gun shows without going through the proper checks.
A 3-year-old girl found a gun in a bedroom of her home and shot herself in the head Sunday, police said.
One of the girl’s parents apparently owned the gun, and at least one parent was home when she shot herself Sunday afternoon. Police questioned the parents and took the gun, the Detroit Free Press reported.
The man who killed five people and wounded 16 others at Northern Illinois University in a suicidal rampage had recently become erratic after halting his medication, police said Friday.
The man, identified as 27-year-old former NIU student Stephen Kazmierczak, carried a shotgun to campus inside a guitar case and also wielded three handguns during Thursday’s ambush inside a lecture hall, they said.
Law enforcement officials said Kazmierczak started buying his guns last August, all legally and all from the same gun dealer in Champaign, where he was enrolled at the University of Illinois.
He bought a Sig Sauer 9mm on Aug. 6 and a Highpoint .380 on Dec. 30. Two of the weapons — the pump-action Remington shotgun and a Glock 9mm handgun — were purchased less than a week ago, on Saturday, authorities said.
He had a valid permit required for all Illinois residents who buy or possess firearms, authorities said.
Gov. Timothy M. Kaine on Tuesday proposed mandated background checks for everyone who attempts to purchase firearms at gun shows - legislation he called critical to helping prevent tragedies like the shootings at Virginia Tech.
In Virginia and most other states, people can buy firearms from private, unlicensed dealers at gun shows without going through a background check. Such checks are required for sales by licensed dealers, whether they are at gun shows or somewhere else.
You mean the woman who stopped the church shooter was a trained and regulated security professional (I remember reading something about regulated militias somewhere before)? She wasn’t just a mercenary cowboy who bought a shiny plaything gun to run around with?
In the wake of the Omaha mall mass killing, you just knew idiots like Glenn Reynolds and Neal Boortz would see that the solution to this gun violence is what they always say it is: turn everywhere in America into Tombstone. They never think like a normal person and consider whether it is wise, as a society, for us to give out mass-kill weapons to everyone with the equivalent of a Mickey Mouse Club card and just hope for the best.
The mother of a 14-year-old boy accused of planning a “Columbine-type” event at a high school was arrested Friday morning, prosecutors said.
Michele Cossey, 46, of Plymouth Meeting was charged with six criminal counts in connection with buying her son firearms and bomb-making equipment, including a .22-caliber handgun, a .22-caliber rifle and a 9mm semiautomatic rifle.
The charges are unlawful transfer of a fiream, possession of a firearm by a minor, corruption of a minor, endangering the welfare of a child and two counts of reckless endangerment.
A search of the boy’s home Wednesday outside Philadelphia turned up the rifle, about 30 air-powered guns, swords, knives, a bomb-making book and videos of the 1999 Columbine High School attack.
Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce Castor Jr. said the weapons were plainly visible in the boy’s bedroom.
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