NEW YORK, Oct. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- A new Harris Poll asks the public whether they support or oppose 15 issues that are often politically divisive. The largest majorities are those who support cutting government spending (87%), increased educational spending (81%), deporting more illegal aliens (76%), stricter environmental protection (75%), and no tax increases (74%). The issues on which the public is most evenly split are same sex marriage (51% support), the recent health care reform (53% oppose), cutting defense spending (54% support), and stricter gun control (56% support). (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100517/NY06256LOGO )
Although the deputy chiefs didn't hand down punishment for the first incident, [Fred Garcia]'s troubles had just begun. On July 15, when he announced his candidacy, he harped on [Sheriff Mike Kanalakis]' desire to get the R-44 helicopter, which is owned by business leader Don Chapin, back in the air. Three months later, he sent a two-page letter to the Board of Supervisors, saying that making the department shoulder the operational costs of the chopper wasn't a wise budget move and the Sheriff's Office has more urgent priorities. "Forensic Evidence Technician positions are down 50 percent from when the Sheriff first took office, and we now have a threemonth backlog of processing evidence," Garcia wrote. Kanalakis admits the fire "was not a good moment for the Sheriff's Office," but poin...
WASHINGTON - More than five months after Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head, the White House has yet to take any new steps on gun violence, even though that's what President Barack Obama called for in the wake of the shooting. The silence from the administration is drawing criticism from gun control activists and even some of Obama's Democratic allies. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., told the president in a letter last week that the administration "has not shown the leadership to combat gun violence.
WASHINGTON - Wednesday is the 30th anniversary of the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan. Gun-control advocates, including Reagan's wounded press secretary, Jim Brady, will use the day to launch a renewed push for curbs on guns. Once again, chances are they won't get very far.
The story of Colin Goddard's evolution from Virginia Tech shooting survivor to gun control advocate will be screened this month at the Sundance Film Festival, and soon in Blacksburg just steps away from the Tech campus. Living for 32," a documentary produced by Maria Cuomo Cole and directed by Kevin Breslin, focuses on Goddard's experience of the 2007 campus tragedy in which 32 students and faculty died and how it led him to a career as a congressional lobbyist for the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
It has been suggested that our heated political rhetoric is to blame for the horrific violence in a Tucson strip mall. God knows a bit more decorum would be welcome from all sides, and political dialogue should avoid any references to guns and targets. Period. But the issue is gun control -- a debate our civil society has lost. The bullets in the extended clip police say Mr. Loughner used cost 22 cents apiece. In his Jan. 11 letter, "Violence follows rhetoric in Arizona," Tom Sommers suggested we limit bullets. The comedian Chris Rock made the same point a few years ago: "Gun control? We need bullet control!" The Second Amendment protects the right to bear arms, which in 1791 probably meant muskets. Today we protect the right to own a Glock, which fits in a jacket pocket, and is capable...
IF you ask the typical hyperpolitical gun owner (and I have ... at Thanksgiving dinner), why it's important to own a gun, they'll bark about the Constitution. Yes, the Second Amendment: "The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed! This of course is the slogan the National Rifle Association adopted in the 1970s. It was then that owning a gun became an absolute right endowed by God and the Constitution. A blessing passed down by our forefathers to obliterate game and protect our property. The NRA was founded in 1870, and for its first hundred years it was for gun control and didn't mention the Second Amendment as its cause.
WE ARE often skeptical of legislative proposals that follow a headline-grabbing tragedy. But it seems to be the only way to pass responsible gun control laws in Washington. So we welcome promises this week to resurrect a shamefully expired federal ban of high-capacity ammunition clips, such as the 33-bullet magazine allegedly used in the Tucson, Ariz., shooting rampage last weekend that killed six and critically wounded U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 13 others.
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