Tag: Gun Control

In this Oct. 22, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama, left, and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney laugh at the conclusion of the the third presidential debate at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla. (AP Photo/Pool-Michael Reynolds, File)

Obama tweets ‘Good point, Mitt’ Romney, calls for gun control

Barbara Boland · June 21, 2015 4:37 pm

Clinton: How do we ‘allow guns to fall into the hands’ of haters?

Barbara Boland · June 20, 2015 8:40 pm

Republican presidential candidate, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, speaks at the Road to Majority 2015 convention in Washington, Saturday, June 20, 2015. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Perry: Charleston was a ‘hate crime’

John Siciliano · June 20, 2015 7:47 pm

A mourner places flowers along the fence outside the Emanuel AME Church, Saturday, June 20, 2015 in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton)

National Security

CNN still running dubious right-wing vs. Muslim extremists statistic

Becket Adams · June 20, 2015 2:48 pm

The South Carolina and American flags fly at half mast as the Confederate flag unfurls below at the Confederate Monument June 18, 2015 in Columbia, South Carolina. Legislators gathered Thursday morning to honor their co-worker Clementa Pinckney and the eight others killed yesterday at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C. (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

Media spins horrific murder into a fight over a flag

Becket Adams · June 20, 2015 11:00 am

President Barack Obama, joined by Sacramento, Calif., Mayor Kevin Johnson, left, and Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, right, arrives to speak at the Annual Meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors in San Francisco, Friday, June 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Obama presses for Congress to tackle gun control

Nicole Duran · June 20, 2015 12:10 am

White House deputy press secretary Eric Schultz speaks during the daily news briefing at the White House in Washington, Friday, May 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Here’s where Obama wants to see the Confederate flag

Nicole Duran · June 19, 2015 10:06 pm

Rick Perry meant to call the Charleston shooting an ‘incident,’ not an ‘accident’

Becket Adams · June 19, 2015 8:00 pm

Dylann Roof appears via video before a judge in North Charleston, S.C, on Friday, June 19, 2015. The 21-year-old man accused of killing nine people inside a black church in Charleston made his first court appearance Friday, with the relatives of all the victims making tearful statements. (Centralized Bond Hearing Court, of Charleston, S.C. via AP, Pool)

Victims’ families to Dylann Roof: We ‘forgive you’

Kelly Cohen · June 19, 2015 7:25 pm

Taking a page from his actions as governor, Martin O'Malley called for an assault weapons ban, stricter gun background checks and called for fingerprints of the gun buyer. (AP Photo)Â

O’Malley: ‘I’m pissed,’ calls for gun control, NRA silencing

Paul Bedard · June 19, 2015 7:16 pm

New Bloomberg gun site gives voice to gun control, AR-15 ban backers

Paul Bedard · June 19, 2015 6:36 pm

Charleston, S.C., shooting suspect Dylann Storm Roof, center, is escorted from the Shelby Police Department in Shelby, N.C., Thursday, June 18, 2015. Roof is a suspect in the shooting of several people Wednesday night at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

Charleston church shooting suspect confesses to authorities

Kelly Cohen · June 19, 2015 2:48 pm