Tag: Mass Shootings

The Senate this week will take up a series of gun control bills that have all failed in similar form in the past. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Gun control measures face an uphill battle

Susan Ferrechio · June 20, 2016 4:01 am

The family of Orlando killer Omar Mateen's spouse, Noor Salman, said their daughter "is completely innocent and [was] unaware of the attacks," adding that she doesn't understand "cause and effect." (Screenshot)

Energy and Environment

Family: Orlando shooter’s wife doesn’t understand ’cause and effect’

John Siciliano · June 19, 2016 7:57 pm

NRA chief lobbyist Chris W. Cox affirmed that Donald Trump and the group hold the same policy position on gun control. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

NRA lobbyist: Trump, NRA hold same position on guns

Eddie Scarry · June 19, 2016 2:30 pm

Trump affirms backing gun ban for those on terror watch list

John Siciliano · June 18, 2016 10:18 pm

"You are going to have problems the likes you've never seen unless Donald Trump becomes your president," Trump said to cheers. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Trump to Obama: ‘It’s not guns. It’s terrorism’

John Siciliano · June 18, 2016 8:35 pm

The GOP's presumptive nominee says he "revised" the "Make America great again" theme to "Make America safe again" in the wake of last week's shooting in Orlando. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

Trump attempts to reach out to African Americans

John Siciliano · June 18, 2016 7:33 pm

"Downtown Orlando has no bottom," Assistant State Attorney Kenneth Lewis posted on Facebook. "The entire city should be leveled. It is void of any redeeming quality. ... It is void of culture. If you live down there you do it at your own risk and at your own peril." (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Florida state attorney says Orlando should be wiped off map

John Siciliano · June 18, 2016 2:32 pm

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a rally Friday, June 17, 2016, in the Woodlands, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Trump imagines ‘beautiful sight’ of patrons shooting Mateen

John Siciliano · June 18, 2016 2:15 pm

Noor Salman, the wife of Omar Mateen, is now saying she is not as guilty in her husband's shooting spree as the media has made her out to be and in fact was not aware of the premeditated attack. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Omar Mateen’s wife: Government sources ‘hide behind anonymous quotes’

Anna Giaritelli · June 17, 2016 3:59 am

National Security

Rifle used in Orlando designed for ‘military, law enforcement’

Anna Giaritelli · June 16, 2016 9:25 pm

"This debate needs to change," president says after laying a bouquet at a memorial to the 49 victims. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama to gun control opponents: Meet with Orlando families

Susan Crabtree · June 16, 2016 8:37 pm

"If the principal in Sandy Hook had been running, as she so heroically did, [if] she got a gun in her hands ... there would have been people saved," said Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

GOP lawmaker: Armed faculty could have prevented Sandy Hook massacre

Mariana Barillas · June 16, 2016 8:33 pm