Last week Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher murdered his girlfriend at their home and drove to the Chiefs’ practice facility and shot himself in front of the team’s coach and general manager. During halftime of last night’s Sunday Night Football broadcast, NBC’s Bob Costas talked about the role guns and lax gun laws, played in the tragedy. […]
In the wake of recent shootings, the City of Houston released a video last year instructing people how to survive a workplace shooting, emphasizing RUN, HIDE, FIGHT and finishing with instruction for when law enforcement arrives. The video was funded with $200,000 in federal grants and released following last month’s movie theater shooting in Colorado, which […]
On Friday Dane County Circuit Court Judge Juan Colas ruled that the law signed by Gov. Scott Walker that curbed collective bargaining for most public employees violates both the state and U.S. Constitutions and runs afoul of free speech and associated rights in a 27 page ruling according to the Associated Press. Gov. Walker’s office […]
According to new poll by the Public Religion Research Institute – 55% of Tea Partiers think its ok to bring loaded guns to church. Only 38% of Republicans and 9% of Democrats agreed.
New York Police Department officials have confirmed that all nine bystanders shot during the Empire State Building tragedy last Friday were struck by bullets fired by two police officers – Officer Craig Matthews who shot seven times and Officer Robert Sinishtaj who fired nine times. It was reported that neither officer had fired his weapon in […]