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Giffords Shooting Raises Questions About Guns and Mental Illness

WASHINGTON -- It takes a lot to be considered too crazy to own a gun in Arizona. As authorities investigate the mass shooting that killed six people and left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords critically wounded, it appears clear that a growing list of troubling warning signs would not have prohibited suspect Jared Loughner from...

Prior to UT Shooting, Gun Rights Advocate John Lott Was Scheduled to Speak

(Sept. 28) -- As police authorities continue to investigate the frightening events involving an armed gunman that occurred this morning at the University of Texas, the Surge Desk has learned that University of Maryland researcher John Lott, a gun rights advocate and author of "More Guns, Less Crime," was scheduled to speak...

Facing Gun Issue, Starbucks Throws Up Its Hands

SAN FRANCISCO (March 3) -- The Starbucks coffee chain announced today that it will continue letting customers openly wear unloaded handguns in its coffee shops. At the same time, the company asked members of the "open carry" gun movement and their opponents to refrain from putting Starbucks in the firing line of the...

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Mitt Romney And The NRA: A 'Diss' Before Courtship

Two hours before then-Gov. Mitt Romney was to sign a bill outlawing assault weapons and small handguns in Massachusetts, John Rosenthal, a leading gun control advocate, received an unexpected phone call.

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Trayvon Martin Shooting Unlikely To Change Gun Debate, Lawmakers Concede

It's been more than a year since Jared Loughner walked up to former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) at a constituent event in Tucson, Ariz., and shot her in the head.

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Did the Wild West Have More Gun Control Than We Do Today?

After a decision by the Supreme Court affirming the right of individuals to own guns, then-Chicago Mayor Richard Daley sarcastically said , "Then why don't we do away with the court system and go back to the Old West, you have a gun and I have a gun and we'll settle it in the streets?"

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White House Taking 'Seriously' Al Qaeda's Eying Of America's Gun Show Loophole

The Obama administration says it's taking "seriously" a statement from an al Qaeda spokesman that instructs sympathizers of the terrorist group to exploit soft spots in U.S. gun laws.

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