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Doug Rhude, a gun shop owner, challenged President Obama's record on gun control. Arguing that irresponsible people in our society are accountable for actions such as drinking and driving without ...
On Wednesday, President Obama unveiled his proposals for curbing gun violence in America. Some of his suggestions would require new laws -- an unlikely outcome, given Congress' gridlock and the ...
Michael Bloomberg's gun-control super PAC, Independence USA, spent $8.3 million in 2012 [90] [91] and $6.3 million in 2013. [92] Americans for Responsible Solutions, another gun-control super PAC started by retired Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, raised $12 million in 2013, [93] and planned to raise $16 to $20 million by the 2014 elections. [94]
Five days later, President Obama announced that he would make gun control a "central issue" of his second term, [79] and he created a gun violence task force, to be headed by Vice President Joe Biden. [80] On January 16, 2013, Obama signed 23 executive orders and proposed 12 congressional actions regarding gun control. [81]
Obama’s former Education Secretary Arne Duncan pushed a radical idea on Twitter; parents should pull their children out of school until elected officials pass stricter gun control laws.
On January 16, 2013, one month after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, President Obama outlined a series of sweeping gun control proposals, urging Congress to reintroduce an expired ban on "military-style" assault weapons, such as those used in several recent mass shootings, impose limits on ammunition magazines to 10 rounds, introduce ...
Since Obama was elected, mutual funds have raised their stakes to about $510 million from $30 million in the nation's two largest gun manufacturers. Obama and other gun control advocates own stock ...
U.S. opinion on gun control issues is deeply divided along political lines, as shown in this 2021 survey. [1] Public opinion on gun control in the United States has been tracked by numerous public opinion organizations and newspapers for more than 20 years. There have also been major gun policies that affected American opinion in the 1990s.