Monthly Archive for January, 2013
Liability insurance for gun owners?
You can’t legally drive a car if you don’t have insurance, but should gun owners be held to the same standard? NPR’s Plant Money brings up an interesting idea that has been floating around the gun-control debate lately and asked economists to weigh in. A radio piece was aired today on Morning Edition. Justin Wolfers, professor of […] …
Dianne Feinstein: “We can’t have a totally armed society”
Sen. Dianne Feinstein was more than cordial to National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre at Wednesday’s big gun hearing, noting they had done battle 18 years ago when the California Democrat passed her 1995 assault weapons ban, expired since 2004. “You look pretty good, actually,” the California Democrat told LaPierre. No fireworks there.Her new assault […] …
Senate Judiciary chair rejects Dianne Feinstein’s assault weapons ban
The Democratic chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee did not endorse colleague Dianne Feinstein’s assault weapons ban at a packed Capitol Hill hearing on guns Wednesday in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., shooting. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., called for “common sense reform,” that closes loopholes in current gun laws and enforces background checks. Buthe […] …
SCOTUS Justice Sonia Sotomayor in SF: on affirmative action, “terror” on the job — and witchcraft
Associate Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, on a book tour, wowed a full house in San Francisco Monday — speaking frankly about her “terror” in handling her first case there, defending affirmative action, and talking about forces that guided her journey from the South Bronx to the highest court in the land. Sotomayor was greeted […] …
Bill would ban rifle used in Newtown killings, cap magazines at 10 rounds
Sales of the AR-15 Bushmaster rifle — the kind used in the Dec. 14 school massacre in Sandy Hook — would be illegal under a federal assault weapon ban that Connecticut’s two U.S. senators and Newtown’s new congresswoman will help introduce Thursday in Washington. Current owners of assault weapons outlawed by the bill would likely […] …
Sierra Club to engage in civil disobedience for first time
How hot is the controversial Keystone Pipeline controversy getting? The Sierra Club is — for the first time in its history — going to engage in civil disobedience on Feb. 17 in Washington, D.C., which is also a day that greenies predict will be “the largest climate rally in history.” With Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman […] …
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