This topic focuses on issues related to firearms in the U.S. and selected international countries such as Mexico, China, United Kingdom. It covers regional and national policy, laws and bills, debates, gun violence, crime, statistics, history, gun control, and proposed regulations. Data included obtained from FBI, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. and foreign governments and other major sources.
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U.S. Needs to Re-Examine Mental Illness & Drugs
CHICAGO. President Obama said he was “heartbroken” after learning about another Fort Hood Shooting, but managed to regain composure to attend three political fundraisers in Chicago.
“We’re heartbroken that something like this might have happened again,” Obama told reporters at the site of his first fundraiser, Chicago Cut Steakhouse.
— President Barack Obama said on April 2, 2014 (Source: Chicago Tribune PDF)
The Chicago steakhouse dinner reportedly had 25 people attending, paying up to $32,400 for the 2014 DNC campaigns. The press was not invited.
In Denial of Reality
What seems to be shocking is the apparent denial of reality in the President’s statement. The President said, another Fort Hood shooting “MIGHT” have happened again? Actually this DID happen again. Read More…