Advertisement
Advertisement

Posts tagged
'gun safety'

Regression: Arkansas's surprising history as a gun safety state

The state's earliest Supreme Court justices noted the first clause of the Second Amendment.
IT Arkansas job board

Study gun safety? Legislative Council says no.

The Arkansas Democratic Party notes that the Arkansas Legislative Council refused on voice votes today to even study the potential value of a couple of modest gun-safety measures.
Advertisement

Gun safety group played successful defense at legislative session

The Arkansas chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America is touting a successful legislative session. No new gun safety legislation was adopted, but they played successful defense on some bad proposals.

Garner files three gun safety measures

Rep. Denise Garner (D-Fayetteville), who defeated Republican Rep. Charlie Collins in part because his passage of the law that forced colleges to allow concealed weapons on campus, has filed three gun safety bills, including one to roll back the Collins legislation.
Advertisement

An Arkansas Marine talks about gun safety

The mass shooting in California last week produced the usual outpouring of thoughts on gun violence and gun safety. Thanks to Facebook, I ran across relevant commentary from an Arkansas native with ample gun experience. He's concluded the safest home is a home without a gun.

Moms Demand to talk gun safety today at legislature

Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America is scheduled on the agenda of the Joint Performance Review Committee of the legislature at 1 p.m. today.
Advertisement

Mass killings and domestic violence, a correlation

The correlation between mass killing and domestic violence. And another occasion arises to consider gun safety legislation.

'Good guys with guns' complicate hunt for Walmart shooter in Colorado

More guns make you safer? Here's a report from Think Progress quoting Colorado authorities about how the number of people with guns complicated the search for the man who killed three in a random shooting in  Walmart.
Advertisement

Gun control article notes Little Rock tops Chicago in murder rate

The Guardian takes a look at gun control in a way that turned up a couple of Little Rock angles. The city's murder rate is higher than Chicago and it has a Republican congressman who's at least willing to talk about measures to address crime.

Two-year-old in Benton dies from .45 gunshot wound to head

KARK reports on the death yesterday in Benton of a two-year-old who died from a handgun shot to his head in his home.
Advertisement

Yes. Let's talk about guns

The gun lobby has so cowed the American body politic that it has become unacceptable to talk about gun control in the hours after the latest episode of mass gun carnage.But some persist.

Suspect says girlfriend shooting accidental

Marcus Horton, 37, of 608 E. 23rd, was charged with domestic battery Sunday after the shooting of his live-in girlfriend, Gloria Brown, 48.
Advertisement
Advertisement