MLB Pitcher Calls Shooting in His Oregon Hometown ‘Unimaginable Loss’
Among the people with connections to the small Oregon town where a gunman opened fire and left at least 10 people dead Thursday is a Major League Baseball player. Kansas City Royals pitcher Jeremy...
View ArticleDemocratic Lawmakers Urge Gun Control After Oregon Shooting
Taking President Obama’s cue, Democratic lawmakers have seized on Thursday’s deadly shooting at an Oregon’s Umpqua Community College to bring gun control to the forefront of the national conversation....
View ArticleOregon Sheriff Doesn’t Want to Talk About His Anti-Gun Control Letter
The Oregon sheriff managing the investigation into the Thursday shooting at Umpqua Community College is staying silent about a 2013 letter he wrote to Vice President Joe Biden opposing gun control...
View ArticleHow Congress Reacts To Mass Shootings In One Chart
It has become a grim political tradition: Another mass shooting, more calls for action and mourning from the floors of the House and Senate. The Congressional reaction to the latest shooting in...
View ArticleHeartbroken Mother of Oregon Shooting Victim Says He Was Turning His Life Around
The heartbroken mother of one of the Oregon college students slain in Thursday’s horrific shooting spree spoke proudly of her son, who she said was excited to be turning his life around. Jason...
View ArticleWitnesses Describe Shooting at Umpqua Community College
Witnesses said the shooter who killed nine people at Umpqua Community College Thursday was roaming the college looking for people to shoot. “I heard one gunshot and then I looked over outside and...
View ArticlePetition Aims to Get Oregon Shooting Hero Chris Mintz the Presidential Medal...
A White House petition posted Friday is calling on President Obama to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Chris Mintz, the Army veteran who has been hailed as a hero after trying to block the...
View ArticleWhy I’m Scared on My College Campus
I fear our senses will become dulled to horrific news like Thursday’s, when a gunman opened fire on an Oregon community college, killing nine and wounding 10. I fear we will forget, again and again....
View ArticleHow Christians Should Respond to Being a Target of Shooters
In Oregon, a deeply troubled, severely depressed, and anti-social young man legally purchased 14 lethal weapons, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, and a steel-plated bulletproof jacket. On October 1,...
View ArticleWhy I Quit the NRA
I was a member of the National Rifle Association for more than 50 years. In 2012, I decided not to renew my membership. My NRA was all about marksmanship, safety and responsibly. But the NRA today is...
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