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  • Bloomberg: Sorry for calling Boston Marathon bombing suspect a victim

    By Paul Bedard | 06/19/13 03:40 PM

    After his group Mayors Against Illegal Guns called alleged Boston Marathon bomber a victim of gun violence Tuesday, co-founder New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg apologized, claiming that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was mistakenly included on a list of shooting victims. His office blamed a Slate.com list...

  • Bloomberg's anti-gun group calls Boston Marathon bomber a victim

    By Paul Bedard | 06/19/13 12:15 PM

    He was the alleged mastermind of the mid-April Boston Marathon bombing that killed three and maimed 264, but the anti-gun lobby organized by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino has a different label for Tamerlan Tsarnaev: gun violence victim. It happened Tuesday...

  • Boston bomber a victim of gun violence?

    By Ashe Schow | 06/19/13 11:15 AM

    At a gun control rally in New Hampshire on Tuesday, the name of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the Boston Marathon bombers, was read as one of those "killed by guns" among a list including the children killed during the Sandy Hook massacre. When Tsarnaev's name was read, the crowd booed and shouted,...

  • Kicking off new push on guns, Biden predicts opponents will face voters’ wrath

    By Susan Crabtree | 06/18/13 04:35 PM

    Vice President Joe Biden, angrily denouncing opponents of gun control, predicted Tuesday that senators who helped block an expansion of background checks for gun sales two months ago would pay a political price for their votes. “I would say to my friends in the House and Senate, the country...

  • VIDEO: Joe Biden pushing gun control action once again

    06/18/13 03:10 PM

    Vice President Joe Biden is once again pushing Congress to consider new gun control legislation.

  • With gun-control bills stalled, Joe Biden to tout administration's go-it-alone approach

    By Susan Crabtree | 06/18/13 07:05 AM

    Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday will try to revive interest in firearms restrictions and tout actions the Obama administration has taken on its own to reduce gun violence, six months after the mass shootings in Newtown, Conn., and two months after a bill to expand background checks on gun...

  • A libertarian turn on social issues

    By Michael Barone | 06/17/13 11:25 AM

    Are Americans becoming more libertarian on cultural issues? I see evidence that they are, in poll findings and election results on three unrelated issues — marijuana legalization, same-sex marriage and gun rights. Start with pot. Last November voters in the states of Colorado and Washington...

  • Teachers union head: We must have new gun regulations

    By Sean Higgins | 06/14/13 03:40 PM

    American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten co-authored an op-ed today with Tom Kuroski, president of the Newtown Federation of Teachers in the News-Times of Danbury, Conn., to plead for new gun control regulations. The column marks the 6-month anniversary of the...

  • Newtown family member sends out email plea for gun control on behalf of Obama lobbying group

    By Susan Ferrechio | 06/14/13 02:35 PM

    Six months after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown Connecticut, the daughter of the school’s principal sent out a plea on behalf of President Obama’s legislative lobbying group to keep pushing for gun control. Erica Lafferty, whose mother Dawn Hochsprung, died trying...

  • Bill Clinton: There’s no ‘big, conspiratorial federal government’ push for gun confiscation

    By Joel Gehrke | 06/14/13 01:05 PM

    Former President Bill Clinton, while suggesting that another push for gun control legislation might succeed, faulted the National Rifle Association for convincing “country” people that “there’s this big, conspiratorial federal government” plan to confiscate firearms. “What’s...


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