The US Transport and Security Administration (TSA) will remove all 174 of OSI Systems Inc. (OSIS)s Rapiscan body scanners from airports, following serious concerns over their inability to protect the privacy of passengers.
I think it is funny that they are calling it horrifying. In my parents day, you could bring a gun to school. They just asked that you set it down in the back of the class till it was time to go home. Kids would bring them for show and tell and some kids would bring them because they were on the school shooting team.
A handgun was discovered in the backpack of a second grade student at a public elementary school in New York City, just two days after state Governor Andrew Cuomo signed post-Newton gun restrictions into law.
Good News, Gun Bans work! Until a 7 year old tries to sneak one in.
Students were then instructed to remain in their classrooms after the principal announced the school was in lockdown status. Javier Ferrufino, an 11-year-old in fifth grade, told the New York Times, I thought we were going to get killed we went to the back of the classroom. I hid with my friend behind some computers.
Two hours after the boy arrived at Wave Preparatory, aduedu3400.typepad.com his mother learned that he had the gun and attempted to apprehend him at the school, telling administrators that he had a dentist appointment. The boy told his mother that he had given the gun to a second grade classmate, shunli234.typepad.com leading her to alert the principal.
Heightened fears following the Sandy Hook shooting massacre have led to intense discussions regarding gun control measures in the US. On Wednesday, President Barack Obama urged Congress to approve a banon assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and institute thorough background checks on all gun buyers. However, on Thursday,shunli3499.typepad.com. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) derided the Presidents attempts to exert power in this arena, comparing his actions to those of a monarch.
Obamas skepticism over placing armed guards in schools was criticized as hypocritical by the NRA on Tuesday, on the grounds that his children have secret service protection. A Reuters poll on Thursday found that 72 percent of Americans vored the proposal to station armed guards in the nations schools.
Gun-lovers in the US can finally let their enthusiasm show without fear - on Gun Appreciation Day, which a coalition of right-wing organizations has designated as January 19.
The .22-caliber weapon was unearthed from the 7-year-old boys bag on Thursday morning at Wave Preparatory Elementary ScGun found in 7-year-old schoolboys backpack in NYChool in the Queens borough of New York City. The school was then placed on lockdown, just after 10:00am local time.
Alongside the semiautomatic pistol, police also seized ammunition and a flare gun from the young boys satchel. The horrifying incident took place amid heightened concern regarding gun violence in US schools, following the December tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in which 20 children and six educators were massacred.
Gun found in 7-year-old schoolboys backpack in NYC,Sen. Rand Paul has made plans to nullify President Obamas 23 executive actions on gun control policy, claiming the president is exercising too much power and demonstrating a king complex.
One student has been seriously wounded and a teacher has suffered a minor injury in a shooting at a high school in Taft, California. The incident comes less than a month after a massacre at a Connecticut elementary school.
The battle over American gun violence has intensified with the National Rifle Associations vow to fight legislative steps to increase gun control. It challenges President Obamas call for proposals on curbing the countrys mass shooting problem.
It remains unknown how a boy so young came to be in possession of the handgun. However, he reportedly has two older brothers aged 21 and 27 the question of whether the young boy was aware of the weapons presence in his bag is under investigation.
The American Civil Liberties Union is taking Philadelphia law enforcement to court over the arrest of a man for recording police on his cell phone. The rights group says recording public officials actions is protected by the First Amendment.
A ..22 caliber handgun, its magazine and a flare gun seized by police from a seven-year-old boy at Wave Preparatory Elementary School in New York are pictured in this handout photo released by the NYPD January 17, 2013.(Reuters / Handout)
However, the same Reuters poll found that 74 percent of Americans are in vor of a ban on assault weapons, and 86 percent approve of expanded background checks on all gun buyers.
Honestly though, this is retarded. There are already too many guns in the U.S.A., and its not difficult to buy one illegally anyway. Gun bans arent going to do a damn thing.
From Washington on Wednesday, United States President Barack Obama called on Congress to pass a number of proposals that could allow for sweeping new gun laws across the country.
