This isn't the first time that Goldberg and Griffin have sparred on-air.
The vice president didn't mince words.
(Washington Post) — About a hundred times a year, regulators strip gun dealers of their licenses for violations of federal law, an extreme step taken only when repeated infractions are deemed a threat to public safety. But a year-long Washington Post investigation documented about 60 cases since 2003 in which the businesses stayed open, often re-licensed […]
By Danielle Kwateng Although many believe the country has not changed much in the past fifty years, there have been several laws that counter those arguments. From affirmative action policies to voting rights ordinances to drug laws, these 11 policies have changed and impacted the African-American community for better or for worse. Additional Reporting by […]
(NYT) — Mayor Richard M. Daley has long insisted that the city’s restrictive gun laws — including the handgun ban that was essentially nullified recently by the United States Supreme Court — have been a key crime-fighting tool. But court records show that relatively few people were convicted of violating the laws, and even top city officials […]
(Chicago Sun Times) — More than 75 people visited Chicago Police headquarters Monday to pick up applications to register firearms on the day the city’s new handgun ordinance took effect. The ordinance, which requires gun owners to keep their weapons in their homes, was hastily crafted by the city after the U.S. Supreme Court struck […]
(AP) — Members of the Chicago City Council appear eager to pass a tough new gun ordinance after the Supreme Court issued a ruling that will mean the end of the city’s 28-year-old gun ban. At a hearing Tuesday, members of a committee heard from the city’s chief attorney about an ordinance that Mayor Richard M. Daley […]
(Chicago Sun Times) — Otis McDonald will get his gun. And the Morgan Park grandpa — the face of the Second Amendment lawsuit that led to today’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling to overturn Chicago’s handgun ban — couldn’t be giddier. “This is great. I am so happy,” McDonald said from Washington D.C. “It’s a milestone.” […]
(WSJ) — A ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court giving federal judges the power to strike down local weapons laws is expected to prompt legal challenges to New York City’s gun-permits process. Tom King, president of the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, said the question to be asked after Monday’s high court ruling isn’t […]
(Washington Post) — Legislation introduced in Congress on Tuesday would weaken the District’s gun-control laws and restrict the D.C. Council from regulating firearms. The effort comes a week after congressional officials, responding to similar pro-gun language in a D.C. voting rights bill, dropped the legislation,which would have secured a voting seat in the House for the […]
(Chicago Tribune) — Mayor Richard Daley reacted coolly Monday to a suggestion the National Guard be called in to help slow the violence on Chicago’s streets, suggesting the idea offered up a day earlier by two state representatives was too simplistic. “You have to look at long-term solutions,” Daley said, adding he understood the “frustration” expressed […]