Posts Tagged: Gun control
Texas Mall Shooting Prompts Biden to Renew Call for Gun Control
US President Joe Biden on Sunday called on Congress to pass gun control bills in the wake of yet another mass shooting that left nine...
US House Passes Gun-Safety Legislation as Court Expands Gun Rights
The US House of Representatives on Friday passed significant gun-safety legislation for the first time in three decades, sending it to President Joe Biden to...
A Rabbinic Call to End Gun Violence
JNS.org - “Do not stand idly by the blood of your neighbor.”(Lev.19:16) “An act of violence is an act of desecration.” (Abraham Joshua Heschel, Moral Grandeur...
Jews Need a Strong Self Defense
The recent attack on a synagogue in California is simply awful. Worldwide, it seems that innocent people at prayer are under attack, and open season...
What Israel’s Gun Policies Can Teach Americans
JNS.org - As American society has become more polarized in recent years, the debate over gun control has reflected this reality, with leaders and lawmakers on...
Jewish Groups Call for Gun Control After Florida Shooting
JNS.org - Major American Jewish organizations are calling for stricter gun-control laws in the wake of the February 14 mass school shooting in Parkland, Florida, that...
The True Prayer for Mass Shooting Victims Is Real Reform
On receiving the devastating news about the latest mass shooting in Florida, President Donald Trump, in full presidential mode, rose to the occasion with a...
Congress Is Complicit in Mass Shootings
Once again, we are faced with another mass shooting. This time the cold-blooded killings took place at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, killing 14 innocent...
Preventing and Reducing Deaths From Mass Shootings — In and Out of Jewish Institutions
Here we find ourselves again -- a tragic mass shooting with both sides of the gun lobby trading barbs with each other. We see a rerun of...
Now Is the Time for Sensible Gun Control
The massacre at a Las Vegas concert that killed 59 people and injured more than 500 on October 1 -- and was followed this week by further murders in...
The Insanity of Guns in America
I know I am expected to write about Brexit this week -- a classic conflict between a great concept and a corrupt, incompetent, bureaucratic misexecution...
Why Can’t Obama Tell the Truth About the Orlando Attack and Radical Islam?
The massacre in Orlando by a self-proclaimed Islamist terrorist removes any doubt that the West or its allies have contained the radical jihadi movement. You wouldn't...
Jackie Mason Suggests Anti-Gun Michael Bloomberg Should Be Protected by Rabbis With Pastrami Sandwiches
Renowned Jewish comedian Jackie Mason “continues to be one of this election cycle’s more amusing political pundits,” said the New York Post’s "Page Six" on...
Ben Carson and the Holocaust Gun Myth
Is there no limit as to how low Republicans will stoop to defend the gun culture? On October 8, 2015, in a transparent effort to pander to...