Three months removed from the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, America’s feelings on gun control have softened, according to a new survey released Tuesday. In the weeks after the shooting in Newtown, Conn., 57 percent of poll respondents were in favor of stronger gun laws, but in this week’s poll from CBS News, that number [...]
President Obama Tells Moving Story of Courage of Aurora Victims
July 23, 2012 | Posted by
Obama says Aurora theater shooting victims will be remembered. After meeting with the families of victims in the movie theater massacre and survivors at an Aurora hospital, President Obama said his main job when meeting with them was to serve as a “representative of the entire country” to let the families and survivors know that [...]
NYC Mayor Bloomberg Calls Out Obama, Romney on Stopping Gun Violence
July 21, 2012 | Posted by
While the campaigns of President Obama and Mitt Romney took a break from their increasingly vicious fight in the wake of the Batman massacre in Colorado, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg called them out to do more to stop gun violence in America. “You know, soothing words are nice,” Bloomberg said in a radio interview, [...]
Batman Shooter James Holmes Told Police He Was ‘The Joker’
July 20, 2012 | Posted by
James Holmes, the 24-year-old former Ph.D. student who shot 71 people in a Colorado movie theater during The Dark Knight Rises, told police that he was The Joker from the Batman movies. “It clearly looks like a deranged individual. He had his hair painted red, he said he was ‘The Joker,’ obviously the enemy of [...]
