FCC chairman Ajit Pai receives a handmade rifle and the NRA’s “Charlton Heston Courage Under Fire Award” for overseeing net neutrality repeal. I’m sure he was pleased with the timing of the … Continue reading FCC chair gets ‘courage under fire’ custom rifle and award from the NRA for overseeing net neutrality repeal
MIAMI — To help fund a national gun control movement, a small group of South Florida students who survived the worst high school shooting in U.S. history set up a modest website … Continue reading Parkland students have a cause and $3.5 million — here’s how they’re going to spend it
The difference in damage from a pistol vs. an assault rifle is the difference between surviving and not surviving getting shot. Source: The AR-15 Is Different: What I Learned Treating Parkland Victims … Continue reading The AR-15 Is Different: What I Learned Treating Parkland Victims
David C. Berliner is calling for a walkout on April 20. He’s calling for all teachers to strike on April 20th if no solution has been arrived at. Perhaps all students should … Continue reading A nationwide teacher walkout could shake us out of our mass shooting stupor – Slate
A new poll finds bipartisan support for tougher gun laws, but big partisan gaps on the intensity of that support — not to mention sizable gaps in knowledge about gun facts. 80% … Continue reading Poll: Majorities Of Both Parties Favor Increased Gun Restrictions
A National Rifle Association ad that has gained traction on social media this month urges Americans to join “freedom’s safest place.” Time to get those guns out? Hmmm… Source: National Rifle Association … Continue reading National Rifle Association ad appears to be ‘an open call to violence’
Not only has America failed to reduce the number of mass shootings, we can’t even agree on what a ‘mass shooting’ is. Depending on how you define mass shootings, if you just … Continue reading U.S. has already suffered 91 mass shootings in 2017—and you likely didn’t hear about any of them
Researchers are taking a look at the economic costs of shooting in the Orlando nightclub. Meanwhile, those affected personally are fretting about their bills. One victim was quoted $20,000 that’s he’s responsible … Continue reading The Costs Of The Pulse Nightclub Shooting
Public access to police body camera footage will now be up to local police chiefs and sheriffs in North Carolina. This is not the solution snd is a step in the wrong … Continue reading In Wake of Shootings, North Carolina Just Made It Easier for Police to Hide Camera Footage
The mayor of Dallas suggests tightening the state’s gun laws to make it tougher to carry long arms in public. It’s true, the police put out a tweet of a guy legally … Continue reading Texas Open-Carry Laws Blurred Lines Between Suspects and Marchers
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell set up a vote late on Monday to expand the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s authority to use a secretive surveillance order without a warrant to include … Continue reading Invoking Orlando, Senate Republicans set up vote to expand FBI spying
The deaths bring the week’s total number of fatal shootings to 18 so far, with another 81 wounded. This is just Chacago alone. Source: Chicago’s new normal: Five people killed and 12 … Continue reading Chicago’s new normal: Five people killed and 12 injured by gunfire overnight Friday
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