Tag: gun control
From a concert in Las Vegas to a funeral in Yemen,...
Just as we are trying to get Congress to take action on gun control, so we must demand that Congress act to stop the US support for mass murder in Yemen.
What’s stopping media from calling Las Vegas killer a ‘terrorist’? His...
Like other mass shooters before him, Stephen Paddock has the benefit of White privilege even in the most vicious of circumstances.
We need more than ‘thoughts and prayers’
Our political paralysis enables terrorists of any stripe to acquire as many weapons as they want.
What more is there to say on gun laws?
There comes a point where you feel like there’s nothing more to say about gun violence that hasn’t already been said.
America wasn’t a ‘gun-loving country’ until a $13.5 billion industry made...
Historian Pamela Haag’s The Gunning of America refocuses the gun debate on the moguls who made America into the land of guns – and mass shootings.
Republicans repeal law blocking people with severe mental illness from owning...
Lawmakers that supported the rule are worried about what this may mean for family members that take care of mentally ill individuals.
There were 61 victims of gun violence in Chicago during Christmas...
The number of homicides in the city skyrocketed this year.
Millennial organizers want to see an intersectional understanding of gun violence
It is time for an intersectional approach to gun violence prevention, in order to effectively keep all of our communities safe.
The school gun violence we don’t talk about
In over half of the shootings that happened on elementary, middle school, and high school grounds, a student brought a gun from their home.
An All-American Slaughter
What’s new in all this isn’t the gangs themselves, but how much deadlier they’ve become in recent years.