Tag: gun reform
Georgia school shooting sparks renewed debate over gun control and safety...
With the suspect now in custody, questions about gun safety, political will, and legislative inaction are dominating the conversation.
America needs to confront its culture of guns and fear
raising the next generation of kids with fewer guns on the streets, more restrictive gun laws on the books, and a healthy sense of skepticism about mass media may be the best recipe to fight back against a culture of guns and fear.
Why going “hard” is taking the easy way out
Hardening schools and arming teachers Is the wrong approach.
Why escalation is the best response in moments of crises
To win on gun violence and abortion, activists must engage in actions of escalation that match the public’s distress.
Google says it bans gun ads. It actually makes money from...
The tech giant has long boasted that it doesn’t accept ads for firearms, but a ProPublica analysis shows that Google’s ad systems served up more than 100 million ads from gun makers.
At March for Our Lives, a call for a nationwide strike...
“Avoid attending school if your leaders fail to do the job.”
WATCH: Mother of Buffalo victim invites lawmakers to help ‘clean’ son’s...
"My son, Zaire, has a hole in the right side of his neck, two on his back, and another on his left leg," said Zeneta Everhart. "Now I want you to picture that exact scenario for one of your children."
‘Radical and disgusting stance’: 44% of GOP voters think US just...
Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal responded that she cannot "accept children being gunned down in classrooms and mass shootings in grocery stores, salons, and places of worship."
Republicans, complicit in mass shootings, aiding & abetting domestic terrorists
We're going to find out before long, not whether America is an exceptional, indispensable nation but, rather, whether it can still be called a civilized nation.
Firearm stocks spike after mass shootings as investors dismiss the chance...
Mass shootings occur with such frequency that we can no longer implement this kind of analysis looking at the effect of isolated incidents and the stock market effect on gun companies.
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Trump quietly expands corporate tax breaks while threatening states over food aid
Treasury guidance weakens corporate minimum tax as the Agriculture Department warns states to “undo” full November SNAP payments amid shutdown confusion.
Bill Gates gave $3.5M to think tank run by climate crisis denier Bjorn Lomborg
Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.
Military moral injury, iolence, and the parable of the Guinea worm
An unexpected encounter with compassion.
Taxing the rich is key to challenging the far-right
There are many things that need to change in this world. But one thing is clear: anyone who claims to oppose the rise of the far right must, at the very least, support higher taxes on extreme wealth.
Utah’s 1,300-bed homelessness “accountability center” tests Trump-era crackdown
Planned for 16 acres on the edge of Salt Lake City, Utah’s new homelessness campus would combine mass shelter, court-ordered treatment, and “work-conditioned housing.” Supporters call it a model of reform, while advocates warn it mirrors forced labor and internment.