Tag: gun violence

We can have guns on a limited basis – to provide societal and individual protection, but in a way that will prevent people from using the weapons for illegal or violent purposes.

CounterSpin interview with Igor Volsky on ending gun violence.

There have been 578 mass shootings so far this year, this is already significantly above the 417 mass shootings recorded in the whole of 2019.

Let’s return to that idea: we shall arm the militia, and no one else. The Militia shall be comprised of all races and sexes. No one – not even the police – shall have guns.

“This is not the first report of heavily armed civilian militias appearing at protests around New Mexico in recent weeks.”

"There is no use and no place for such weapons in Canada."

“All it took was a pandemic and closing all the schools.”

"Gun retailers are not essential businesses and should not remain open during this pandemic."

“He gets that all the issues we fight for are connected, and the gun violence isn't the cause but the symptom of systematic injustice in this country.”

The intersection of guns, drugs, poverty, scant education, substandard health care, high unemployment, and corruption are literally producing conditions that invariably redound the hardest and worst on young people of color.