Lucy McBath, a former flight attendant and gun control advocate whose son, Jordan Davis, was killed in a racist shooting in 2012, has won election to Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District. GOP incumbent Rep. Karen Handel conceded the race on Thursday morning, after McBath claimed victory on Wednesday.
Tonight, the first debate between Florida gubernatorial candidates Ron DeSantis, an extremely-not-racist former House Representative endorsed by Trump, and Andrew Gillum, a progressive Democrat, was closely watched both inside and outside the state. The race is seen as a proxy battle between the forces of Trump’s…
Gun control activist Lucy McBath, whose 17-year-old son was shot and killed in 2012, won the Democratic nomination in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District.
American voters think the economy is booming because, by our most accepted metric, it is! Still, voters may be starting to realize that record-breaking stock market numbers don’t necessarily translate to a happy citizenry, or a more just society.
On Tuesday, Education Secretary Betsy Devos admitted during a Senate subcommittee hearing that actually, the newly formed school safety commission won’t look into the role of guns. DeVos has helmed the commission since 17 people were shot dead at Stoneman Douglas High School in February. Proving her fitness for this…
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At least 10 more people were shot and killed in an American school today. By now, the impulse to think that the response might be different this time is a small speck in the country’s rearview mirror. But to see how the rhetorical gymnastics of the pro-gun crowd are morphing in response to public outcry in recent…
Seven people were found dead on a rural property in Western Australia on Friday, including a mother and her four children.
When these Dallas students first heard that the NRA was coming to town, they were pissed. But then they saw an opportunity.
Boom! Boom! Knives.
President Trump was in fine, unhinged form during his appearance at the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting in Dallas on Friday. He did everything from graphically describing and acting out acts of mass killing with guns to dissing John Kerry and thanking Kanye West.
Republicans and the National Rifle Association are fanatically opposed to gun control these days. But it wasn’t always this way. In fact, top Republicans (including Ronald Reagan) and the NRA once supported gun control. Why?
Kelsey Hines, a 6-year-old girl in Baltimore had a passionate message she wanted to share about ending gun violence. So she asked her mom to record it. The video went viral, with at least 4 million people watching it on Facebook alone.
The national student walkouts against guns are continuing, but survivors of the Parkland shooting have their sights set even further in the future: They want to get pro-gun politicians out of office entirely.
Less than one week after Vermont’s Republican governor Phil Scott signed a package of tough new gun control measures into law, the state has already applied the legislation to a teenager accused of plotting a mass shooting at his school.
In a stunt that South Carolina GOP Chairman Drew McKissick characterized as “hysterical,” Republican U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman drew a loaded .38-caliber Smith & Wesson handgun and left it on the table during a “coffee with constituents” event on Friday.
With every mass shooting comes a debate over what caused this tragedy and what could have stopped it.
Last month’s mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, FL, reignited debate over gun control in the United States with a special focus on the legal minimum age for gun ownership. Many on both sides of the aisle have argued that our laws currently put guns in the hands of young people who lack the emotional maturity…
The majority of mass shooters have some sort of domestic or family violence in their background. Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz was no different; Cruz allegedly threatened to kill the teenager who began dating his ex-girlfriend, and his mother alleged that he threw her against the wall for taking away his Xbox, and on…
