0
Biden Moves To Replace Gun Violence With Economic Opportunity
The Biden administration will be awarding economic grants to communities impacted by gun violence as a way to prevent crime and increase opportunity.
Tagged Gun violence
0
Hundreds of White Women Gather at Colorado Capitol For Minority Organized Sit-In To Demand Gun Ban
Here 4 the Kids organized a sit-in of white women from around the country at the Colorado Capitol on Monday for the purpose of getting an Executive Order signed by Gov. Jared Polis that will ban guns and create a buy-back program.
0
Biden Announces 13 New Actions To Reduce Gun Violence
President Biden announced 13 new actions to reduce gun violence on the one year anniversary of the Buffalo mass shooting.
0
Texas Students Pressure Republicans On Gun Violence With Large Protest
In Texas, students pressured lawmakers to allow a vote on a bill to raise the age limit on semi-automatic rifles from 18 to 21 with large protests at San Antonio City Hall on Thursday.
0
Jen Psaki Goes There And Calls Out Republicans For Politicizing Mass Shootings
MSNBC’s Jen Psaki said that it isn’t the people who want change politicizing gun violence but Republicans who want to maintain the status quo.
0
Rep. Jamaal Bowman Blows Up On Republicans After They Tell Him To Calm Down About Gun Violence
Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) called Republicans cowards and got into a shouting match with Rep. Thomas Massie on gun violence.
0
Opinion: Jan. 6 And Uvalde Massacre Highlight How Violent Gun Culture Undermines Democracy
The gun, in many ways these days, has become the symbol and means of tyranny, a tool for taking down democracy.
0
Tampa Bay Rays And New York Yankees Scrap Game Coverage And Instead Offer Facts About Gun Violence
The Tampa Bay Rays and New York Yankees official Twitter accounts aren’t covering their game but instead are dedicating themselves to offering facts about gun violence.
0
Fred Guttenberg: “The GOP Has Checked Out of Governing”
Gun control advocate Fred Guttenberg, the father of Jamie Guttenberg, who died in the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, says the Republican Party has “checked out of governing.” “My frustration right now is directed at those in Washington, D.C. who keep watching this happen and don’t do anything,” he said after…
0
Opinion:After More Mass Shootings Last Week, Can We Tell a Story to End Gun Violence in America?
We need to weave a cultural narrative that addresses the fact of the world we are making and helps us tell a story that ends differently from the murderous ways our national narratives have been concluding recently.
0
Gabrielle Giffords’s Gun Violence Prevention Advocacy Group Launches Ad Campaign Supporting Universal Background Checks
Giffords, the gun violence prevention advocacy group created by gun violence survivor and former Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), has launched a new ad campaign to pressure Republicans in the Senate to support a measure that would expand background checks on all firearms purchases. “That’s why we’ve marched, organized, and won. Almost nothing has support from…
0
Pelosi Slams McConnell For Refusing To End Gun Violence Against Kids
Speaker Pelosi called out Majority Leader McConnell for refusing to lift a finger to pass legislation to protect kids from gun violence.
0
Parkland Families Form Group To Stop Gun Violence in Schools
Families of the students killed in the Parkland, Fla. mass shooting are launching a new advocacy group aimed at reducing gun violence in schools. The group will be called “Stand With Parkland†and also will be known as the National Association of Families for Safe Schools. The purpose of the group is to find “middle…
0
Sarah Huckabee Sanders Is Trying To Con You Into Believing Trump Will Do Something About Guns
Sarah Huckabee Sanders is trying to con the American people into believing that Trump may do something about guns.
0
As DACA Deadline Looms Trump Compares Immigrants To Snakes
At a time when Congress is trying to work out a deal for Dreamers and address other issues regarding our nation’s immigration system, this was especially offensive and ludicrous.
0
Thousands Gather At Parkland Vigil To Tell The NRA To ‘Stop Killing Our Kids’
The NRA-owned president and Congress may not want to talk about guns in the aftermath of yet another mass shooting, but those in Parkland, Florida are demanding immediate action from lawmakers.
0
Chris Murphy Tells Trump To Stay Quiet On Parkland Shooting Because He’ll Only Make Things Worse
“If I thought he was going to offer something that was real, actual consolation, I’d be willing to hear more. I’m not sure what’s that we would get.”
0
Sandy Hook Senator Wants To Know How Many More People Will Die Before ‘Complicit’ GOP Acts
“This one is the 18th school shooting just this year … Congress has been complicit. Congress bears responsibility.”
0
Trump Refuses To Appear On Camera As More Innocent Lives Taken By A Gun
After a national tragedy, the president should speak to the American people and try to bring the country together. That’s what leaders do during such moments. Not Trump.
0
Shep Smith Gives Fox Viewers Reality Check By Naming Every Fatal School Shooting Since Columbine
“Since Columbine in 1999, there have been 25 fatal, active school shooting incidents at elementary and high schools in America,” the Fox Host told his viewers.
0
Chris Murphy Says Virginia’s Democratic Wave Proves That NRA Blood Money Is Losing Its Influence
As gun violence continues to rear its ugly head all across this country, the American people want to see real change, not more extremist, guns-everywhere rhetoric from the NRA.
0
Mike Pence Goes To Sutherland Springs And Blames Everything But Guns For Church Massacre
The grieving people of Sutherland Springs were treated to the same old rhetoric that blames everything – laws, bureaucracy, and mental health – other than guns.
0
Moments Of Silence For Thoughts and Prayers Ring Hollow Without Actions to Back Them Up
We can’t pray this problem away. We can’t continue to have moments of silence for thoughts and prayers and then claim to be shocked the next time tragedy strikes asking ourselves how could this have happened.
0
Nancy Pelosi Dismantles Republicans For Putting ‘Political Survival’ Over Human Lives
“Political survival – what? Who cares? We’re talking about the lives of the American people.”
0
‘We Cannot Wait’: John Lewis Blasts Trump For Refusing To Talk About Gun Violence
“The time is always right to do what is right. We waited too long. How many more people will die?”
0
Save Your Prayers, Republicans: It’s Time To Actually Do Something About America’s Gun Problem
Tonight, dozens of people who were alive 24 hours ago no longer are, and many of the leaders who offer their condolences will likely do nothing to prevent the next American massacre.
0
‘Silence Is No Longer An Option’: Chris Murphy To Introduce New Gun Safety Legislation
“This silence has become unintentional endorsement. It’s become a kind of sick complicity.”
0
Ted Nugent, Who Has Violently Threatened Obama And Clinton, Calls On Liberals To Be ‘Civil’
Nugent said – with a straight face – that he is “100% against any harm to any human beings.”
0
Rachel Maddow: Virginia Shooting Another Example Of America’s ‘Mind-Numbing’ Gun Violence Problem
“We are a country that has a huge amount of gun violence, an internationally unparalleled level of gun violence and an internationally unparalleled frequency of multiple victim, mass shooting events.”
0
Hillary Clinton Steps Up To The Plate With Unifying Message After Virginia Shooting
While partisans on both sides of the aisle have been using the opportunity to point fingers and blame their political opponents for today’s shooting, Clinton’s message struck exactly the right tone at exactly the right time.
0
A Democratic Senator Delivered The Perfect Response To Trump’s NRA Speech
While Donald Trump was celebrating how easy it is for criminals to get guns at the NRA convention, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) tweeted out the names and pictures of 11 people under age 30 who died because of gun violence.
0
Trump Lays The Groundwork For Feds Invading Chicago With Latest Tweet
If Trump is serious about reducing violence, he should consider tightening the nation’s gun laws.
0
Trump’s Politics of Repression Promise to Exacerbate Domestic and Global Problems
Trump’s presidency, with its emphasis on law and order, is trying to sell us the idea that a repressive society is a free society.
0
Trump’s Threatened Invasion of Chicago Aimed Squarely at African Americans
Jesse Jackson said what is needed is a plan but Trump has no plan, just a bunch of things he doesn’t like and a short enough fuse to make that a problem.
0
Truthers Be Damned: Today Marks 4th Anniversary of Sandy Hook Shooting
Many of the victims are our children, whom we send to school each morning without any guarantee they will return home safely – or alive.
0
A Nation in Shock: Paying Tribute to Our Consoler-in-Grief
A reminder of his greatness in times of grief as we face it once again. He has promised to lead us now, no less, and he will continue to give nothing short of his wholehearted very best.
0
Desperate GOP Uses Bullet-Ridden Wanted Poster to Save John McCain’s Senate Seat
In a state and country that knows the toll of gun violence too well, there is no room for invoking the use of firearms in our politics.
0
There Have Been 196 Shootings In The U.S. Since The Tragic Massacre In Orlando – When Will We Act?
How many more will die before America decides enough is enough?
0
Republicans Distract With Meaningless BS As 6 Americans Die In Kalamazoo Mass Shooting
While Republicans talk about things that are never going to happen, like repealing Obamacare and building a wall to Mexico, they are ignoring the serious and real problems all around them. Problems that are taking the lives of innocent people. Problems like gun violence.
0
Gun Owners Need Roe Vs. Wade
Ending Roe v Wade, a law that protects women from being discovered would also backfire and end the privacy of potential firearm owners
0
Ted Nugent Goes Full-On Jew Hater in Facebook Rant
Nugent posted a photo of prominent Jewish Americans to Facebook with the caption, “So who is really behind gun control?†and put an Israeli flag next to each of their faces
0
Ted Nugent Calls Obama a Racist Child-Killing Freak
Ted Nugent claims Obama is trying to kill children by creating gun-free zones but he’s the one refusing to keep guns out of the wrong hands
0
Apparently if You Don’t Call Them by Name, You Can Make Assault Weapons Go Away
A conservative radio host got Fox News’ Chris Wallace to agree to be misleading and vague by not using a term the gun industry first applied
0
Conservative Brain Abnormalities Inform That Gun Madness Is Here To Stay
To gun zealots, every mass shooting provides another undeniable and convincing argument that what America needs most is more guns, not less
0
Clinton, Sanders Stand With Planned Parenthood. Republicans Stand Silent After Shooting
The Democratic candidates stood with Planned Parenthood on Twitter, while Republicans mostly tried to ignore the shooting.
73
Roseburg Oregon Protesters Greet Obama With Guns In Hand And Confederate Flags Flying
A crowd of around 300 pro-gun protesters assembled outside the Roseburg airport to protest the President’s visit.
40
Sheriff Investigating Oregon Massacre Promoted Sandy Hook False Flag Conspiracy Video
Sheriff John Hanlin promoted a conspiracy video about the Sandy Hook shooting days after the Newtown, Connecticut massacre took place.
70
Trump’s Second Amendment Position Papers Are a White Gun Nut’s Wet Dream
Donald Trump neither read nor understood the Second Amendment but uses it as just an excuse for “law-abiding” folks to lock and load
65
With Donald Trump, the Nazis Seek to Finally Conquer America
Donald Trump is utilizing many of the same themes as Adolf Hitler, including a myth of betrayal, scapegoating, and ethnic nationalism
64
Where Is The Shame That The World Sees Americans As Racist And Extremists?
Everything bad about America that the rest of the world sees increasing, and Americans feel, is purely Republican and it is truly pathetic
30
Fox News’ Inability to See White Men with Guns a Danger to Us All
A party that invents “facts” and then claims all future discourse must be based on their fictional evidence should not be allowed on TV
45
Another Mass Shooting, but GOP Makes it Clear Some Lives Don’t Matter
Bill O’Reilly will not call for a law to protect movie-goers from white men carrying handguns in theaters. Because Second Amendment rights
54
The Rest Of The World Thinks Americans Should Be Ashamed
The Charleston massacre surprised some around the world who thought an African American President meant the nation’s days of racism were history
69
America Is Seriously Sick And There Is No Healing
Everyone from President Obama to the mayor of Charleston has made a specific point of saying the aftermath of a racially-motivated gun massacre of nine innocent and unarmed African Americans is a time for healing. Although they said the right thing, everyone is certainly sincere and they mean well, and they truly hope to comfort the victims’ families, survivors, and distressed Americans suffering the same pain, disgust, outrage, and sadness they feel after every other senseless gun slaughter. However, there is no healing for this sick, violent, and racist nation, and everyone knows it.
1
Michael Dunn’s Racism Couldn’t Be Hidden Behind Stand Your Ground
Although it is tragic that racial animus is not a prosecutable crime, there are instances when the result of racism can be prosecuted. Yesterday a Florida jury convicted a man for expressing racial animus with a firearm.
The Gettysburg Address 150 Years Ago And Now: Lincoln, Obama and The Great Task Remaining
One hundred fifty years later, President Lincoln’s Great Task remains uncompleted.
7
A Fearless President Obama Sets His Sights On The NRA
In his remarks on gun violence today, President Obama made it clear that he still standing tall and taking the fight to the NRA.
15
Nancy Pelosi Goes On Fox News and Obliterates The Video Games Cause Gun Violence Meme
Nancy Pelosi went on Fox News Sunday and absolutely destroyed the false premise that video games, not guns, are the main cause of gun violence.
71
A Contingent of Gun Fanatics Make Their Intention to Initiate a Revolutionary War Known
There is a contingent of gun fanatics driven by racial prejudice and gun lobby fear mongering who desperately long to initiate a revolutionary war over attempts to stop the senseless gun violence.
19
Just as you thought mass shooting stories couldn’t get more grotesque, 20 children are gunned down
Five decent, caring, dedicated and hard working adults were wiped out in Sandy Hook Elementary School by someone brandishing two 9mm pistols (a Glock and Sig Sauer) and a Bushmaster .223 AR-15 rifle. Tragically, 20 little boys and girls were also killed, either kindergartners or first graders. The school was populated by 5-10 year olds….
