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.
The Biden administration will be awarding economic grants to communities impacted by gun violence as a way to prevent crime and increase opportunity.
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.
President Biden announced 13 new actions to reduce gun violence on the one year anniversary of the Buffalo mass shooting.
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.
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.
Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) called Republicans cowards and got into a shouting match with Rep. Thomas Massie on gun violence.
The gun, in many ways these days, has become the symbol and means of tyranny, a tool for taking down democracy.
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.
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…
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.
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…
Speaker Pelosi called out Majority Leader McConnell for refusing to lift a finger to pass legislation to protect kids from gun violence.
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…
Sarah Huckabee Sanders is trying to con the American people into believing that Trump may do something about guns.
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.
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.
“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.”
“This one is the 18th school shooting just this year … Congress has been complicit. Congress bears responsibility.”
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.
“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.
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.
The grieving people of Sutherland Springs were treated to the same old rhetoric that blames everything – laws, bureaucracy, and mental health – other than guns.
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.
“Political survival – what? Who cares? We’re talking about the lives of the American people.”
“The time is always right to do what is right. We waited too long. How many more people will die?”
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.
“This silence has become unintentional endorsement. It’s become a kind of sick complicity.”
Nugent said – with a straight face – that he is “100% against any harm to any human beings.”
“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.”
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.
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.
If Trump is serious about reducing violence, he should consider tightening the nation’s gun laws.
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.
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.
Many of the victims are our children, whom we send to school each morning without any guarantee they will return home safely – or alive.
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.
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.
How many more will die before America decides enough is enough?
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.
Ending Roe v Wade, a law that protects women from being discovered would also backfire and end the privacy of potential firearm owners
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
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
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
To gun zealots, every mass shooting provides another undeniable and convincing argument that what America needs most is more guns, not less
The Democratic candidates stood with Planned Parenthood on Twitter, while Republicans mostly tried to ignore the shooting.
A crowd of around 300 pro-gun protesters assembled outside the Roseburg airport to protest the President’s visit.
Sheriff John Hanlin promoted a conspiracy video about the Sandy Hook shooting days after the Newtown, Connecticut massacre took place.
Donald Trump neither read nor understood the Second Amendment but uses it as just an excuse for “law-abiding” folks to lock and load
Donald Trump is utilizing many of the same themes as Adolf Hitler, including a myth of betrayal, scapegoating, and ethnic nationalism
Everything bad about America that the rest of the world sees increasing, and Americans feel, is purely Republican and it is truly pathetic
A party that invents “facts” and then claims all future discourse must be based on their fictional evidence should not be allowed on TV
Bill O’Reilly will not call for a law to protect movie-goers from white men carrying handguns in theaters. Because Second Amendment rights
The Charleston massacre surprised some around the world who thought an African American President meant the nation’s days of racism were history
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.
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.
One hundred fifty years later, President Lincoln’s Great Task remains uncompleted.
In his remarks on gun violence today, President Obama made it clear that he still standing tall and taking the fight to the NRA.
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.
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.
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….