Tag: mass shootings
A total of 34 people were gunned down in three cities. We can pretend that life has moved on, but the survivors of these mass shootings know differently.
Even out of office, President Obama continues to play the role of comforter in chief to a nation grieving after multiple mass shootings.
The NRA and its allies are losing their iron grip on Congress and state legislatures. Fewer politicians fear the wrath of the gun lobby.
America is mourning another 11 massacre victims, killed by a deranged man in Virginia wielding a semi-automatic weapon. And Congress will do nothing.
The death of New York City police detective Brian Simonsen, who was fatally wounded Feb. 12 in a friendly-fire incident, is tragic. The officers whose shots struck their fellow officers — not only killing Simonsen, ...
Democrats have introduced a new gun safety bill that would ban high-capacity magazines used in mass shootings. The bill has no Republican cosponors.
Besides his penchant for domestic abuse and his military background, another interesting connection emerged between the Sutherland Springs shooter and other recent killers. His weapon of choice was the AR-15, which seems to have become ...
There's a key difference in how personal tragedies are being used at either major party convention: grieving Republican speakers used tragedy as a reason to personally attack Hillary Clinton, while Democrats have used it to ...
Solving the problem would be relatively easy. The real problem is political — which is why no gun legislation with a serious chance of passing stands before Congress. The body counts, the gore, the all-too-vivid ...
The NRA said that laws allowing civilians to purchase the military-style semi-automatic assault rifle allegedly used by lone gunman Omar Mateen to murder 49 people at the Pulse gay nightclub early Sunday morning had nothing ...
