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Mass Shootings
August 30, 2023
Ella Sherman
UNC Student Paper Front Page Captures Horrors of Living Through School Shooting
The Daily Tar Heel showed exactly what students were feeling as an active shooter was on their campus.
August 28, 2023
Tori Otten
Ron DeSantis Booed at Vigil for Victims of Racist Shooting in Florida
What exactly did the Florida governor think was going to happen here?
July 5, 2023
Tori Otten
Republicans Are Already Blaming Trans People for the Philadelphia Shooting
There is no evidence that the mass shooter was trans, but that isn’t stopping the far right.
May 9, 2023
Tori Otten
America Is So Broken the FBI Has Created a Video on How to Survive Mass Shootings
The video puts the onus on people to learn how to avoid being killed.
May 8, 2023
Prem Thakker
Texas Republicans Move to Weaken Gun Laws After 8 People Were Mowed Down at a Mall
Not only are Republicans opposing gun reform, they’re also moving to further loosen existing gun law.
May 8, 2023
Prem Thakker
Texas Legislature Finally Advances “Raise the Age” Bill for Semiautomatic Guns After Mass Shooting
Two Republicans had enough of a spine to support the bill. Five looked the victims’ families right in the eye and told them to buzz off.
May 8, 2023
Tori Otten
Random Shootings Have Skyrocketed Since Texas Eased Gun Laws
It’s not exactly rocket science.
May 8, 2023
Brynn Tannehill
Now America Is #1 in Something Else: Crazy Random Shootings
Take 330 million people, 400 million guns, and a media that induces paranoia and glorifies gun violence, and, well, what do you expect?
May 7, 2023
Michael Tomasky
The Gun Industry Wants America’s Malls and Schools to Be War Zones
The bodies pile up. Republicans say it’s in God’s hands. And the new weapons coming to market are even deadlier. There’s only one logical conclusion.
May 3, 2023
Tori Otten
Raphael Warnock Warns It’s Only a “Matter of Time” Before a Mass Shooting Affects You
The Georgia senator revealed that his own children were on lockdown amid the Atlanta shooting.
May 3, 2023
Tori Otten
Atlanta Is the 190th Mass Shooting of 2023
America is on a record pace for shootings.
April 19, 2023
Rich Logis
I Carry a Firearm Every Day. Yes, the Second Amendment Is Killing Us
The GOP is deluding its base with a false and ahistorical version of our Founders’ intentions, and it’s up to responsible gun owners to speak up.
April 17, 2023
Tori Otten
Tennessee House Speaker Faces Growing Calls to Resign
How it started, how’s it going: Cameron Sexton, who led the charge against the “Tennessee Three,” is suddenly in a spot of bother himself.
April 11, 2023
Tori Otten
Tennessee’s Governor Says He Wants a Red Flag Law. Here’s How to Tell Whether He Means It.
If Bill Lee is serious, after the two weeks of chaos in his state, he could actually make it happen.
April 10, 2023
Brynn Tannehill
The Grim Truth: The War on Guns Is Lost
There are more unregistered guns in this country than are possessed by the Pentagon, DHS, and police departments combined. And Republicans want more of them.
April 10, 2023
Prem Thakker
Kentucky Made It Easier to Evade Federal Gun Laws Days Before Louisville Shooting
Kentucky declared itself a “Second Amendment sanctuary state” and rolled back gun control restrictions.
April 10, 2023
Prem Thakker
5 Dead, 8 Wounded After Mass Shooting in Louisville, Kentucky
This comes as the nation is still reeling from another mass shooting in Nashville, Tennessee.
April 4, 2023
Prem Thakker
Tennessee Republican Reportedly Assaults Democratic Lawmaker Amid Gun Violence Protests in Capitol
Before this, Lafferty was perhaps best known for defending the three-fifths compromise. And the lawmaker he seems to have assaulted is Black.
April 3, 2023
Prem Thakker
Tennessee Republicans Are Trying to Expel Three House Democrats for Siding With Kids on Gun Control
The Democrats have already been stripped of their committee assignments.
April 3, 2023
Tori Otten
Thousands of Students Walk Out to Demand Gun Control After Nashville Shooting
“We all just want to live through high school.”
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