Saturday, December 21, 2024

Tag: gun reform

Georgia school shooting sparks renewed debate over gun control and safety...

With the suspect now in custody, questions about gun safety, political will, and legislative inaction are dominating the conversation.

America needs to confront its culture of guns and fear

raising the next generation of kids with fewer guns on the streets, more restrictive gun laws on the books, and a healthy sense of skepticism about mass media may be the best recipe to fight back against a culture of guns and fear.

Why going “hard” is taking the easy way out

Hardening schools and arming teachers Is the wrong approach.

Why escalation is the best response in moments of crises

To win on gun violence and abortion, activists must engage in actions of escalation that match the public’s distress.

Google says it bans gun ads. It actually makes money from...

The tech giant has long boasted that it doesn’t accept ads for firearms, but a ProPublica analysis shows that Google’s ad systems served up more than 100 million ads from gun makers.

At March for Our Lives, a call for a nationwide strike...

“Avoid attending school if your leaders fail to do the job.”

WATCH: Mother of Buffalo victim invites lawmakers to help ‘clean’ son’s...

"My son, Zaire, has a hole in the right side of his neck, two on his back, and another on his left leg," said Zeneta Everhart. "Now I want you to picture that exact scenario for one of your children."

‘Radical and disgusting stance’: 44% of GOP voters think US just...

Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal responded that she cannot "accept children being gunned down in classrooms and mass shootings in grocery stores, salons, and places of worship."

Republicans, complicit in mass shootings, aiding & abetting domestic terrorists

We're going to find out before long, not whether America is an exceptional, indispensable nation but, rather, whether it can still be called a civilized nation.

Firearm stocks spike after mass shootings as investors dismiss the chance...

Mass shootings occur with such frequency that we can no longer implement this kind of analysis looking at the effect of isolated incidents and the stock market effect on gun companies.

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Teamsters launch largest strike against Amazon in US history to demand fair wages and...

Amazon workers launch historic nationwide strike, demanding better wages, safer conditions, and union recognition from the $2 trillion corporation.

Pregnant woman in labor cited under Kentucky anti-homelessness law

Pregnant homeless woman in labor ticketed under Kentucky’s anti-camping law, sparking national outrage over the criminalization of homelessness.

Elon Musk for Speaker of the House? Republicans float billionaire amid spending bill fight

Republicans propose Elon Musk as Speaker of the House after his role in sinking a spending bill, raising unprecedented ethical and governance concerns.

Syria’s new fundamentalist government: Women ‘biologically’ unsuited to politics, universities to be segregated

The comments provoked a firestorm of protest among Syrian women and, well, non-fundamentalists.

Israeli soldiers enforce kill zone in Gaza, targeting civilians and leaving bodies to rot

Israeli forces implement open-fire policies in Gaza’s Netzarim Corridor, targeting civilians and leaving corpses uncollected as a warning to others.