Gun Violence
A record number of mass shootings in the US has sparked a passionate new call for gun control reform.
They didn’t get the vote they wanted on gun control.
Social media is changing the game for both politicians and the media.
The Senate’s filibuster and the House’s sit-in are powerful statements, but they’re missing the mark.
The man claims Mateen felt “rejected” and “used” by gay Latino men at Pulse in particular.
Democrats took over the House floor Wednesday. Late Wednesday night they hadn’t given up.
The biggest sign yet that Trump isn’t remaking the GOP in his image.
In the course of a gun control filibuster in the Senate, there were 36 shootings — or one every 23 minutes.
There was a time in our history when limiting the possession of guns meant limiting our liberty. But now?
Female MP’s get daily rape and death threats. That’s relevant in light of Jo Cox’s murder, whatever the assassin’s motivation was.
One more way the stakes of the 2016 election are high.
Gun control?
“I’m here because those 49 people were gay. I’m here because it shouldn’t matter. But I’m here because it does.”
These are the names of the 1,065 people who’ve died in mass shootings between Sandy Hook and Orlando. Don’t forget them.
Stop talking about mental health after mass shootings. Start talking about domestic violence.
Some say the prevalence of gun violence defines America. Here’s a visual representation of that.
The same gun was used in San Bernardino, Newtown, and Aurora.
“Because of the National Rifle Association, I cannot prohibit [suspected terrorists] from buying a gun.”
Over the last several years, Democrats have settled on a gun-control agenda that focuses on keeping “dangerous people” from having guns, rather than banning guns entirely.
“Devastating.” “Horrific.”
The point of government is to respond to these types of tragedies.
Igor Volsky explains his previous tweetstorm.
As if it wasn’t already tragic enough.
This is a problem. And we ignore it.
Rice was playing at a park with a toy pellet gun when Cleveland police officer Timothy Loehmann shot and killed him.
Algorithms don’t create our Facebook echo chambers — we do.
A misleading call could lead to jail time.
After a massacre killed 35 people, Australia took action.
It’s the 44th mass shooting of 2016.
The FBI wants Apple to help solve one of the biggest mysteries of the December attack. Apple says doing so could eventually endanger all its customers.
The comedian dismantles “black progress” in two paragraphs.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called the news “every parent’s worst nightmare.”
Republicans need to talk about this.
We drive up to the spot, and as soon as my brother kills the engine, we are surrounded by uniformed cops with drawn guns. One cop is telling my brother to get out of the driver’s seat with his hands up.
A legal justification doesn’t mean the shooting was okay.
The people who say they’re most worried about terrorism are also more likely to say the solution is for Americans to carry more guns.
He said he had a bomb and that there were radio-controlled explosives stationed throughout the city. He said Sydney was under attack by Islamic State.
“Over and over and over again, through well over a hundred relatives of the fallen, each one equally broken, wrecked by the loss.”
Right now, the federal government is willfully ignorant about guns.