Why It Took Seven Years to Get One Statistic About Guns
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. It took seven long years to pry one staggering number from the hands of the federal government: that 52,529 weapons once owned by police were recovered at crime scenes across the country from 2006…
It Doesn’t Take a Conspiracy Theory to Explain Law Enforcement Incompetence
Nate Gowdy/Mother Jones Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. A notable trend over the last few years has been the Republican discovery of jail. I don’t just mean that a lot of Republicans have simply ended up there, although a number of them have.…
Trump Got Shot With an AR-15. Don’t Expect His Party to Support a Ban.
Matt Rourke/Associated Press Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Tuesday morning, just a few days after a lone 20-year-old climbed a roof in Butler, Pennsylvania, shot former President Donald Trump in the ear, and killed one person using an AR-15 rifle, attendees of…
Officials Would Like the Secret Service to Explain Itself
Secret service agents covered former president Donald Trump after a shooter opened fire, striking Trump, killing a spectator, and critically injuring two others.Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In the aftermath of the attempted assassination of former President Trump, there…
US Surgeon General Declares Gun Violence a Public Health Crisis
John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Tuesday, US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued a landmark advisory declaring gun violence a public health crisis in the United States and called for gun control measures to…
The Supreme Court Just Proved That Its Gun Rulings Have Been a Disaster
Supreme Court Justice Clarence ThomasEric Lee/CNP/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In 2022, in a decision penned by Justice Clarence Thomas, the Supreme Court announced a new approach to regulating firearms. Henceforth, the court declared in Bruen, gun laws would only pass Second…