These Evangelicals Are Turning AR-15s Into Garden Hoes
Mother Jones/Nathalie Baptiste Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In America, God and guns have gone hand in hand. Prominent white evangelicals like Jerry Falwell Jr., the president of the Liberty University, the largest evangelical university in the country, has bragged about carrying a gun in his back pocket. Robert Jeffress, the pastor of…
Gun Maker Complains That People Are Saying Mean Things About Its Products on Social Media
High school students protest outside the White House after the Santa Fe High School shooting in Texas.Erin Scott/Zuma Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. People are saying mean things about guns—and guns can’t defend themselves. That’s the message from Vista Outdoor, the $2.3 billion holding company that owns Savage Arms, one…
Texas’ Lieutenant Governor Uncovers the Cause of Mass Shootings: Abortion
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. What’s to blame for the recent spate of mass shootings? Ask an expert and they might point you to the persistent availability of high-powered weaponry, or, as my colleague Mark Follmnan has reported, even the media coverage of the shootings themselves. Domestic abuse and toxic…
One of The Country’s Most Powerful Police Chiefs Is Calling for Gun Control After the Texas School Shooting
Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo at the March for Our Lives on March 24.David J. Phillip/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The evening after a gunman killed 10 people at a high school in Santa Fe, Texas, Houston police chief Art Acevedo took to Facebook to write an impassioned plea…
Texas Governor Who Recently Blamed Gun Violence on Godlessness Now Says He’ll Do Something
Stuart Villanueva/The Galveston County Daily News/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. At a press briefing Friday afternoon, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who has traditionally been a staunch gun rights supporter, called the Santa Fe High School shooting the “worst disaster ever to strike this community” and said, this time, thoughts and prayers weren’t enough.…
“Enough Is Enough”: Here’s What Parkland Parents Are Saying About the Texas Massacre
Fred Guttenberg, father of Jaime Guttenberg, holds a picture of his daughter, who was murdered in Parkland.Jose A. Iglesias/Miami Herald via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday, 10 people were murdered and another 10 were injured when a gunman opened fire at Santa Fe High School near Houston. The…