The Pentagon Considers This Russian Sniper Rifle a Big Threat to US Soldiers. The NRA Helped Promote It.
In late 2016, the US Army released a report noting that the Russian military, through experience gained during fighting in Ukraine, was undergoing a transformation and becoming a more potent battlefield threat to American forces. One troublesome development identified by the report’s authors was the increased proficiency of Russian snipers. “The capabilities of a sniper…
Arming Teachers Has Already Led to a Slew of Gun Accidents in Schools
Police respond to the Parkland school shooting on February 14.RMV/ZUMA In his speech to the National Rifle Association on Friday, President Donald Trump embraced the gun lobby’s solution to school shootings: arming the “good guys,” like teachers and school police officers, with guns. “They love their students,” he told the group at its annual convention in…
Parkland Survivor Calls Trump a “Professional Liar” After NRA Speech
Michael Candelori, Zuma A survivor of the Parkland school shooting ripped into President Donald Trump on Saturday for his speech to the National Rifle Association a day earlier, calling the president a “professional liar.” Speaking on Friday at the NRA’s annual convention for the third time, Trump reaffirmed his loyalty to the gun lobby. “Your…
Democrats Recruited Two Sandy Hook Parents to Run for Congress. They Both Decided It Wasn’t Worth It.
Hockley, Barden, and other Sandy Hook parents ask New Jersey lawmakers to limit ammunition magazines to 10 bullets in 2013.Julio Cortez/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. For weeks, western Connecticut residents and national Democrats have been watching and waiting, speculating which of the two parents who lost their sons in the 2012 shooting at…
Police Seized the Waffle House Suspect’s Guns Months Ago. How Did He Get Them Back?
Police tape blocks off a Waffle House restaurant near Nashville, Tenn., where four people died after a gunman opened fire early April 22.Mark Humphrey/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Last August—eight months before Travis Reinking allegedly killed four people and wounded four others at a Tennessee Waffle House—Illinois law enforcement came…
How a Skeptical High School Teacher Learned to Take Teenagers Seriously
Mingo Nesmith/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This article first appeared on TomDispatch.com. During the first week of May 1963, more than 800 African-American students walked out of their classrooms and into the streets of Birmingham, Alabama, to call for an end to segregation. Despite frequent arrests and having dogs…