Students Across the Country Are Walking Out of School Today to Demand Action on Guns
Glen Stubbe/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Students across the United States will participate in coordinated school walkouts Wednesday morning to protest gun violence and call on Congress to enact stricter gun legislation after the Parkland, Florida, shooting that occurred exactly one month ago. The historic demonstrations will start at 10…
This Is the Legal Thicket the NRA Has Created to Make It Impossible to Study Gun Violence
boonchai wedmakawand/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Since the shooting that left 17 people dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, last month, several states have been scrambling to enact legislation that might prevent gun violence—at least on a mass scale. But the lack of research on the federal…
White House Won’t Seek to Raise Minimum Age to Purchase Guns After All
Karen Grigoryan/Shutterstock Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In response to the Parkland shooting last month that left 17 dead, the White House has announced its plan of action that stops short of any major changes to gun laws or imposing a minimum-age requirement that would have drawn opposition from the gun lobby. The…
“What Really Stresses Me Out Is the Fact That I Might Die in This Building”
Mother Jones illustration; kieferpix/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This article first appeared on TomDispatch.com. “It was no surprise to anyone who knew him to hear that he was the shooter.”—Emma Gonzalez, Senior, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Over the past three weeks, the impassioned voices and steadfast demands of…
The NRA Just Sued Florida for Raising the Minimum Age to Purchase a Gun
Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference.Ron Sachs/CNP via ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It only took a few hours for the NRA to sue Florida officials after Gov. Rick Scott signed a law that raised the minimum age…
Children Pay the Price for America’s Addiction to Gun Violence
kali9/Stock / Getty Images Plus Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In the last two decades, more than 150,000 kids at more than 170 elementary, middle, and high schools have experienced a shooting on campus. A new report from the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence suggests those kids, as well as those who encounter…