Weeks After a School Shooting, Tennessee Lawmakers Ended Their Session Early Without Any Gun Reforms
Protesters in Nashville carry empty caskets to the Tennessee Capitol on April 17. Michael Nigro/Sipa USA via AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Tennessee’s Republican lawmakers ended the legislative session early on Friday without taking action on gun control, less than a month after…
Louisville Mass Shooter Is the Seventh in 11 Months to Open Fire With an AR-15
Mother Jones; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.With Nashville still reeling from a devastating mass shooting two weeks ago at an elementary school, the latest such carnage in America, unleashed inside a Louisville bank on Monday, featured the same type of highly lethal…
It’s Time to Harden the Schools. No, Really.
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Last month, in the wake of the school shooting in Nashville that killed six people, Congressman Tim Burchett (R.-Tenn.) said in an interview that went viral, “If you think Washington is going to fix this…
How a Weapon of War Has Worsened the Mass Shootings Epidemic
Mother Jones; Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.It was a grim but not terribly surprising coincidence. Last Monday morning, just a few hours after the Washington Post published a new series on the popular semiautomatic rifles known as AR-15s, a suicidal 28-year-old used…
Republicans Are Trying to Link Mass Shootings to Trans People
Tucker Carlson alleges there is a rising wave of trans terrorism, following the March 2023 school shooting in Nashville that killed six people. The vast majority of mass shootings are carried out by men believed to be cisgender.Fox News Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that…
Suspect Is Still at Large in Mass Shooting at LA-Area Ballroom
Jae C. Hong/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A gunman opened fire Saturday night at a ballroom dance studio in Monterey Park, California, killing at least 10 people and injuring 10 others in the deadliest mass shooting in the United States since the Uvalde…