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I Sat Next To A Gun 'Fanatic' On A Plane. When I Told Him What My Job Is, Things Got Interesting.
1 year, 2 months ago

I Sat Next To A Gun 'Fanatic' On A Plane. When I Told Him What My Job Is, Things Got Interesting.

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"I doubt I could’ve changed Rick’s views, even if we’d talk for an entire international flight," the author writes. So, although Rick was saddened by recent mass shootings, he couldn’t conjure what could be done to prevent them or offer any tangible ways to address, much less reform, our country’s gun culture. But though Rick deserves credit for practicing secure …

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'It's sick!': Morning Joe flips out on Texas Gov. Abbott for pushing for more guns on the streets
1 year, 7 months ago

'It's sick!': Morning Joe flips out on Texas Gov. Abbott for pushing for more guns on the streets

Raw Story  

A very emotional Joe Scarborough dropped the hammer on Texas Gov. Greg Abbott over comments he made following yet another mass shooting in Texas where he ducked saying anything about dealing with his state's gun problem. Monday's "Morning Joe" kicked off with a clip of a survivor — a former police officer — of the Allen, Texas, shooting that took …

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Column: Trump and the NRA might be right about guns — and we mostly have ourselves to blame
1 year, 8 months ago

Column: Trump and the NRA might be right about guns — and we mostly have ourselves to blame

LA Times  

The first sign that he was coming was the squeal from a middle-aged woman sitting across the aisle in skintight red, white and blue pants and “U.S.A.” earrings. It’s not because of the nonsense I heard longtime NRA Chief Executive Wayne LaPierre spout, including that the Founding Fathers created the 2nd Amendment so that, from “the day you’re born,” Americans …

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Opinion: America's shameful obsession with guns
1 year, 8 months ago

Opinion: America's shameful obsession with guns

NPR  

Opinion: America's shameful obsession with guns Enlarge this image toggle caption Seth Herald/Getty Images Seth Herald/Getty Images There are nearly 400 million civilian-owned guns in the U.S., according to an estimate by the Small Arms Survey. Sponsor Message There have already been 131 mass shootings across America this year, according to The Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit group that tracks …

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When gun violence came to my school, the district added even more guns
1 year, 8 months ago

When gun violence came to my school, the district added even more guns

Salon  

This week, it was Nashville. A mere day after the incident, the Denver School Board unanimously decided to allow armed police officers back into the city's high schools. Three years ago, the Denver School Board kicked armed officers out of schools following the murder of George Floyd. Denverite writes, "two mental health professionals will be" at high schools, along with …

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Shootings spiked during the pandemic. The spike now looks like a 'new normal'
2 years, 3 months ago

Shootings spiked during the pandemic. The spike now looks like a 'new normal'

NPR  

Shootings spiked during the pandemic. "I lost a couple of people around that time, due to gun violence," says LaMaria Pope, who works for a youth outreach program in the Seattle area called "Choose 180." Enlarge this image toggle caption Martin Kaste/NPR Martin Kaste/NPR "I live in West Seattle and I've never felt, like, leaving my house, I was in …

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States with strict gun-permitting laws consider next steps
2 years, 6 months ago

States with strict gun-permitting laws consider next steps

Associated Press  

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a New York state law that had restricted who could obtain a permit to carry a gun in public. A rundown of the similar laws in the other states, reaction to the Supreme Court ruling and what could happen next: CALIFORNIA The court’s ruling invalidated the “good cause” requirement in California’s permitting …

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Granderson: Black votes count, even if results seem scarce
2 years, 6 months ago

Granderson: Black votes count, even if results seem scarce

LA Times  

We could keep building makeshift memorials at the sites of more and more mass shootings. Even as we learn more details about the mass shooter in Uvalde, Texas — the mental health red flags, how the low age requirement for purchasing assault weapons helped him — when asked whether mass shootings were something we could “prevent and stop if we …

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U.S. gun laws are causing mayhem and mass murder — and Republicans couldn't be more thrilled
2 years, 6 months ago

U.S. gun laws are causing mayhem and mass murder — and Republicans couldn't be more thrilled

Salon  

After reassuring multiple people by text that my partner and I had been tucked safely in bed at 11:30 on Saturday night, I finally cracked and posted a general reassurance on Facebook. Dramatic gun violence really helps sell this message, which is why Republicans are guaranteed to block any bill that would make it even slightly harder for violent and …

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So where were the "good guys with guns"? Standing around doing jacks**t, as usual
2 years, 6 months ago

So where were the "good guys with guns"? Standing around doing jacks**t, as usual

Salon  

Nearly 10 years have passed since the last school shooting that killed as many children as were murdered in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday. In Uvalde, the "good guys with guns" wearing police uniforms stood around for almost an hour before storming a classroom and killing the murderer of 19 children and two teachers. No matter which figure you use, that's …

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Too Many Doors And Liberal Teachers: Here's What The GOP Blames For The Uvalde Shooting
2 years, 6 months ago

Too Many Doors And Liberal Teachers: Here's What The GOP Blames For The Uvalde Shooting

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LOADING ERROR LOADING Republicans have been tying themselves into knots since the Uvalde massacre in Texas to insist that guns aren’t a problem in mass shootings. He said that schools would be better protected by “having one door that goes in and out of the school having armed police officers at that one door.” The one-door theory isn’t new. She …

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Texas school shooting: The right responds to massacre by calling for more guns
2 years, 7 months ago

Texas school shooting: The right responds to massacre by calling for more guns

Salon  

10 days after an 18-year-old male, clad in body armor and wielding a semi-automatic weapon, walked into a grocery store in Buffalo and killed 11 people, targeting ten Black patrons, another 18-year-old male, wielding a fully loaded weapon walked into an elementary school in Uvalde Texas and killed 22 people, 19 of them children under the age of 10. As …

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Sales Of Guns To First Time Owners Rise Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
4 years, 5 months ago

Sales Of Guns To First Time Owners Rise Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

NPR  

Sales Of Guns To First Time Owners Rise Amid COVID-19 Pandemic Gun sales have hit new records as the country grapples with a pandemic and protests. But unlike previous spikes, it's not gun enthusiasts driving sales, but rather first time gun owners. Now, usually when gun sales spike, it's because gun enthusiasts think that stricter gun control might be coming, …

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