Fourteen-year-old Audrey Larson has a list of inventions to her credit, including glow-in-the-dark pajamas and a device that pets your dog. This year however she’s focused her ingenuity on a much more serious issue: school shootings.
Larson, a resident of …
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The National Rifle Association, the nation’s foremost gun-advocacy organization has filed a lawsuit against the state of New York for practices it says, is causing it irreparable harm. The actions are “a blatant attack on the First Amendment rights of …
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Massachusetts has become the latest state to allow law enforcement officials to remove firearms from individuals it deems to be a danger to themselves or to others. Governor Charlie Baker signed H. 4760 into law today, making The Bay State …
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The Broward County School District swiftly and unanimously voted down a measure this week that would arm teachers in hopes of defending students. The decision comes less than two months after the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, …
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Fox News host Laura Ingraham continues to face backlash after sending out a scathing tweet about Parkland shooting survivor, David Hogg, in which she seemingly mocked the 18-year-old activist for whining about not getting into the college of his …
Continue ReadingFormer Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum criticized protesters who took part in the March For Our Lives demonstration for gun control for not taking enough personal action to solve the problem of gun violence.
“How about kids instead of looking to …
Continue ReadingThe Department of Justice has submitted a notice to the Office of Management and Budget to expand the definition of “machinegun” to include any gun outfitted with “bump stocks.” President Trump had pledged to make the accessory illegal in the …
Continue ReadingPublic outcry from parents, students and lawmakers is causing Congress to consider stricter gun laws such as expanding the nation’s background check system to include purchases made at gun shows and over the internet.
Proponents of expanded background checks have …
Continue ReadingThe Executive Director of the National Rifle Association’s legislative arm contended that neither the President nor the Vice President want gun control after meeting with them earlier this week.
Chris Cox, head of the organization’s lobbying unit, took to Twitter …
Continue ReadingA meeting the President had on guns with members of Congress at the White House yesterday has left Democrats optimistic and Republican flummoxed, on what, if any legislative fixes Congress can pass to address gun violence. The President flouted Republican …
Continue ReadingFederal Express, the worldwide package delivery service, has announced that it will not be severing ties with the National Rifle Association, despite public demands for it to do so. In the wake of the deadly Parkland, FL, school shooting, many …
Continue ReadingBrian Entin, a reporter for WSVN News in Miami, Florida, spoke with a seasoned medical first responder who was among the first to arrive on the scene of the Parkland school shooting that took place on February 14.
The responder …
Continue ReadingThe NRA has made it clear that they do not back any specific plan to raise the age for individuals wishing to purchase assault rifles from 18 to 21. “The NRA doesn’t back any plan,” spokeswoman Dana Loesch said during …
Continue ReadingThe National Rifle Association has responded to the boycott of several U.S. corporations calling it a “shameful display of political and civic cowardice.”
“The law-abiding members of the NRA had nothing at all to do with the failure of that …
Continue ReadingIt is being reported that up to four Broward County Sheriff’s deputies failed to enter the building where the Parkland, FL, shooting was taking place last week, taking up positions instead, behind their vehicles outside the school with their guns …
Continue ReadingSheriff Richard Jones of Butler Country, Ohio, has already begun the process of training local teachers in firearm proficiency, he wrote on Twitter this week. Jones framed the announcement as local action against the backdrop of government inaction.
“Our teachers …
Continue ReadingAn increasing number of corporations are ending their relationships with the National Rifle Association in the wake of a deadly school shooting that killed seventeen in Parkland, FL, earlier this month.
Hertz, Avis, Enterprise, Alamo and National Car Rental …
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