All posts tagged "Gun Violence"

WASHINGTON — Top Trump administration officials have challenged long-held GOP orthodoxy on the Second Amendment in recent weeks — bringing condemnation from gun rights groups but notably not Republicans in Congress.

Democrats say this is yet another example of a dangerously divisive hypocrisy that holds the left and right to different standards.

“What we're seeing is complete hypocrisy. It's both stunning and crazy,” Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) told Raw Story at the Capitol this week. ...

The mass shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis on Wednesday in which two children were killed and 17 people injured was simply yet another product of too-lax gun laws, said a teacher who survived the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting nearly 13 years ago.

Abbey Clements, now executive director of Teachers Unify to End Gun Violence, spoke to Raw Story the day after a 23-year-old shooter fired into the church at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis.

The children at the Pre-K-through-eighth-grade school were attending mass. ...

Google no longer lists the National Rifle Association as a "human rights group" following a Raw Story article last week that highlighted Google's own search description of the gun rights organization.

Google did not return Raw Story requests for comments about the change, which affects the NRA's prominently placed "knowledge panel" — a Google-generated box containing descriptive and statistical information that appears when someone searches for the group.

"Human rights group” has been listed immediately below the NRA’s name and next to the organization’s logo....

After a mass shooting at a splash pad in Oakland County over the weekend, metro Detroit faith leaders gathered on Tuesday in Southfield to call for an end to gun violence.

At the Brooklands Plaza Splash Pad in Rochester Hills on Saturday, a gunman opened fire on children and parents, leaving nine people wounded, including two children.

The news conference was held at St. David’s Episcopal Church and the group announced a series of gun buybacks scheduled this summer. The buybacks will feature on-site destruction of donated firearms. ...

A Georgia gun shop owner has reportedly decided that he can't in good conscience continue to run the store with the knowledge that the weapons he sells could one day be used to target children, NBC News reports.

Jon Waldman said business at his Georgia Ballistics shop in the Atlanta suburb of Duluth has been steady since he opened it in March 2021, but the mass shooting epidemic compelled him to close shop.

Waldman said the March 27 shooting at a Nashville Christian school and the May 3 shooting at an Atlanta hospital were the last straws for him. The 43-year-old has already shuttered his store and expects to have all the weapons cleared out by June 15....

Most everyday Republicans and those with guns in their home support implementing new gun restrictions including background check enhancements, putting them at odds with the Republicans in Congress who claim to represent their constituents, according to an analysis from the Washington Post.

In the world of lawmaking, Republicans have consistently shut down Democrats who tried to expand gun restrictions, such as by requiring background checks at gun shows, but outside of Washington, D.C., the polling tells a different story, according to a review by Washington Post national columnist Philip Bump. In the U.S., it has also been argued that people who own guns need significantly more training.

Bump pointed to polling by Fox News to support his point, noting that it "has been consistently good, to the extent, in fact, that the network often seems to downplay its own unfavorable poll findings."...