Homicides using guns up 31 percent, CDC finds
In 2016, the number of homicides involving firearms was eight times the number of those involving cutting and 30 times those involving suffocation.
Here’s How Much The NRA Spent To Help Get Trump Elected
At 10 p.m. PST on Sunday, October 1, a gunman opened fire on the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada, leaving at least 50 dead and over 400 injured in local hospitals. This horrific act is now the deadliest shooting in modern American…
‘Thoughts and prayers’ — and fistfuls of NRA money: Why America can’t control guns
NRA political contributions are the reason America can’t control guns.
Why more than 100 gun control proposals in Congress since 2011 have failed
None of the proposed legislation became law and very few of the proposals even made it to the House or Senate floor
Florida sheriff comes out against arming teachers: ‘Teachers should teach’
Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel: “I don’t believe teachers should be armed ... but that’s exactly what’s wrong with this country. We have people in Washington ... telling teachers what they should do without asking teachers, ‘What do you want to do?’” https://t.co/wuQCMXg1My
Trump’s Budget Cuts Millions Of Dollars From Gun Background Check System
This would “significantly undermine” efforts to keep firearms out of dangerous hands, gun control advocates say.
Trump repeals an Obama regulation keeping guns from people with certain mental health conditions
The decision is a significant step for gun rights.
Guns & Suicide
Special report by Madeline Drexler, Editor, Harvard Public Health In the national debate over gun violence—a debate stoked by mass murders such as last December’s tragedy in a Newtown, Connecticut,…
The macabre truth of gun control in the US is that toddlers kill more people than terrorists do | Lindy West
Last week, a Florida gun rights activist was shot in the back by her four-year-old son. How much longer will we keep participating in the collective lie that deadly weapons keep us safe?
America’s Top Killing Machine
Gun deaths are poised to surpass automobile deaths in the United States this year.
Firearms 100 times more likely to kill women than protect them, according to new data
The National Rifle Association has claimed that free access to firearms make women safer, arguing that women need guns to protect themselves from robbers, potential rapists, and domestic abusers. A…
“Where there are more guns, more women die”: A Harvard public health expert breaks down the data on firearms and women’s safety
Dr. Deborah Azrael explains what decades of research can tell us about guns, women and myths of self-defense
Want to Know How the Cops Actually Trace a Gun?
It happens here, in a massive West Virginia building, in the most absurd way possible.
How the NRA Hobbled the ATF
Rules pushed by the gun lobby and its allies in Congress have left the agency unable to enforce the law.
The NRA has blocked gun violence research for 20 years. Let’s end its stranglehold on science.
The NRA got Congress to kill federal funding on gun violence; it’s time to end the ban