Gun Violence

Guns Now Kill More People Than Cars in 10 States

Richard Schiffman | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Gun Violence, Highways, Trayvon Martin, Car Safety, Gun Control, Handguns, Nra, Senator Chuck Schumer, Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, Guns, Politics News
Richard Schiffman

The evidence is clear -- the more guns are out there, the more likely they will be used to take a life. To cut these escalating death rates, we need to strictly restrict access to handguns, as they do in virtually every other advanced nation on earth.

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We Must Choose Nonviolence

Rev. Jesse Jackson | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Gun Violence, Chicago Gun Violence, African Americans, Chicago Crime, Nato Summit, Chicago News
Rev. Jesse Jackson

Making our neighborhoods safe won't be easy. We need to provide the young with the best, not the worst, educational opportunities. We need the police to make protecting the citizens of those streets a greater priority.

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Protecting Marissa at the Expense of the Next Trayvon

Josh Horwitz | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Gun Violence, National Rifle Association, Stand Your Ground, George Zimmerman, Stand Your Ground Law, Trayvon Martin, Gun Control, Florida, Marissa Alexander, Domestic Violence, Trayvon Martin Shooting, Guns, Mandatory Minimums, Trayvon Martin Case, Marissa Alexander Case, Politics News
Josh Horwitz

Like George Zimmerman, Marissa Alexander discharged her weapon in Florida. Unlike Zimmerman, she was immediately arrested, despite that she did not kill or injure anyone. Moreover, a judge and jury rejected Alexander's "Stand Your Ground" defense, while Zimmerman might never see trial because of it.

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Some State AGs Would Rather Please the NRA Than Enforce the Law

Dennis A. Henigan | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Montana, Gun Violence, National Rifle Association, George Zimmerman, Mark Begich, State Attorneys General, Trayvon Martin, Concealed Carry, Gun Control, Florida, John Thune, Nra, David Vitter, Guns, Concealed Carry Laws, H.R. 822, Politics News
Dennis A. Henigan

The letter signed by 23 state Attorneys General in support of the National Rifle Association's bill to nationalize concealed carry of handguns suggests that, for those public officials, pandering to the gun lobby is far more important than doing the job they were sworn to perform.

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Gun Deaths Exceed Motor Vehicle Deaths in 10 States

Josh Sugarmann | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Gun Violence, Gun Violence Prevention, Violence Policy Center, Motor Vehicle Deaths, Gun Deaths, Public Health, Nhtsa, Gun Violence Reduction, Politics News
Josh Sugarmann

Each day, how many motor vehicles do you see or actually use? You probably couldn't keep track. Now, how about guns. How many do you see or actually use during the same period? For most people, not that many. If any at all. And yet, in 10 states gun deaths actually outpace motor vehicle deaths.

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The Death Penalty is the Tip of America's Human Rights Iceberg

David A. Love | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Gun Violence, Voter ID Laws, Criminal Justice, Death Penalty, Human Rights, Lethal Injection, Income Inequality, Crime, Civil Rights, Power & Politics, Black Voices News
David A. Love

There's a buzz about the death penalty in America these days and nearly all of the conversation focuses not on how to maintain the practice, but on abolition. Faced with the high cost, lack of deterrent effect and the inevitability of executing innocent people, some states are taking another look.

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The VA Tells the Truth About Guns. The NRA Can't Handle It.

Dennis A. Henigan | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Gun Violence, Department of Veterans Affairs, National Rifle Association, Military, Armed Forces, Veterans Administration, Suicide, Gun Control, Nra, Guns, Defense Department, Veterans, Politics News
Dennis A. Henigan

The VA has done nothing more than give sound advice based on the best medical and public health knowledge about the risks of guns. For doing so, it now faces the wrath of the gun lobby.

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WATCH: Angelenos Turn In Guns For Mother's Day

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 05.14.2012

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Guns may be mothers' least favorite household item. For some, their Mother's Day gift this year was having that item removed from the house. Los An...

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Trayvon Martin's Mother Releases A Mother's Day Video

The Huffington Post | Gene Demby | Posted 05.11.2012

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Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, released a Mother's Day video urging viewers to press lawmakers to reconsider their support for controve...

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Father And Son Die In Thornton Shooting

Posted 05.10.2012

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Thornton Police are investigating a Tuesday morning shooting that has claimed the lives of a father and his 4-year-old son. The father, 30-year-ol...

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Holder, Fast and Furious, and the Double Standard

Lanny Davis | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Gun Violence, Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, Operation Fast and Furious, Darrell Issa, Atf, Gun Trafficking, Eric Holder, Mexico, Fast and Furious, Eric Holder Fast and Furious, Gun Walking, Guns, Illegal Guns, Politics News
Lanny Davis

Attorney General Eric Holder has been the subject of vicious partisan personal attacks on his integrity over the failed "gun walking" operation, "Fast and Furious." The hypocrisy of the double standard by congressional Republicans is obvious.

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Police Believe Neo-Nazi killed 4, Himself

AP | AMANDA LEE MYERS | Posted 05.05.2012

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PHOENIX — The U.S. Border Guard was among the last known groups of armed civilians actively patrolling the Arizona desert on the lookout for ill...

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"Second Amendment" Vigilantes Systematically Dismantling Our Rights

Josh Horwitz | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Second Amendment, George Zimmerman, Landon Jorgensen, National Rifle Association, Democratic Republic of Congo, Trayvon Martin, Vigilantes, Jean-Joseph-Kalonji, Angelica-Kalonji, Jill Lepore, Trayvon Martin Shooting, Gun Violence, Gun Control, Guns, Politics News
Josh Horwitz

Unarmed Americans nationwide are now finding themselves in the line of fire because of a pro-gun movement predicated on devaluing the role of government and the rule of law. It's a sad statement when a teenager can no longer safely venture outside to buy a bag of Skittles.

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Police: Armored Gunman Kills 5 In Arizona

AP | AMANDA LEE MYERS | Posted 05.04.2012

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GILBERT, Ariz. — Many considered Jason Todd Ready to be the most high-profile neo-Nazi in Arizona. He led groups of heavily armed civilians into...

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Why the NRA Wants the Trayvon Martin Case to Go Away

Dennis A. Henigan | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Gun Violence, Shoot First, Stand Your Ground, Florida, National Rifle Association, Concealed Carry, Trayvon Martin, Brady Campaign, Trayvon Martin Shooting, George Zimmerman, Nra, Guns, Politics News
Dennis A. Henigan

In a real sense, Trayvon Martin's death at the hands of George Zimmerman exposes the mythology of the NRA's core narrative about guns and self-defense.

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"Controlling" the Gun Debate: An Open Letter to All Pollsters

Margie Omero | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Gun Violence, Politics, Pollster Analysis, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Polling, Pew Research Center, Gallup, Guns, Illegal Guns, Gun Safety, Pollster, Politics News
Margie Omero

By not revisiting their question language, polling outlets are actually influencing the debate by suggesting there is less support for stronger gun laws than actually exists.

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God And Guns At Walmart

Mark Osler | Posted 04.26.2012

Read More: Texas, Gun Violence, Christianity, Prayer, Wal-Mart, Prayer and Meditation, Gun Control, Religion News
Mark Osler

We should be cautious in drawing firm conclusions from this seeming correlation between public faith and gun violence, as many other factors are in play. But shouldn't faith direct us to try to stem the violence?

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White Rage

Rev. G. Jude Geiger | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: George Zimmerman, Geraldo Rivera, Trayvon Martin, Gun Control, Glenn Beck, Race, Gun Violence, Racism, Religion News
Rev. G. Jude Geiger

The American Dream says that if you work hard enough, you'll achieve financial success, a house, and 2-point-something children. For some people that's still true. But it seems like it's true for less and less of us.

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A Homeless Bystander

Kevin M. Ryan | Posted 04.23.2012

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Kevin M. Ryan

Homelessness, you see, puts a bull's eye on the backs of kids. And I am tired beyond words of the violence and the suffering that results.

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Why Would Dems Take Money from an Organization That Wants to Behead Them?

Josh Horwitz | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Tuscon Shooting, Trayvon Martin, Gun Rights, Gun Control, Democratic Party, Barack Obama, Second Amendment, Gun Violence, Stand Your Ground, David Keene, National Rifle Association, Ted Nugent, Alec, Nancy Pelosi, Grover Norquist, Republican Party, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Nra, Politics News
Josh Horwitz

How can any Democrat take money from the NRA or accept their endorsement? It's bad enough that the NRA has been in bed with Republicans for decades. Now Ted Nugent is leveraging his position as NRA board member/spokesperson to incite violence against them and their president.

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Race, Guns And Standing Our Ground

Rick Lowery, Ph.D. | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Gun Violence, Gun Control, Racism, George Zimmerman, Race in America, Civil Rights, Trayvon Martin, Religion News
Rick Lowery, Ph.D.

Trayvon Martin's death calls for serious conversation about race and guns. The most important issue isn't "bad people." It's flawed culture.

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Re-understanding Violence as We Had to Re-Understand Plague..To Cure It

Gary Slutkin | Posted 04.19.2012

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Gary Slutkin

Human history is filled with tragic blunders that fail to put their finger on the problem, and actually compose a "solution" that has no value. This is where we are today, relying on prisons as solutions to reducing the epidemics of violence.

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Tucson Survivors Challenge the NRA: Stand With Us for Commonsense Gun Laws

Patricia Maisch | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Gun Violence, National Rifle Association, Gabrielle Giffords, Gabby Giffords, Tucson Shooting, Tucson, Gun Control, Arizona, Gabrielle Giffords Shooting, Nra, Guns, Politics News
Patricia Maisch

We are survivors of the January 8th, 2011 shooting in Tucson and we are a diverse group of real, patriotic Americans. We are a Republican, an Independent and a Democrat, and we strongly support the second amendment. We are some of the too many faces of gun violence in this country.

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Why Would NRA Denounce Media Coverage of Trayvon Martin Case?

Dean Obeidallah | Posted 04.18.2012

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Dean Obeidallah

There's no doubt that both those who love guns and those who detest them want to lower the number of people killed by guns each year. However, comments by the NRA's Wayne LaPierre simply do not help us reach our common goal.

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Guns Help People Kill People

Cynthia Kounaris | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Gun Violence, Brady Law, Gabby Giffords, Guns, Lobbyists, Nra, Trayvon Martin, Gun Laws, Gun Control Laws, National Rifle Association, Gun Control, Crime News
Cynthia Kounaris

Cars don't kill people. And we all accept the common sense rules around car ownership and driving. Why do people not interpret these laws as infringing on their rights? Because these are rational ideas and for the common good.

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