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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) speaks during the America First Agenda Summit, at the Marriott Marquis hotel July 26, 2022 in Washington, DC. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Ted Cruz was met with a booing audience when he said his plan to stop school shootings is putting more police in schools. Cruz commented on gun control efforts and […]
Several late-night hosts began their weeks by addressing the March 15 mosque shootings that left 50 people dead in Christchurch, New Zealand — and they were none too pleased by President Trump’s response to the tragedy. Trevor Noah, Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers all criticized Trump on Monday night, particularly after he wrote off the […]
Screenshot/Chicago Sun-Times Thirty people were shot in just 3 hours early Sunday in Chicago. Two people were killed and 28 were wounded between midnight and 3 a.m., including at least 13 teenagers. There have been about 339 homicides in the city so far in 2018, with 285 people killed by gun violence. Thirty people were […]
Jonathan Drake/Reuters Since the Parkland shooting it has been estimated that almost 50% of school-shooting threats have been made via social media. In the weeks following the Parkland incident there were around 70 threats made per day. Authorities are struggling to find a way to fairly reprimand those making the threats online, while still respecting […]
Cancun has long been a popular package holiday destination with Britons, who are excited for the sea, sun and excellent beaches the area has to offer. However, shocking violence has erupted in the area over the past 36 hours, with 14 murders and five injuries due to gun shot wounds, in six separate instances across […]
REUTERS/Thomas Hodel Switzerland hasn’t had a mass shooting since 2001, when a man stormed the local parliament in Zug, killing 14 people and then himself. The country has about 2 million privately owned guns in a nation of 8.3 million people. In 2016, the country had 47 homicides with firearms. The country’s overall murder rate […]
George Frey/Getty Images President Donald Trump said having “highly trained” teachers armed with guns in class could help prevent tragedies like the deadly Florida school shooting. Trump said he’d support spending federal dollars to give “expert teachers” special training to carry guns in the classroom. Shortly after Trump’s announcement, a California high school teacher accidentally […]
Students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland launched a campaign for tougher gun laws and safer schools under the banner “never again.” But school shootings have already happened since the Feb. 14 rampage, and police from California to Vermont say they have thwarted at least seven potential gun attacks on schools.
Gun control activists and volunteers laid 7,000 pairs of shoes on the lawn of the Capitol building in a haunting memorial to all of the children killed by gun violence in the US since the Sandy Hook massacre. “There’s nobody in those shoes, it’s like the emptiness in our hearts from gun violence,” said Tom […]
Business Insider Editorial Director Henry Blodget explains why arming teachers, Trump’s favored strategy to prevent more school shootings, is unlikely to solve the problem. Will giving teachers guns help stop school shootings? Gun massacres are an American crisis. They aren’t a “price of freedom.” If we do nothing, they will happen again and again and […]
