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    Florida Legislature has began hearings on important bill

    25 Feb 2023

    The Florida Legislature has started hearings on Senate Bill 214, a measure that would ban flagging unusual gun purchases made with credit cards.

    Why gun violence invariably seems to get worse

    29 Jan 2023

    On a sunny July afternoon, James Oliver Huberty drove his black Mercury Marquis to a McDonald’s restaurant in San Ysidro, near the border with Mexico, bearing a small arsenal and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. He opened fire on cooks and counter workers, on diners and employees hiding in a storage area, on a mother

    New Zealand’s PM Ardern acts to tighten gun laws further, six months after attack

    13 Sep 2019

    New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern introduced a new bill to parliament on Friday that aims to further tighten gun laws, as the country marks six months since the mass shooting in Christchurch that killed 51 Muslim worshippers

    The gun lobby’s strength is cultural, not financial

    31 Mar 2023

    Gun politics in the US demonstrates that a popular majority does not always get its way. Even though most Americans support stricter gun-safety laws, proposals for major new regulations reliably face impassable obstacles in Congress. The standard explanation for this impasse is that the minority is highly mobilised and

    Cowardly attack

    06 Oct 2022

    The situation of lawlessness and gun attacks in the United States is making headlines once again. The latest gun attack in which 18 people died in southern Mexico demands gun law reforms to stop deadly events in future (“Gun attack in Mexico leaves at least 18 dead,” Oct. 6, Gulf Today website).

    More guns everywhere do not make us safer

    04 Oct 2022

    During a recent campaign event in Harford County, Maryland, a woman asked Heather Mizeur, the 1st District Democratic candidate for Congress, about keeping guns away from dangerous people. While she agreed with Mizeur that more could be done legislatively to ensure public safety in legal gun purchases, the woman expressed

    Recent poll shows most in US want stricter gun laws

    23 Aug 2022

    Most US adults think gun violence is increasing nationwide and want to see gun laws made stricter, according to a new poll that finds broad public support for a variety of gun restrictions, including many that are supported by majorities of Republicans and gun owners. The poll by the University of Chicago Harris School of

    Millennials can save America from gun violence

    04 Sep 2019

    I’m from the first mass shooting generation. I was nine years old in 1999 when Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 12 students and one teacher in the Columbine shooting. I remember the lock-down

    Three gun reforms every Republican should embrace

    01 Sep 2019

    When Congress reconvenes in September, President Trump has a golden opportunity to “own the libs,” as the conservative kids online say. The Democrats, helped by the media,

    Had enough? Here’s how to fight the mass shootings madness

    08 Aug 2019

    Gilroy. El Paso. Dayton. It’s one senseless and horrific mass shooting after another, and you’re hit with waves of sadness, anger and frustration. If 20 children were massacred at a Connecticut elementary school in 2012 and the sensible gun control proposals that followed were handily defeated, is there any way ordinary

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