A year has passed since a gunman opened fired into a sea of concert goers at a country music festival in Las Vegas. To date, it is the deadliest mass shooting by an individual in American history, leaving 58 dead and 851 injured. Yet despite the high number of casualties, the Las Vegas massacre was out of the news…
Neon, the distributor behind Assassination Nation, an upcoming thriller starring Suki Waterhouse and Hari Nef, has reportedly had problems placing ads for the movie on both social media and traditional billboards.
Two summers ago, Allen Ivanov purchased a rifle and slapped a limited-edition Supreme sticker on the side. He would later tell police that he bought it to target shoot. But it was also, he admitted to detectives, a “symbol of power.”
The Washington Post reports that Betty Jo Shelby, a police officer who in 2016 shot and killed an unarmed black man in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is now teaching a course on how to deal with what she describes as “when a police officer is victimized by anti-police groups and tried in the court of public opinion.”
The Associated Press reports that a Harwood, Maryland high school is the latest to receive a “Stop the Bleed” trauma training, in which medical professionals teach the public how to stop life-threatening bleeding. Several school systems in Maryland are already making the training mandatory for their students and…
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Students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida returned to school on Wednesday, but say it’s not just a regular school year. That kind of ease may be a thing of the past.
On Wednesday, the Republican-controlled House Committee on Appropriations nixed a proposal that would have earmarked millions of dollars for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to research gun violence. Politico reports that the research spending would be nestled into the House’s 2019 Labor-HHS-Education…
Senator Marco Rubio hopped on Twitter in the wee hours of Friday morning to decry a monumental societal ill, perhaps the most pressing of these tumultuous times we live in: people using the word “fuck.”
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Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is committed to addressing school safety, she just doesn’t want to talk about the very specific and unique-to-the-United States problem that makes schools unsafe, per se.
A SWAT team arrived at the home of 18-year-old gun control activist and Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg, but there was no one in distress at the residence. That’s because some asshole “swatted” Hogg.
On Thursday, Donald Trump met privately with more than two dozen people affected by the Santa Fe High School shooting, the Associated Press reports.
Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders got choked up while responding to a child’s question about school safety during the White House’s Wednesday afternoon press briefing.
House Democrats are inviting Parkland survivors to intern for them over the summer and help work on policy related to gun violence prevention. (They should pay their new interns, by the way.)
The youth vote has long been a desirable little political prize (which is why Republicans make really embarrassing ads that look like this), but motivating young voters to turn out in the midterms and vote for what is often a menu of bad options can be a challenge. This year, the teens leading the newest wave of gun…
Survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting are tweeting in solidarity with students from Santa Fe High School, who were rocked by a school shooting Friday morning.
In the wake of the Parkland shooting and a wave of student-led protests calling for tighter gun controls, the NRA painted itself—and the Second Amendment—as a fragile endangered species. The con worked. According to Federal Elections Commission filings reported by the Miami Herald, the NRA broke a 15-year fundraising…
Thousands of students across the country participated in the #NationalSchoolWalkout on Friday, commemorating the 19th anniversary of the Columbine shooting and continuing the teen-led activism that has erupted in the wake of the Parkland shooting.
An man named Menzo Brazier has been arrested after leaving his gun in a car with his children and their mother, Shanique Thomas. Their 3-year-old daughter grabbed the handgun and accidentally shot Thomas through the back of her passenger seat.
