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Sherrod Brown: Congress can't combat mass shootings due to McConnell and Trump being 'in bed with the gun lobby'
Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown (D) on Wednesday said the inability to find a solution to mass shootings is due to President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) being "in bed with the gun lobby."
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The next time someone says video games are causing America’s gun problem, show them this chart
When we look at the top video game–consuming countries, there’s one clear outlier.
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Why Ottawa is hedging when it comes to handguns | CBC News
A weekend of extreme violence in Toronto has renewed calls for a national ban on handguns. But the federal Liberals are deferring action until after the fall election.
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Many older adults keep guns loaded, unlocked at home, survey says
Many older adults, including those who are mentally impaired, don't lock up their guns and ammo, University of Washington researchers report. Almost 39 percent of the more than 4,400 seniors they surveyed in Washington state said they had a firearm in their home. Nearly a quarter said they keep at least one gun loaded and unlocked. Fewer than a third said they keep all firearms locked up and unloaded.
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Timeline: Major Mass Shootings this Decade
Al Noor mosque, Linwood Mosque, Christchurch, New Zealand, March 15, 2019: A gunman shoots dead 50 people and wounds more than 40 at two New Zealand mosques, some as they were kneeling at prayer.
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Mexico has One Gun Shop. So How Come all the Murders?
The number of homicides reached a record high in 2018 and experts say most were carried out with US guns.
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Lax state gun laws linked to more child, teen gun deaths
States with strict gun laws have lower rates of gun deaths among children and teenagers, and laws to keep guns away from minors are linked with fewer gun suicides in this age group, a Stanford study found. Compared with U.S. states with the strictest gun control legislation, gun deaths among children and teenagers are twice as common in states with the most lax gun laws, a study from the Stanford University School of Medicine has found.
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Parkland survivor’s father to Marco Rubio: ‘Where was God when my daughter was killed?’
Last Thursday, Marco Rubio (R-FL) took to Twitter and quoted the Bible, citing a passage from Isaiah where God reassures his people that he will protect them. But the quote wasn’t reassuring to all who read it, as evidenced by Fred Guttenberg‘s reaction. “Do not fear: I am with you; do not be anxious: I am your God, the verse from Isaiah, 41:10 read. “I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my victorious right hand.”
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Concealed Shirts
Concealed SHIRTS Comfort, speed, security, sturdiness: Concealed convey shirts give each of the four — and that's just the beginning. With a covered convey shirt, you don't need to stroll into a circumstance without depending on just a single handgun or holster. Rather, a covered convey shirt offers adaptability, enabling you to boost your capability or ammo limit while looking after usefulness. Profound camouflage choices for a handgun normally implies concealing a holster utilizing different bits of garments. Be that as it may, this can get cumbersome, seriously confine your development and turned out to be overwhelming after some tim
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Mother of Mass Shooting Victim: “I Don’t Want Prayers… I Want Gun Control”
Telemachus Orfanos was one of the dozen people killed Wednesday night at Borderline Bar & Grill in California at the hands of another mass shooter (who owned the gun legally). Orfanos was an Eagle Scout and enlisted in the Navy. He was also a survivor of another mass shooting: The one in Las Vegas last summer during the Route 91 Harvest music festival.
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California Tries New Tack on Gun Violence: Ammunition Control
The state already has some of the strictest gun control legislation. Now it's pushing to limit the unfettered sale of ammunition.
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Concealed Carry Position-Best Ways To Carry Guns - Virginia Concealed Carry Permit
Every individual has its own pros and cons, so everyone like different position with one another. In this article, we have written many concealed carry positions with their benefits. So, the choice will be yours and you can choose any position which attracts you and also you will feel relaxed in that situation, you can adopt that one.
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It's Time for Hunters to Leave the NRA
Hunting is possibly the proudest outdoor tradition our country has: It’s why we have such abundant animal populations. It’s how millions of American families put affordable healthy protein on their dinner plates. And, in large part, it’s what pays for the rest of us to enjoy so much wild land. That’s why it’s unconscionable that the NRA uses hunting as an excuse to pollute American politics with its toxic agenda.
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More than 1,000 people have already downloaded plans to 3-D print an AR-15
Under a court settlement, people aren't supposed to be able to legally download plans for 3-D printed guns until Wednesday. But because designs for the guns have already been posted online, by Sunday more than 1,000 people had already downloaded plans to print an AR-15-style semiautomatic assault rifle, according to the office of Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro.
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GOP congressional candidate tells Parkland father to stop 'exploiting' his daughter's death
A Republican running for Congress told the father of a Parkland, Fla., school shooting victim on Friday to stop "exploiting" his daughter’s death by calling for gun control legislation.
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The US has had 57 times as many school shootings as the other major industrialized nations combined
School shootings are a reality in America, an average of one a week just this year alone. But how does the US compare with other countries in the world? That's difficult to ascertain because very little research exists to quantify that. For the purposes of this analysis, we followed the criteria below - The scope: First, we looked at the G7 countries -- the countries with the largest advanced economies in the world. The countries are Canada, the US, Japan, Germany, Italy, France, the UK.
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Houston police chief: Vote out politicians only 'offering prayers' after shootings
Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo slammed elected officials for inaction on the state and federal levels in response to repeated shootings at schools across the country. His comments come in the wake of the latest school shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas that left 10 people dead. Appearing on CBS News' "Face the Nation" on Sunday, Acevedo said that political leaders are failing to heed the will of the voters when it comes to gun regulations and reforms.
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Gun Safety Programs Do Not Prevent Children from Handling Firearms, Rutgers Study Finds
Children who participate in gun safety programs often ignore what they learned when encountering a real firearm, according to a Rutgers School of Nursing study. The report, published recently in Health Promotion Practice, reviewed 10 studies on the effectiveness of strategies for teaching gun safety to children ages 4 to 9. The researchers found such programs do not reduce the likelihood that children will handle guns when they are unsupervised, that boys are more likely than girls to ignore gun-safety rules and that few studies exist of gun-safety programs for children beyond the fourth grade.
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Boulder bans assault weapons, bump stocks, large magazines
A Colorado city has banned the sale and possession of assault weapons, bump stocks and high-capacity magazines. City councilors in Boulder gave final approval to the ban Tuesday night. It was proposed in response to the high school shooting in Parkland, Florida. The law requires people who own magazines that hold 10 or more rounds or bump stocks to dispose of them or sell them by July 15. People who already own assault weapons will be able to keep them but must get a certificate proving prior ownership.
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Gun control activists protest NRA's first annual meeting since Parkland
Gun control activists are to meet 80,000 National Rifle Association supporters in Dallas this weekend, where the gun lobby is hosting its annual three-day meeting. The convention is being held less than two months after the push for gun control drew thousands to protests across the country and inspired one of the largest student demonstrations in US history. An additional stressor for the NRA is the impact these actions and Donald Trump’s divisiveness will have on the Republican party heading into the November midterms.
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