WATCH: Students Demand Stricter Gun Laws in Tallahassee WASHINGTON — Hundreds of students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida rallied at the Florida Capitol in Tallahassee Wednesday to pressure lawmakers to approve tougher gun control laws one week after one of the most deadly U.S. school shootings. A gunman killed 17 people at […]
U.S. President Donald Trump is supporting efforts to tighten federal background checks on gun buyers in the aftermath of last week’s shooting massacre of 17 people at a Florida high school, the White House said Monday. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Trump spoke last week with Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn about […]
Washington, DC — Gun deaths in the U.S. have jumped 17 percent since the 2008 District of Columbia v. Heller decision in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that there is a right to keep a handgun in the home for self-defense, according to a new analysis by the Violence Policy Center (VPC) of just-released […]
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump says stricter gun laws in the country would not have prevented a gunman from killing 26 people in a massacre at a Texas church and possibly would have kept a bystander from confronting the shooter. Trump, in South Korea on a five-nation Asian trip, said Tuesday if there were increased […]