“This is unacceptable,” said the gun control advocacy group Giffords in response to the massacre. “Our country is being held hostage by a gun lobby that makes record profits off record gun sales & gun violence. In yet the latest mass shooting involving a gunman and a military-style assault rifle in the United States, between […]
“How is this still happening? Why are our children still dying and why are we failing them?” A gun control activist who survived last year’s massacre at an Illinois July 4th parade spoke out at a police press conference on Monday’s mass shooting at a Nashville elementary school to make an impassioned plea for gun control legislation. “Aren’t you […]
“This has become part of who we are as a country,” said Julián Castro. “The free availability of guns has not made us safer in the United States or here in the state of Texas.” A South Texas town is reeling Tuesday after at least 21 people—including 19 students and two adults—were killed and an unknown number […]
WHITE HOUSE – U.S. President Donald Trump was abruptly escorted from a White House media briefing Monday afternoon by a U.S. Secret Service agent because of a shooting near the building. Returning to the briefing room lectern minutes later, Trump said, “There was an actual shooting, and somebody’s been taken to the hospital.” Tom Sullivan, chief of […]