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Despite outcry over mass shootings, don’t look to Republicans for meaningful gun safety measures
Posted on August 13, 2019 Leave a Comment
The National Rifle Association might be losing money and its stranglehold on political influence, but it’s still got a toehold in the White House. And that means its $30 million investment to back the 2016 election of Donald Trump is paying off. No matter how incensed and grieving the public is after the recent mass […]
No surprise: States with the most guns have highest rates of domestic violence gun deaths
Posted on July 30, 2019 Leave a Comment
A new study confirms what anyone who pays attention to domestic violence already knows: The presence of a gun raises the chance of a fatality, and the victim is most likely to be a woman. As a tweet from Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America puts it, “Gun violence IS a woman’s issue.” […]