The Trace: Biden Can Push Gun Control Alone
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) The Trace recently ran a piece on how “president-elect Joe Biden” can indeed get his gun control agenda through all on his own. After all, if after the Georgia runoffs the Senate…
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Fox News: Mexico’s Gun Laws Help Cartels
(Photo by JULIO CESAR AGUILAR/AFP via Getty Images) The latest from Fox News seems to fall under the “no kidding, Sherlock” banner. In a recent report studying the cartel crimes in Mexico and a potential…
Rutgers: Buying a Gun During Pandemic Means You’re Suicidal (Probably)
Photo credit: Getty Images NewsWise recently reported on a study by Rutgers that was published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine: People who purchase a firearm during the pandemic are more likely to be…
Missouri Doctors: Gun Violence and COVID-19 are the Same Thing
Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStock Image According to KansasCity.com, doctors in Missouri are equating gun violence to coronavirus. Grabbed from the article: “There’s no part of medicine that’s safe from the impact of gun violence anymore,”…
Gallup Poll: Support for Gun Control Laws Dropping in 2020
Photo Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images Despite how the presidential election is playing out, Gallup Poll reports a significant decline in support for gun control laws. In fact, apparently support of said laws is lower than…
Newsweek: Mass Shootings Up 35 Percent in 2020
Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStock Images Just this morning, Newsweek published an article covering the Gun Violence Archives’ latest claim that mass shootings are up 35 percent in 2020 compared to mass shootings in 2019: Mass…
A Shout Out to America’s Veterans
(AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) The Star Spangled Banner is the only national anthem that ends with a question. Does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave over the land of the free and the home of…
Illinois Rep. Sean Casten: We Need an Australia-Style Mandatory ‘Buyback’ Because America Has Too Many Guns
Rep. Sean Casten, D-Ill. (House Television via AP) Illinois Representative Sean Casten feels deeply that “we have too many guns.” His innovative solution to this pressing problem: a buyback. But not just any ol’ buyback….
CAP: COVID-19 Gun Sales Surge Proves Dangerous Loopholes Exist
(AP Photo/Russell Contreras) In an article titled “Dangerous Gaps in Gun Laws Exposed by the Coronavirus Gun Sales Surge” the Center for American Progress went on at some length regarding their belief the COVID-19-related gun…
Chicago’s Weekend Shootings Are the New Normal
Courtesy Heyjackass.com Among items not widely reported in the mainstream media we have Chicago’s regular weekly (largely criminal) weekend shooting report. The final tally for this past weekend according to the Sun-Times: Ten people were…