Trump demands credit for not golfing on day murdered kids are buried
Trump apparently thinks he deserves credit for staying away from the golf course as victims of the Florida mass shooting are buried.
By Oliver Willis - February 17, 2018Trump apparently thinks he deserves credit for staying away from the golf course as victims of the Florida mass shooting are buried.
By Oliver Willis - February 17, 2018Rubio doesn’t want to talk about how to save kids from gun violence — but kids sure do.
By Kaili Joy Gray - February 16, 2018Republicans seized a moment of mourning children who’d been gunned down in Florida to mock opposition to their tax scam.
By Matthew Chapman - February 16, 2018The Broward County sheriff is warning politicians who support the NRA: You are not welcome here.
By Matthew Chapman - February 16, 2018Republicans may be silent, but residents of Parkland, Florida are making their voices heard.
By Caroline Orr - February 15, 2018“We put a man on the moon 50 years ago and we can’t figure out why only our children are running around in their schools killing each other.”
By Caroline Orr - February 15, 2018“We need to do things to keep regular American citizens safe.”
By Eric Boehlert - February 15, 2018The NRA broke records making sure Trump got elected. He’s been delivering on their demands ever since.
By Eric Boehlert - February 15, 2018Calls for real and immediate action are getting much louder and stronger.
By Oliver Willis - February 15, 2018Fox had no problem showing the graphic aftermath of the shooting, but not the shooter’s love of guns.
By Tommy Christopher - February 15, 2018Republicans promised to address gun violence after the last massacre in America. But months later, they’ve still done nothing.
By Tommy Christopher - February 15, 2018Trump had only empty words to offer after the mass shooting in Florida, and one student immediately called him out on it.
By Oliver Willis - February 15, 2018A Florida school superintendent stood up to two of the NRA’s biggest supporters to demand action.
By Oliver Willis - February 15, 2018A high school junior pleads with his lawmakers to do something about gun violence instead of merely sending prayers.
By Matthew Chapman - February 15, 2018It doesn’t get much colder than this.
By Tommy Christopher - February 15, 2018“We’re children. You guys are the adults. You need to take some action and play a role.”
By Eric Boehlert - February 15, 2018Trump and his team went into hiding when more than a dozen kids were shot and killed in their school.
By Oliver Willis - February 14, 2018She is exactly, and heartbreakingly, right.
By Alison R. Parker - February 14, 2018The latest deadly school shooting is a horrific national failure.
By Matthew Chapman - February 14, 2018A white paper suggesting a number of gun regulations be rolled back was secretly informed by a lobbyist for the National Rifle Association.
By Alison R. Parker - February 13, 2018Thoughts and prayers weren’t enough for Republicans and the NRA on Tuesday as Democrats posted big wins across the country. And specifically in Virginia, where the gun group is based, the NRA and the GOP suffered key defeats as Democrats aggressively campaigned on the issue of gun safety. “Last night, every candidate endorsed by Everytown […]
By Eric Boehlert - November 08, 2017Even before all the victims have been publicly identified, conservative media outlets have rushed to portray the savage gun massacre in Sutherland Springs, Texas, as some sort of feel-good event — because the victims were killed in a church, or because an armed citizen tried to stop the gunman. Conservatives are so desperate to never question […]
By Eric Boehlert - November 06, 2017On Sunday, 26 people were murdered and many more injured in a horrific shooting spree at the Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. The massacre is the deadliest shooting in the state’s history. But Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican who has complained that not enough Texans own guns, appeared on Fox News to offer what […]
By Kaili Joy Gray - November 06, 2017Current Texas Attorney General and then-state Sen. Ken Paxton faced a crisis while running for office. He had just lost an endorsement in the primary from a Republican congressman after Paxton was reprimanded for breaking state securities law. His opponent had the support of another congressman and an anti-abortion group. But when he really needed […]
By Oliver Willis - November 06, 2017The Republican Party’s reaction to the church massacre in Sutherland Springs, Texas, has been a predictable moral failure. Politicians are offering empty “prayers” and suggesting people should go out and buy more guns, while feigning moral outrage at anyone who asks for real legislative action against what is now a raging public health crisis. The […]
By Matthew Chapman - November 06, 2017After briefly addressing one of the worst mass shootings in modern American history that unfolded in Texas on Sunday, Kellyanne Conway spent twice as much time talking about Hillary Clinton and the 2016 campaign during an interview on Fox news Monday morning. Claiming as she always does that she’d be “happy to never mention [Clinton] […]
By Eric Boehlert - November 06, 2017The NRA went silent in the wake of the mass shooting in Las Vegas that killed 58 and injured hundreds. But now the extremist gun group has roared back to life with an utterly chilling ad calling for retribution against any and all critics of Donald Trump. The ad ends with a call to arms […]
By Oliver Willis - October 20, 2017As Donald Trump despotically calls for punishing news media outlets that are critical of him and proclaims the free press “disgusting,” a lot of Republicans are embracing Trump’s rhetoric. And some, like Indiana GOP state Rep. Jim Lucas, are using ever more bizarre arguments to put the First Amendment up for debate. As a protest […]
By Matthew Chapman - October 14, 2017Turns out Republicans in Congress do want to address the issue of guns following the worst mass shooting in modern history. It’s just that Republicans want to quietly pass a truly radical and dangerous NRA-sponsored bill that would make it easier for people to buy silencers for their guns. People like Stephen Paddock, who purchased […]
By Eric Boehlert - October 12, 2017As America struggles to heal from the horrific massacre in Las Vegas and struggles even harder to have a conversation about the devices used to commit it, the tragic results of letting guns proliferate unchecked in public spaces are all too clear. And some people who have pushed ever more permissive gun laws, like Texas […]
By Matthew Chapman - October 10, 2017