[ad_1] The protesters carried bullhorns, loudspeakers, and drums. They carried homemade signs: “Ban Assault Weapons Now,” “Protect the Born,” “The Gun Lobby Is Killing Americans,” “F— Your Guns.” They carried pictures of the nineteen children murdered in Uvalde on Tuesday and lists of past school massacres. They carried campaign signs and voter registration forms. The

[ad_1] click to enlarge Shutterstock Preventing killers from having the most murderous weapons is the best way to prevent their murders. Politicians who won’t admit that are the problem. I can’t bring myself to watch the news out of Uvalde, Texas. As a father, the sadness of parents grieving the preventable murders of their children

[ad_1] “I’m here because I’m very worried about the future for my children,” Frances Aramovich of Denver told CNN on May 1, 1999. Aramovich was one of thousands of protesters at the NRA‘s annual meeting that day, less than two weeks after the Columbine High School shootings had taken place on April 20. “I despair

[ad_1] The National Rifle Association will showcase “over 14 acres of the latest guns and gear” at its annual meeting. The meeting in Texas starting Friday comes just days after a mass school shooting in the same state. Fourteen acres is the equivalent of 10 and a half football fields.  Loading Something is loading. The

[ad_1] In the wake of the horrific mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas this week some people expected the National Rifle Association (NRA) to cancel its annual meeting and extravagant gun show which starts today in Houston. The city, however, has a binding contract that prohibits it from canceling the show unilaterally.

[ad_1] NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has canceled his plan to attend the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting this weekend and will instead appear via video and spend time in Uvalde, Texas, following a school shooting there that left 21 dead. “Gov. Abbott will be delivering remarks via

[ad_1] The National Rifle Association’s annual meeting is going ahead this weekend in Houston—just a few days after 21 people were shot dead at a Texas elementary school. The NRA has declared that “weapons of any kind” will be banned at its Institute for Legislative Action Leadership Forum, including firearms, toy guns and laser pointers.

[ad_1] “It’s certainly disheartening now,” says Scruggs. “But I think people need to realize that there was a time when our state leaders said they were open to trying things to stop this, and they invited people to discuss this. Were they serious? Were they just playing a role? Because now that this has happened

[ad_1] NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! In the aftermath of the Uvalde, Texas school shooting, MSNBC and ABC’s “The View” used the tragedy to tear into Republicans and propose drastic gun reform measures, some of which included outright removing guns from civilian hands. Talking with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, documentary director Michael Moore

[ad_1] The death of 19 children and 3 adults at  Robb Elementary School in Uvalde town, Texas has once again opened the floodgates of conversation around the gun culture in the United States. There have been dozens of shootings and other attacks in the US schools and colleges over the years, but until the massacre

[ad_1] Don McLean, Lee Greenwood and two other country crooners said Thursday they would not perform at a National Rifle Association concert this weekend, citing the massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. “In light of the recent events in Texas, I have decided it would be disrespectful and hurtful for me to perform

[ad_1] Country singers Lee Greenwood and T. Graham Brown, as well as SiriusXM Y2Kountry host Danielle Peck, have all pulled out of the National Rifle Association’s Memorial Day weekend concert in Houston, while a source tells Billboard that the NRA is expected to announce the concert’s cancellation on Friday. At press time, the only artist

[ad_1] I’m a libertarian, which means I believe in limited government. Laws restrict liberty, and libertarians tend to prefer fewer laws to more laws. I’m also a professor of constitutional law, which means I teach about US Supreme Court opinions for a living. Finally, and perhaps most important, I’m not an ideologue. Only an ideologue

[ad_1] After the Sandy Hook school shooting in 2012, National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre dug in his heels against gun reform, famously saying that “the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” The NRA Convention offers a perfect testing ground for that theory, but

[ad_1] The divisive issue of gun control is front-and-center in Connecticut’s nascent campaign for governor, with Gov. Ned Lamont releasing a video that appears to show that Republican challenger Bob Stefanowski has reversed his views on the state’s gun-safety laws. The 36-second, edited video, dated 2018, shows Stefanowski answering questions posed by a group that

[ad_1] The mass shooting at a Texas elementary school that left 19 children and two teachers dead Tuesday has reignited the debate in Congress over gun laws. Sen. Mitt Romney weighed in on the issue Wednesday when asked about it at the Capitol. “Background checks and updating our background check technology is something that I

[ad_1] Jimmy Kimmel On Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the host became visibly upset while discussing the devastating school shooting in Texas. “Once again, we grieve for the little boys and girls whose lives have been ended and whose families have been destroyed,” he said. He said that while the right will “warn us not to politicise”,