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NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch suggested Botham Jean might still be alive today if only he was “a law-abiding gun owner” and Philando Castile’s still-grieving mother, Valerie Castile, rightfully, went off. “You know, this could have been very different if Botham Jean had been, say, he was a law-abiding gun owner…
The NRA says New York State’s “blacklisting campaign” is to blame for them losing their liability insurance, and is now trying to sue the state for money. Chubb Ltd., the insurance company that provided the Carry Guard program, said it wouldn’t renew the insurance for “any price.” New York Department…
If Kaitlin Bennett wasn’t white, you’d be reading about a dead Black student. She graduated from Kent State University in Ohio, brought an AR-10 to campus the next day, and posted about gun rights on Twitter: I have no apologies for my graduation photos. As a woman, I refuse to…
Just a month after exploiting the death of Martin Luther King Jr. as a chance to discuss concealed carry, the National Rifle Association is following a very different set of rules for Vice President Mike Pence. Pence will speak at the NRA’s convention this weekend in Dallas. And no weapons…
The NRA exploited the 50-year anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a man that the association historically had no regard for, to speak out against the gun control movement that has intensified in response to frequent school shootings and mass killings in the U.S. In an…
NRATV host Collins Iyare “Colion Noir” Idehen Jr. came after the survivors of the mass shooting in Parkland, Fla., just two days before anti-gun violence rallies swept the nation. Noir said in a video: “To all the kids from Parkland getting ready to use your First Amendment to attack everyone…
A Republican who was running unopposed for a seat in Maine’s House of Representatives has dropped out of the race after calling a survivor of the Florida school shooting a “skinhead lesbian.” Leslie Gibson had no competitors before he wrote now-deleted tweets in which he called Emma Gonzlez, a student-turned-activist,…
A state representative from Alabama doesn’t believe “lady teachers” should or want to carry firearms. “We don’t need to have a lady teacher in a school that’s got a firearm,” Harry Shiver (R-Stockton) said at a public safety meeting last week, according to WSFA. “I taught for 32 years, and…
In just a couple of short weeks, a survivor of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., is using the power of social media to advocate for change. And she’s got more listeners than the National Rifle Association. Emma Gonzlez, a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, surpassed the NRA’s…
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