From Moms Rising (https://www.momsrising.org/): The University of Virginia. Club Q in Colorado Springs. The Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia. That’s three horrific and heart-breaking mass shootings, one after the other in the space of days. Over the Thanksgiving holidays, we were … Continued
From CeaseFirePA (http://www.ceasefirepa.org): As you flip through the pages of a calendar, you could put a tragic anniversary on almost every single day. That’s not normal, but it has been normalized here in Pennsylvania and all across the country. Yesterday … Continued
Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/05/fetterman-calls-assault-weapons-ban-after-july-4th-parade-massacre The Democratic candidate for Pennsylvania’s open U.S. Senate seat also demanded the prosecution of “gun dealers whose weapons routinely wind up at crime scenes.” JAKE JOHNSON July 5, 2022 Democratic U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman on Tuesday voiced … Continued
From the Coalition on Human Needs (http://www.chn.org): Just in the last two weeks, we’ve seen Black grocery store shoppers in Buffalo, New York, school children and teachers in Uvalde, Texas, and Taiwanese churchgoers in southern California gunned down in horrific … Continued
From CeaseFirePA (http://www.ceasefirepa.org): “It’s Thursday in America.” This is how I responded when asked about the most recent mass shooting in America. A man with two assault rifles had killed 8 people overnight in a FedEx facility.¹ Lately, we’ve been … Continued
From CeaseFirePA (http://www.ceasefirepa.org): A year ago we watched in horror as a gunman used a AK-47 style rifle to kill 23 people and injure 23 others in El Paso, Texas. The next day a different killer used a modified assault … Continued
From the Courage Campaign (https://www.couragecampaign.org/): Everyone should be able to go to a store, church, workplace, club, festival, anywhere without the fear of being killed. But this is no longer the reality for the United States. This country has an … Continued