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
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 Moms Rising (https://www.momsrising.org/): A Fourth of July neighborhood parade. Another young white man with a military-style semi-automatic assault rifle, who, this time, killed six people and injured 26 more, many of them children. [1] Our scarred hearts are again … Continued
From Moms Rising (https://www.momsrising.org/): On Tuesday phones lit up with news alerts about another mass shooting. A man had opened fire [1] on a busy Brooklyn train platform crowded with commuters, injuring 10, and with multiple other people hurt from … Continued
From Moms Rising (https://www.momsrising.org/): The last few weeks have been filled with broken hearts and prayers, most recently for the victims and families devastated by the weekend shooting rampage in Odessa, Texas, that has left seven people dead and another … Continued
From Moms Rising (https://www.momsrising.org/): Our hearts are broken. We’re angry and we’re fed up with our leaders’ failure to take meaningful action around gun safety and to keep our kids safe. At the very top of our #5Actions list this … Continued
From Moms Rising (https://www.momsrising.org/): Ten days ago, a man attached bump stocks to his firearms so they’d fire like machine guns. Then he used those firearms to rain bullets on a crowd of 22,000 people attending an open-air country music … Continued