In the days since the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that killed 17 people, students from the school have taken up a gun-control movement highlighted by powerful speeches, a tenacious CNN town hall appearance, and, in the case of Sa…
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Teens on fire: Of course the ‘Hunger Games’ generation knows how to fight the NRA
Inside the Capitol, the political elite have become immune to the regular killings splashed across their screens. They’ve rationalized it as the price they have to pay for their way of life. But a handful of teenage survivors of the slaughter are sta…
View More Teens on fire: Of course the ‘Hunger Games’ generation knows how to fight the NRAParkland student activists get real on ‘The Ellen Show’
The Parkland student activists have had an exhausting week, but when they sat down with Ellen DeGeneres on “The Ellen Show,” they held nothing back.
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Amy Poehler blasts NRA after they tweeted a ‘Parks & Rec’ GIF
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The NRA has turned being tone-deaf into an art form, and now they’ve gone and incurred the wrath of Amy Poehler and some fellow Parks & Rec alums.
On Wednesday night, the NRA sent a tweet that featured a gif of Poehler’s Leslie Knope character. The tweet thanked their controversial spokeswoman Dana Loesch, who appeared on a CNN town hall event Wednesday night alongside students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the site of last week’s deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida that claimed the lives of 17 people.
.@DLoesch thank you for being the voice of over 5 Million #NRA memberspic.twitter.com/WDz7vujXfM
— NRA (@NRA) February 22, 2018 Read more…
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View More Amy Poehler blasts NRA after they tweeted a ‘Parks & Rec’ GIFSnap Maps shows chilling view of gun control walkouts spreading across the country
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This is what collective mobilization looks like.
High school students across the country walked out of school on Wednesday to protest inaction from politicians on gun control policy. The protests are a direct response to the deadly high school shooting in Parkland, Florida last week that took 17 lives.
A striking way to see the spread of this movement — from both a macro, and micro perspective — has emerged on Snap Maps.
By mid-Wednesday afternoon, Snapchat’s map surfaced multiple featured and trending stories of walk outs from California to Texas, Florida to D.C., and more states and schools across the country. Read more…
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Powerful New York Times ad calls out lawmakers funded by the NRA
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The New York Times has “all the news that’s fit to the print” — and all the ad spreads too.
Gun control groups Everytown for Gun Safety and Mom’s Demand Action for Gun Sense joined forces and purchased a two-page ad in the New York Times on Wednesday, listing the name of every politician in Congress who has received money from the NRA as well as their phone numbers.
.@Everytown and @MomsDemand placed a two-page ad, which will run Wednesday in the @nytimes, listing the names of lawmakers, their phone numbers, and the amount of money they‘ve received from the @NRA: https://t.co/3cYhxoB4Xs#ThrowThemOut pic.twitter.com/CDFQYbq5Be
— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) February 21, 2018 Read more…
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View More Powerful New York Times ad calls out lawmakers funded by the NRAJames Corden delivers a passionate speech about gun control in the U.S.
After a week-long break, James Corden started his Tuesday night edition of The Late Late Show with a passionate speech addressing the recent school shooting in Florida.
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After the Parkland shooting, the gun control debate isn’t fading away
Three of the largest mass shootings in modern American history happened in the past two years, but that doesn’t mean Americans are always thinking about gun control.
In fact, data shows that with so many mass shootings taking place, Americans move on…
Donald Trump asks Mar-a-Lago guests what he should do about guns
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In the wake of the most recent mass shooting, President Donald Trump sought advice on gun control from a trusted source: rich people staying at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida.
According to the Washington Post, Trump spent the weekend at his resort watching cable news, complaining about the Russia investigation, and asking “Mar-a-Lago Club members about whether he ought to champion gun control measures in the wake of last week’s school massacre in nearby Parkland.”
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He also took time to exploit the tragedy on Twitter, insinuating that the FBI was too distracted by its Russia investigation to stop the 19-year-old shooter, who legally purchased the semi-automatic AR-15 rifle used in the massacre at a local gun shop. Read more…
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When you move to America from a country with more effective gun control laws, one of the first things you learn is how hard it is to talk to Americans — on either side of the political divide — about the gun issue.
It was particularly difficult when I arrived on these shores in 1996, direct from living in Scotland during its (and Britain’s) worst-ever school shooting. In the tiny town of Dunblane, a 43-year old former shopkeeper and scoutmaster brought four handguns to a school gymnasium full of five-year-olds. He shot and killed 16 of them and their teacher, then turned his handgun on himself. Read more…
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In the gut-wrenching days following a mass shooting, people often attempt to cope with the tragedy by sharing their feelings online.
After the deadly shooting this week in Parkland, Florida — as well as recent shootings in Orlando, Las Vegas, Nevada, and beyond — discouraged people have expressed their outrage, grief, and anti-gun beliefs on social media in an effort to have their voices heard. It’s understandable, a way to vent when we all feel so helpless. But, of course,Twitter outrage only goes so far.
While sharing words online has the potential to ignite important discussions, there’s so much more we can do — and, added plus, these offline efforts will have you feeling better than when you end up engaging with a Twitter troll. Read more…
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View More Here’s how to take action on gun controlDonald Trump contradicts himself on gun violence and mental illness
Displaying a cognitive dissonance that’s become common with him, President Donald Trump on Thursday made a reference to the alleged mental instability of the young man accused of the deadly Parkland, Florida school shooting.
Though just last ye…