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There have been two mass shootings in less than a week in the United States. Eight people, including six Asian women, were killed in Atlanta on 16 March. Ten people, including one police officer, were killed in a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado yesterday afternoon. In a certain sense, this marks a return to Americans’ pre-pandemic life.

The Boulder, Colorado supermarket shooting that left 10 people dead on Monday has put a spotlight on a recent court decision that blocked the city from enforcing a ban on assault weapons and large-capacity magazines. Boulder County District Judge Andrew Hartman on March 12 agreed with plaintiffs that Boulder’s ban on possessing and transferring commonly-possessed

Another day, another school shooting. This is America’s new normal. On Friday, May 18, 2018, ten people were killed and several more injured when 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis opened fire on his classmates at Santa Fe High School in Texas. Most of the victims were students. In 2018, there were 103 school shootings, and more than 3,500 children killed

Draft bills are currently being circulated to restrict magazine capacities and require a license to obtain handguns. In addition, last week, House Bill 124 was introduced, to strip Second Amendment rights without due process. House Bill 124 goes beyond federal law to strip individuals of their Second Amendment rights without due process. Among other things,

Jordan Sellergren/Little Village The Iowa Senate passed two bills concerning gun sales on Monday. The first removes the requirement for a person to be licensed to buy or carry a gun, and the second provides broad immunity against lawsuits to gun manufacturers and dealers. Both bills passed the Republican-controlled chamber on party-line votes. HF 756

President Joe Biden called on Tuesday for a US ban on assault weapons, after the country’s second mass shooting in a week left 10 people dead in Colorado and sparked urgent new calls for gun control. Addressing a nation long traumatised by gun massacres in schools, nightclubs, movie theatres and many other public spaces, Biden

Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY; Brian Freskos, The Trace  |  USA TODAY Show Caption Hide Caption Colorado mass shooting: Boulder community remembers 10 lives lost Boulder, Colorado mourns the ten people murdered during a shooting rampage inside a King Soopers grocery store. staff video, USA TODAY On March 12, a Colorado judge struck down Boulder’s municipal

The seventh horrifying mass shooting in seven days has renewed urgent calls for increased oversight of assault weapons from President Biden and members of the Massachusetts Congressional delegation. Biden vowed “to use all the resources at my disposal to keep the American people safe” in the wake of the shootings, each of four or more

“We need to end this epidemic with a comprehensive nationwide approach. Expanded background checks. Extreme risk laws to prevent suicides, mass shootings and hate crimes. Protecting domestic violence victims and safe storage standards,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn. “These kind of measures are within our reach.” In the wake of another mass shooting that took

The National Rifle Association bragged that it helped block a ban on AR-15s and high-capacity magazines in Boulder, Colorado, just days before a gunman reportedly armed with the assault-style rifle killed 10 people at a Boulder grocery store. Boulder police said that 10 people, including of their officers, were killed at a King Soopers grocery store

A judge in Colorado blocked Boulder’s two-year-old ban on assault weapons and large-capacity magazines earlier this month — less than two weeks later, 10 people were killed during a mass shooting at one of the city’s supermarkets. According to the affidavit, investigators determined that the suspect, Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa,  purchased an assault rifle on

In April 2013, Gabrielle Giffords was sitting with then-Vice President Joe Biden in his Capitol office as the bipartisan bill that would have expanded background checks for gun owners failed in the Senate. It was just two years after she had been shot in the head during a mass shooting, and the former congresswoman was

Biden considers executive action to ban assault rifles and says ‘this should not be a partisan issue’ in wake of Boulder massacre and Georgia massage parlor shootings Joe Biden ordered flags at the White House lowered to half-staff on Tuesday in honor of the 10 victims of a mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado Biden has

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Just this week, Joe Biden called for a nationwide ban on commonly-owned firearms and magazines used for hunting, recreational shooting and self-defense!  He also called on Chuck Schumer and the U.S. Senate to take up and pass gun control bills H.R. 8 and H.R. 1446. This legislation won’t have any impact on crime or criminals, doesn’t address America’s broken mental