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Susan Collins has a predictably pathetic response to El Paso and Dayton...

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) is once again very disappointed. Amid calls for action to stop gun violence and mass shootings, she told right-wing radio host Hugh Hewitt on Wednesday that it is “extremely...

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Theocrat Texas LG falsely claims kids are barred from praying in school

Republican Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick doubled down on his widely debunked claims about the root cause of mass shootings, suggesting video games and lack of school prayer are the real problems. Patrick,...

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Republican congressman gives Trump’s racism a pass because he hasn’t shot anyone

Angry constituents of Rep. Chris Stewart (R-UT) flooded his town hall meeting in North Salt Lake on Wednesday, demanding to know what he plans to do to stop mass shootings and white nationalist...

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Arizona senator thinks mass shootings really aren’t the federal government’s...

Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ), who was appointed to the late John McCain’s seat weeks after losing in the general election for the state’s other senate seat last November, suggested on Wednesday that the...

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There is no such thing as acting alone

Political and media figures have reflexively depicted the racist who confessed to last Saturday’s massacre in El Paso as having “acted alone.” Technically, this is an accurate way to describe what...

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Rick Scott boasts of post-Parkland gun bill, says it was about solving problems

Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), a proud National Rifle Association member, falsely accused congressional Democrats this week of acting like totalitarians and wanting to “take away” guns from law-abiding...

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More than 10,000 guns taken out of circulation through New Zealand’s...

A far-right mass murderer opens fire on a crowd of worshippers. His guns discharge hundreds of rounds in a matter of minutes. Bullets enter dozens of bodies indiscriminately. Fifty-one people die. A...

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NRA goes after anti-gun rich people in response to latest mass shooting

“Each horrible act can’t become an ax for opportunists to cleave the very Bill of Rights that binds us.” Those were the words of the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) president just days after a mass...

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After Dayton and El Paso, the list of averted mass shootings keeps growing

In the few weeks since the twin massacres in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, at least  three people have been separately arrested for plotting mass shootings. Authorities in Connecticut took...

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Mitch McConnell suggests Trump cannot be trusted to mean what he says on guns

In the wake of another series of mass shootings, President Donald Trump has repeatedly waffled and wavered on whether to take any action to stop the epidemic of gun violence in America. NRA-backed...

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