Month: June 2024

In the battle to dismantle gun restrictions, raging in America’s courts even as mass shootings become commonplace, one name keeps turning up in the legal briefs and judges’ rulings: William English, Ph.D. A little-known political economist at Georgetown University, English conducted a largest-of-its-kind national survey that found gun owners frequently used their weapons for self-defense.

Last week, Donald Trump said behind closed doors to House Republicans, “Milwaukee, where we are having our convention, is a horrible city.” Trump now denies making the insult to the city where the Republican National Convention will convene in mid-July. But several Republicans in the room already copped to it, while making excuses such as, “he was

The Issue: The Supreme Court rules that the Trump team couldn’t redefine “machine gun” to ban bump stocks. The Supreme Court overturned former President Donald Trump’s 2018 ban on bump stocks for semi-automatic firearms (“ ‘Bump’ing it back,” June 15). Like many Supreme Court rulings, this outcome relied on the question of whether the government has

A boy and his father using a video game-style gun at the NRA convention in 2013. Johnny Hanson/ Houston Chronicle/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Monday, US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy called on Congress to require a warning label for social

Never trust a politician (any politician) to protect your rights (any of your rights). Thomas Knight  |  Opinion contributor Show Caption Hide Caption Supreme Court strikes down bump stock ban The Supreme Court struck down a Trump-era ban on bump stocks, a gun accessory that allows semi-automatic weapons to fire rapidly like machine guns. Fox

Alan Miller  |  The ReportingProject.org The Licking County Board of Elections has sent letters to 2,185 registered voters telling them that if they don’t take action before mid-July, they will be removed from the Statewide Voter Registration Database. If removed, they would be ineligible to vote here in the Nov. 5 presidential election unless they

Topline Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is expected to ask the Senate to pass a federal ban on bump stocks for guns as soon as Tuesday—after the Supreme Court overturned a ban on the devices—but Republicans are expected to strike the effort down despite previously supporting it when the devices first came under scrutiny.

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As a TV flickered inside 13-year-old Sandra Parks’s bedroom in the heart of Milwaukee, a series of flashes from a gun muzzle lit up the area just outside. Then the gunman ran off, having missed his target.  Sandra took the stray bullet “like a soldier,” her sister recalls. She walked into another room and simply

LOADINGERROR LOADING Mary Trump slammed her uncle, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, as the “death candidate” in a blistering new edition of her newsletter, “The Good In Us.” The former president’s niece noted the irony of the Supreme Court’s recent overturning of the Donald Trump-era ban on bump stocks and her uncle’s response

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Late last week, Rhode Island lawmakers adjourned for the year, but not before anti-gun Gov. Dan McKee inked his signature to the main piece of gun control to pass the Legislature in 2024. H.7373A/S.2022aa, forces gun owners to store their firearms under lock and key, but home invaders will get to play by a different set

In his race for a second term, Mary Trump thinks her uncle Donald Trump is marching the United States into a death spiral. In her latest newsletter “The Good In Us,” Mary Trump tackles the dire consequences should the former president regain the White House. In “The Leader of the Pro-Death Party: It’s not just

At the beginning of a recent episode of his podcast “Truth,” Vivek Ramaswamy, a Cincinnati-area native and suburban Columbus entrepreneur, lamented that “you’re not supposed to say the n-word anymore.” “But I’ll say it,” the former Republican 2024 presidential candidate added, after a brief pause. “Nationalism.” The provocative statement was designed to garner attention – an

John Oliver on Sunday’s episode of “Last Week Tonight” delved into how former President Donald Trump’s second term could hypothetically play out given that polls give him an edge over President Joe Biden. “You can go on his website and see it all laid out, and it’s pretty alarming,” Oliver said, before playing a clip of

In our first installment of a critical analysis of an anti-gun propaganda podcast series from The Trace, we covered the lies, misinformation, and deceptive emotional arguments made in the first four episodes. Here, we will delve into the fifth episode, which continues the previous format, but adds embarrassing incidents where The Trace contradicts itself in