Gun-rights activists claim that more guns saves lives and keeps us safer from crime – a claim that couldn’t be further from the truth. The idea that guns save lives and keep innocent people safe is easily disputed by the facts as we will show, below. Gun Violence by the Numbers As Aeon reported last […]
No stranger to annoying conservatives, Neil deGrasse Tyson took to Twitter to make an airtight argument for gun violence prevention using a few simple statistics. As Salon reported last week, “Famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has a particularly entertaining history of publicly irking conservatives. So it wasn’t surprising when Tyson yesterday took aim at gun violence in […]
California, known for its progressive social policies, may very well be setting a national trend with 8 progressive laws. California’s legislative session officially concluded for both legislative houses on September 11th of this year, with October 11th being the last day for Gov. Jerry Brown to sign or veto bills. Statutes take effect on on […]
“CampusLife sm” by Amariotti (talk) (Uploads) – Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikipedia. California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed legislation on Saturday banning the carrying of concealed firearms on school and university campuses in the wake of the recent shooting at a community college in Oregon that left nine victims dead and […]
The daughter of a Sandy Hook victim is joining the long list of individuals expressing outrage over Dr. Ben Carson‘s comments about the recent shooting at a community college in Oregon that left nine victims dead and nine others injured before the shooter allegedly killed himself. The outspoken Republican presidential hopeful told “Fox and Friends” […]