By Samuel Warde on February 16, 2015
Culture of Guns, gun control, Systemic Racism, Will Smith
Activism, Gun Control, Racial Issues, Right Wing Hatred
Conservatives are not pleased about actor Will Smith’s recent comments about our nation’s “gun culture” and “systemic racism.” Will Smith made those comments in a recent interview about “Kids, His Career, Ferguson, and Failure.” The interview, published last Thursday by Esquire, Smith spoke of his role as an actor speaking out against a corrupt system: […]
By Samuel Warde on October 20, 2014
Advertising, Elections, gun control, Police Overreach, Videos, Voting
Advertising, Elections, Gun Control, Videos
A get-out-the-vote ad by a Florida-based group called Dream Defenders is part of its new “Vest or Vote” campaign, which is rallying voters around police violence against black youth. Shot in black and white, the minute-and-a-half ad shows a young black mother in the kitchen distracting her son from a video game to ask him […]
By Samuel Warde on September 23, 2014
gun control, NRA, The Tea Party, Videos
Gun Control, The Tea Party, Videos
Tired of gun violence in America, a San Francisco Bay Area photographer and mother has put together an anti-gun PSA entitled “Dear Mom and Dad- get to work saving my life!” Dana Spaeth-Williams funded the film using GoFundMe, writing the following: My name is Dana Spaeth-Williams. I am an artist/photographer and a mother of three. […]
By Samuel Warde on August 29, 2014
gun control, Videos
Gun Control, Human Interest, Videos
Monday, shooting range instructor Charles Vacca was accidentally shot and killed when a 9-year-old girl lost control of an Uzi. As one might expect, there is much debate over who to blame for this unfortunate accident. Joe Scarborough weighed in on Wednesday, questioning the wisdom of placing such a dangerous weapon in the hands of […]
By Samuel Warde on August 22, 2014
gun control, Videos
Activism, Gun Control, Videos
Mediaite reports “a group of African-Americans in Dallas have responded in the most Texas way possible: By forming the Huey P. Newton Gun Club, an open-carry group that goes around in public, bearing the same semiautomatic weaponry as their fellow open-carry advocates, protesting police brutality.” The group is named after the co-founder of the Black […]