Archive: Other Issues

NPR by Mark Memmott
When children are gunned down in their classrooms, as happened last month in Newtown,...

Years before Trayvon Martin was killed, gun lobbyists conspired to give Stand Your Ground shooters immunity everywhere.

Stand Your Ground, Explained
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New York Times, by Erica Goode, April 27, 2012
Chief Flynn [Milwaukee] recounted pleading with a state senator to include a...

New York Times By: Lily Raff McCaulou, April 24, 2012
I’m a hunter and a sportswoman. I own guns...

The Nation
By: John Nichols, April 16, 2012
Scott Walker, The Republican governor of Wisconsin was accorded a hero’s welcome when he...

New York Times
By: Erica Goode, April 12, 2012
No one had yet heard of a Florida teenager named...

Washington Post
By: Marc Fisher and Dan Eggen, April 7, 2012

When Billy...

By Julie Ajinkya
Center for American Progress
The senseless death of Trayvon Martin at the hands of a neighborhood vigilante in Florida highlights the convergence of the state’s dangerous self-defense laws with a criminal justice...

Fatal Slinger shooting case spurs demonstrators to push for reforms

West Bend - The crowd that lined Highway 33 on Sunday evening had already mourned and memorialized Bo Morrison. This time, they were trying to start a cause, to get others...