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'Thoughts and Prayers': Gun Control Groups Send Ironic Condolences After New York AG Files Lawsuit Seeking to Dissolve NRA

2 Weeks After Nova Scotia Massacre, Canada Bans Assault Weapons. 7 Years After Sandy Hook in the US—And Still Nothing

Julia Conley, staff writer

"Republicans in the U.S. Congress—what are you waiting for?"

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Cowardly Democratic Senator Coons Attacks Beto for Standing Up to NRA

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O'Rourke: "But the time for letting status quo politics determine how far we...

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'Why I Love San Francisco': City Board Applauded for Labeling NRA 'Domestic Terrorist Organization'

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

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The resolution's author says that "nobody has done more to fan the flames of...

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'Carnage That Could Have Been Prevented': Texas Mass Shooting Provokes Calls for Stricter Gun Laws

Treating Gun Violence 'As the Epidemic That It Is,' Cory Booker Wins Praise for Sweeping Gun Control Plan

"I Hope You're Happy": In Middle of NRA Speech, Trump Signs Order to Withdraw From Global Arms Treaty

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157 Republicans, and 1 Democrat, Side With NRA as House Passes Updated Violence Against Women Act

Telling NRA #ThisIsOurLane, Doctors' Photos Show Blood-Soaked Reality of America's Gun Madness

California Shooting Victim's Mother Issues Powerful Demand for Action: "I Don't Want Prayers. I Don't Want Thoughts. I Want Gun Control."

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After Jacksonville Shooting, Students Plan Protests at Offices of NRA-Backed GOP Senators Who 'Prioritize Profit Over Lives'

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos

DeVos Condemned for Considering 'Unprecedented' and 'Sickening' Plan to Spend Public Funds on Guns for Teachers

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'Never Again': To 'Demand They Listen,' Activists Stage Rally at NRA Headquarters

In Desperate Court Filing, NRA Claims It May Soon 'Be Unable to Exist' Due to Financial Troubles

As Nation Mourns Newsroom Massacre, "Toxic Masculinity" Mixed With Guns Once More Lamented

'Beyond the Pale': NRA Head Oliver North Says Attacks on Gun Lobby Worse Than Jim Crow Violence

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Thomas the Train Is Integrated Now and the NRA Is Losing It

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While the NRA has done a swell job whipping America into shape - so many guns! - it's now facing down the awful specter of ethnic diversity and gender equality in its latest lethal incarnation: Thomas the Tank Engine has introduced a Kenyan train, also some girl trains. What the? Mixing train races? The horror. Fighting back, Dana Loesch went on NRA TV and put Thomas and his snooty diverse friends in white KKK hoods, riding on flaming tracks, because, umm....We don't get it either.

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Amnesty International - USA

Amnesty International USA Stands With Santa Clarita Community in School Shooting, Calls for Meaningful Gun Violence Prevention

Amnesty International - USA

The Trump Administration Dangerously Weakens Arms Sales Protections

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NRA Has Worked for Decades to Block Efforts to Regulate Type of Explosive Reportedly Contained in Bombs Targeting Political Figures, Media, and Others

Common Cause

On Eve of the March for Our Lives a New Report Examines the NRA’s Huge Influence in Washington

Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense in America

Moms Demand Action, Everytown Respond to Breaking News of Shooting in Las Vegas That Killed at Least 50 People

CODEPINK

CODEPINK Coalition Stages Die-In at NRA Headquarters

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Larry Beinhart

Drugs, Guns, and Despair: How America Is Killing Americans

Jesse Jackson

Can America Break Its Gun Addiction?

César Chelala

The NRA Versus American Children

Pierre Tristam

Of Course Guns Have Nothing To Do With It. Nothing.

Leonard Pitts Jr.

Republicans, Either Cowed or Clueless, Are Useless After a Mass Shooting

César Chelala

The U.S. Culture of Violence is Killing Us All

Tim Wilkins

In Response to El Paso and Dayton, Thoughts And Prayers Are Not Enough

Michael Winship

Please, I'd Like to Stop Writing about Innocents Killed by Guns

Frances Moore Lappé

Blood on Our Hands: How We Help Drive Immigration North

Rachel Levinson-Waldman

How ICE and Other DHS Agencies Mine Social Media in the Name of National Security