Tag: gun violence

Left-wing Violence Chic

Commentary A transgender Tennessee mass shooter this week executed three adults and three nine-year-old children at a Nashville private Christian school. Supposedly she left behind her a manifesto justifying her mass murdering. As of this writing, law enforcement officials have declined to make the document public. Yet in about a nano-second after the news was…


Democrats Introduce Bill to Open DOJ Office to Provide Gun Violence Data to Other Agencies

A Florida congressman and two senators announced legislation to establish an Office of Gun Violence Prevention in the U.S. Department of Justice on March 22. Author of the bill, Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.), says gun violence is the defining issue of his generation. “This issue is robbing our kids of their childhoods,” Frost said at…


Despite California’s Mass Shootings, Biden Wants to Emulate Its Gun Laws

Commentary President Biden traveled to Monterey Park, California, the site of a mass public shooting that left 11 dead in January, to announce new executive actions on gun control. He touts the proposals as necessary “to reduce gun violence and make our communities safer.” But California already has all the gun control laws that Biden…


Los Angeles’s Homicides, Gun Violence Down This Year, so Far, but May Be Due to Weather

Following the COVID-19 pandemic, Los Angeles in 2021 saw a surge in violent crime with the highest annual tally of homicides in 14 years. But two years later, Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) data shows that crime may be on the downward trend so far this year. According to the data, first reported by Crosstown—a…


Democratic Senators Form ‘Gun Violence Prevention Caucus’ After String of Mass Shootings

A group of eight Democratic senators on Feb. 2 announced the formation of a Gun Violence Prevention Caucus that will see lawmakers work together to promote “commonsense solutions” to end soaring shootings across America. Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.),…


San Francisco Community Holds Vigil for Victims of California Mass Shootings

SAN FRANCISCO—Hundreds of community members gathered in Portsmouth Square in San Francisco on the evening of Jan. 26 to commemorate the victims of two recent mass shootings in California and to help heal the shocked communities. After one minute of silence for those who died in the Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay shootings, an…


Get Ready for More Cynical, Useless Gun-Control Push

Commentary The first question any reasonable person asks after a horrible crime is, “What could have been done to stop it?” Yet after every mass shooting, gun controllers suggest unworkable, unconstitutional, completely ineffectual ideas that target people who will never commit a crime. After the twin mass shootings in California last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom…


CDC Funding Decisions Based Largely on Politics, Not Science

Commentary For the second year in a row, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has been caught ignoring science and letting liberal interest groups set its policies. In 2021, the American Pediatric Academy and the Children’s Hospital Association tracked COVID-19 statistics in children and the data show no relationship between mask mandates and the rate…


Buffalo City Sues Firearms Makers, Claiming They Are Fueling Violence

The city of Buffalo, New York, has filed a lawsuit in state court against firearms manufacturers and distributors, as well as ghost firearms companies, for their alleged fueling of violence. Mayor Byron Brown announced the lawsuit on Dec. 20, which he said was the first of its kind. It was filed in state Supreme Court. “Members of…


Rep. Lee Holds Press Conference After Judiciary Subcommittee Hearing on Gun Control

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) holds a press conference following the Judiciary Subcommittee hearing “Examining Uvalde: The Search for Bipartisan Solutions to Gun Violence” at 3:30 p.m. ET on Dec. 15. The Epoch Times will livestream the event. * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later on “My List.” Follow EpochTV…