#gunepidemic — Public Fediverse posts

Federal officials had considered announcing the changes to coincide with the National Shooting Sports Foundation #gun trade show in Las Vegas, which begins on Tuesday. DAG #ToddBlanche is scheduled to speak at the annual show. The NSSF SHOT is one of the nation’s largest #firearm trade shows, & #DOJ officials in both Democratic & Republican admins have regularly attended it.

#Trump #law #GunViolence #GunEpidemic #MassShootings #guns #PublicSafety #PublicHealth

Madness

#DOJ weighs rollback of #GunRegulations

#Trump admin seeks to placate #gun rights groups that have criticized AG #PamBondi.

The “Justice” Department is considering loosening a slate of gun regulations as it seeks to bolster support from ardent #2ndAmendment advocates….

#law #GunViolence #GunEpidemic #MassShootings #guns #PublicSafety #PublicHealth
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/01/19/trump-justice-department-gun-regulations-atf/

A student is dead after #shooting 2 teens at his #Colorado high school & then himself

A student shot two of his peers Wednesday at a suburban Denver high school before shooting himself & later dying, authorities said.

The handgun shooting was reported around 12:30PM at #Evergreen High School in Evergreen, Colorado, about 30 miles west of Denver in the Rocky Mountain foothills.

#SchoolShooting #MassShooting #GunLaws #GunViolence #GunEpidemic #law #USpol
https://apnews.com/article/colorado-high-school-shooting-evergreen-6ab8dd48ce8497c79174669f1c902e49

“It is far easier & far more efficient to stop the #crime gun pipeline at its source & to turn off the spigot,” said Jonathan Lowy, president of Global Action on #GunViolence & a longtime litigator against the gun industry who has worked on the case on behalf of #Mexico.

The #GunManufacturers, joined by a slew of gun groups including the #NRA, have argued the lawsuit would undermine gun rights in the #UnitedStates.

#law #SCOTUS #USpol #geopolitics #GunControl #GunTrafficking #GunEpidemic

The dispute comes before the justices at a time of heightened tension between the 2 countries as the #Trump admin leans on #Mexico to crack down on illegal #immigration & cartel organizations. #Tariffs on imported goods from Mexico are scheduled to go into effect on Tuesday — the same day the justices are set to consider the guns lawsuit.

#law #SCOTUS #ClaudiaSheinbaum #GunControl #WeaponsTrafficking #GunTrafficking #GunEpidemic #GunViolence #USpol #geopolitics

The case reverses longstanding complaints by #Trump that Mexican cartels have contributed to rising #violence in the #UnitedStates. Instead, #Mexico argues the majority of #guns found at Mexican #crime scenes come from the US. It seeks some $10 billion in damages from #US #GunManufacturers.

#law #SCOTUS #ClaudiaSheinbaum #GunControl #WeaponsTrafficking #GunTrafficking #GunEpidemic #GunViolence #USpol #geopolitics

During the speech, #Trump repeated a pledge to fire the director of the Bureau of #Alcohol, #Tobacco, #Firearms & #Explosives, known as the #ATF, on Day One of a potential administration. He accused that agency, which enforces #UnitedStates #GunLaws, of being heavy-handed w/ #FirearmOwners & revoking licenses on frivolous grounds.

#BidenHarris2024 #VoteBlue #GunCulture #GunViolence #GunEpidemic #GunControl #Guns #law

The address to thousands of #NRA members at the group's annual Leadership Forum in Dallas was *light* on new #policy, but he used the platform to urge #gun supporters to go to the polls in the Nov #election.

"We've got to get gun owners to vote," #Trump said in his *wide-ranging* *speech*, which covered everything from his #criminal trials to #trade & #immigration over >90 mins.

#BidenHarris2024 #VoteBlue #GunCulture #GunViolence #GunEpidemic #GunControl #Guns #law

#Trump pledges to 'roll back' Democratic President Joe #Biden’s #gun #regulations put in place by Democratic President Joe #Biden & to fire the #ATF chief during a lengthy rally speech to the #NRA on Sat, during which he accepted the influential group's #endorsement.

#BidenHarris2024 #VoteBlue #GunCulture #GunViolence #GunEpidemic #law
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/donald-trump-fire-up-supporters-nras-annual-us-gathering-2024-05-18/

It has now been an unpleasantly eventful 37.5 hours since I woke.. I have nine 9mm shell casings as unwanted souvenirs. Much of the day would have been much more terrifying if I hadn't already been awake over 24 hours and emotionally blunted by sleep deprivation by then. In related news, I learned today that #Wisconsin does not have any form of red-flag law or even, so far as I can tell, any voluntary program for people to temporarily turn their weapons in. #gunepidemic #guncontrol #gunplague

Mayor Quinton Lucas is questioning whether his city will ever host another public celebration like Wednesday’s.
“I’d be lying to you if I didn’t say that we’ll probably evaluate in the event that we’re blessed to have another #SuperBowl Championship,” Lucas said Thurs AM, questioning whether future gatherings would need to be held at a stadium or other location where attendees would be wanded at security checkpoints.

#GunControl #Guns #GunEpidemic #GunViolence #GunViolenceEpidemic #PublicHealth

Kansas City shooting had ‘no nexus to #terrorism,’ ofcls say

The deadly #shooting that turned a celebration for the #KansasCity Chiefs into tragedy on Wednesday appeared to stem from a dispute among 3 people & had “no nexus to terrorism,” ofcls said Thurs morning.

Police Chief Stacey Graves said at a briefing that 2 of the individuals involved are juveniles.

#GunControl #Guns #GunEpidemic #GunViolence#GunViolenceEpidemic #PublicHealth #NationalSecurity
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/02/15/kansas-city-shooting-super-bowl-rally/

@RollingStone 53 senators voted to make it easier for veterans to either shoot themselves or other humans around them to death - or both!

When corruption goes hand in hand with utterly depraved indifference to human life.
It's despicable!

#SaveLives #GunReduction #GunEpidemic #GunControl #GunControlNow #GunOverkill #BanTheGOP #BanTheNRA #Corruption #Bribery #ClassAction #CriminallyNegligentManslaughter #GetBetterRepresentatives

Memorable thoughts about daily terrorism in America (preventable, if it weren't for corrupt 2nd-Amendment misinterpreters)!

"...terrorism is happening practically every day right here in the United States of America. We are a nation of 330 million with more guns than people, and we are paying a steep price for that fact. We don’t need Hamas to attack us for thousands to die. We are doing it to ourselves.
..."

https://www.salon.com/2023/10/14/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-terrorism--in-israel-and-right-here-at-home/
#SaveLives #Terrorism #Racism #Antisemitism #GunEpidemic #GunControl #GunControlNow

@Free_Press And the gun-industry- & Kremlin-friendly interpretation of the Second Amendment will again be responsible for expectable gun deaths.

Greetngs from the Federalist Society.

#RuleOfLaw #SaveLives #DefendTheUnion #DefendTheConstitution #DefendDemocracy #GunControl #GunControlNow #GunReduction #GunEpidemic #RespectLife #CleanSCOTUS #InvestigateFederalistSociety #InvestigateTheSix #NRAStooges

@JoshuaHolland America's daily uncivil war, brought to you by NRA & "GOP".

#SaveLives #GunControl #GunReduction #GunEpidemic #GunControlNow

@maskedscheduler Gun control, which would save American lives, is being opposed by "Republicans", not only obstructing justice & humans' survival, but actively & corruptly furthering gun terrorism, perpetrated by Americans against Americans, be they toddlers, adolescents, teenagers, your middle-aged neighbors, retirees and old-aged.
Gun terrorism specific to the United States, where you'll find more guns than human beings, won't stop, if you don't stop it — together!
Time to end the plague of daily gun massacres & "GOP"-approved bloodshed, fueled by greed of corrupt politicians!
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/01/atf-obama-gun-reform-control-alcohol-tobacco-firearms/
#SaveLives #GunTerror #GunEpidemic #GunViolence #GunOverkill #GunControl #GunControlNow #BanTheGOP #BanTheNRA #DomesticGOPTerror #Bribery #Corruption #GOPKills #NRAKills

In related good news: The U.S. government, on behalf of the people & their wish to be protected from rampant gun violence involving not only weapons of war, won a court injunction preventing a gun company from selling "forced-reset triggers" that can turn semiautomatic assault rifles into weapons, that can fire faster than M-16 assault rifle (700-900 rounds/minute).

Well done, Biden administration 👏👏👏!
Weapons of war don't belong into civilians' hands! Nor do tools, that prepare semiautomatic guns to be used in real mass killings with dozens of dead fellow-humans in no time.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-wins-court-injunction-against-seller-machine-gun-converters-2023-09-05/
#SaveLives #GunControl #GunEpidemic #GunReduction #ArmedForOverkill #OverarmedUS

U.S. population 2017: 326,474,000

Firearms in civilian possession: 393,347,000

High time to find solutions to end the scourge of gun violence. High time to act.
In everyone's interest. For everyone's life. To save lives.

" I used to own an AR-15.

And I'm here to tell you that Second Amendment mythologies and revisionist history continue to result in needless firearm-related deaths, suffering and trauma. If law-abiding gun owners do not start publicly speaking up, we cannot expect to find solutions to our nation's unacceptable levels of gun-related violence.
...
The work of perfecting our Union has always been accompanied by struggle. We are now a nation held hostage by trauma entrepreneurs who wield and brandish firearms as weapons of holy war. Believe it or not, the vast majority of my fellow firearm owners will broadly agree that these reforms are necessary. I speak to them now: Like all of us, you have the right to remain silent; but now it is time to consider your duty to lead the change you wish to see."

https://www.salon.com/2023/09/04/owners-its-time-for-us-to-stand-up-against-the-second-amendment-culture/
#SaveLives #GunControl #GunEpidemic #GunReduction #ArmedForOverkill #OverarmedUS

@georgetakei 🤔 7 out of 206 sovereign states guaranteeing the right to keep & bear arms is a damn questionable badge of exceptionalism.
Especially, when you're the overall outlier country stuffed with insane 120+ firearms per 100 civilians.

#SaveLives #GunEpidemic #GunReduction #GunControl #GunOverkill #ProtectThePeople #BanTheNRA #BanTheGOP #Corruption #Bribery #ServingPutin

@popcornreel The entity's color the gun dealers of death are donating to is *red*.

Like blood.

That's all you need to know, who to vote for!

#SaveLives #TrueBlue #GunControl #GunReduction #GunEpidemic #VOTE #DrainRacism #DollarGeneral

@sfdb Too often & avoidably.

#GunEpidemic #GunReduction #GunControl #BanTheNRA #BanTheGOP #AdvocatesOfDeath

People have been fleeing #Guatemala for the US in record numbers recently, due to rampant institutional corruption, human rights abuses, and organized crime.

Such conditions are reinforced by a lot of firepower, which—thanks to a 2020 move by the Trump admin—is being sold by US gun makers. #politics #GunEpidemic #news

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-us-gun-violence-border-crisis-guatemala/#xj4y7vzkg

@carodjah "Republicans": Guns ✔

Also "Republicans": Forced birth of kids, as targets for guns ✔

#SaveLives #GunReduction #BanTheGOP #Corruption #NRARatings #GunEpidemic

@augieray F**king "stand your ground law" is a barbarian attack on the principle of proportionality of means applied, the Rule of Law & a profoundly corrupt concession to & license for the gun industry to sell more guns.
Game over for the Wild West nostalgia now!

#SaveLives #RespectLife #GunEpidemic #GunReduction #GunControl #GunControlNow

@VedaDalsette Wouldn't it be time to take all firearms away from irresponsible cretins with no respect for the lives of their fellow-humans at all?
(Rhetorical question)

The U.S.: The only country in the world with more firearms than population —

120.5 guns per 100 persons (2017!).

#SaveLives #GunEpidemic #GunReduction #GunControl #GunControlNow #RespectLife #HumanityMatters

@shawnwegner Corrupt assault "Republicans" like Ogles furthered the rise of assault-rifle massacres by sabotaging the ATF.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/01/atf-obama-gun-reform-control-alcohol-tobacco-firearms/
#SaveLives #DefendAmerica #BanTheGOP #BanTheNRA #AttackingAmerica #GunReduction #GunEpidemic #GunControl #GunControlNow #CriminallyNegligentManslaughter #Bribery #Corruption #CoConspirators

@heidilifeldman (Semiautomatic) Assault rifles don't belong in civilians' hands. Period.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/family-ar-15-inventor-speaks-out-n593356
#SaveLives #GunEpidemic #GunReduction #GunControl #GunControlNow

@DemocracyMattersALot Guns in the hands of civilians require respect of life.

Bastards, who value property higher than life, lack that vital respect.

#SaveLives #GunReduction #GunEpidemic #GunControl #GunControlNow #BanTheGOP #BanTheNRA #OrganizedCrime #Corruption #UnregulatedMilitants

@stevesilberman All those so-called "Christian nationalist" freaks want to fu*king keep their fellow-humans uneducated, so they'll never find out, that Jesus's intention would've been to tell folks "Thou shalt not gun down your neighbor's children alongside their parents."

Today's infidels own an assault rifle & enough hate & disrespect of life to use it to eliminate God's creations.

#SaveLives #BanTheGOP #BanTheNRA #DeadlyCorruption #Corruption #GunReduction #GunEpidemic #GunControl #GunControlNow #RespectLife