By Dominique Mosbergen, Source: Huffington Post As hundreds of thousands of protesters prepared to gather in Washington and other cities across the U.S. on Saturday to demand meaningful gun reform, the National Rifle Association took to social media to mock the “March For Our Lives” [...]
By Carla Herreria, Source: Huffington Post On a day when hundreds of thousands of people marched in support of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting survivors, one senator took time to tell those students he does not support their cause. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said in [...]
by Sebastian Murdock and Sara Boboltz, Source: Huffington Post Enough. That was the message that hundreds of thousands of protesters around the world had Saturday for lawmakers who have ignored the toll of gun violence and refused to pass meaningful gun reform legislation. At the March For Our [...]
By Richard Eskow from The Trial Lawyer “Childhood,” said the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, “is the kingdom where nobody dies.” In this country, childhood is something we no longer value. Seventeen people are dead at a high school in Broward County, Florida. The shooter [...]
By Martha Rosenberg from The Trial Lawyer It should surprise no one that the same revulsion against gun culture that erupted among young people after the Florida shooting translates to hunting. The number of U.S. hunters is dropping about 10 percent a year with the [...]
by FNRA I read an article on a very well-known rifle association’s website that lead with this question: “Why do we even have a Second Amendment?” The rest of the article – a poor attempt to propagate the idea that gun reform equates to a [...]
By Farron Cousins from The Trial Lawyer Magazine On the evening of Thursday, February 1st, my wife received a phone call that left her in complete shock. She is a special education teacher at a middle school in Florida. The phone call was from her [...]
By Thom Hartmann, from The Trial Lawyer Magazine As the school shooting in Parkland, Florida has shown, what was considered insanely corrupt political behavior 40 years ago is now normal. And you can thank right-wingers on the Supreme Court. Back in 1982, the late novelist Robert [...]
By Chauncey DeVega from The Trial Lawyer Magazine Have you heard of Blaze Bernstein? What about Buckley Kuhn-Fricker and Scott Fricker? Do Casey Jordan Marquez and Francisco Fernandez sound like familiar names? The answer is almost certainly no. Those are a few names drawn from the [...]