Florida House Passes Gun Control Bill, Defying N.R.A. Florida lawmakers gave final passage to a $400 million gun control and school safety bill on Wednesday in defiance of the National Rifle Association, which opposed the legislation’s firearm restrictions. The bipartisan vote came three weeks after a gunman killed 17 people […]
School Shootings and Armed Attacks
Trump Stuns Lawmakers With Seeming Embrace of Gun Control President Trump stunned Republicans on live television Wednesday by embracing gun control and urging a group of lawmakers at the White House to resurrect gun safety legislation that has been opposed for years by the powerful National Rifle Association and the […]
Trump Says He Would Have Rushed in Unarmed to Stop School Shooting President Trump asserted Monday that he would have rushed in to save the students and teachers of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School from a gunman with an assault weapon, even if he was unarmed at the time of […]
Defying N.R.A., Florida Lawmakers Back Raising Age Limits on Assault Rifles Gov. Rick Scott and top state lawmakers proposed on Friday the most significant move toward gun control in Florida in decades, backing new limits that defy the National Rifle Association but fall short of demands from survivors of last […]
What Explains U.S. Mass Shootings? International Comparisons Suggest an Answer When the world looks at the United States, it sees a land of exceptions: a time-tested if noisy democracy, a crusader in foreign policy, an exporter of beloved music and film. But there is one quirk that consistently puzzles America’s […]
