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The federal funding bill approved this week by Congress designates $25 million for gun violence research.

Joseph Theodore “JT” Lewis, the brother of one of the 20 children murdered in the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, claimed that former Vice President Joe Biden (D) lied about visiting the families of the victims, which the presidential hopeful claimed in a recent campaign ad he released.

During CNN’s Democrat Debate on Tuesday night, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) vowed to end the “scourge of mass violence,” though he previously oversaw a rise in crime as mayor of Newark, New Jersey.

During a September 25, gun control rally on Capitol Hill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi swelled “gun violence” deaths by 66 percent.

Democrat presidential hopeful Joe Biden used a Monday night tweet to tell Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and his Republican colleagues to “stand up to the NRA.”

Democrat presidential candidates appear in a video for solutions to school  gun violence in which not one solution is named.

American doubles player Mike Bryan, has been fined $10,000 by the US Open for pointing his racket as if it were a gun.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced Tuesday that he will ask President Donald Trump to use his $5 billion set aside for border wall construction to combat gun violence and white supremacy.

The Catholic archdiocese of Mexico City published an editorial Sunday denouncing xenophobia in the United States as the primary enemy to be defeated and the underlying cause of recent gun violence.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) called on retailers like Walmart to “stop selling guns,” arguing that they have a responsibility to their communities and are shirking their duties by putting profits over “safety.”

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) reached out to white supremacists at a vigil on Monday night asking them to “come back” to family and friends.

Leftist organizations that regularly protest against President Trump gathered on Tuesday to blame him for the shootings in Ohio and Texas.

The American Psychiatric Association (APA) pushed back against President Trump for emphasizing the festering mental health crisis in the U.S. in the wake of the tragic shootings that took place in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, over the weekend. 

Democrat presidential candidates reacted to President Trump’s Monday morning remarks about the deadly shootings that took place over the weekend, condemning him despite the fact that he forcefully denounced white supremacy.

Pope Francis has promised his prayers for the victims of recent shootings in three different American states, declaring Sunday that he is “spiritually close” to those who have suffered from this spate of violence.

Five persons were killed and numerous wounded Saturday through Sunday in Democrat-controlled Baltimore, Maryland.

Despite endless gun violence reports put forward by the establishment media, the dirty little secret is firearm homicides have plummeted over the past 25 years.

The Grace Presbytery covering north and northeastern Texas ordained the first ever “Minister of Gun Violence Prevention.”

Head of the Swedish Security Service (Säpo) Anders Thornberg has told Swedes to get used to the current level of shootings, saying it could remain high for many years to come.

A survivor of the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting called out Madonna over her latest gruesome music video, which features unsettling imagery of a mass shooting reminiscent of scenes from the Orlando nightclub shooting that left 49 dead and 53 injured.

Presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said during Wednesday’s debate that gun violence is a “national health emergency in this country.”

Democrat gun control advocates gathered at the Capitol on Thursday to put out a rally call for the Senate to take up the universal background check for gun purchases bill the House passed 114 days ago, claiming 11,400 people have since died from “gun violence.”

Baltimore Mayor Bernard “Jack” Young responded to the city’s wave of weekend violence by floating a “boxing ring” as a potential solution.

At least 50 individuals were shot, ten of whom died, over the weekend in gun-controlled Chicago.

During his Tuesday speech to Nevada Democrats, Joe Biden acknowledged that there is a Second Amendment but said we need to deal with it “rationally.”

Most of the frontrunners for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in 2020 reacted to the synagogue shooting in Poway, California, on Saturday by denouncing “gun violence.”

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) claimed there have been more “gun violence” deaths the last 49 years than deaths that resulted from all U.S. wars combined.

At least 49 people have been killed and 42 wounded in mass shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. Three people are in custody in connection to the shootings, police confirm.

In a press conference held the day after Democrats passed legislation to criminalize private gun sales House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) swelled gun violence deaths by 66 percent.

Steve Scalise said Jerry Nadler, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, is blocking him from testifying as a witness in a hearing on guns.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is pushing the mantra of an “epidemic of gun violence” even as the overall murder rate falls.

Tuesday on CBS’s “The Late Late Show,” 2020 presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) listed some of the reasons she would declare a national emergency if elected. Host James Corden asked the senator what would constitute as a national emergency if

David Hogg suggests efforts to declare a “national emergency” regarding border security could be better spent with action against “gun violence.”

Sweden is set to receive 7.5 million Swedish Kronor (738,248 euros) from the European Union for victims of “hate crimes” after the country saw a record number of fatal shootings in 2018.

Over the last two years, Stockholm county has seen a total of thirty fatal shootings, but according to a review of the cases, only eight individuals have been convicted for the crimes.

Think Progress expressed shock on Twitter Friday night that the U.S. banned romaine lettuce rather than firearms this Thanksgiving season.