The 2018 Billboard Music Awards paid tribute to the students and teachers affected by recent deadly shootings in Texas and Florida, while the night also featured show-stopping performances by iconic singer Janet Jackson and K-pop group BTS.
The post-Parkland gun control push may have netted zero action in Congress but it has certainly found takers in one of the most unlikely of places–Republican Governors in many pro-gun states.
Civil rights activist Johnetta Elzie notes that white gun control activists emerged from the Parkland, Florida, school shooting in February with corporate sponsors — while black activists are left looking in from the outside.
With smart-guns still a theoretical idea rather than an actual product the Wall Street Journal reports that “smart-gun evangelists” failed to note that Silicon Valley was not buying into the technology.
Hollywood gun control proponents including Amy Schumer, Jimmy Kimmel, and Alec Baldwin are launching a initiative to take down the NRA.
Butler County Sheriff Michael Slupe has banned his office from conducting business with any company involved in a boycott of the NRA.
As schools across the nation continue to grapple with ways to prevent active shooter situations, some West Texas districts already added a unique layer of protection to thwart these often deadly confrontations – the Telemedicine, Wellness, Intervention, Triage, and Referral (TWITR) Project.
Dick’s Sporting Goods is destroying all the unsold “assault-style rifles” and “high capacity” magazines which they pulled from shelves following the February 14 Parkland school shooting.
High school student turned anti-gun activist David Hogg deleted tweets about Friday’s second National School Walkout stating that the event — taking place on the anniversary of the 1999 attack at Columbine High School in Colorado that resulted in the deaths of 12 people — would include more than just students pressing for gun control.
The CEO of MyPillow has said his company’s sales remain “strong” after bucking the David Hogg-led boycott of Fox News show The Ingraham Angle.
Celebrities who double as gun control proponents were largely silent following the shooting at YouTube’s San Bruno, California, headquarters. Their silence was likely the result of the fact that they could not parlay the shooting into something supportive of more firearm restrictions.
Corporate America has drawn a red line around criticism of the teenage activist survivors of the Parkland massacre–but the sanction for crossing it only applies when it comes to conservatives.
Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) used an April 2 Fox News Live appearance to announce that she is preparing to introduce legislation to create a federal law allowing firearm confiscation orders.
Rocker and NRA board member Ted Nugent used an appearance on the “The Joe Page Show” to describe the Parkland gun control activists as people who “have no soul.”
The man who shot and killed 17 people at his former high school last month is apparently admired by some individuals who one expert said may be facing their own mental health challenges.
Parkland shooting survivor and anti-gun activist David Hogg’s sister, Lauren, tweeted at Melania Trump saying that her brother is being “cyberbullied” by Fox News host Laura Ingraham.
For the vast majority of America’s youth who refused to be used as a political pawn in Saturday’s anti-gun marches, I congratulate you!
The school shooting in Parkland, Florida, just becomes more tragic as new details are learned of the local sheriff’s department response – actually, its lack of response.
“I went from blessed to cursed,” he says about the tragic day that his daughter Meadow, a high school senior, got shot and killed by a psychotic former student that walked into her school with a rifle.
A bitter optimism is felt at the end of the marathon, two-part AIDS play “Angels in America” and one of its stars, Andrew Garfield, shares some of that hope, especially with so many young people in the #NeverAgain movement demanding gun law changes and begging not to be cut down by bullets.
The editor-in-chief of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School’s student newspaper told CNN’s media reporter Brian Stelter on Sunday that “journalism is a form of activism” without any pushback.
Comedian Bill Murray’s clumsy attempt to glorify the Parkland gun control activists by comparing them to Vietnam protesters was shockingly ignorant and insensitive for an elderly man who was actually alive during the Vietnam War aftermath and the Cambodian genocide. The truth of that history provides a powerful argument against gun control fantasies.
During coverage of the attack on Maryland’s Great Mills High School CNN reported that there has been one school shooting per week, “on average,” in 2018.
Ariana Grande, Jennifer Hudson, Miley Cyrus, and Demi Lovato will march with gun-control demonstrators at the March for Our Lives rally in Washington, D.C., according to David Hogg, the Florida shooting survivor who has been one of the most vocal gun-control activists.
The mainstream media are celebrating the “walkout” as an authentic expression of outrage that demands a response from political leaders. But it is not.
Prosecutors in Broward County, Florida, have decided to seek the death penalty for the Parkland high school student charged with murdering 17 people in February, a report says. Authorities filed an intent to seek the ultimate penalty in a March
Univision Anchor Jorge Ramos on Monday praised the “in your face” gun-control activism of the left-wing Parkland students, comparing them to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients who have employed similarly aggressive tactics.
Teenager David Hogg is calling for newfound Twitter fan base to boycott companies who have relationships with the NRA. On Monday morning, he directed them to boycott Amazon and FedEx.
President Trump, so often maligned as thin-skinned and divisive, is teaching us how to talk to those with whom we disagree. We may, against the odds, begin to solve some of our problems.
Actor-turned-political artist Jim Carrey shared his latest piece of original artwork on social media Sunday, a blood-soaked painting of a schoolgirl backdropped by the American flag, in an apparent response to the school shooting in Parkland, Florida this month.
Friday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC), the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, was asked what his and the Freedom Caucus’ position on the federal government’s response to last week’s mass shooting at a
Jon Boeckenstedt, the Associate Vice President for enrollment management and marketing at DePaul University, took to Twitter to say, “Did you try to turn a national tragedy into a promotional opportunity? I’ve seldom seen something in poorer taste.”
It’s been one week since a former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, shot and killed 17 people. Over those seven days, students from the school have launched a website that is selling merchandise and planning marches nationwide, marchforourlives.com.
A mob of hateful Twitter trolls excoriated the father of one of the victims of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting because he was wearing a Donald Trump campaign t-shirt as he drove to the school looking for his daughter who turned out to be among the dead.
The U.S. Army is honoring three Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) cadets killed in the Florida high school shooting Wednesday with medals for heroism.
The United States Military Academy at West Point has decided to posthumously accept fallen JROTC high school student Peter Wang to the class of 2025.
A Chabad center in Coral Springs, Florida, may have evidence that can help police bring the Parkland high school shooter to justice.
Monday on his nationally syndicated radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh observed that many of the student speaking out against the National Rifle Association and guns after last week’s mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, FL were employing
A petition was launched seeking full military burial honors for Marjory Stoneman Douglas High student Peter Wang, the JROTC cadet who helped save lives at the cost of his own during the murderous rampage by a fellow student at a Florida high school.
There is one gun law that might prevent mass shootings, but the left will not allow us to try it: namely, allowing teachers to carry guns.
