Gun Violence
After the shooting death of Takeoff in November 2022, Quavo, 32, launched the Rocket Foundation, a program that provides support and financial aid to organizations committed in the fight to end gun violence.
Mayor Eric Adams deflected responsibility for recent New York City gun violence and crime by invoking the BLM organization. The career policeman wondered aloud "if Black Lives Matter."
Fox contributor Nicole Parker falsely claimed a side door to the Covenant School in Nashville was unlocked during Monday's school shooting and blamed that instead of guns.
Gun violence is everywhere, all the time, and as unpredictable as it is predictable.
The development came amid Republicans' fearmongering on crime.
Since the rise of hip-hop in the early 1980s, critics of rap sought to tie the music to violent crime.
The ruling is expected to make it harder for other states to restrict guns amid a national gun violence crisis.
The nationwide anti-gun violence protests included a notable contingency of Black people devastated by gun violence in which white supremacy has many times been a motivating factor.
In Ohio, Republican lawmakers approved legislation that will allow school workers to carry guns without extensive hours of training.
Fox News host Laura Ingraham blames marijuana use for the mass shooting in Texas and other instances of violence in America.
Donald Trump Jr. claimed Salvador Ramos would have committed the "same" Uvalde shooting with a bat or machete.
During much of America's ongoing conversation about the root causes of gun violence, the makers of guns have typically escaped scrutiny.
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