by William Kim | Mar 25, 2021 | Gun violence, Politics
No matter how many mass shootings afflict the country, the GOP has largely refused to budge on even modest gun safety reforms. Texas’ Republican Senators are no exception, with Ted Cruz already lashing out at Democrats in the aftermath of shootings in Colorado and...
by Fernando Ramirez | Oct 23, 2020 | 2020 Elections, Politics
The newly formed super PAC of the National Rifle Association, NRA Victory Fund, has begun paying for digital ads supporting Sen. John Cornyn’s re-election. Federal Election Commission filings show NRA Victory Fund has dumped $322,513 into digital advertising for the...
by Editors | Sep 7, 2019 | Gun violence, Opinion
Hardcore N.R.A. member Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick supporting a type of gun background check doesn’t pass the smell test. Politics is a strange business, so anything’s possible. We hope our skepticism is misplaced. This could be one of those rare inflection points in...
by Fernando Ramirez | Aug 19, 2019 | Gun violence, Policy
Wearing red “Moms Demand Action” t-shirts, one couple said they lost their 20-year-old son George Kemp Jr. to gun violence in 2013. When elected officials, Calandrian Kemp said in an interview, “sit at the dinner table and they see their children for holidays, or...
by Fernando Ramirez | Aug 13, 2019 | Gun violence, Politics
When it comes to guns, it’s hard to get Texans to rally behind any one idea. There is, however, one glaring exception. An overwhelming majority of Texans support universal background checks, or background checks for all firearm transactions in order to stop guns from...
