Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

EXPLAINED: 18 - The Real Truth

How lawmakers in thrall to the NRA stifle gun safety laws

Powerful lobbying groups spent nearly $5m last year to expand gun rights while limiting curbs on who can have a firearm and how they can carry it

The Guardian - US

NRA opens gun convention in Texas after school massacre

The National Rifle Association begins its annual convention in Houston on Friday, and leaders of the powerful gun-rights lobbying group are gearing up to “reflect on” — and deflect any blame for — the deadly shooting earlier this week of 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in…

The Independent UK

Texas governor Greg Abbott to skip NRA convention and visit Uvalde instead amid pressure over pro-guns stance

National Rifle Association’s spokesperson says governor will pre-record message

The Independent UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Texas Gov. Abbott going to Uvalde — not NRA — on Friday

AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott is returning to Uvalde on Friday, and will skip the National Rifle Association convention in Houston.

Tribune News Service

The meetings go on for the NRA, and guns are allowed, but not during Trump’s appearance

WASHINGTON — After at least 21 people, 19 of them children, were killed in a shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday, the National Rifle Association said its deepest sympathies were with the families and victims “involved in this horrific and evil crime.”

Tribune News Service

Houston mayor says NRA should cancel convention this weekend

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said the National Rifle Association should postpone its convention in the city this weekend out of respect for the victims of the nation’s second deadliest school shooting this week in Uvalde, Texas.

Tribune News Service

The NRA says its Houston convention will 'reflect on' the Uvalde school shooting

The National Rifle Association begins its annual convention Friday, and its leaders are gearing up to "reflect on" — and deflect any blame for — the deadly shooting earlier this week in Uvalde, Texas.

WEKU

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Why gun control laws don't pass Congress, despite majority public support and repeated outrage over mass shootings

With the carnage in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York in May 2022, calls have begun again for Congress to enact gun control. Since the 2012 massacre of 20 children and four staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, legislation introduced in response to mass killings has…

The Conversation

What is the NRA and where is its annual meeting?

The National Rifle Association (NRA) was founded in 1871 by a group of ex-US Army officers who were aghast at the exceedingly poor marksmanship of soldiers who fought for the United States during the American Civil War.

The Independent UK

The NRA wasn’t always opposed to gun restrictions

At first, the group was mainly concerned with marksmanship. It later played a relatively constructive role regarding safety-minded gun ownership restrictionsm before turning into a rigid politicized force.

Chicago Sun-Times

NRA stages marketing event as Texas mourns school shooting

The National Rifle Association begins its annual convention in Houston on Friday, and leaders of the powerful gun-rights lobbying group are gearing up to “reflect on” -- and deflect any blame for -- the deadly shooting earlier this week of 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in…

The Independent UK

The Republicans most likely to make a deal on gun control and how much money the NRA has given them to stop it

Who receives money from the NRA and when isn’t as clear-cut as it may seem

The Independent UK

Don McLean backs out of performance at NRA convention after Texas school shooting

Don McLean is saying “bye bye” to the NRA — for now, at least.

Tribune News Service

Kimmel on gun control: ‘Our cowardly leaders just aren’t listening to us’

Late-night hosts delivered emotional monologues in the aftermath of the Uvalde school shooting

The Guardian - US

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Salon

Senate heads for vacation after shooting

Despite mounting calls to address gun violence after Uvalde shooting, Schumer admits chances of gun bill are "slim"

The Independent UK

Mitt Romney attacked for $13m NRA donation as he tweets about Uvalde attack

Utah lawmaker has received more money from notorious pressure group than any other GOP senator

The New Daily

After 138 school shootings this year, why can’t America enact gun control?

America is grappling withe gun control debate after yet another school shooting. Experts say its lawmakers could learn from Australia and Port Arthur.

France 24

NRA convention is 'slap in the face' to Texans after Uvalde school shooting

IN THE PAPERS - Thursday, May 26, 2022: The local paper in Uvalde, Texas publishes its first issue since the shooting that killed 19 children and their teachers: an all-black front page with the date of the massacre. Despite the shooting, US gun lobby the NRA is going forward with…

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Salon

NRA and GOP are in $$$ cahoots

Right-wing lawmakers are "allowing children to die because of the gun lobby"

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: Shootings show that an armed society is nothing more than a fearful society

For decades, lies about gun violence have sustained policies that get many people killed. Tops Fresh Market in Buffalo, New York, and Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, now enter America’s list of mass shootings. It is a list of intense sorrow and shame. And it is a list we…

The Independent UK

Don McLean drops out of NRA rally concert following Texas school shooting

‘In light of recent events in Texas, I have decided it would be disrespectful and hurtful for me to perform for the NRA’

The Guardian - US

Outrage as NRA to gather in Houston just days after Texas school massacre

Counter-protests expected as about 55,000 NRA members to attend event, including Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and Greg Abbott

The Conversation

How the NRA evolved from backing a 1934 ban on machine guns to blocking nearly all firearm restrictions today

The mass shootings at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket and an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, just 10 days apart, are stirring the now-familiar national debate over guns seen after the tragic 2012 and 2018 school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, and Parkland, Florida.

Chicago Sun-Times

No more thoughts and prayers. Without sensible gun restrictions, mass shootings will continue.

What does it say about our country when a child predicts something terribly wrong is going to take place at school, and then it does?

Tribune News Service

News briefs

Trump vows to speak at NRA convention this weekend after Texas school shooting

1 … 17 18 19 20

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

ROBB ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

113 stories

National Rifle Association

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.