Tag: gun control
Suggestive Results in the House of Representatives
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Last week's election was never expected to threaten the Democratic Party's control in the House of Representatives, and it did not. But there...
Guns and the Special Election in Arizona
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Mark Kelly (D) and Martha McSally (R) are competing candidates in a special election for one of that state's seats in the US...
Gun Control a Big Issue in Kentucky Race
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Democratic nominee Amy McGrath is still considered the underdog, but not a prohibitive long-shot, in her campaign to defeat US Senator (and Majority...
“I’m Not Saying He’s Responsible for the Nine Deaths.”
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Seven candidates for the nomination of the Democratic Party for President of the United States met in Charleston, South Carolina, on Tuesday February...
Beto O’Rourke Bows Out of Presidential Race
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Beto O'Rourke first acquired a national reputation when he gave Senator Ted Cruz (R - Texas) a scare in Cruz' 2018 Senatorial reelection...
Gun Control after Three Mass Shootings
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Three gun massacres in quick succession -- at a garlic festival in California (July 28), at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas (August...
Eric Swalwell: The First Campaign Drop-Out
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On July 8, 2019, Eric Swalwell, who represents California's 15th district in the US House, became the first participant of any prominence to...
A Victory for Gun Control Advocates in the Supreme Court
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The US Supreme Court, on April 5, rejected an effort by a pro-gun group to delay the enforcement of a federal ban on...
Congressman Eric Swalwell set to run for president on gun control – report
Congressman Eric Swalwell will announce next week that he is running for US president with a campaign focused on gun control, it was reported on Thursday.
The 38-year-old will declare during an appearance on CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert where he will be joined by Cameron Kasky, a survivor of last year’s mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Parkland, Florida, according to the Atlantic magazine.
Swalwell, who is also hosting a town hall on gun control next week in Florida, told the Atlantic: “ I do believe that gun safety has to be a top 2020 issue.” The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas left 17 people dead and another 17 injured.
It sparked the March for Our Lives, formed by survivors of the shooting who have demanded stricter gun control legislation.
Swalwell, a fourth-term congressman from northern California, would potentially follow the playbook of Jay Inslee, the governor of Washington state, by differentiating himself with a laser-like concentration on a single issue – in Inslee’s case, climate change.
The politician writes defiantly: “I’m not afraid of this guy.
I’m not afraid of the NRA.
I’m not afraid.
Swalwell has hinted for months that he is considering a bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020 and has become a familiar face in the early voting states Iowa and New Hampshire.
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand appeared on it to announce she was forming an exploratory committee.
House Judiciary Passes First Major Gun Violence Bill In Decades | Rachel Maddow |...
Rachel Maddow reports on a bipartisan background check bill passing the Democratically controlled House Judiciary Committee, the first such gun violence prevention legislation to pass the committee since the 90s. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc MSNBC delivers breaking news and…