… After the February rampage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., students there helped ignite the most successful push for action on gun control in decades in that state. There is little indication of anything similar in Texas, a place where guns are hard-wired into the state’s […] Read more »
Young People Keep Marching After Parkland, This Time to Register to Vote
The pace of new voter registrations among young people in crucial states is accelerating, a signal that school shootings this year — and the anger and political organizing in their wake — may prove to be more than ephemeral displays of activism. … In addition to the registration figures, new […] Read more »
What political science can tell us about mass shootings
Over the past decades, the United States has faced more and more mass shootings that are neither criminal competition nor family violence: Columbine, Aurora, Virginia Tech, Newtown, the Charleston, S.C., Emanuel AME Church, the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Tex., Mandalay Bay in Las […] Read more »
Gun owners support a wide range of gun control measures, Johns Hopkins study finds
Americans are in agreement on a large number of gun policy proposals regardless of whether they own guns, according to a new study in the American Journal of Public Health. Over 80 percent of gun owners and non-owners favor universal background checks, for instance. Similar percentages say they support testing […] Read more »
Gallup Vault: 72% Support for Anti-Lynching Bill in 1937
Although seven U.S. presidents petitioned Congress to take action and Congress itself introduced more than 200 anti-lynching bills between 1882 and 1968, the U.S. Congress never made lynching a federal crime. But some of the earliest Gallup polls conducted found majorities of Americans consistently supporting the passage of such a […] Read more »
Opioid addiction in U.S.: 7 in 10 say it’s a very serious problem
Seventy-one percent of Americans say the issue of opioid addiction is a very serious problem for the country, and most feel the federal government should be doing more to address it. Majorities across political lines and age and income levels (71 percent) call the issue very serious. CONT. CBS News Read more »