The weekend’s deadly massacres in El Paso and Dayton served as a grim reminder of past inaction on gun policy. … In the past, such atrocities have quickly faded from the public consciousness because gun-rights groups are better organized than their gun-control rivals, as well as able to more effectively […] Read more »
Most Latinos Now Say It’s Gotten Worse For Them In The U.S.
The shooting in El Paso last weekend was one of the deadliest attacks against Latinos in recent memory. And in the aftermath, President Trump was blamed for encouraging the violence with his inflammatory anti-immigrant language, although he’s dismissed this criticism so far. We will likely never know how much the […] Read more »
Did El Paso show us that white supremacists are a serious threat? Few Republicans think so.
Last weekend’s mass shooting in El Paso has refocused the nation’s attention on the threat of white supremacism. … Over the past decade, right-wing extremist killings have outnumbered those by Islamist extremists about 3 to 1 in the United States. Yet while there is a widespread and bipartisan consensus that […] Read more »
Who’s to blame for mass shootings? On that, some bipartisan agreement
Americans overwhelmingly blame the mental health system, racism and white nationalism, and loose gun laws for a series of mass shootings that have shaken communities across the country. A USA TODAY/Ipsos Poll taken Monday and Tuesday, in the wake of deadly violence in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, shows […] Read more »
Teleprompter Trump meets Twitter Trump as the president responds to mass slayings
Teleprompter Trump repudiated Twitter Trump in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House on Monday. Speaking in the wake of two mass shootings in less than 24 hours that left at least 31 dead over the weekend, President Trump spoke of “the inherent worth and dignity of every human […] Read more »
Can Trump’s Words Incite Violence?
This installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast deals with two mass shootings this weekend, one of which was explicitly tied to white nationalist terrorism. On Saturday, a young white man targeted immigrants and killed at least 20 people at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, in an attack being investigated […] Read more »