Uvalde school shooting Arm Teachers to Take Down Gunmen When Police Can't, Says Gun Owners' Representative The gunman who killed 19 students and 2 teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, couldn’t be stopped by police for at least 40 minutes after the attack began. A representative for the Gun Owners of America says one solution is to let teachers carry guns too — to take down mass shooters when police can’t.
gun violence Doctor: U.S. Needs to Regulate Guns Like It Regulated Tobacco In the 1980s, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop pushed for cigarettes to be seen as a public health issue. Today, “guns are the cigarettes of 2022,” says Harvard physician Dr. Aditi Nerurkar, who joined LX News to discuss the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
misinformation No, the Texas Shooter Wasn't Transgender. Here's How That Misinformation Spread So Quickly As news of the Uvalde school shooting broke, false rumors began to spread that the shooter, Salvador Ramos, was transgender. People including Rep. Paul Gosar, Alex Jones and Candace Owens shared photos of a trans woman from Georgia unconnected to the shooter and said she was Ramos. As NBC OUT reporter Jo Yurcaba explains, the misinformation originated on 4chan, a...
gun control The NRA Spends More on Voters Than Politicians The NRA annual meeting will take place in Houston this weekend, just days after the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, 280 miles away. NBCLX Political Editor Noah Pransky joins LX News from Uvalde, and explains how the group influences politics through more than just its campaign donations to candidates.
Uvalde school shooting Student Activist: ‘We Are Past the Thoughts and Prayers Phase' After the mass shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, “we want to see bills, policies and laws changing to save lives,” says Ade Osadolor-Hernandez of Students Demand Action. She joined LX News to talk about preventative policies that might have stopped the Uvalde shooter.
gun control Why NY's Gun Laws Weren't Tough Enough to Stop the Buffalo Shooter New York has some of the toughest state gun laws in the country, but even that wasn’t enough to stop a gunman from killing 10 shoppers at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, this month. In the wake of another mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, NBCLX storyteller Ngozi Ekeledo took a look at New York’s...
Uvalde school shooting Why Politics Can't Be Kept Out of the Uvalde School Shooting Conversation In the wake of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, politicians on both sides of the aisle have lobbed angry barbs about gun policies — including Beto O’Rourke’s angry confrontation of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott during a news conference. While some say that now isn’t the time for politics, NBCLX political editor Noah Pransky explains why politics is...
Uvalde school shooting Texas Passed These Looser Gun Laws Months Before Uvalde School Shooting In 2021, Texas passed a package of gun laws that declared the state a “Second Amendment sanctuary state” and loosened restrictions on carrying handguns in public, among other changes. NBCLX storyteller Clark Fouraker explains.
georgia Georgia's New Voting Laws Didn't Dampen Early Turnout — But Does That Mean Votes Weren't Suppressed? When Georgia passed a controversial law last year putting new restrictions on voting access, many predicted lower turnout would follow. However, that hasn’t been in the case as the state has seen record early turnout ahead of its primary election. But does that mean the law didn’t suppress votes? NBCLX political editor Noah Pransky traveled to Georgia to find out....
Herschel Walker Herschel Walker's Senate Campaign Is Part of a Long Line of Athletes Who've Run for Office Herschel Walker’s 2022 Georgia primary campaign for a U.S. Senate seat is the latest example in a long lineup of athletes running for office—and often winning.
