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Mar 23, 2018
4 min

Activists hope anti-gun movement tackles violence in poor communities too

While activists support calls for gun reform, some are hoping the momentum can also highlight violence in minority neighborhoods By Adam Gabbatt | The Guardian in New York | March 23, 2018 While hailing the success of the anti-gun movement that has led to Saturday’s March for Our Lives, some activists are urging that that momentum should also be used to tackle gun violence in poor and minority communities. Saturday’s rally is expected to bring up to 500,000 people to Washingt

The NRA’s Struggle to Prove Black Guns Matter

Jay Murdock

May 1, 2017
10 min

The NRA’s Struggle to Prove Black Guns Matter

As more minorities buy guns for self-defense, the organization wants to bring them into the fold. But even in majority-black Atlanta, it’s a hard sell. BY M. Scott Mahaskey for Politico Magazine / April 30, 2017 ATLANTA—On Friday morning, the first day of the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting, Dwayne Williams was doing a little shopping. At Sig Sauer’s crowded booth, he chatted with a salesperson about the company’s line of assault rifles. President Donald Trump was

Jay Murdock

Jan 15, 2013
3 min

Dead Cold Hands

Matthew Modine, Actor, Activist, Filmmaker Posted 01/14/2013 “I’ll give you my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.” That line was barked by the man who portrayed Moses in Cecil B. DeMille’s epic film, The Ten Commandments. Moses was taking his orders from a higher power and since it was about 2,500 years ago, guns hadn’t even been invented yet. If they had been, Charlton Heston, the actor playing Moses, may have personally added an 11th Commandment, “Thou shalt bea

Chilling Praise for Ted Nugent for Threatening President Obama

Jay Murdock

Apr 20, 2012
4 min

Chilling Praise for Ted Nugent for Threatening President Obama

Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Author and political analyst – Posted: 04/19/2012 3:47 pm Guitar-strumming iconoclastic Ted Nugent got an obligatory visit from and interview by the Secret Service for his loose-lipped crack that to ensure that President Obama’s not be re-elected, “we need to ride into that battlefield and chop their heads off in November” at the National Rifle Association convention. But the chilling thing is the fulsome praise — or at best, defense — of Nugent by gun

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Activists hope anti-gun movement tackles violence in poor communities too

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