Articles tagged: gun violence
Texas Is Considering a Violence Prevention Effort Outside of Law Enforcement—Without Challenging Gun Rights Head On
A new bill would establish a statewide office that would be the first of its kind in the South, and among the first in the country.
This story was originally published by The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence in America. Sign up for its newsletters here. When Rodney McIntosh ...Read More
After the Midland-Odessa Shooting, Texas Republicans Double Down on God and Guns Doctrine
After the second Texas mass shooting in a month, Democrats call for action while Republicans promise to protect the “God given rights” of gun ownership.
On Saturday afternoon, two state troopers pulled over a man in Midland, Texas, for apparently failing to use his turn signal. The driver grabbed his rifle and b...Read More
Year in Review: Loon Star State in 2018
The year in political cartoons from the strangest state in the union.
Trump’s sophomore year in the White House made for plenty of ammunition for political cartoonist Ben Sargent. In the pages of the Observer in 2018, the fo...Read More
Botham Jean’s Death Could Lead to an Overhaul of Police Oversight in Dallas
The outrageous shooting of a man in his own apartment has triggered calls to reform Dallas’ toothless, decades-old system of police oversight.
In the 1970s, the Dallas Police Department was pressured to diversify after a white cop killed a 12-year-old Mexican-American boy in a game of Russian Roulette....Read More
‘Go Back to Islam’
When hatred collides with Texas’ Stand Your Ground law, the result is fatal.
A Houston widow is still trying to process the shooting death of her husband, who she believes was killed not in self-defense, but out of Islamophobic rage....Read More
Here Are 21 Texas Mass Shootings ‘Good Guys’ with Guns Didn’t Stop in 2015
Nearly four dozen people, including at least six children, have been killed (so far) in Texas mass shooting incidents this year.
According to the Gun Violence Archive and ShootingTracker.com, America has averaged more than one mass shooting per day so far in 2015. Twenty-one of those mass...Read More
It’s Not ‘P.C.’, but White Communities are in Crisis
The white community says it deserves our respect, but white-on-white crime and a tradition of anti-government violence should give us all pause.
It’s happened again — another story of organized crime and violence in the white community. This time the threat is very close to home. In our own backyard,...Read More
Senate Brings Texas One Step Closer to Open Carry
A day after nine people died in a massive shootout in Waco, a Senate committee approved a bill legalizing the open carry of handguns....Read More
Gun Violence is More than Just Mass Shootings
Do we want to address all gun violence or do we only want to try to prevent mass shootings?...Read More