What Republicans have done is created a culture where, literally, people are solving their anger and rage issues that are also being stoked by the same party, with guns.
Joy Reid
Pundit
American political pundit (1968-)
Coco Gauff... signed the camera: 'Peace. End gun violence.' She said she was influenced by the great Naomi Osaka and by Colin Kaepernick to speak out.
The National Rifle Association will hold its annual convention in Houston, Texas, this weekend, the very state where 19 elementary school kids and their two teachers were brutally gunned down in their classroom just three days ago.
When Republicans say that gun reform measures would mean that only the bad guys would have guns, you know they’re lying. And they know they’re lying.
The last major gun legislation Congress passed was in 1994, thanks to then-Senator Joe Biden.
Is he going to brag about the fact that, under his presidential administration, they made it easier for people with mental health, with adjudicated mental health problems to buy a firearm? They made it easier.
I think they are true believers. I think they do believe in a Christian nationalist -- in their minds, they have been sort of put on earth by God to form this country into a certain kind of Christian country, whether the majority wants to…
I think that is just immensely dangerous, because it is both -- it`s a combination both of deeply held, very paranoid, fearful beliefs coupled to intensely nihilistic opportunism.
I think they do believe in a Christian nationalist -- in their minds, they have been sort of put on earth by God to form this country into a certain kind of Christian country, whether the majority wants to or not.
State Senator Doug Mastriano, the likely Republican nominee for governor, has promised to appoint a secretary of state who would require all voters to re-register before casting their ballots, a move that would likely be illegal.
Tomorrow`s results in the Pennsylvania primary could shape the future of American democracy.