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Trump says he favors background checks, but Congress uncertain

Following the murders of 31 people in two mass shootings last week, President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he supports stricter background checks for gun sales, but it’s less clear whether Congress agrees. “I think background checks are important,” Trump told reporters at the White House Wednesday before a planned trip to Dayton, Ohio and … Continued

August 8, 2019

If we’re indicting people who fail to protect children, Republican lawmakers should be terrified

I would like to report a whole bunch of crimes. Murders, actually. Hundreds of murders. I want every Republican legislator, at least the last two Republican governors and a handful of Democrats charged with killing a whole bunch of babies. Babies that they had a responsibility to care for. Following the indictment of Marshae Jones … Continued

June 27, 2019

Bradford family attorney: Autopsy shows no threat posed to police officer who killed him

On Monday, the Bradford family announced that an independent medical review of Emantic “E.J.” Fitzgerald Bradford Jr. indicated that E.J. had been shot three times from the back. Bradford was 21 and lived in Hueytown. The family has retained nationally renowned civil rights and personal injury attorney, Ben Crump. Crump said in a statement that … Continued

December 7, 2018

If you think the Alabama GOP can’t sink lower, think again

“Free2be does not share the values of most Alabamians.” — Scott Dawson, Republican candidate for governor of Alabama. Scott Dawson might be right. But if he is, and if it’s true that Alabamians don’t share the values of Free2be, a group whose primary goal is to provide mental health counseling and counseling to prevent violence … Continued

May 16, 2018

There’s a reason so much anger is being directed at the Parkland kids

The kids are right That’s what makes the current gun debate, led by the teenage survivors of the Parkland school shooting, so vitriolic. The kids are right. Everyone knows it. Including the people who are arguing on the other side, slinging insults and ducking any meaningful debate. I’d probably duck debates, though, after what happened … Continued

April 3, 2018