A Spalding County, Ga., preschooler reportedly brought a loaded gun to Jordan Hill Elementary School that was hidden in his backpack. Thanks to the efforts of…

Carlee Soto lost her big sister to gun violence.  Like far too many in our African-American community, Ms. Soto is grieving the loss of a devoted family member because of the senseless gun violence.  Ms. Soto’s sister was named Victoria.  She always wanted to be a teacher and her dream job was teaching first graders.  […]

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  Hours before leading the U.S. Senate on a critical vote on gun safety, Vice President Joe Biden (pictured) had a Google Plus hangout with…

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Gun control. It’s on everyone’s mind these days, and why shouldn’t it be? If we don’t know someone personally who was shot, killed, or injured…

First Lady Michelle Obama today brought a room filled with Chicago business and community leaders to tears as she challenged them to commit to the…

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Six-year-old Brandon Holt has died from injuries sustained when his 4-year-old neighbor shot him in the head with a 22-caliber rifle Monday evening as they…

  AUDIO CLIP BELOW Far too many American dads and moms have grieved far too long because their children were killed because of gun violence. Neil Heslin, father of one of the 20 innocent children slain in the Sandy Hook school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut visited Indianapolis to ask our community and state to urge […]

When 20-year-old Adam Lanza shot and killed 27 people — 20 school children, 6 educators and his mother, Nancy Lanza — in Newtown, Connecticut on…

Controlling weapons, including getting assault weapons and high capacity ammunition magazines off our streets and Republican efforts to play politics with the raising the debt ceiling were a couple of the topics discussed on Afternoons with Amos with Indiana Senator Joe Donnelly and Congressman Andre Carson.  Sen. Donnelly who was sworn in last week as […]

On Tuesday, the National Rifle Association (NRA) released an ad with the hopes of taking on the President a day before he released his plans…

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Al Sharpton railed against gun advocate Larry Ward on his Monday MSNBC show for what he called “changing facts” about slavery and “distorting” the legacy…

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One month after the tragic mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, a group of Newtown, Connecticut citizens have organized to honor the lives lost by unveiling a national grassroots initiative committed to preventing similar tragedies from ever taking place again. The initiative’s a nonprofit called Sandy Hook Promise (SHP, formerly called “Newtown United”). click […]