By Shannon Watts* As a mother of five, I was devastated by the mass murder of twenty children and six educators at Sandy Hook School nearly four years ago this week. So I started a Facebook page from my kitchen counter in Indiana, which connected me with moms from all over the country who agreed our country must do more to prevent gun violence. Today, Moms Demand Action has a chapter in every state and is the grassroots arm of Everytown for Gun Safety, the largest gun violence prevention …
Open Carry Is Not a Solution: Problems With Texas’ New Gun Law
by Greg Tsioros* New Texas Firearm Laws Raise Concerns As of January 1st, 2016, it is now legal for some Texas citizens to openly carry loaded handguns in public places. Texas has now joined a group of state governments that are expanding rights for pro-gun advocates at a time when gun violence is a massive national public health concern. Several arguments have been advanced to justify the passage of House Bill 910, Texas’ recently enacted open carry law. Among these, the two most …
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HLPR 2016 Symposium Day 3: Prof. Franklin Zimring on International Comparisons of Killings of and by Police
Panelists: Franklin Zimring, William G Simon Professor of Law at U.C. Berkeley Philip Heymann, James Barr Ames Professor of Law at Harvard Law School By Kate Epstein “Every year there are dozens of articles in law reviews about capital punishment, and there are none about the use of lethal force,” said Prof. Frank Zimring. The third day of the HLPR Symposium focused on that lethal force, centering on a discussion of police killings in the United States through a comparative …