Tim Wesselman, Georgia Recorder This week will mark 11 years since a massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary forever changed the lives of more than 20 families. A young man with military-style firepower killed 20 children and six adults in less than five minutes. The mass shooting in Connecticut came three …
Read More »10 Years After Sandy Hook Massacre, Progressives in Congress Lead Calls for Gun Control
Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams U.S. progressives marked the 10th anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre by renewing calls for gun control, with one reform advocate telling families of those slain in the nation’s worst primary school shooting that “it is our national shame that we failed to take …
Read More »Alex Jones Ordered To Pay Sandy Hook Victims’ Families $965 Million
A jury in Connecticut has ruled that conspiracy theorist Alex Jones should pay $965 million to people who suffered from his lies about the Sandy Hook Elementary school massacre. The verdict is the second significant judgment against the Infowars host over his relentless promotion of the lie that the 2012 …
Read More »Jury Awards Parents Of Sandy Hook Shooting Victim $4.1 million In Defamation Case Against Alex Jones
Cecilia Lenzen, The Texas Tribune Aug. 4, 2022 A Texas jury on Thursday ordered conspiracy theorist and media personality Alex Jones to pay $4.1 million to the parents of a Sandy Hook shooting victim who sued him for defamation after he repeatedly claimed the school shooting was a hoax. Neil Heslin …
Read More »Sandy Hook Families Reach $73 Million Settlement With Gun Manufacturer Remington
Nine families whose loved ones were killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting accepted a $73 million settlement from the defunct gunmaker Remington, ending a seven-year wrongful death lawsuit that began as a long shot and became a landmark case. “These families would give that (settlement) up to get their …
Read More »Federal Judge Strikes Down California’s Assault Weapons Ban
A federal judge has struck down California’s ban on assault weapons, saying it violates the Second Amendment rights of the state’s law-abiding citizens. Judge Roger Benitez compared the AR-15 rifle to a Swiss Army knife in his ruling Friday, citing Supreme Court precedent that protects Second Amendment rights. “Like the …
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