"I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters."
The trend has been studied closely for a number of years, showing a slow increase in gun-related deaths.
“An act of heroism a lot bigger than we should expect from any 15-year-old,” Obama said of the teenager.
President Obama is set to announce an executive action on gun sales at the top of the new year.
Gun control has been a lingering issue within our country, but that didn’t stop scores of people from purchasing firearms during Black Friday.
Ja’Mecca Smith was found dead at the home of Demarqo Smith early Saturday morning. The 25-year-old father was not home when the police arrived. He briefly fled the scene before returning to speak to the police.
Davis, who has been on the front lines of the Black Lives Matter movement for some time, understands that Jordan is just one story of many in America. For him, the most immediate change can come on Black Friday, the third anniversary of Jordan's death.
In 2015 alone, there have been 45 school shootings. That doesn't account for other types of gun violence that kill people every day
