[ad_1] SACRAMENTO — On a Saturday night in December, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California was so frustrated by a Supreme Court decision allowing Texas residents to sue abortion providers that he went straight to social media to call for legislation allowing private citizens to enforce his own state’s gun laws. It sounded so tit-for-tat that
Month: July 2022
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National Rifle Association members and other gun advocates arguing against regulations for guns and semi-automatic rifles often theorize publicly that a “good guy with a gun” would prevent an active shooter. With the devastating mass shooting deaths at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Buffalo, and myriad others, the country is asking how we can
[ad_1] By Thom Hartmann On May 2, 1967, the destinies of Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, and Ronald Reagan collided. The day saved untold thousands of lives. Advertisement At the time, California was an open-carry state with few gun restrictions. Gov. Reagan was on the steps of the state Capitol to meet and share lunch with
[ad_1] A mile-long convoy of 52 yellow school buses paid a visit to Republican Senator Ted Cruz in Houston, Texas, last week. Two years ago, the buses’ 4,368 seats could have been filled with kids on their way to school, but on July 14, they arrived empty at Cruz’s home and office, each eerily vacant
[ad_1] An Orthodox resident in Monsey takes a firearm training class with the Tactical Defense Initiative. (Courtesy) By Jacob Henry July 21, 2022 (New York Jewish Week) — In the heavily Orthodox hamlet of Monsey in upstate New York, a Jewish gun owner is threatening a lawsuit to block Gov. Kathy Hochul’s efforts to limit
[ad_1] Occupation: Property Management / Operations and Maintenance Director, former OTR Trucker and Retired Paramedic (30 years Level One Trauma Center) Community and prior service: Civic Groups: Member of Sons of the American Legion. Volunteer local Republican Party, 2008 to 2022. Local Republican Party Chair, 2010 and 2021.Congressional District 6 Deputy Chair 2011-12. Sherburne County
[ad_1] The General Court is expected to hold a vote on Amendment 13 to House Bill 5046, which overhauls the Commonwealth’s license to carry. This action is being taken in response to the historic ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in New York State Rifle & Pistol Assoc. v. Bruen, on June 23. That ruling
[ad_1] On the heels of our Supreme Court victory in NYSRPA v. Bruen, Governor Carney and his allies in the state legislatures decided to further infringe on the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Delawareans by signing H.B. 450 into law. NRA-ILA partnered with the Delaware State Sportsmen’s Association and others and filed a lawsuit challenging
[ad_1] (Reporter file photo) Presumably To the Editor: Don’t believe what the Town Board is telling you about a plan they are putting together for affordable housing. The plan is merely a publicly-funded marketing device to lull residents into voting for the referendum this Fall. In football parlance, watch for the “head-fake.” If you fall
[ad_1] State Representative Wendell Gilliard (D-111) announced that he will pre-file legislation to ban many commonly-owned rifles, shotguns, and handguns that law-abiding citizens use for self-defense and sport, and require current owners to surrender them. While the text of the legislation is not yet available, it will likely be similar to other so-called “assault weapons”
[ad_1] Yesterday, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee passed two egregious gun control bills, H.R. 1808, the Assault Weapons Ban of 2021 and H.R. 2814, the Equal Access to Justice for Victims of Gun Violence Act. It is highly likely that one or both of these bills could come up for a vote on the U.S.
[ad_1] “Monsters shall always be with us, but in earlier days they did not roam free. As a psychiatrist in Massachusetts in the 1970s, I committed people–often right out of the emergency room–as a danger to themselves or to others. I never did so lightly, but I labored under none of the crushing bureaucratic and
[ad_1] NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday moved a bill banning assault weapons forward but it’s unclear if the legislation has enough support to pass a floor vote. Democratic Reps. Jared Golden, D-Maine, and Henry Cuellar, D-Texas have said they won’t support the bill while Republican Reps.
[ad_1] NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Liberal media outlets have downplayed and criticized the good guy with a gun argument in the wake of an Indianapolis shopping mall shooter who was killed by a “good Samaritan” carrying a handgun. Police say Elisjsha Dicken, who ended a mass shooting at an Indiana mall
[ad_1] Littleton, Colorado. Newtown, Connecticut. Parkland, Florida. Uvalde, Texas. In eight mass school shootings since 1999, 111 children and young adults and 13 faculty and staff members have now been sacrificed on the profane altar of the gun industry’s profits. Fourteen children and three adults at our Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School were among them.
[ad_1] During a House Judiciary Committee debate Wednesday on proposed gun control legislation, school shooting survivor David Hogg accosted Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) and was then ushered out of the room. Later that night on Fox News, Biggs suggested that Hogg’s actions were serious enough for a Jan. 6-type committee to investigate and for him
[ad_1] Stop us if you’ve heard this one. Guy walks into an unsuspecting public venue — this time, the Galleria — clad in black, baggy clothing, toting a Bible, a long gun, semi-automatic handgun, 120 rounds of ammo and donning a shirt emblazoned with the vigilante Punisher skull logo. A security guard spots him walking
[ad_1] While speaking Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering (D) suggested an armed citizen engaging the July 4 parade attacker would have meant “more carnage.” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) described how some states allow people to carry guns “with no training whatsoever.” He then asked Rotering, “How much can we
[ad_1] EDITOR’S NOTE: Eli Dicken engaged and shot at the Greenwood mall gunman from approximately 30 yards away. This story inaccurately set up the targets at 30 feet away. WESTFIELD, Ind. — An expert marksman says he is impressed by the man who shot and killed the shooter at the Greenwood Park Mall on Sunday.
[ad_1] Shannon Watts, a gun control activist and the founder of Moms Demand Action, claims that defensive gun use in the United States is “rare” and that laws allowing people to carry guns increase gun crime. Both of her claims are dubious at best. After an active shooter was killed by a law-abiding gun owner
[ad_1] Two-year-old Aiden McCarthy was lying bloodied and pinned underneath his unconscious father when he was found. Just a toddler, Aiden was still in diapers, had somehow lost one shoe and was down to just one blood-soaked sock, with scrapes across his body. It was July Fourth, and Aiden was rescued from the site of
[ad_1] WASHINGTON, D.C. — Highland Park’s mayor is in Washington D.C. Wednesday morning for a hearing on mass shootings. Nancy Rotering spoke before the Senate Judiciary Committee about access to military-style assault weapons and protecting communities. The July Fourth parade attack in Highland Park was the 309th mass shooting this year. Rotering was the driving
[ad_1] GREENWOOD, INDIANA: A bystander who is being hailed for killing Indiana mall shooter Jonathan Sapirman, gunned down the suspect just 15 seconds after the carnage began, and not two minutes, new details have revealed. Elisjsha Dicken, who was armed, possibly saved numerous lives when he opened fire on Sapirman in the Greenwood Park Mall on
[ad_1] Apparently, banning many of the most popular firearms in America is not enough for the anti-gun leadership in the United States House of Representatives. The House Judiciary Committee announced that on Wednesday not only would it “mark up” H.R. 1808 (a ban on many common semiautomatic firearms), but it will also consider H.R. 2814.
[ad_1] The message from Americans to Congress was clear: Do something. Anything. After the recent mass murder of elementary school children, teachers and grocery shoppers, the U.S. Senate did what’s expected of the people we elected to represent us. They compromised and passed bipartisan gun legislation that its lead Republican negotiator said “will not infringe on any law-abiding American’s
[ad_1] Emotions ran high on both sides of the gun control debate Tuesday night in Naperville as community members and city officials weighed in on a proposed ban on the commercial sale of some high-powered weapons. At Tuesday’s city council meeting, community and council members debated an ordinance prohibiting the sale of what Naperville officials
[ad_1] Greenwood Police Chief James Ison corrected the record on Tuesday by noting that 22-year-old Elisjsha Dicken opened fire on the Indiana mall mass shooter and “neutralized” him just 15 seconds after the attack began. The New York Post points out that Ison had initially said Dicken returned fire two minutes into the attack, but
[ad_1] Just imagine: Hours after a gunman opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School four years ago, Florida Republicans did something more than tweet out prayers from a hundred miles away: they showed up at the crime scene, stood in the blood-smudged hallways where 17 students and teachers were killed and surveyed the carnage
[ad_1] The Secretary of State officially qualified anti-gun Initiative 17 to appear on the ballot for the General Election in November. Initiative 17 infringes on the Second Amendment rights of Oregonians. The anti-gun package includes a state-run government registry of gun owners’ personal information, requires a permit to purchase a firearm, imposes an indefinite delay
[ad_1] Montana hunters, anglers and conservationists are speaking to Montana Rep. Matt Rosendale. But it’s unclear if he’s listening to them. On Monday, more than a dozen groups signed onto a letter asking Montana’s sole member of Congress to discontinue his sponsorship of a controversial piece of legislation that would remove the federal excise tax
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