[ad_1] It’s a cycle that America can’t seem to get out of. Innocent victims are murdered in a horrific mass shooting. Calls grow for tighter laws to put an end to families being torn apart by gun violence. GOP lawmakers, often endorsed and funded by the National Rifle Association (NRA) insist that firearms are not
Month: October 2022
[ad_1] Editor’s Note: This roundup is part of the CNN Opinion series “America’s Future Starts Now,” in which people share how they have been affected by the biggest issues facing the nation and experts offer their proposed solutions. The views expressed in these commentaries are the authors’ own. Read more opinion at CNN. CNN —
[ad_1] Editor’s Note: This roundup is part of the CNN Opinion series “America’s Future Starts Now,” in which people share how they have been affected by the biggest issues facing the nation and experts offer their proposed solutions. The views expressed in these commentaries are the authors’ own. Read more opinion at CNN. CNN —
[ad_1] Editor’s Note: This roundup is part of the CNN Opinion series “America’s Future Starts Now,” in which people share how they have been affected by the biggest issues facing the nation and experts offer their proposed solutions. The views expressed in these commentaries are the authors’ own. Read more opinion at CNN. CNN —
[ad_1] CLARENCE, N.Y. (AP) — After back-to-back mass shootings last spring, including one that killed 10 people at a supermarket not far from his suburban Buffalo home, Republican U.S. Rep. Chris Jacobs made a decision. If an assault weapons ban came to the House floor, he would support it, he told voters in his conservative
[ad_1] IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Uvalde school district suspends entire police force 03:45 Now Playing Sen. Chris Murphy: I’m furious that Alex Jones put these parents through misery 07:24 UP NEXT Father of Uvalde victim camped outside school district office for 10 days 11:16
[ad_1] ASHEVILLE – Do struggling families need a child tax credit, universal pre-kindergarten and similar government programs − or would those families be better helped by tamping down government spending in an effort to reduce inflation? That is one stark difference that emerged Oct. 10 between Western North Carolina’s U.S. House candidates Democrat Jasmine Beach-Ferrara
[ad_1] GENESEE COUNTY, MI — There will be a learning curve regardless of who wins the race to represent most of western Genesee County in the Michigan House of Representatives. Candidates Adam Blake Childress (Libertarian), Jesse Couch (Republican) and Jasper Ryan Martus (Democrat) are each seeking a first term in the new 69th District, which
[ad_1] Progressive politicians have gone one better than “defund the police” and are now recommending that constituents refrain from contacting law enforcement. Two Democrats in New York State, Assemblyman Zohran Kwame Mamdani and New York City council member Tiffany Cabán, have collaborated on a “public safety resource guide” distributed to small businesses. The guide, reproduced
[ad_1] Last August, Brady – an American gun control organization – teamed up with the government of Mexico to sue various companies within the U.S. firearms industry, seeking to hold them responsible for the violent acts of narco-terrorists south of the U.S. border. It was, as we noted at the time, an audacious and desperate
[ad_1] Pennsylvania Lt. Governor John Fetterman (D), the Democrat nominee for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Senator Pat Toomey’s (R) retirement, has had a number of statements from earlier this year brought back into the light. They come from when Fetterman spoke at an anti-gun event in April, which was hosted by Giffords,
[ad_1] Today it’s often difficult to determine when the mainstream media is being deliberately deceptive or is just incompetent. Whatever the case may be, they are routinely wrong. Take for instance a recent ABC News headline reporting that the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives’ (ATF) bump-stock ban: Supreme
[ad_1] Good morning, Early Birds, and happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day! The Cherokee Nation has launched a campaign to seat their delegate, Kim Teehee, in Congress. Read all about the push from our colleague Paul Kane and us. Tips: earlytips@washpost.com. Thanks for waking up with us. 🚨 Ben Bernanke and two other Americans win the Nobel
[ad_1] Violent crime and homelessness increased during the pandemic years in Oregon, especially in Portland, where tent camps have become a fixture. The state also suffers from drought and water shortages. Illegal drug use has reached epidemic proportions. There was even a short-lived attempt by counties in southeastern Oregon to join Idaho. Gender isn’t an
[ad_1] Polk County, Florida, Sheriff Grady Judd offered some straightforward advice to residents whose homes or businesses were looted in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian: “You take your gun and you shoot him, you shoot him so that he looks like grated cheese.” Sheriff Judd imparted that wisdom during a Friday appearance on “Fox &
[ad_1] ST. GEORGE —Is it a fear of guns or a lack of knowledge? Rustin Staheli stands in his military uniform, location and date unspecified | Photo courtesy of Rustin Staheli, St. George News Rustin Staheli, a National Rifle Association Certified Instructor, said he completed nine years in the military which involved everything from artillery
[ad_1] Republican Lisa Scheller is making her second try at running in the 7th Congressional District. Scheller, of Allentown, is president and CEO of Silberline Manufacturing, a global aluminum pigment company. She is again facing incumbent Democrat Susan Wild, a lawyer from South Whitehall Township. Wild, who is seeking her third, two-year term, defeated Scheller
[ad_1] A biologist who has helped rescue dozens of raptors poisoned by lead bullet fragments in game carcasses seeks to educate, not regulate, hunters. Angus M. Thuermer Jr., WyoFile At the Jackson Hole Gun Club’s shooting range, Chris Smith paused after his shooting session to explain why he stopped hunting with traditional lead bullets that
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[ad_1] Texas [Mexico], October 8 (ANI): Uvalde school officials on Friday (local time) suspended all of the district police department’s activities, after May’s attack that killed 19 children and two teachers. “The District has made the decision to suspend all activities of the Uvalde CISD Police Department for a period of time. Officers currently employed
[ad_1] On Tuesday, Grassroots America’s Liberty Education & Action Meeting will feature current threats to Second Amendment gun rights. Topics will include “Your Right to Keep and Bear Arms: Red Flag Laws & Other Attempts to Gut the Second Amendment.” Sean Healy, a private practice attorney in Tyler, will be the featured guest speaker. Healy
[ad_1] JACKSON — At the Jackson Hole Gun Club’s shooting range, Chris Smith paused after his shooting session to explain why he stopped hunting with traditional lead bullets that spread toxins in the environment and wildlife. “I use copper to kill with,” said Smith, a shooter with 25 years of hunting under his blaze-orange vest.
[ad_1] Texas [Mexico], October 8 (ANI): Uvalde school officials on Friday (local time) suspended all of the district police department’s activities, after May’s attack that killed 19 children and two teachers. “The District has made the decision to suspend all activities of the Uvalde CISD Police Department for a period of time. Officers currently employed
[ad_1] After Philadelphia recreation employee Tiffany Fletcher was shot and killed at work last month, Mayor Jim Kenney banned guns at city pools and rec centers. Less than a week later, his rule was thrown out by a Philadelphia court. The judge who issued the decision seemed to do so begrudgingly. In his opinion, Judge
[ad_1] Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. This story is a collaboration between The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Mother Jones, and Enlace Latino NC. When the tobacco giant Reynolds American cut a check for Brent Jackson’s political campaign in November 2019, it was well
[ad_1] Setting their sights on tenure in Texas, critical race theory in Oklahoma, transgender athletes in Idaho and academic freedom in Florida, radical Republican legislatures have effectively announced that higher education is now one of their preferred targets. As public colleges and universities are drawn into the nation’s culture wars, we may well wonder what
[ad_1] POLY PREP BREAKS GROUND ON NEW ARTS CENTER: Poly Prep Country Day School has formally broken ground on a $12 million Art Center that will add 10,000 sq. ft of rehearsal, exhibition and teaching space to its Dyker Heights campus. The Arts Center construction will expand Poly Prep’s mission and provide facilities to match
[ad_1] Election Day for the November midterms is quickly approaching. Early voting starts on Oct. 12.In each election, Ohio’s voters decide the fate of candidates and issues on their ballot. In 2022, voters throughout Ohio will cast their ballots for local candidates and issues.Ahead of the mid-term elections, we created a voter guide to help
[ad_1] A seal reading “Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation” is displayed on the J. Edgar Hoover FBI building in Washington, DC, o August 9, 2022. (Photo by Stefani Reynolds / AFP) (Photo by STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images) OAN NewsroomUPDATED 10:10 AM PT – Thursday, October 6, 2022 The Biden administration’s FBI is
[ad_1] President Joe Biden on Wednesday again took to social media to pledge he will not stop pushing until he secures a ban on “assault weapons.” Biden has been referencing his commitment to a ban on “assault weapons” throughout his presidency. The president tweeted: I signed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act into law, the first