[ad_1] Best to keep a critical eye and open mind on McIntyre project Feb. 16 — To the Editor: A few comments regarding the Feb 13 article concerning a letter sent to the National Parks Service arguing against the current McIntyre proposal and signed by, among others, several ex-Portsmouth city councilors: 1. The letter-writers say

[ad_1] Comment on this story Comment The 19-year-old White gunman who killed 10 Black people at a grocery store in Buffalo using a modified Bushmaster XM-15 semiautomatic rifle was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison without parole, providing some sense of justice for the community. But the city — still reeling from the racist attack

[ad_1] The American Academy of Pediatrics says around one-third of American children live in homes with firearms, and of these households, 43% contain at least one unlocked firearm. In Jefferson County, school officials have voted to include secure firearm-storage information in schools’ Student Behavior and Intervention Handbook, which will be distributed to parents. Betty McIntee,

[ad_1] Courtesy of Julie Ellis (Flickr CC0) You’ve read the headlines, or maybe you haven’t. Mass shootings are no longer “news.” They happen in our schools, our churches, at the mall, grocery stores, gyms, bars, restaurants, and dance clubs, in greater numbers than the days on a calendar. Everywhere we go, doing the normal things

[ad_1] Former SC Gov Nikki Haley announces 2024 US Presidential run Former SC Gov Nikki Haley announces 2024 US Presidential run at the Charleston Visitors Center in Charleston, SC Feb. 15, 2023. Ken Ruinard, Greenville News This week, just after a mass shooting in Michigan, lawmakers advanced a National Rifle Association-backed bill that would make

[ad_1] PROVIDENCE – A gun-rights advocate is suing state Attorney General Peter F. Neronha in federal court, challenging the constitutionality of the state’s requirement of a “showing of need” for a permit to carry a concealed weapon. Warwick resident Michael O’Neil filed suit Wednesday in U.S. District Court, arguing that the state had violated his

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[ad_1] Nancy Rowles  |  Opinion contributor It is hopeless. It was thought that if someone who defended unlimited, uncontrolled gun rights had a loved one or been involved himself in gun violence, he would surely wake up to the need for some reasonable gun safety measures. Not so with House Majority Leader Steve Scalise who

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[ad_1] State Senate passes ban on guns at polling places Legislation prohibiting weapons within 100 feet of a polling location (except for law enforcement) passed the state Senate yesterday and will now be considered by the House. Lawmakers debated the measure—which creates the same standard for all polling places that already exists at schools operating as

[ad_1] Comment on this story Comment EAST LANSING, Mich. — At 21, Zoe Beers has already survived two school shootings. The first was in California when she was 8. The second was this week, as a gunman stormed the Michigan State campus, killing three students and wounding five more. Now, she said, she’s had enough.

[ad_1] Twenty-six-year-old Rep. Maxwell Frost travelled over to Comedy Central’s The Daily Show on Tuesday for an interview temp host Sarah Silverman to discuss an assortment of left-wing goals, one of which was gun control with Frost urging people to vote for “morally just leaders who actually give a damn about children’s lives.” Silverman began by

[ad_1] Former child actor Austin Majors’ death earlier this week from a suspected fentanyl overdose while staying at an “interim housing program” makes him the latest victim of the drug and homelessness crises plaguing California. According to Majors’ sister, Kali Raglin, the 27-year-old’s cause of death was a “suspected fentanyl poisoning with an ongoing investigation,”