Our readers share their opinions on a variety of topics Letter writers | Fort Myers News-Press What Beach residents want to know I have read features about Fort Myers Beach and the devastation caused by Hurricane Ian. News about Times Square recovery, housing replacement, and the like are interesting. But, I’ll tell you what’s really
Month: April 2023
(Credit: Clairo) Music Sun 2nd Apr 2023 11.38 BST American singer-songwriter Clairo has released the charity single, ‘For Now’. The song is in aid of one non-profit organisation which supports trans rights and another which vows to end gun violence. The new song is currently available to download from Bandcamp for $1 (81p), and Clairo
Target employee hides during Omaha shooting
Jonathan wishes a lot of things were the way they used to be. He would like to play with his toddler. To pick her up and hold her. Cook a meal for her and her mom. Bring home a paycheck to support the family. Those simple
Robert Azzi | Columnist The Nashville Covenant School massacre, the 131st mass shooting in America this year, has rightly outraged most Americans. Cries across much of the political spectrum condemning the murders of three of our babies, alongside three of their guardians, abound, calling for an end to the seemingly endless carnage threatening our future.
By LZ Granderson Sunday, April 2, 2023 | 2 a.m. Sandy Hook is the mass shooting I hear mentioned most often when people talk about the moment they knew nothing would change. A madman murders 26 people — most of them 6 or 7 years old — and Congress was still unable to pass substantive
As the smoke clears at a Nashville school, the site of the latest mass shooting (as of this writing), we keep going over and over in cloudy mind what to do. Just as we did after Jonesboro. And Columbine. And Virginia Tech. And Uvalde. The debate about what to do is at least a debate
“We’re not gonna fix it.” — Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) No one is coming to save us. They aren’t going to do anything. They have told us as much. Have some thoughts and prayers, they say. Show some respect for the families who surely wouldn’t want us to politicize their tragedy, they say. Believe us,
Re: “Books’ foes target librarians, too,” Front Page, March 26: Book banning is a slippery slope quickly leading to the infringement of freedom of thought and speech. The supposed purpose is to protect our youth from exposure to lewdness and violence. If adopted and taken to its natural conclusion, it would mean the Bible and
Gadfly | April 1st, 2023 By Ed Raymond fargogadfly@gmail.com Can We Regenerate Our Country by “Rediscovering the Lost Art of Tolerance?” Columnist Gary Abernathy says our enormous diversity of identity in our sweeping multiculturalism makes it difficult to agree with groups present in the Divided States of America. We have hundreds of organizations, groups, and
There have been more than 130 mass shootings across the United States this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive. Although mass shootings do not make up the majority of the gun violence incidents in America, their impact on its community is visible. The Rochester Personal Defense Company discussed the ongoing gun violence and highlights the
The Democratic-controlled Michigan state Senate recently passed a series of 11 gun-related measures. These included expanded background checks and safe storage laws for guns that can be accessed by minors. In response, the Michigan state Republican Party posted a tweet comparing gun reform to the Holocaust. The tweet included a photo of wedding rings that
Editor’s Note: Julian Zelizer, a CNN political analyst, is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University. He is the author and editor of 25 books, including the New York Times best-seller, “Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Lies and Legends About Our Past” (Basic Books). Follow him on Twitter @julianzelizer. The
A federal judge on Friday struck down a Minnesota law that prohibits adults age 18-20 from obtaining permits to carry handguns in public. Assisted by gun-rights advocacy groups, three individuals who were under 21 challenged a 2003 state law that enacted an age requirement to apply for a permit to carry a pistol. They argued
A woman prays at a makeshift memorial for those killed in a mass shooting at the entrance of The Covenant School on March 29, 2023 in Nashville, Tennessee. Three students and three adults were killed by the 28-year-old shooter on Monday. Seth Herald/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Seth Herald/Getty Images A woman prays at
Colorado lawmakers’ latest suite of gun reform bills bolster the state’s position at the vanguard of the national firearm debate, advocates and critics say, while marking it as a proving ground for how step-by-step reforms can coexist within the West’s distinct regional identity. As Colorado has turned deeper shades of blue over the past five years,
America’s latest mass shooting, this time at a Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tenn., has recalled nightmarish memories and raised one of the most vexing of political questions.
Before the funerals had even begun for the three children and three adults slain on Monday, the well-practiced roaring and debate had resumed in Congress. And so
Now that Republican lawmakers have repealed the need for a handgun permit, a concealed carry license could be the next to go. GREENSBORO, N.C. — On Tuesday, North Carolina republicans overrode the governor’s veto to pass a new law eliminating the need to get a permit from the sheriff before buying a handgun. As soon
(RNS) — It happened again. This time seven people were killed, three of them 9-year-old children. Gun violence has hit nearly every community in our country — from small towns like Hesston, Kansas, to large cities like Orlando … and now Nashville where the latest target was The Covenant School, a private elementary school attached
Representational image. David A. Hopkins, Tribune News Service Gun politics in the US demonstrates that a popular majority does not always get its way. Even though most Americans support stricter gun-safety laws, proposals for major new regulations reliably face impassable obstacles in Congress. The standard explanation for this impasse is that the minority is highly
I am writing this column on behalf of the estimated 73 million Americans who are under the age of 18. We call them children. Most of them live with us, their parents, although some are with grandparents or guardians. We say we love them. But do they believe us? More important, should they believe us?
The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro, a rabid homophobe and anti-trans commentator was very agitated over calls for gun control measures after the Nashville shooting, so he lashed out against his favorite targets. Shapiro’s usual refrain is that the left can do anything and Republicans are always to blame. The persecution complex runs deep on the
It seems that our constitutional rights are conditional depending on your demographic, as Amazon appears to have removed t-shirts that say “Trans Rights or Else” with the trans pride flag being made up of four guns. Twitter user @aphexindividual posted a tweet highlighting the removal of this shirt on Tuesday. They wrote, “If you wanted