As a young man, Justin Sneegas survived cancer and being hit by a semi-trailer truck. What ultimately claimed his life a decade ago, aged 35, was gun violence. But to his family’s shock, his shooter was acquitted of second-degree murder after mounting a defense using Missouri’s “stand your ground” law. “We couldn’t believe it,” Sneegas’

Courtesy of Paul Sableman (Flickr CC0) If you listen to Fox News, today’s fake Republicans, or the NRA gun lobby, you are not only in denial, you are rejecting every fact about gun violence ever reported by legitimate journalists who have the courage to tell the truth. Our country has become an armed fortress where

Guns have been widespread in America since its first settlement. Possibly half of all households owned one in the 18th century. But while today we might talk about an automobile culture, no one mentions a vacuum cleaner culture. Some items play a social and cultural role beyond their mere utility and today guns certainly play

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Monday met with three Tennessee state Democratic lawmakers, two of whom were expelled by the Republican-controlled state House after they protested for gun safety measures following a mass school shooting. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris met with Tennessee state Reps. Justin Jones of Nashville, Justin Pearson of Memphis

This is the case I wrote about in March, and again last week, when I noted the amicus briefs from state attorneys general, from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, and from two financial and business law scholars. I also noted last week that the New York state government defendants didn’t file a response

On Monday, President Joe Biden hosted three Tennessee lawmakers who joined a protest calling for gun control legislation on the floor of the statehouse earlier this month and were punished with votes to expel them from office by the Republican supermajority in Nashville. “What the Republican legislature did was shocking, it was undemocratic and it

Nikki Haley hailed CNN’s decision to fire Don Lemon on Monday as a “great day for women everywhere” while SiriusXM host Megyn Kelly blasted the network for allegedly not informing him directly that he was being terminated. Haley, the 51-year-old GOP presidential candidate whom Lemon referred to as “not in her prime” during a February

Letters to the editor  |  Cincinnati Enquirer I would like to thank the Enquirer for taking the time to review all 123 pages of Fire Chief Michael Washington’s personnel file (“Fire chief’s file shows no record of problems,” April 5). We are left to wonder if Cincinnati City Manager Sheryl Long took the time to

In the wake of virtually any school shooting, watch how quickly the woke faction starts talking about how we need to trample the Second Amendment. Sometimes, in fairness, it takes a little bit longer — in particular if there’s any kind of angle involving bigotry that can be pushed first. But, if that’s not the

The Second Amendment, which concerns gun ownership, is as political now as it was during the Constitutional ratification process in 1789. The Bill of Rights was proffered by James Madison to induce those colonies (states) that had not yet ratified the Constitution. Madison wrote his fourth proposed amendment (now the Second Amendment) in response to

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana — Former Vice President Mike Pence told Breitbart News exclusively here at the National Rifle Association (NRA) annual gathering earlier this month he has a four-step plan that is pro-Second Amendment to combat the “scourge of mass shootings” plaguing society right now. “I think under the Biden Administration we’ve seen a steady assault

To the Editor: It is 3:11 a.m. on Tuesday, April 11, 2023, and I can’t sleep. I keep having the titles of articles on gun violence reverberate in my mind. There are so many, and they are all compelling. Some have refrains of common songs of our nation, such as “Gun Violence, when will we

HARRISONVILLE, Mo. — Here at the Interstate 49 exit ramp, a fiberglass cowboy stands three stories high, his two giant pistols drawn on passing motorists. Max, as he’s known, welcomes visitors to the local Ford dealership, in the heart of Missouri Sen. Rick Brattin’s district. Brattin is a conservative Republican known for pushing his party

Martha Omilian thinks of her life in two chapters: before Maggie died and after Maggie died.  Before her daughter, Maggie Wardle, was murdered at the age of 19 by an ex-boyfriend with a hunting rifle, the former psychiatric nurse knew a life in which her daughter adored basketball and golf, was double-majoring in biology and

Ronald Reagan is invoked by many as a transformational president. Barack Obama fashioned his own presidential trajectory after the Gipper. Shrilling for the General Electric Corporation as an influencer and publicly switching political and ideological affiliations, Reagan transformed from a conservative Cold War New Deal liberal actor to a law-and-order “Goldwater conservative” Republican politician (who

Quick Take The three-day National Rifle Association convention in Indianapolis allowed attendees to carry firearms, except for a two-hour period when former President Donald Trump and other leaders spoke in a hall secured by the Secret Service. Yet, social media posts from a Democratic advocacy group misleadingly claimed that “guns were BANNED at the NRA convention.”

EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Mike Braun, R-Ind., has hinted who his choice for president will be in the increasingly crowded 2024 Republican primary field. “It’s not that difficult,” Braun told Fox News Digital, to see that former President Trump is the candidate who portrays the success of the U.S. prior to the coronavirus pandemic, and he stressed