[ad_1] Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. WASHINGTON — In late May, U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema had just finished speaking to a group of reporters about the gut-wrenching shooting at a Uvalde elementary school. She beelined into the Senate chamber, where
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[ad_1] Rep. Chris Jacobs abandoned re-election after facing backlash for changing his mind about gun control. Following the Buffalo mass shooting, he said he would support an assault weapons ban if it came to the floor. “I think we have a real problem in the party – both parties – right now,” he said, referencing
[ad_1] ELDRED, Ill. — It was a Friday fish fry night at American Legion Post 1135 and about three dozen people had gathered at the invitation of local Republicans to talk politics and candidates over cold beer, fried buffalo fish and baked beans. The Legion hall was situated in the tiny town of Eldred, located
[ad_1] People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has taken issue with a controversial California animal shelter that refuses to let pro-gun people adopt its pets, Fox News reported. What’s the background? TheBlaze previously reported on the Shelter Hope Pet Shop in Thousand Oaks and its strict policies against working with certain Second Amendment backers.
[ad_1] Lake County Councilman Charlie Brown (D-Gary) and Councilwoman Christine Cid (D-East Chicago) announced their support for a proposal to ban sales of “AR-15” firearms at gun shows held at the Lake County Fairgrounds. What they are proposing is to restrict lawful, tax-paying businesses from selling legal products to law-abiding citizens, who wish to exercise
[ad_1] I often joke that I was born with a shotgun in one hand and a rifle in the other. To many people in America, that might seem shocking after the shooting tragedies we’ve witnessed in Uvalde and Buffalo, but it’s not all that far from the truth. I grew up on a rural western
[ad_1] With regard to the right to bear arms, doesn’t anyone realize that in the year the Second Amendment was drafted, AR-15s and automatic rifles were never anticipated to exist? Muskets and flintlock rifles that could shoot only one bullet at a time were the arms in 1791. Our forefathers would be astonished to learn
[ad_1] Last night, the House passed Senate Bill 6, to ban many standard capacity magazines in common use, sending it to Governor John Carney’s desk. The Senate passed House Bill 450, to ban many commonly-owned firearms, and House Bill 423, sending those to Gov. Carney’s desk as well. The Senate also passed Senate Bill 8
[ad_1] One of the most terrifying things John Calvert knows he has to do is teach Kansas police officers just how long four minutes last. Calvert, director of the Kansas State Department of Education’s Safe and Secure Schools Unit, and specialist Jim Green regularly travel to the state’s school districts to work with them on
[ad_1] Lynette Kennison | Guest columnist My area of specialty is trauma therapy and grief counseling; sadly, there is a greater need for both these days. The NRA touts infringement of the right to bear arms by citizens as sacred and any modification as a slippery slope. This country has already gone down that slope and
[ad_1] Jack Bernard | Columnist Uvalde shooting survivor recalls covering herself in blood to survive Uvalde shooting survivor Miah Cerrillo, 11, tells Congress how she smeared her friend’s blood on herself to look dead in a prerecorded message. Claire Hardwick, Associated Press This is a column by Jack Bernard, the former director of Georgia’s Office of Health
[ad_1] Buffalo suspect hears U.S. charges BUFFALO, N.Y. — The white man suspected of killing 10 Black people at a Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket made his first appearance in federal court on hate crime charges Thursday, and the judge urged prosecutors to quickly decide whether to pursue the death penalty given the “substantial” cost of such
[ad_1] Traci Manza Murphy | Special to the USA TODAY Network Matthew McConaughey recounts visiting Uvalde after mass shooting Uvalde, Texas native, Matthew McConaughey visited President Joe Biden and joined the White House briefing to recount returning to his hometown. Ariana Triggs, USA TODAY The past few weeks have been some of the darkest in
[ad_1] NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Animal rights nonprofit People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) pushed back against a California animal shelter’s decision to turn away potential pet adoptees based on their opinions about gun control. “We do not support those who believe that the 2nd amendment gives them the
[ad_1] Letters to the editor | Cincinnati Enquirer The new Ohio law allowing the arming of teachers (after a mere 24 hours of training) as a way to prevent school shootings, is predicated on the false notion that to gun down our school children, a shooter has to actually enter the school. But all a shooter
[ad_1] Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. PG&E fealty to investorsendangers customers Investor-owned utilities like PG&E must make a profit but also provide gas and electricity users with reliable, safe and reasonably priced service. The increased electricity rates — recently requested by PG&E (NEM 3.0) and
[ad_1] Placeholder while article actions load Eight years ago, Rep. Abigail Spanberger left the CIA and soon became a rookie grass-roots activist with her local Virginia chapter of Moms Demand Action, looking to get involved in politics for the first time. Now, the two-term congresswoman is trying to hang on to her seat in a
[ad_1] Debbie Bruell Lynn-Wood Fields grew up hunting with her father in rural Montana, putting food on their table. Her father instilled in her the importance of weapon safety. And like most gun owners, he was a supporter of basic gun safety regulations. Fields still lives in Montana, still owns a gun, and is now
[ad_1] Former President Clinton is offering advice to people looking to garner support for gun control laws, saying it’s important that Americans “just talk to each other again.” In an interview on CBS’s “The Late Late Show” with James Corden on Wednesday, Clinton said that when talking to pro-gun rights activists, it might help to ask
[ad_1] One of the nation’s most prominent gun rights advocates will hang up her holsters — at least in the public realm. Marion Hammer, a former National Rifle Association President, announced her retirement as Florida’s top lobbyist for the NRA Institute for Legislative Action in the state. “It has been an honor to serve NRA
[ad_1] Last night, news broke that the Biden Administration is taking behind-the-scenes steps to further strangle the already constricted market for ammunition in the United States. The move could result in a reduction of the commercial production of 5.56 caliber ammunition by over thirty percent. The move, if completed, would dramatically reduce availability of ammunition for
[ad_1] Don McLaughlin, the Mayor of Uvalde, got his first gun at age fourteen—a pistol his parents bought for him. “I just fell in love with it,” he told me last week, as we spoke in Uvalde’s stately brick city hall, across the street from a memorial for the nineteen students and two teachers who
[ad_1] Since the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre, Congress has littered the American landscape with failed gun control measures. A decade later, after a supermarket rampage and another school massacre, a Senate coalition of ten Republicans and ten Democrats is either trapped in the legislative equivalent of “thoughts and prayers” or on the cusp of the
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[ad_1] Editor: I read in the New York Times that 16 first graders hid in a 4 ½ ft by 3 1/2 ft bathroom during the Sandy Hook massacre. The gunman fired more than 80 rounds into that bathroom in less time than it takes me to write this sentence. He killed all but one
[ad_1] Placeholder while article actions load Good morning, Early Birds. Happy Bloomsday to all who celebrate. Tips: earlytips@washpost.com. Thanks for waking up with us. In today’s edition … Pence walks a tightrope between owning Jan 6. role and courting Trump voters … Poll Watch from Emily Guskin: The U.S. economy may not be in a
[ad_1] HOT SPRINGS — Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson continued to hint at a presidential run as he told a group of attorneys Wednesday that he was starting to “lay the foundation” for a 2024 campaign. Hutchinson, speaking at the Arkansas Bar Association annual meeting in Hot Springs, talked about a range of topics, including his
[ad_1] Put simply, the Left’s ultimate goal on guns is not merely making schools safe. Rather, it is the evisceration of the Second Amendment by subjecting gun rights to the proverbial “death of a thousand cuts.” As amending the federal Constitution to eliminate the Second Amendment is a political non-starter, as there are too many
[ad_1] Will pending congressional legislation measurably reduce the number of firearm slayings and injuries that plague our country? That metric, more than anything else, should guide how we assess the U.S. Senate’s bipartisan framework on gun control – and to a lesser extent, the competing bill that already passed the House of Representatives. Gun-control supporters
[ad_1] A prophetic protector has become a political panderer. Back in December 2016, Sheriff Joe Lombardo of Clark County, Nevada, called for restrictions on high-capacity gun magazines. “I’m a very avid hunter, I was in the military myself, and there’s no need to have a high-capacity magazine for any practical reason,” Lombardo told the Las