[ad_1] Thanks to a revival of the Second Amendment among state (and, to a degree, federal) lawmakers, it is becoming legal in more states to carry a concealed handgun. Some states still require training and licensure, while other states simply recognize that the Constitution does not put limits on gun ownership and the right to
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[ad_1] America isn’t a perfect country, as every nation on earth has problems, but thanks to the Constitution bequeathed to us by our founders, Americans are among the freest people, if not the freest people, ever to live. The Constitution recognizes “inalienable” human rights that everyone should have, and that includes the right to self-defense
[ad_1] After the massacre at Columbine High School in 1999, the National Rifle Association’s Wayne LaPierre responded by telling Congress that his group favored “mandatory instant criminal background checks for every sale at every gun show. No loopholes anywhere for anyone.” After mass shootings at a Tucson, Arizona, strip mall, the Washington Navy Yard, and
[ad_1] Madeleine Melo of Fort Bragg, widow of the North Coast’s most prominent recent victim of gun violence, spoke out Thursday night in defense of gun ownership at a public forum convened by Rep. Mike Thompson. “I strongly support our right to own and use guns,” Melo told Thompson and six other public officials before
[ad_1] On December 16, 1988, Nicholas Elliot, barely sixteen, walked into the Atlantic Shores Christian School, in Virginia Beach, Virginia, with a semi-automatic handgun hidden in his backpack. By midmorning a forty-one year-old teacher had been shot dead, and another teacher, struck by two nine-millimeter bullets, was extraordinarily lucky to be alive. Two other teachers
[ad_1] The expected confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday is the culmination of a decadeslong coordinated effort by a constellation of conservative groups, fueled by tens of millions of dollars from wealthy anonymous donors, to tilt the high court farther to the right. At the forefront has been Judicial