Editor’s Note: Max Burns is a Democratic strategist, columnist and founder of Third Degree Strategies. Follow him on Twitter @themaxburns. The views expressed here are his own. Read more opinion on CNN. CNN — For the second time in as many weeks, an American community is grieving after a mass shooting. Five shattered families in
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On the morning after the shooting attack on a bank in Louisville, CNN This Morning was true to form in promoting new gun laws that were not relevant to the crime, and devoted a segment to allowing anti-gun Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) to push for irrelevant gun laws. Even though the Louisville gunman passed a
As part of a bill passed Wednesday in the Iowa House, a gun owner with a permit to carry would be allowed to keep their weapon in their car at a public university or community college, or while visiting a public school. Legal gun owners could keep a pistol or revolver in their car while
Des Moines, Iowa — A firearm-related bill that’s been proposed for the past several years has cleared the Iowa House and it would make gun safety courses developed by the National Rifle Association widely available through Iowa schools. The bill, HF 654, would
INDIANAPOLIS — 70,000 attendees are anticipated at the annual NRA conference in Indianapolis through Sunday. The conference, one of the four largest conventions in the city this year, is expected to have a $36 million impact on the local economy, filling up virtually every hotel room in downtown Indianapolis and housing attendees in the surrounding
Gov. Kristi Noem will be in Indianapolis on Friday, attending the National Rifle Association convention and is scheduled to give remarks at the group’s annual leadership forum. She gave a New Hampshire radio show Wednesday a preview of her remarks, saying she would speak about the history of the Second Amendment and why it’s important.
Commissioners and Moms Demand Action rally for gun violence prevention and awareness (Collingswood, NJ) – On Thursday, the Board of Commissioners hosted an event with Moms Demand Action to promote awareness and discuss solutions to America’s gun violence epidemic. Moms Demand Action is a national grassroots movement of Americans fighting for public safety measures that can
U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-San Antonio, is boasting early support in his reelection campaign as he faces primary opposition over recent breaks with his party. Gonzales raised $1.3 million in the first quarter and has locked down nearly 80 endorsements inside his district, his campaign told The Texas Tribune. He also has a confident message for his rivals.
There is a stark, startling conclusion one can draw from the endless string of mass shootings we’ve seen in America: Murder is one of the prices we pay for the freedoms we say we want. Or at least the freedoms some of us say we want. I think it’s worse than that. I don’t think
Iowans could keep guns in their locked cars in the parking lots of schools, city and county buildings, state universities and prisons, under a bill passed Wednesday by the Iowa House. Lawmakers approved House File 654 on a vote of 62-37 after two hours of emotional debate. Most Republicans voted yes but two — Reps.
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-San Antonio, is boasting early support in his reelection campaign as he faces primary opposition over recent breaks with his party. Gonzales raised $1.3 million in the first quarter
Photos by Starting Line staff Iowa House Republicans voted on Wednesday to make it easier to bring guns on the campuses of Iowa schools, community colleges, and universities and to require public schools to implement K-12 gun safety curriculum that was developed by the National Rifle Association (NRA). HF 654 passed 62-37, with only two
Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. UC students needa say in books Recently, the UC system has started to implement “Inclusive Access,” which adds the cost of course content to students’ tuition unless they opt out by a certain deadline, and takes away students’ right to
INDIANAPOLIS – For the third time in the past decade, the National Rifle Association is bringing its annual convention to Indianapolis. Several prominent Republicans and roughly 70,000 NRA members are expected to attend the group’s annual convention. Former President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence will be among the speakers. The event comes
A 2022 Supreme Court ruling changed the boundaries of America’s fight over guns. The latest mass-shooting tragedies raise the question: Where does gun reform go next? First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic: Far More Permissive The public-radio editor Erika Mahoney, whose father was killed in a mass shooting at a grocery store
Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) told CBS News in an interview on Tuesday that she believed Republican lawmakers were continuing to put the well-being of the National Rifle Association (NRA) over Americans and their families. Duckworth said, “We can right now today pass universal background checks. We could pass a ban on assault weapon ban. We could
To the Editor: Another day in America startsWhere will it happen today? Will it be my city, my state? Where will we send thoughts and prayers today?While our elected officials go through the standard news conference decrying what has happened more families mourn.The almighty Second Amendment is given as the reason there is no action,
Sometimes it’s easy to forget that Jay Inslee is still the governor of Washington, what with all the competence and the just generally not making a lot of waves. But damn, he and Democrats in the state Lege have done some good governing lately. This week, the state Senate passed a “shield law” to protect
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – Local gun control advocates prepare for the arrival of the National Rifle Association Convention at the Indiana Convention Center. Jennifer Frazier is a volunteer for Indiana Moms Demand Action. She has two children and pulled her youngest out of public school because they were afraid of being in a school shooting. “The
Louisville Courier Journal Do something! Sens. Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul and all Republicans in Kentucky and elsewhere, please spare us your offerings of “Thoughts and Prayers” regarding this latest atrocity here in Louisville. Your prayers have proven ineffective unless they are addressed to some god of chaos and despair. Your thoughts would seem to be
CNN — The Shelby County Board of Commissioners on Wednesday voted to confirm the reappointment of Justin J. Pearson to the Tennessee House of Representatives, sending him back to fill the House District 86 seat as an interim representative. The vote to return Pearson to his seat – vacated last Thursday when the GOP-dominated chamber expelled the state representative after he and two other
TOPEKA — Senate President Ty Masterson and Rep. Kristey Williams delivered a series of inaccurate statements on gun violence, public school cuts and special education funding during an hourlong public forum Saturday in Augusta. The forum took place a day after the Senate rejected legislation crafted by Williams to create a private school voucher program.
It’s true for anything, but especially true for guns: If you repeat a lie often enough, it gets believed by the establishment media. Take so-called “assault weapons.” No such thing really exists, but the term is used as a vague legal description of scary-looking guns like the AR-15 that were banned during former President Bill
Doing more with less Looking through Monday’s paper, there’s a letter-writer who wants the government to form an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Administration and an article about a proposed new state law to police social media. With just about every family being asked to do more with less, isn’t it about time we asked the same
In the aftermath of a school shooting last month that left children as young as 9 years old dead in the state he represents, a Republican congressman from Tennessee publicly declared that Congress “is not going to fix” gun violence. This statement is infuriating, especially because gun violence kills over 100 Americans a day. But
Rev. Molly Shoulta Tucker | Opinion Contributor Louisville shooting: Raw video from shooting near Slugger Field At least four people were killed and eight people wounded, two critically, during a shooting near Slugger Field in downtown Louisville on Monday. Hagan Kurd, Storyful This is my hometown. I am now a Pastor here. I love being
The deadliest acts of mass murder in the United States since 9/11 all share one feature: The killer in every case used an assault-style weapon or a firearm equipped with a high-capacity magazine. This was again the case on Monday, at a shooting at a Kentucky bank that killed five, and in the recent shooting
“Republicans are openly distressed about the prospect of losing younger voters over their stances on abortion, firearms and democracy,” Politico reports. “By week’s end, their challenges on those three fronts could grow worse.” “Days after a mass shooting in Louisville, Ky., many declared and undeclared 2024 candidates will be brandishing their Second Amendment bona fides
With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross In a letter to John Roberts this week, Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) implored the Supreme Court chief justice to tackle two major accountability items. | Leah Millis/Pool via AP NEW FROM JMART — “How Tennessee Became the Poster State for Political Meltdown,” by Jonathan Martin
The removal of two Black lawmakers from the Tennessee legislature last week, for disrupting proceedings in the state House of Representatives during protests of inaction on gun violence, was a raw racial drama, an overt and aggressive complement to the gun policies that spawned it. Neither Justin Jones, of Nashville, nor Justin Pearson, of Memphis,
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