As the legal saga over the 2018 shooting in Florida heads to a close, survivors who plunged into activism have made a lasting imprint on the gun control movement. Aug. 16, 2022 With each new mass shooting, the nightmares come to haunt Sam Fuentes’s sleep. After a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers in

“It’s not all the change we wanted, certainly not,” she added. “But it has been progress.” The organization grew to equal status with more established organizations like Brady and the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. But some people have questioned whether the Parkland youths were more figureheads than organizers. Tax records show that

Forty-nine percent of Republicans and Democrats believe that democracy in the United States is on the ropes. Could America’s fate be the same as ancient Athens? Athenian democracy lasted about 250 years from the early seventh century B.C.E. It was a magnificently successful experiment involving military domination over the belligerent Persians while Athens grew in

Viewers with a penchant for skipping past TV or internet ads may miss juicy material coming across the airwaves in Florida between now and election day in the fall. Political communications experts viewed the first crop of gubernatorial campaign ads running in the Sunshine State. Then they spoke to The Epoch Times about what they

Viewers in Florida with a penchant for skipping past TV or internet ads may miss juicy material coming across the airwaves between now and Election Day in November. Political communications experts viewed the first crop of campaign ads from Gov. Ron DeSantis and his two top Democratic opponents in the Sunshine State. Here are some quick

Jill Tokuda, a former state senator backed by the political arm of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, won the Democratic primary in Hawaii’s Second Congressional District, according to The Associated Press, after a sometimes vicious campaign that drew more than a million dollars in outside spending. Ms. Tokuda defeated her top rival, Patrick Branco, a first-term

Pat Brothwell  |  OPINION COLUMNIST After the Uvalde school massacre, Ted Cruz suggested that the solution to preventing future violence was to have only one heavily guarded door in and out of schools. Other Republicans echoed this solution, including former President Trump, which doesn’t hold up to the lightest of scrutinies — it gives students and

Former state Sen. Jill Tokuda handily defeated state Rep. Patrick Branco in the race to replace U.S. Rep. Kai Kahele in Hawaii’s 2nd Congressional District. With most of the vote in as returns were released late Saturday night, Tokuda lead Branco 49.8% to 20.9%. Tokuda has been considered the frontrunner in the race in large

The cult of mass murders has jolted our moorings as a country, if not the very idea of America. So has the criminal violence in cities exploding since the pandemic hibernation. Yet 58 percent of households have no gun—a data point of hope amid the bloody tide of gun violence. Most of us in that

Placeholder while article actions load A term-limited governor and a surprise congressional retirement set the stage for Saturday’s primaries in Hawaii, with Democrats battling over offices they’re favored to win in November. The race for the Democratic nomination to succeed Gov. David Ige (D), who’s ending his second term with low approval ratings, pits Lt.

Campaign Action The memo could be a little stronger on the issue that is motivating so many voters: abortion. It does say the word, once, in talking about the Republicans’ “extremist agenda,” which “includes taking away a woman’s right to choose.” Bedingfield and Dunn stress that Republicans want to, and in some cases have, stripped

By Jeremy Diamond and Arlette Saenz, CNN President Joe Biden doesn’t plan to allow the investigations into his predecessor to muddy his efforts to tout a recent string of legislative achievements ahead of the midterm elections. Even as federal and state investigations into former President Donald Trump heat up and dominate headlines, senior administration officials

The White House will use the August recess to argue that President Biden and Democratic allies “beat the special interests” and delivered results on climate change and health care while rewarding work and not wealth. Mr. Biden’s team will say his pressure on oil companies led to lower gas prices, trumpet a bipartisan overhaul of

It’s past time for responsible gun owners to speak out against assault weapons and call for a ban. These killing machines do not belong in public places in the hands of untrained civilians and kids who can’t even buy beer. I’m no liberal. I’ve voted Republican my whole life and was a National Rifle Association

CHICAGO — In the wake of the mass shooting in Highland Park last month, Democrats have renewed their calls for a national ban on assault weapons. But WGN Investigates has found that some politicians’ words do not always match their actions.   From the first hours after seven lives were cut short in Highland Park, Democratic politicians

Letters submitted by BDN readers are verified by BDN Opinion Page staff. Send your letters to letters@bangordailynews.com. A recent letter to the Bangor Daily News by Mary Royal on the dangers to the public posed by easy access to AR-15-style assault rifles highlighted its sacred status among most gun owners in our society. And it’s chiefly Republican

HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. — The ongoing fight for gun control measures that many Highland Park residents have been championing continued to be discussed Thursday night on the one-month anniversary of the shooting. David Sallak is a father who was at the parade. “I was at the parade, I saw the shooter – he shot at

How Portapique began to heal after a mass shooting “There’s a new sense of hope, there’s a sense of pride.” Nate Chute and Omar Ornelas, El Paso Times On Aug. 3, 2019, a gunman opened fire at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas. Authorities say the gunman targeted Mexicans in hopes of scaring Latinos

Adolescents well into their early 20s still are developing their abilities to use judgment and impulse control. If you want help grasping that fact, think of the difference between an incoming college freshman and the same young person as a college senior. The difference in emotional maturity is often dramatic. Gov. Greg Abbott and the

WINK NEWS Nikki Fried, a Democratic candidate for Governor, made a campaign ad bashing current Governor Ron DeSantis running in Southwest Florida. Some of the claims Fried makes are about inflation, assault weapons, and abortion limits. Put the blame on Governor DeSantis and one of Fried’s Democratic opponents. WINK News reviewed edited pictures for

WASHINGTON, Aug 2 (Reuters) – The U.S. House Oversight Committee has subpoenaed Smith & Wesson Brands Inc (SWBI.O) for information on its AR-15 style firearms sales and marketing after the gunmaker’s chief executive refused to appear before lawmakers last month, it said in a statement. The panel, led by Democratic U.S. Representative Carolyn Maloney, cited

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told CNN that, sadly, every mass shooting that occurs on US soil has reinforced their commitment to the gun control measures they implemented in 1996. TAPPER: In 1996, after 35 Australians were killed in a mass shooting, your country’s government took immediate action. You implemented a gun buyback. You banned

Hide your wife! Hide your kids! Hide your … puppies? Colorado GOP Rep. Lauren Boebert recently went on Newsmax to warn Americans that we’ll all be frying up our pets for dinner if the dastardly Democrats manage to pass an assault weapons ban. “If the citizenry in America is disarmed, then we are no longer

Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried is calling for new, blue blood in the Governor’s Mansion with her first TV ad of the campaign. The ad, which dropped with just over three weeks remaining in the Florida Democratic gubernatorial Primary, calls out Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis by name and takes subtle jabs at the Democratic front-runner and U.S.

Commentary In late June, Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker traveled to New Hampshire to be the keynote speaker at New Hampshire’s Democratic Party state convention. Officially, he was there to “help other Democratic governors get elected” and to lobby for Chicago as the site of the party’s 2024 presidential convention. Unofficially, there was buzz that Pritzker

The House passed a bill to ban assault weapons—although just barely—and it will likely be struck down in the Senate. The Assault Weapons Ban of 2022 passed in a final vote on Friday of 217-213, as Representatives did not vote strictly along party lines. Two Republicans, Chris Jacobs (R-N.Y.) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) voted for

The House approved legislation Friday to ban high-powered firearms of the kind that have been used in recent mass shootings around the country, although it is unlikely to become law anytime soon. The Assault Weapons Ban of 2022 would prohibit the manufacture and sale of certain types of semiautomatic rifles, shotguns and pistols, with exceptions

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The AR-15 is a weapon of war that has no place on our streets. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy) Bryan Oberc, Munster, Indiana, tries out an AR-15 from Sig Sauer in the exhibition hall at the National Rifle Association Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, Saturday, April 27, 2019.   | July 28, 2022, 3:00 p.m. Today on my way

article FILE IMAGE – An attendee holds a Springfield Armory SAINT AR-15 style rifle displayed during the National Rifle Association (NRA) Annual Meeting at the George R. Brown Convention Center, in Houston, Texas on May 28, 2022. (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/ WASHINGTON – Gun makers have taken in more than $1 billion from selling