[ad_1] I’ve never owned a gun and probably never will. But that doesn’t mean I’m against law-abiding American citizens owning guns and using them for appropriate purposes. To the contrary, I want responsible people to be able to own a gun for self-defense and for the protection of their families and property and want hunters

[ad_1] Moms, students and survivors fed up with gun violence are using their voices to stand up for all the lives lost.Wednesday, Moms Demand Action and Florida Rising got people together to commemorate shooting victims as well as call for a ban on assault rifles. It comes after recent mass shootings like the one where

[ad_1] Steve Marcus Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo speaks during the 2023 State of the Schools address at Resorts World Las Vegas, Friday, Jan. 27, 2023. By Gabe Stern, Associated Press/Report for America Published Wednesday, May 17, 2023 | 12:54 p.m. Updated 2 hours, 44 minutes ago CARSON CITY — Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo vetoed a trio

[ad_1] GABE STERN  |  Associated Press/Report for America CARSON CITY — Nevada’s Democrat-controlled Legislature passed a trio of gun control bills Monday, sending them to Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo’s desk, where they face questionable futures. Lombardo’s office has not commented on the gun bills, nor on many other wide-ranging proposals that are running through the Legislature in the final

[ad_1] The U.S. Supreme Court on May 17 allowed Illinois’s strict new gun control law to remain in effect, denying an emergency request for an injunction. It means that the measure, which bans what it calls “assault weapons,” will remain intact while lower courts deliberate the matter. An Illinois gun store owner filed a petition with

[ad_1] M ary Joyce’s daughter witnessed the unspeakable. “The day after the children were murdered at the school, grief therapists passed out ‘Feelings Cards‘ with faces on them to help the children identify what they were feeling,” she recalled. “My nine-year-old daughter, Monroe, who saw the shooter, the barrel of the AR-15, and her friend

[ad_1] Comment on this storyComment Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) signed into law Tuesday new gun-control bills to restrict who can carry guns in public and where they can bring them, measures the National Rifle Association immediately challenged in federal court. Gun rights activists have been eager to leverage a watershed Supreme Court decision in

[ad_1] Watch the video in the player above for a list of politicians who receive the most funding from the NRA. Mass shootings are at a record high – most recently, eight people were killed at a mall in Texas after authorities say the shooter used an AR-15-style weapon. Roughly half of Americans (53%) favor

[ad_1] Cara Graper had a talk with her then-kindergarten aged son a few years ago that put the prevalence of gun violence in perspective. “He told me, ‘We learned a bad guy drill today’,” Graper said. Her son, who is now 8, explained that he had to hide under a teacher’s desk while school faculty

[ad_1] Cara Graper had a talk with her then-kindergarten aged son a few years ago that put the prevalence of gun violence in perspective. “He told me, ‘We learned a bad guy drill today’,” Graper said. Her son, who is now 8, explained that he had to hide under a teacher’s desk while school faculty

[ad_1] Sunday, May 14, 2023 Robert Whitcomb, Columnist   View Larger + Robert Whitcomb, columnist “You saved me, you should remember me.   GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE — SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST “The spring of the year; young men buying tickets for the ferryboats. Laughter, because the air is full

[ad_1] by Matt Petras, PublicSource If almost everyone wants more regulation of guns, why is it so difficult to get that passed? That question was posed during a meeting of Squirrel Hill Stands Against Gun Violence by a woman skeptical of extremely high polling results for certain gun control measures in Pennsylvania.  Dana Kellerman, policy

[ad_1] It’s easy to believe nothing has changed. It’s easy to believe that nothing even can change given the grip of gun culture on the US Supreme Court and the Republican Party. Republican politicians coast to coast have put themselves wholly at the service of the gun industry and the gun fanatics who enrich it.

[ad_1] Like most 17-year-olds, Melody McFadden’s life lay before her. It was the summer after her high school graduation, and she had earned a scholarship to attend the University of South Carolina, Columbia. Then gun violence upended her family. McFadden’s mother, a victim of domestic abuse, was shot in the head by her boyfriend after

[ad_1] Opinion editor’s note: Star Tribune Opinion publishes letters from readers online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. ••• Public transit is a gift to a community. For me, it allows me to get from my home in the North Loop to the airport at almost any hour of the day for

[ad_1] The weapon used to carry out the mass shooting at an outlet shopping mall in Allen, Texas on Saturday that left eight people dead and seven others injured is one all too familiar to Americans and lawmakers who have witnessed mass shootings occur again and again. Mauricio Garcia, 33, was seen on dashcam video

[ad_1] Memorials in honor of the mass shooting victims have gone up in front of Allen Premium Outlets, where the massacre took place (Screenshot via Toluwani Osibamowo on Twitter) On Saturday, May 6, 33-year-old Mauricio Garcia opened fire in a shopping mall in Allen, Texas, killing eight people and injuring seven. Shortly after, Garcia himself

[ad_1] Mass killings across America have prompted calls for the banning of assault weapons designed to cause multiple casualties. This issue once again is in the spotlight after a gunman opened fire with what officials said was an AR-15-style rifle at a popular shopping center in the Dallas suburb of Allen, Texas, last Saturday,

[ad_1] Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.) asked Monday that a congressional field hearing focused on red flag laws be held in Parkland, Fla., where such provisions were enacted in 2018 after the deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The request — made to House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim

[ad_1] President Biden has rightly called for an urgent Bill banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines Published Date – 12:30 AM, Tue – 9 May 23 President Biden has rightly called for an urgent Bill banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines The mass shootings in the United States have acquired an air of numbing familiarity,

[ad_1] His interlocutor was Fox’s Shannon Bream, who apparently is not permitted to suggest that sales of any specific assault weapon should be banned or restricted, although she presented Abbott with a Fox poll that indicated, among various poll questions, that 61% of Americans favor banning them. Bream chose instead to toss him some easy targets: How

[ad_1] Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is calling for more resources for mental health following a mass shooting at an outlet mall in Allen, Texas, on Saturday in which a gunman killed at least eight people. Abbott presented those resources as the solution for the gun violence that has wracked the state in recent years.

[ad_1] Steven Spainhouer bore witness to “unfathomable” carnage when he arrived at the Allen Premium Outlets Saturday. “The first girl I walked up to was crouched down covering her head in the bushes,” he told CBS News. “So I felt for a pulse, pulled her head to the side, and she had no face.” He wasn’t

[ad_1] Having traveled across the United States for a decade to campaign against the ceaseless round of shootings that have claimed thousands of lives, Shannon Watts believes she has heard a very clear message. “Americans want the gun violence to stop,” she said during a recent stop in Washington. One of the country’s most prominent

[ad_1] In any technological advance there is a golden age in which, for pioneers and believers, remaking the world seems within their grasp. For social media, that moment was just over 20 years ago, when to digital evangelists it felt like a new generation of “citizen journalists” – bloggers – might create a connected utopia

[ad_1] A Texas Republican has hit back at people who criticize lawmakers for sending thoughts and prayers in the wake of a mass shooting. Rep. Keith Self appeared on CNN after a gunman opened fire at an outlet mall in Allen on Saturday afternoon. In an appearance on CNN, host Paula Reid asked Self for

[ad_1] In most parts of the United States it’s completely legal to hurt or kill someone you think is threatening you, in any location, even if there’s a way you could escape the situation. This wasn’t always the case. Since 2005, the National Rifle Association and the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council have helped make

[ad_1] As many of us in downtown Atlanta were in lockdown this week because of yet another example of gun violence, it dawned on me. The violence we are seeing is not the result of the NRA, but the work of some of our own elected officials – and it is time we focus on

[ad_1] FIRST ON FOX: The NRA taunted President Biden over his 2020 pledge to “defeat” the group, saying in a new video that his statement is “backfiring” after the U.S. tipped into becoming a permitless carry-majority nation. The NRA video, released Wednesday and exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital, shows various members of the prominent

[ad_1] The Democrats have finished their work in Olympia. They were forthright in defending access to abortion and enhancing gun control. But, when it came to decreasing the economic uncertainties of life for working-class families, their approach was at best incremental.   Let’s start with the good stuff. Thanks to the Democrats and Gov. Jay Inslee,