[ad_1] Carl Gibson  |  Opinion Contributor This week’s mass shooting that killed five and injured eight at a downtown bank happened less than three miles from my apartment. Even as a born-and-raised Kentuckian and gun owner for more than ten years, this mass shooting has hit (literally) close to home, and I know that I’m

[ad_1] Tucker Carlson: Why Democrats might turn to Gavin Newsom Fox News host Tucker Carlson examines why President Biden has not announced his 2024 re-election campaign and why California Gov. Gavin Newsom is likely to become the face of the Democratic Party on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’ NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Imagine

[ad_1] House Bill 1240 poised to become law soon PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — As Washington state seems poised to become only the 10th state to ban the sale and manufacture of assault weapons, gun rights advocates worry what this will mean for gun owners. If this bill becomes law, opponents claim the long list of

[ad_1] Crime is a people problem. If you understand nothing else about crime, you must understand this — crime is committed by people. It is not committed by inanimate objects, and while data on criminal activity can be charted as a trend over time, trends don’t commit crimes, people do. There is a word for people

[ad_1] The former Tennessee legislators who were ousted last week by the state’s Republican-led House of Representatives said on April 9 they would accept reappointments by their respective districts and will run in the special elections to fill their seats. Justin Pearson, a Democrat who had represented Memphis, and Justin Jones, a Democrat who represented

[ad_1] On ABC’s This Week, co-moderator Jon Karl invited Justin Pearson, one of the expelled former Democrat Tennessee representatives on the program to let him play the victim because he was held accountable for his actions. Opening the program on Easter Sunday, Karl still insisted on lying on this holy day.  Karl claimed the “two

[ad_1] U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola photographed on Friday, April 29, 2022 in Anchorage. (Loren Holmes / ADN) WASHINGTON – When Alaska U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola joined an Alaska Public Media call-in radio show this week, a self-proclaimed Peltola supporter and longtime hunter called in. “I admire Representative Peltola, I remember when she was a legislative

[ad_1] It’s one of the holiest times of 2023 and yet it started with a tragic shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville that left seven people dead. When the terror happened — notably at a school associated with a local church, Covenant Presbyterian Church in Green Hills — holy days for Muslims, Christians, Jews

[ad_1] On Saturday, the Washington State Senate approved legislation banning the sale of assault weapons. “House Bill 1240, requested by Attorney General Bob Ferguson and Governor Jay Inslee and sponsored by Rep. Strom Peterson, D-Edmonds, passed the House of Representatives on March 8, and the Senate today, in historic votes,” said the WA State Office

[ad_1] Both chambers of the Washington state legislature have approved a ban on assault-style firearms, sending the measure to the governor’s desk for signature. Washington will become the 10th state to enforce such a law.  House Bill 1240, requested by Attorney General Bob Ferguson and Gov. Jay Inslee and sponsored by Rep. Strom Peterson, D-Edmonds,

[ad_1] PREVIOUS VIDEO: WA Senate committee moves assault weapons ban forward OLYMPIA, Wash. – The Washington state Senate on Saturday approved an assault-weapons ban, a measure long sought by gun-control advocates. HB1240 passed the Senate in a 27-21 vote, with one excused. The measure will go back to the House since it was amended by

[ad_1] OLYMPIA, Wash. – After hours of deliberation, the Washington State Senate has passed the assault weapon ban with a 27-21 vote.  House Bill 1240 would ban the sale, manufacture and import of assault weapons into Washington. The bill does not ban the possession of assault weapons and provides exceptions for law enforcement, the military

[ad_1] After the recent shooting in Nashville that killed three children and three adults at a Christian school, we asked readers to weigh in on an earlier report that showed gun violence as a major cause of death among children. We asked how the trend can be reversed. Here are some of the responses: ‘We

[ad_1] The Tennessee State GOP pulled off their first partisan legislative expulsion on Thursday with the kind of racist flourish this country has now come to expect from the Guns Over People party. Republicans currently control the Tennessee House by an unusually wide margin, with 75 members to the Democrats’ 22 – and now there

[ad_1] We speak with Justin Jones, one of two Black Democratic lawmakers expelled by a Republican supermajority in the Tennessee state House of Representatives Thursday for peacefully protesting gun violence in the chamber last week as thousands rallied at the Capitol to demand gun control after the Covenant elementary school shooting in Nashville. A vote

[ad_1] Most people know that America has a gun problem. It’s just our politicians who don’t. (Michael Conroy | AP photo) Bryan Oberc, Munster, Ind., 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.   | April 7, 2023, 12:00 p.m.

[ad_1] Reader disappointed with Reagan column I am disappointed that so much space is given to “Another View” by Michael Reagan, in the Times-Standard on Saturday, March 25th. We welcome and look forward to views that are different than our views but to publish this person who makes broad sweeping Fox-Entertainment types of statements with

[ad_1] CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada Democrats and gun control advocates rallied around a trio of bills on Thursday that amplified calls for gun regulation while recalling the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting that became the deadliest in U.S. history. More than five years after a shooter killed scores of people at a country

[ad_1] I started writing this column before another disreputable chapter was added to the never-ending Trump saga. He became the first president ever to be indicted for a crime. The indictment can take its place beside the two impeachments, but this time he doesn’t have a fawning band of sycophants in Congress to run interference

[ad_1] Republican representatives have introduced legislation to officially designate the AR-15 as America’s “national gun.” The AR-15 was designed in the later 1950s, with the U.S. military in mind, though it also became popular with law enforcement and civilians. A number of America’s most notorious mass shootings have involved AR-15s, including the 2017 Las Vegas

[ad_1] As a parent, I am not worried about my children seeing a drag show. I am not worried about a drag queen or king surprising them at school; that won’t happen, but I would not mind if it did. Creativity, authenticity, artistic expression, and inclusivity are all things I would love for everyone’s children to have

[ad_1] Update Thursday, April 6, 2023: Tens of thousands of students across the U.S. joined in a collective action on Wednesday, April 5, at noon local time, and walked out of their classes en masse to demand gun control legislation. The student participants spanned geographical location—from Oregon, to Texas, to Massachusetts—and age, ranging from elementary

[ad_1] Block is a recent alumnus of the San Dieguito Union High School District, who attended Diegueno Middle School and San Dieguito Academy. He lives in Encinitas. I don’t think I’ll ever forget how I felt on Feb. 15, 2018. It was the day after the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in

[ad_1] On Monday, thousands of students all over the city of Nashville walked out of their schools at 10:13 a.m., the exact time a shooter came into the Covenant School and changed the lives of those inside forever. Now, students are marching in demand of gun reform in the United States. Author Andrew Maraniss posted

[ad_1] Days after the most recent school shooting in Nashville, Democratic lawmakers in Augusta introduced legislation on Monday that would create a waiting period to purchase a gun and criminal background checks for private sales and gun shows.  “I can’t believe I have to say the words, ‘Please do something so my kids aren’t killed

[ad_1] AUGUSTA – State lawmakers heard hours of testimony on Monday on several gun control proposals that, if recent history holds, could face an uphill battle in the full Legislature. Gun control advocates and opponents turned out in large numbers to testify on proposals to expand Maine’s background check requirement and to require buyers to

[ad_1] “If we should get all three through, it’s one of the biggest years, if not the biggest leap forward in firearms law since we’ve existed,” said Dylan O’Connor, government affairs director for the Alliance for Gun Responsibility, the Seattle-based advocacy group founded in 2013. Opponents of the proposals argue the proposed restrictions would not

[ad_1] Hogs are a big problem on Brandon Brown’s ranchland in the Texas panhandle. They tear up the ground, travel in droves and are a general nuisance, as they are in many other parts of the southern US. For some, hunting them is a combination of pastime and pest control. So when Brown wanted to

[ad_1] Regarding “Victims of Nashville school shooting honored in somber vigil,” (March 29): The unmitigated hypocrisy and incredible gall any Republican politician had to appear at the vigil for the Nashville victims leaves me breathless with anger. If it weren’t for Republicans, we would at least have a ban on assault weapons. They are military-style

[ad_1] America is a dismal failure in the one area where failure is absolutely unforgivable — protecting our children from gun violence. It’s not just that we have had no success in stopping the senseless killing of America’s children, whether in mass shootings or in the daily carnage throughout our country. It’s that we haven’t