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 of

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 director

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. And

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 she

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 about

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 opening

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 was

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, where

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 Jordan

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, evoking

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 about

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. But

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 a

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 faces

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 of

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 his

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 these

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 the

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 gun

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, we

In the first ruling on a California gun law since the U.S. Supreme Court reduced the government’s authority to regulate firearms, a state appeals court has upheld a ban on semiautomatic AR-15 rifles that state law classifies as “assault weapons.” The Third District Court of Appeal in Sacramento said the high-capacity rifles, which can be

Alexis MarshallWPLN News Demonstrators rallied at the Tennessee State Capitol this spring to call for tougher gun laws in the wake of the Covenant School shooting. A recent poll from Vanderbilt suggests most Tennesseans agree. After years of indifference, Tennesseans now believe guns is one of the top issues facing the state. That’s one finding

STORY CONTINUES BELOW THESE SALTWIRE VIDEOS By Noah Schwartz and Tim Thurley The government has renewed its push on Bill C-21, drawing on recommendations in the report by the Mass Casualty Commission (MCC), which had been tasked with investigating the causes of the 2020 mass killing in Nova Scotia. Yet if the commission was aiming

Breadcrumb Trail Links NP Comment Noah Schwartz and Tim Thurley: If the commission was aiming to prevent another mass killing, it missed the target Published May 03, 2023  •  Last updated 8 hours ago  •  4 minute read Toronto police show off seized illegal firearms used by organized criminals. Photo by Jack Boland/Toronto Sun/Postmedia Network Article

The Defense Department defines terrorism as the “unlawful use of violence or threat of violence to instill fear and coerce governments and societies.” Given the official definition, it is easy to conclude that Americans live in an era of domestic terror. The January 6 insurrection, the Michigan militia plot to abduct and assassinate Governor Gretchen

What next for Fox News, Tucker Carlson? Re: “Will settlement alter conservative media,” April 23 news story The Dominion lawsuit against Fox News only cost Fox a little more than two weeks of annual profit. Fox has been making billions of dollars feeding “conservative” news to a gullible American public. Telling viewers bogus horror stories

It has been five years since Alek Minassian killed 10 people and injured 16 others in the streets of Toronto. When I first heard of the attack, I was mortified, but I was especially angry because Alek Minassian had Asperger’s. Shortly after the attack, it was reported that Alex Minassian also subscribed to ‘incel’ culture.

If you look at the view from the window of the Mandalay Bay hotel room in Las Vegas, you realize that from that distance the shooter couldn’t have seen or identified the faces of the people he killed. And yet, his carnage resulted in the worst mass shooting in modern American history: 58 people were

Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post (DENVER) — Governors in two states passed major gun control legislation this week and a third is poised to do the same soon. On Friday, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed the legislative package that included a longer waiting period for firearm sales, and an increase in the minimum age to purchase a

Your letters to the editor for April 30, 2023: Under Noem, SD is free − for guns Gov. Kristi Noem was among the groveling right-wing politicians to address the National Rifle Association convention in Indianapolis last weekend. Noem has done everything in her power to stop teachers from teaching real history, and she would stand