[ad_1] President Biden drew a sharp contrast with former President Trump and Republican lawmakers in Thursday’s State of the Union address, using the bully pulpit to harp on issues that will shape the general election campaign and sell voters on his first three years in office. Biden’s remarks, which lasted just more than an hour,

[ad_1] He’s referred to the sibling of a mass shooting victim in the chamber tonight. “With us tonight is Jasmine, whose nine-year-old sister Jackie was murdered with 21 classmates and teachers in elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. “Very soon after that happened, Jill and I went to volunteer for a couple of days. We spent

[ad_1] Mr. Speaker. Madam Vice President. Members of Congress. My Fellow Americans. In January 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt came to this chamber to speak to the nation. He said, “I address you at a moment unprecedented in the history of the Union.” Hitler was on the march. War was raging in Europe. President Roosevelt’s purpose

[ad_1] By the end of City Weekly’s 29th year, we had turned another corner. “In two weeks’ time, I’ll be leaving the building as editor of City Weekly” wrote Jerre Wroble for the May 9 issue in 2013. “But before your mind drops down the rabbit hole of, ‘Yet another journalism defector, another sign of

[ad_1] Now a medical student at the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine, Austin Vaughan said he always dreamed of being a pediatrician and helping save children’s lives. “But the truth is that no amount of healing I do throughout my career will save more lives than the steps this committee can take

[ad_1] Letters submitted by BDN readers are verified by BDN Opinion Page staff. Send your letters to letters@bangordailynews.com To reach a suicide prevention hotline, call or text 988 or chat at 988lifeline.org. I am a gun owner and hunter. I support further safe gun legislation in Maine. I am not threatened in any way by these

[ad_1] Speaking at the White House on Wednesday on his “actions to fight crime and make our communities safer,” President Joe Biden boasted, “we beat the NRA,” adding, “We’re going to finish the job.” Biden bragged that his administration “made historic investments in proven strategies to interrupt and prevent crime and violence in the first place.

[ad_1] On Feb. 18, two Burnsville police officers and one firefighter/paramedic were killed in a shooting that started out as an investigation into a domestic incident. Feb. 18 was also the day “The Weight of the Crown” (about the shooting and recovery of former police officer Arik Matson) was shown in Ostrander Auditorium in Minnesota

[ad_1] washington —  President Joe Biden brought law enforcement officials from key swing states into the White House on Wednesday as he touted declines in crime in major cities and pressed Congress for more action on policing and gun control. “Murder, rape, aggravated assault, robbery — all dropped sharply, along with burglary, property crime and

[ad_1] Democrats in the Maine Legislature on Wednesday introduced a slate of gun safety bills in response to the mass shootings in Lewiston last fall. The legislation complements parts of a sweeping proposal put forward by Democratic Gov. Janet Mills last week, while another advances a waiting period for firearm purchases that Democrats blocked just

[ad_1] At a roundtable with local law enforcement officials and public safety leaders on Wednesday, President Joe Biden touted his administration’s efforts to combat crime, making the case that his administration’s “plan is working” and attempting to rebut criticism from Republicans. “Last year, the United States had one of the lowest rates of all violent

[ad_1] WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 07: Angela Ferrell-Zabala of Moms Demand Action speaksas activists gather outside of the U.S. Supreme Court for a gun-control rally on November 7, 2023 in Washington, DC. The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear argument today for a case about whether domestic violence offenders are protected by the Second Amendment

[ad_1] A bump stocks make a gun fire by sliding the weapon against a fixed trigger finger rather than moving a trigger finger against the gun. — ABC News (KNOXVILLE, Tenn.) — To gun enthusiasts, Jeremiah Cottle is an American hero and entrepreneurial success story. To his critics, the decorated Air Force veteran, father of

[ad_1] A decent start. That’s how the state-level gun safety legislation unveiled last week was broadly received, even by those who have long advocated for bigger, harder limits on the supply and sale of guns and other measures that seek to prevent gun violence. “They represent meaningful progress without trampling on anybody’s rights,” Gov. Janet

[ad_1] NEW YORK — The National Rifle Association and its former longtime leader were found liable Friday in a lawsuit centered on the organization’s lavish spending. The New York jury found that Wayne LaPierre, who was the NRA’s CEO for three decades, misspent millions of dollars of the group’s money on pricey perks for themselves. Wayne

[ad_1] Given his often testy relationship with Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, the leader of the upper house of the Texas Legislature, it’s understandable that Roland Gutierrez, a Democratic state senator, felt especially uncomfortable when he couldn’t control his emotions in Patrick’s presence. Days after the May 2022 mass shooting in Uvalde, which falls within Gutierrez’s

[ad_1] There is nothing that saddens and angers me more than mass shootings and gun violence. It’s impossible to go one week without seeing headlines about a shooting happening in Anytown, USA. The latest notable shooting came last week in Kansas City during the Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade that left one dead and 22 injured.

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[ad_1] Joaquin Oliver’s voice echoes through the hallways of Congress on the sixth anniversary of his death. It comes from his mother’s cell phone outside the office doors of lawmakers on Capitol Hill. The disembodied voice of the 17-year-old, who was a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, has a message to deliver. “Six years ago,

[ad_1] What is an “assault weapon?” That has changed through time and includes fists and feet, rocks, sticks, knives, spears, bow and arrow, trebuchets, cannons, and guns. It is a term now assigned by gun control advocates to semi-automatic rifles that “look military” and include a collapsible or adjustable stock and a forward grip. Democrats

[ad_1] Mayor Johnson listening to the concerns of Debra Gillispie and Colette Shumpert. (Photo by Albert Davis, Democratic Party of Wisconsin) By Urban Media News Mayor Cavalier Johnson held a roundtable with gun violence prevention advocates on Friday February 9th in support of President Joe Biden and response to Donald Trump’s choice to give a

[ad_1] After conspicuously not pushing gun control following the Lakewood megachurch shooting in Texas last week, likely because good guys with guns put down the shooter, CBS Mornings spent part of their Friday show morbidly cheering on how the Kansas City Super Bowl parade shooting was “helping renew” the left’s fight against gun rights with

[ad_1] You know why this country has a problem with mass shootings? For the same reason we’re likely to have an octogenarian president during the next administration. Both President Biden and former President Trump are old — as in “both men were alive for the start of the first Arab-Israeli war” kind of old. Polls

[ad_1] At least one person was killed and 21 others wounded by gunfire at the end of Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade in Kansas City. At least one person has been killed in a shooting in Kansas City, Missouri, during the National Football League’s (NFL) Super Bowl champions Kansas City Chiefs’ victory celebrations. Here is what we

[ad_1] It was meant to be a coming together of sports fans to celebrate a wonderful achievement. It turned into yet another tragedy with guns pushed back up the political agenda. President Joe Biden called for action against gun violence following the shooting that occurred on Wednesday after the Super Bowl parade in Kansas City,

[ad_1] Eight children were among 22 people hit by gunfire. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Missouri leaders and others are reacting to the latest U.S. mass shooting that happened at the end of the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade in Kansas City, Missouri, on Valentine’s Day that killed one person and injured as many as

[ad_1] Joe Biden calls for tougher gun control measures The US president, Joe Biden, has released a statement on the shooting, calling for tougher gun control measures and saying that he and first lady Jill will ‘pray for those killed and injured’. His statement begins: The Super Bowl is the most unifying event in America.

[ad_1] For years, the National Rifle Association has served as a bulwark against gun regulations — even as some experts say gun violence has reached epidemic levels. And for three decades, Wayne LaPierre led the NRA and became one of the country’s most influential voices on gun policy. But his leadership has come to an

[ad_1] Share and speak up for justice, law & order… By Luke Sprinkel A left-wing legislator in the Minnesota House of Representatives introduced a bill to ban the sale or transfer of semiautomatic firearms. Introduced on the first day of the 2024 legislative session, HF 3570 is authored by Rep. Leigh Finke, a transgender Democrat from St.

[ad_1] The House of Representatives has only censured two dozen members in more than 200 years. But when Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif. was added to that exclusive club last June, he said he was honored by the distinction. “You honor me with your enmity. You flatter me with this falsehood. You who are the authors