[ad_1] The Supreme Court said Thursday that law-abiding Americans generally have a right to carry a handgun outside the home for self-defense, striking down a New York law requiring a special need for such a permit and putting at risk similar laws in five other states. The court’s decision clears the way for legal challenges

[ad_1] The Senate on Thursday passed legislation aimed at stanching acts of mass gun violence, with 15 Republicans joining Democrats to advance a bill combining modest new firearms restrictions with $15 billion in mental health and school security funding. The 65-to-33 vote represented an unlikely breakthrough on the emotional and polarizing question of U.S. gun

[ad_1] The Supreme Court’s landmark decision to expand gun rights will have deadly and far-reaching repercussions, gun safety advocates warned Thursday, condemning the high court’s first major ruling on a Second Amendment case in more than a decade. In a 6-3 decision, the justices struck down a concealed-carry provision in New York that requires gun owners

[ad_1] Placeholder while article actions load President Biden’s proposed federal gas tax holiday for three months (along with encouragement for states to suspend their own gas taxes) is not a reasonable remedy for inflation. Gun legislation moving through the Senate (and then the House) falls pathetically short of what’s needed to address gun violence. Yet

[ad_1] In the aftermath of the Uvalde mass school shooting, the Texas senator John Cornyn is facing backlash from his own Republican party for being a lead negotiator on the bipartisan gun reform bill, the most significant legislation on gun control in America in decades. At the state’s annual Republican convention recently held in Houston,

[ad_1] In response to rising social anger over mass shootings at schools, grocery stores, churches, malls, sporting events and virtually every other public space in the United States, in a procedural vote on Tuesday, the Senate advanced the 80-page Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. Leading senators have indicated that they expect the bill to clear the

[ad_1] NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! John Mellencamp is slamming politicians for their lack of action and “vague” new gun control laws following the Uvalde, Texas, mass shootings in May that killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary. “Only in America, and I mean only, in America, can 21 people

[ad_1] WASHINGTON – The country has long endured a numbing succession of mass shootings at schools, places of worship and public gathering places. None forced Congress to react with significant legislation — until now. Last month, a white shooter was accused of racist motives in the killings of 10 Blacks in a supermarket in Buffalo,

[ad_1] “As we gather here today, the next shooter is already plotting his attack while the federal government pretends it can do nothing to stop it,” David Hogg, a survivor of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, told a crowd of tens of thousands in the US capital, Washington, on Saturday. The event, which featured speeches from other

[ad_1] A bipartisan gun bill passed a key procedural hurdle in the Senate late Tuesday that clears the way for the chamber to take up the measure later this week as lawmakers scramble to ensure final passage before Congress leaves for a two-week recess.  The Senate voted 64-34 — including 14 Republicans — to advance

[ad_1] The National Rifle Association said it would oppose Congress’s bipartisan effort to tighten the nation’s gun laws after a spate of deadly mass shootings, saying the legislation would place an undue burden on “law-abiding gun owners.” “We will oppose this gun control legislation because it falls short at every level,” the group said in

[ad_1] The Senate on Tuesday broke through nearly 30 years of stalemate on gun control legislation by voting 64 to 34 to advance an 80-page gun safety bill to respond to the mass shootings in Buffalo, N.Y., and Uvalde, Texas, that left 31 people dead, including 19 school children.   The Senate voted to proceed

[ad_1] The Senate finalized a gun control bill Tuesday following a spate of deadly mass shootings across America — setting up a potential vote on passage before lawmakers break for the July 4 holiday at the end of this week. A bipartisan negotiating group unveiled a framework of a bill on June 12 and had been engaged in frantic talks to hammer out the final text amid public

[ad_1] To the editor June 21, 2022 Another mass shooting and Republicans are saying that assault weapons don’t need to be banned, that facilities just need to have only one door. Sure, one door in schools where children can die trying to get out during a fire, earthquake, tornado, etc. makes sense. The doctor who

[ad_1] The Senate advanced a bill Tuesday night that would toughen federal gun laws and provide billions of dollars in new money to prevent future mass shootings after negotiators settled key disagreements, putting the legislation on course to be passed into law later this month. The breakthrough came more than a week after 20 senators

[ad_1] Article content Mass Shooting is defined as “four or more shot and killed in a single event.” Article content The U.S. already in 2022 at the time of this letter has experienced 198 mass shootings, 27 involving schools resulting in 140 deaths, while in 2020 having 45,222 gun-related deaths. The latest shooting inside a

[ad_1] For nearly a decade, America’s satirical “The Onion” publication has run a headline that’s come to epitomize the futility many people feel in the wake of yet another US gun massacre. “‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens” reads the title, which the outlet published on Wednesday

[ad_1] As much as I’m enjoying the Jan. 6 committee’s careful assembly of evidence proving former President Trump is a douchebag, I wasn’t seeing much in the way of a criminal offense until this week’s underreported story about how Trump used his “STOP THE STEAL” fundraising appeals to grift his supporters out of $250 million,

[ad_1] Think about it this way: There is no army or police department in any halfway civilized country — not even the United States — that would allow an untrained, callow 18-year-old boy like the Uvalde, Texas, school shooter to wear a uniform and carry an AR-15 assault rifle. Not one. Nowhere on Earth. And

[ad_1] “To allow the market mechanism to be sole director of the fate of human beings and their natural environment… would result in the demolition of society,” warned political economist Karl Polanyi in his book The Great Transformation, published in 1944. Had Polanyi been alive today, his statement would have found prophetic validation in the

[ad_1] On May 24, Salvador Ramos, an 18-year-old young man, murdered in cold blood with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle 19 children at Robb Elementary School, in Uvalde, Texas, and two of their teachers. “The worst such incident since eight students and two teachers were killed at Santa Fe High School in Texas in May 2018,”

[ad_1] Faced with the news that a significant majority of Americans support a number of gun control measures, including a ban on assault weapons, Republican Senator Mike Lee struggled to defend his party’s staunch opposition to some of those policies. Instead, he blamed Americans, claiming they don’t understand their rights or know what an assault

[ad_1] The United States accounts for less than 5% of the global population, but owns 46% of the world’s existing firearms. The accessibility of weapons has led to what White Houe calls a “gun violence epidemic.” The racist massacre in Buffalo and the shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde are just the tip of

[ad_1] As much as I’m enjoying the January 6th committee’s careful assembly of evidence proving former President Trump is a dummy, I wasn’t seeing much in the way of a criminal offense until this week’s underreported story about how Trump used his “STOP THE STEAL” fundraising appeals to grift his supporters out of $250 million,

[ad_1] Such imagery has since become stock-in-trade. When Brian Kemp ran for governor of Georgia in 2018, one tongue-in-cheek ad showed him in a room full of firearms, leveling a shotgun near a young man interested in dating his daughter. It generated criticism, including from Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense

[ad_1] Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), the lead Republican negotiator on the bipartisan gun safety package, told a home-state crowd at the Texas GOP convention on Friday that he had “fought and kept President Biden’s gun grabbing wish list off the table,” yet still received boos from the crowd, CNN reports. Said Cornyn: “Democrats pushed for

[ad_1] Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. WASHINGTON — In late May, U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema had just finished speaking to a group of reporters about the gut-wrenching shooting at a Uvalde elementary school. She beelined into the Senate chamber, where

[ad_1] Rep. Chris Jacobs abandoned re-election after facing backlash for changing his mind about gun control. Following the Buffalo mass shooting, he said he would support an assault weapons ban if it came to the floor. “I think we have a real problem in the party – both parties – right now,” he said, referencing

[ad_1] Lynette Kennison  |  Guest columnist My area of specialty is trauma therapy and grief counseling; sadly, there is a greater need for both these days.  The NRA touts infringement of the right to bear arms by citizens as sacred and any modification as a slippery slope. This country has already gone down that slope and

[ad_1] Traci Manza Murphy  |  Special to the USA TODAY Network Matthew McConaughey recounts visiting Uvalde after mass shooting Uvalde, Texas native, Matthew McConaughey visited President Joe Biden and joined the White House briefing to recount returning to his hometown. Ariana Triggs, USA TODAY The past few weeks have been some of the darkest in