[ad_1] This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis.  Newspaper headlines have called Donald Trump’s victory “decisive,” “massive,” “resounding,” “historic,” and “sweeping.” Trump himself has described his win as a “landslide.” On election night, he claimed that “America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate.”  None of those things

[ad_1] Tennessee state Rep. Justin J. Pearson pledges the state’s electoral votes to Vice President Kamala Harris on the second night of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago, Ill., on Aug. 20, 2024. (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) Generation Z—born between the mid 1990s and the early

[ad_1] Thank you, Jim Lynch, for your article (Nov. 20) about our city’s most recent loss in the Chicago Police Department. Unfortunately, violence against our police is not new, and since the beginning of our country, it has never been addressed beyond talking. While the 2024 data is not out for our lost police officers,

[ad_1] Maine political analysts discuss ramifications of Lewiston mass shooting Updated: 2:50 PM EST Nov 22, 2024 FOR OUR DEEP DIVE THIS WEEK- THE ONE- YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE LEWISTON SHOOTINGS THAT LEFT 18 PEOPLE DEAD AT A BAR AND A BOWLING ALLEY WAS OBSERVED A FEW WEEKS AGO. MAINERS PAUSED TO HONOR THE VICTIMS,

[ad_1] Rep. Jared Golden, a Maine Democrat who backed an assault weapons ban in a conservative, rural district, won reelection to a fourth term. The Associated Press declared Golden the winner on Friday, 10 days after Election Day, following a ranked choice runoff. Golden, a Marine combat veteran, defeated Republican state Rep. Austin Theriault, a

[ad_1] In 2011, a federal appeals court voted 2-1 to uphold Washington, D.C.’s assault weapons ban. The lone dissent came from then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh, who argued that a gun restriction could only be constitutional if it fit with the nation’s history and tradition of gun regulation. Such a test, he wrote, would be “much less

[ad_1] While her teacher read from The Nutcracker to keep the class calm, Grace Fischer could hear a man in the next room murdering her friends with a semi-automatic rifle. She was six years old. This summer Fischer turned 18, graduated from high school and moved away from Sandy Hook, her sleepy Connecticut hometown, whose

[ad_1] After the results of her primary election came in, Maggie Goodlander waded through a sea of supporters, hugged her family members and took the stage, describing it as an “out of body” experience. Yet the location was anything but foreign. That very restaurant, Martha’s Exchange Restaurant & Bar, had played a recurring role in

[ad_1] Published 2024-09-30 10:03 10:03 September 30, 2024 am Your trusted source for contextualizing Election 2024 news. Sign up for our daily newsletter. As elected officials, Tim Walz and JD Vance have a record of policy positions and legislative actions that can help shape voters’ perceptions of them and offer hints as to the type

[ad_1] No ballot will have a gun-related initiative led by voters this fall. While seven states had tried to get 11 citizen-led firearm referendums on the ballot this year, all of them failed, according to Victoria Rose, who tracks the measures for the elections database Ballotpedia. Seven of the proposals supported expanding gun rights, including

[ad_1] The NRA is accusing Meta of “election interference” after the tech giant cracked down on social media posts it deemed “false information” about Vice President Kamala Harris.  The gun rights advocacy group had criticized Harris for her liberal gun control stance, something she has attempted to distance herself from as the Democratic presidential nominee. 

[ad_1] Though Joe Biden was forcibly pushed out of the presidential race in July in a most undemocratic way, he is still, last I checked, technically the President and has been involved in doing president-like things from time to time. Among them was the announcement of an executive order on Thursday that he and Vice

[ad_1] President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris announced new executive actions Thursday aimed at reducing gun violence, and capped off the afternoon with a press conference touting all the work the Biden-Harris administration has done to combat gun violence, while slamming Republicans for their response to the issue. “Guns are the number one

[ad_1] President Joe Biden, ahead of signing an Executive Order Thursday on gun violence, acknowledged Saturday’s mass shooting in Birmingham in which a Glock switch was found on one of the firearms that enabled it to be converted into an automatic weapon. “Over 100 shell casings,” Biden said. “Community shattered. Enough.” The president was introduced

[ad_1] Kamala Harris’ recent indication that her “values have not changed” prompted critics to wonder what besides taxpayer-funded sex changes for illegal aliens, the elimination of the Hyde Amendment, and the legalization of crack cocaine for personal consumption she still supports. Just days after sleuths found footage of Harris threatening to storm the homes of

[ad_1] Vice President Kamala Harris has made a point of describing herself as a gun owner during her past two runs for the White House. But nearly two decades ago, the then-San Francisco district attorney backed a firearm confiscation measure that even made some prominent gun control advocates skittish. Harris was listed as a sponsor

[ad_1] Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Quick Take Vice President Kamala Harris supports a ban on the sale of so-called assault weapons, but no longer supports a mandatory buyback program for such guns. The National Rifle Association misleadingly claims that Harris will “ban law-abiding Americans from owning” guns and “seize your legally owned guns.”  Her proposal would

[ad_1] Here’s one I didn’t have on my bingo card for 2024: Vice President Kamala Harris teaching liberals how to talk about guns. For a politician with a reputation for word salads and evasions, her recent comments on the Second Amendment have been refreshingly clear and straightforward, even if they were also relatively brief. The

[ad_1] Earlier this month, 14 year old Colt Gray took a deadly AR-15 style rifle which his father had reportedly gifted him for Christmas, and shot dead 4 people in his school in the US state of Georgia, including two teachers and two students. The deadly attack was the 45th school shooting in the United

[ad_1] It’s always a bit humorous when anti-gunners try to establish that they, too, are gun owners who just want reasonable restrictions on firearms to reduce homicides. Watching them in action almost feels like watching a kid learning how to ride a bike for the first time. Such was the case with Vice President Kamala

[ad_1] Posted on September 21, 2024 by David Bolling As of September 16, the U.S. casualty toll from mass shootings in 2024 – defined as involving four or more victims – was sitting at 553 killed and 1,835 injured. Those totals, compiled by Wikipedia, don’t count the numbers of family members, friends, lovers, co-workers, classmates

[ad_1] In her first solo TV interview of the election cycle, Vice President Kamala Harris told a visibly shocked Oprah Winfrey on Thursday that an intruder who breaks into her home would be “getting shot, sorry.” With a laugh, she followed up: “I probably shouldn’t have said that. My staff will deal with it later.”

[ad_1] In the Arena: Is NRA’s endorsement of Theriault newsworthy or snoozeworthy? Updated: 4:06 PM EDT Sep 20, 2024 FOR OUR LIGHTNING ROUND THIS WEEK WE ARE GOING TO PLAY “NEWSWORTHY OR SNOOZEWORTHY.” I’LL OUTLINE FIVE OR SIX HAPPENINGS IN POLITICS AND ASK OUR ANALYSTS WHETHER THE EVENT IS WORTHY OF THE NEWS OR WHETHER

[ad_1] In another instance of “rules for thee but not for me,” Kamala Harris, on record as wanting to ban all of whatever she describes as “assault” weapons, on record as calling for mandatory gun confiscations, on record as demanding her right to walk into any home to check whether legal gun owners are storing

[ad_1] Vice President and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz Credit: MGN Although he represented a rural district in Congress, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz favored policies that benefited his Black constituents News Analysis Since President Joe Biden stepped out of the presidential race, Vice President Kamala Harris

[ad_1] Laura Loomer has accused Kamala Harris of being a hypocrite, after the Democratic presidential nominee spoke about her personal gun ownership while campaigning on gun control. The former congressional candidate posted a clip of Harris speaking to Oprah Winfrey in which Harris says that she and her running mate Tim Walz are both gun

[ad_1] Kamala Harris reiterated that she owns a gun and is prepared to use it if someone tries to break into her home. The vice president made this statement during a 90-minute livestream fundraiser with Oprah Winfrey, aiming to bolster her image as a “common sense” advocate for gun control. “If somebody breaks into my

[ad_1] On Sept. 5, four individuals were killed and nine injured in a shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, GA. Being just 40 minutes from Athens, the lost lives of the students and teachers has left a hole in the hearts of many. There are chilling accounts of student’s experiences circulating on TikTok, such

[ad_1] Kamala Harris, during her tenure as San Francisco District Attorney in 2007, proposed allowing police to enter homes to check for responsible firearm storage. By yourNEWS Media Newsroom In 2007, while serving as San Francisco District Attorney, Kamala Harris supported a controversial ordinance that would allow police officers to enter private homes to conduct

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