[ad_1] Flag-waving and fireworks. Bocce ball and beer. Marching bands — and murder. This has become the American Independence Day routine. It’s the quotidian things that hurt the most. Every good reporter knows this, and on July Fourth, the journalists for the Chicago Sun-Times gave us some real doozies: Abandoned baby strollers. A klezmer band

[ad_1] Jacqueline Smetak  |  Press-Citizen opinion writer Back when people were still reading Jorge Borges, there was a thing called “Baroque Worry.” In an era of free-floating anxiety, when you had nothing real to worry about, you could always make stuff up. These days, we don’t live in an era of anxiety. We live in

[ad_1] Mayor Jim Kenney of Philadelphia said the quiet part out loud during his unprompted commentary on the shooting during the city’s traditional Benjamin Franklin Parkway Fourth of July celebrations. An insensitive coda set reporters and potential candidates for mayor pouncing on Kenney, but what got ignored in the pile-on was the truth-telling about the

[ad_1] The high court’s decision invalidated a law giving New York broad discretion over concealed carry permits, a framework used by five other states and Washington, D.C. But Democratic lawmakers believe the ruling allows them to bolster the vetting process and prohibit concealed firearms in a variety of public locations. New York has already enacted

[ad_1] There were over 1 million opportunities for someone to buy a gun from a licensed dealer without a completed background check in 2020 and 2021, according to an FBI report released last month.  In all, 1,002,274 background checks — or 4.2 percent — took longer than three business days in 2020 and 2021, a higher share

[ad_1] Voters might not know it from Sen. Ron Johnson’s congressional or campaign issue webpages, but the Wisconsin Republican has spent his two terms in the Senate opposing virtually every gun safety proposal that has been introduced. Last month, he even opposed the bipartisan compromise gun bill that passed in the wake of the mass

[ad_1] In the two years documentary filmmakers shadowed former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, the most jarring moment for them was in the kitchen of her Tucson, Arizona, home. As cameras were rolling, she and her husband, Sen. Mark Kelly, nonchalantly opened the freezer. Kelly grabbed a plastic container and revealed it holds the piece of Giffords’

[ad_1] Opinion editor’s note: Star Tribune Opinion publishes letters from readers online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. ••• LANGUAGE DEFINING WOMEN Well-meaning — and problematic The July 5 commentary “A second front in the war on women” should not have put the left’s well-meaning, inclusive language on the same footing as

[ad_1] Editor’s note: This is the third of four stories in a series on the gun culture in the nation and state written by Tribune reporters Kim Dunlap and Carson Gerber, as well as other CNHI reporters from across the nation. Part 4 titled “Second Amendment interpretation central to national debate over firearms, public safety”

[ad_1] Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) called on CEOs of major gunmakers to appear at a congressional hearing later this month after a string of mass shootings including the bloody attack on a Fourth of July parade. Accusing the three weapons manufacturers of flooding America with “weapons of war” on Thursday, the liberal lawmaker, representing parts

[ad_1] Perhaps the most heart-rending story coming out of the July 4 massacre in Highland Park, Ill., is that of Aidan McCarthy, the 2-year-old boy found at the scene of the tragedy looking for his parents. They were among the seven people killed by a rooftop sniper as they watched an Independence Day parade. Aiden

[ad_1] HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. — The Republican nominee for governor of Illinois, Darren Bailey, once held a campaign fundraising event at which he raffled off a Smith & Wesson AR-15, a weapon nearly identical to the type used in the Fourth of July parade massacre here this week. A 2019 video posted to Bailey’s campaign

[ad_1] Patrick Blanchfield I think we can pull back and go for a deep historical perspective here. At that point, we observe that the regulation and distribution — the control, in those terms, of firearms — has been a constitutive if not quite constitutional feature of the North American civilizational settler enterprise. Since the get-go,

[ad_1] The Supreme Court began its October 2021–22 term under the shadow of looming reform: a presidential commission to study a restructuring of the judiciary and a bill in the House to add four seats to the bench. But the justices and their right-wing backers had little reason to worry. The court’s term ended last

[ad_1] Miguel S. Coronado: “California mailed more than 22 million ballots to voters before Tuesday’s primary election. But, as of June 8, just 3.5 million had been counted. We wonder why Republicans run communities of color. If you don’t vote, don’t complain.” Most people who don’t vote, particularly people of color, choose not to because

[ad_1] I’m Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain’a? And so another Independence Day has come and gone, this past one focking complete with some douchebag’s celebration of the bullshit-interpretation of the Second ferkakta Amendment “rights” from the Constitution, so’s to constitutionally wreak havoc from a rooftop so’s to wreak deathly “constitutional

[ad_1] (The Center Square) – Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s rhetoric around the issue of gun violence is heating up and some say it’s “disgusting.” Before Monday’s mass shooting in a Chicago suburb at an Independence Day parade, Pritzker spoke to a group of New Hampshire Democrats saying the Republican game plan heading into November is

[ad_1] Activities once considered normal are now plagued by fear thanks to the gun culture. Bicycles remain along the sidewalk after parade-goers fled Downtown Highland Park, Ill., a Chicago suburb, after a mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade on Monday, July 4, 2022. (Mary Mathis/The New York Times)   | July 6, 2022, 12:00

[ad_1] Our most fragile members of society are our children, which is why when shooters go after schools it disrupts society at its most fundamental level. Right behind schools are celebratory events (Vegas shooter, yesterday’s Trump supporter), stores/theaters, and places of worship. If a malignant actor — say, Putin — wanted to truly disrupt American

[ad_1] SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — Two pieces of legislation allowing private rights of action against gun manufacturers and dealers in California — modeled on a Texas law that allows lawsuits against aiders and abettors of abortion — have been been signed into law. And some legal experts think they could survive inevitable legal challenges brought

[ad_1] (Photo: Getty/iStock) Another week and another appalling mass shooting in the US. And on the Fourth of July of all days. In this case, early reports indicate that at least six people were killed, and thirty people were injured, when a lone gunman opened fire on people taking part in an Independence Day parade,

[ad_1] NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Christine Emba from the Washington Post penned a scathing op-ed on Tuesday suggesting that the active shooter is the “new symbol for the Fourth of July.” She began by discussing the events surrounding the Highland Park shooting during a Fourth of July parade in Illinois. The

[ad_1] The Independence Day mass shooting repeated a narrative our country has trained us to memorize of blood, nightmares, remembering and forgetting. First, our phones alert us to breaking news of a shooting: some wounded, some dead. News channels broadcast images of parking lots, police tape, red and blue lights flashing, lines of the evacuated,

[ad_1] NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Chicago and Highland Park, Illinois, were rocked by violent shootings over the holiday weekend, including a mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade. The shootings come on the heels of a national debate on strengthening gun control measures, and data shows the two Illinois cities

[ad_1] The deadly July 4 attack in Highland Park, Ill., underscores how a cherished Constitutional right is under attack — the 1st Amendment right to peacefully assemble. Even before this most recent shooting, it had become dangerous to congregate in public. In dozens of incidents across the United States, counterprotesters armed with assault weapons and

[ad_1] It took just a few hours for Democrats to call for gun control Monday in the wake of a mass shooting during a July 4 parade in Highland Park, Illinois. A shooter fired at the holiday parade from a rooftop, killing six people and wounding at least two dozen Monday morning. Democrats called for new

[ad_1] July 4, 2022 11:01 PM Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN Posted: July 4, 2022 11:01 PM Updated: July 5, 2022 12:41 AM America’s latest mass shooting turned a cherished July Fourth parade from a scene of patriotic joy into one of fear and death. The rapid bursts of a high-powered rifle brought the chilling

[ad_1] July 5, 2022 1:36 AM By Helen Regan and Adrienne Broaddus, CNN Posted: July 5, 2022 1:36 AM Updated: July 5, 2022 2:49 AM A day of national celebration turned to tragedy Monday when a gunman killed six people and injured dozens of others at a July Fourth parade in Highland Park, Illinois —

[ad_1] The attack at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, which left 21 people dead, is the second school tragedy in the United States, only after Sandy Hook, where 26 people were killed on December 14, 2012. And now a shooting in Illinois’ Highland Park, where so far six people have been killed and multiple

[ad_1] Opinion editor’s note: Star Tribune Opinion publishes letters from readers online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. ••• There is almost nothing that I admire about the state of Mississippi. However, the people there hit a major home run with their new state flag. They went from one that was boring,