Just a day after President Biden pledged he was going to “get rid of assault weapons,” MSNBC viewers heard guests and hosts obediently blame gun deaths on Republicans for failing to pass legislation banning these weapons. “What’s it going to take?” MSNBC anchor Katy Tur wailed at the top of the 2pm ET hour of

President Joseph Biden made some alarming remarks about gun control during a Thanksgiving event in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Biden has long targeted Americans’ Second Amendment rights and pushed for a ban on so-called assault weapons. His stance got even more extreme Thursday when he met with reporters outside the Nantucket fire station. The president condemned the

Courtesy of Stephen Melkisethian (Flickr CC0) FBI Director Christopher Wray declared that “domestic terrorism is the greatest danger to the American people.” Mass shootings are more numerous than the days on the calendar. It is logical and necessary to refer to the men who commit mass murders with the use of a weapon of mass

By a margin of 7 million votes in 2020, American voters tossed Donald Trump into the trash bin of history. Lest there was any doubt, on Nov. 8 voters sent Trump on to the dump. Nothing good will ever happen again for or to Trump aside perhaps from a split Supreme Court decision or two

Comment on this story Comment Over 10 days, people across the country woke up to a version of the same news on three different mornings: another high-profile shooting and a new death toll. Three, last week, on a college bus. Five, on Saturday, inside a nightclub. Six, on Tuesday, in a Walmart. And now, on

Several people were killed in a shooting in a Walmart store on Tuesday night in Virginia state of US. The gunman was also killed during the shooting. This comes after a 22-year-old gunman opened fire with a semiautomatic rifle inside a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs on Saturday, killing five people and leaving 25 injured

A recently-enacted gun law in New Jersey is already facing legal scrutiny after a group representing gun manufacturers nationwide filed a lawsuit against state Attorney General Matt Platkin alleging the law is unconstitutional.  The lawsuit, filed last week in federal court by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, seeks to strike down a law that allows

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Joining us in-studio Honolulu Police Chief, Joe Logan, to go over the top issues in Oahu public safety and the challenges ahead as he leads the department after difficult times under previous administrations. KHON2: One of the things on top of people’s minds is, what is the latest on the concealed-carry gun

 by Ron Porter Pittsburgh, consistent with urban centers across the nation, is enduring persistent gun murder among African American youth. Gun violence is epidemic in our neighborhoods, including attempted mass murder on the doorsteps of a church. From coast to coast, murderous threads knot around the necks of Black children and chokes them into a

Hal Bidlack Like most of you, I awoke Sunday morning to the horrific news about the mass murder at Club Q here in Colorado Springs. More lives lost and other lives shattered here in our Colorado, a state that has a dreadful history of such wholesale killings, including Columbine in 1999 and the Aurora movie

Hal Bidlack Like most of you, I awoke Sunday morning to the horrific news about the mass murder at Club Q here in Colorado Springs. More lives lost and other lives shattered here in our Colorado, a state that has a dreadful history of such wholesale killings, including Columbine in 1999 and the Aurora movie

Courtesy of Chip Vincent (Unsplash CC0) Hatred and Violence are Learned, Not a Choice Anderson Lee Aldrich and Kyle Rittenhouse did not suddenly decide to hate other humans and believe that violence is acceptable and even the “right thing to do.” Young people learn from their family, friends, teachers, and sometimes their ministers. Three more

Nov 21 (Reuters) – The attack at a Colorado LGBTQ nightclub by a suspected gunman who was arrested last year in connection with a bomb threat has renewed questions about “red flag” laws that are used irregularly and in vastly different ways across the United States. The laws, which allow courts to issue “extreme risk

Speak Out allows readers to comment on the issues of the day. Email Speak Out at speakout@southtownstar.com or call 312-222-2427. Please limit comments to 30 seconds or about 100 words and give your first name and your hometown. So this week, it’s Colorado. Another AR-15 style assault weapon killing five people wounding over 20 more.

“Heidi and I are praying for the victims & loved ones impacted by the horrific shooting in Colorado Springs. This senseless evil needs to end,” Cruz – who has raked in more gun lobby money than any other lawmaker from Texas – tweeted. “While Democrats rush to politicize before the facts are fully known, stripping

It took less than eighteen hours for United States Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to politicize Saturday night’s mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where a twenty-two-year-old man armed with an “AR-15-style rifle” murdered five people and injured eighteen others before being subdued by two courageous patrons and taken into custody. While law

On Saturday, University of Virginia freshman swimmer and U.S. Junior National team member Claire Tuggle posted a statement on Instagram speaking out about gun violence in light of the recent shooting at her school that took the lives of three UVA football players—DeSean Perry, Lavel Davis, and Devin Chandler—and injured two other individuals. In her

This weekend, Manitoba-raised Tara Westwood will be attending a film festival in Pittsburgh, drawing attention to her directorial debut, an intense — and intensely topical — 18-minute short film titled Triggered. On Saturday, she’ll screen the film to an audience and on Sunday, she’ll be around for the festival’s awards event, with good reason: It

A new Oregon gun control law, considered one of the most restrictive in the US, led to a massive increase in attempted firearms purchases. The measure, often referred to as the Reduction of Gun Violence Act, will require deeper background checks, firearm training, fingerprint collection and a permit to purchase any firearm, according to the legislation.

Gun sales have skyrocketed in Oregon since the narrow passage of a strict gun control measure in last week’s midterm election. As gun sellers scramble to fill orders before the rule change on Dec. 8, opponents are planning to file suit against what they call the most restrictive gun control measure in the country. Several

Courtesy of John Brighenti (Flickr CC0) The ideals, dreams, and principles of our Founding Fathers were flawless. However, they were human and could not see into the future. Therefore, they made many mistakes at the Constitutional Convention between 1787 and 1789 and beyond. Different Opinions are a Good Thing, but Compromise Must Be the Result

Former Union officers, who had led the costly battlefield effort to free 4 million Americans from bondage, chartered the National Rifle Association (NRA) in New York City on this day in history, Nov. 17, 1871. Civil War veterans Col. William C. Church and Gen. George Wingate created the organization after they were “dismayed by the

New Jersey Democrats advanced a bill Monday to ban the carry of grenades, firearms, and other types of weapons in “sensitive places.” The New Jersey Monitor reports that Democrats focused on “grenades” and “propelled explosives,” in addition to “certain firearms,” in order to try to stave off legal challenges. The gun control bill is a

Following the shooting deaths of three students at the University of Virginia Sunday night, Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin faced calls to implement stricter gun control laws in Virginia. Law enforcement officials were still gathering details Monday about the shooting and hadn’t determined how the alleged shooter, Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., obtained the firearm used to

Preliminary results in two races for seats in the New Mexico House of Representatives were so close that by law they must be recounted. The relative strength of the two major parties in the House remained the same after the midterm elections on Nov. 8, with Democrats and Republicans each losing one seat to the

The American Firearms Association says its members favor Ron DeSantis over Donald Trump for president. Trump worked hard to cultivate support from 2nd Amendment advocates during and after his presidency. The annoucement comes as DeSantis’ stock is rising in the Republican Party after overwhelmingly winning re-election. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access

The American Firearms Association says its members favor Ron DeSantis over Donald Trump for president. Trump worked hard to cultivate support from 2nd Amendment advocates during and after his presidency. The annoucement comes as DeSantis’ stock is rising in the Republican Party after overwhelmingly winning re-election. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access

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