[ad_1] The economy ranks as the top political issue in the 2024 campaign, polls show. For Republicans, immigration reform is also topping the priority lists. For Democrats, it’s reproductive rights and health care. Further below ranks gun control or gun violence, even while mass shootings continue to dominate and then slowly disappear from the headlines.

[ad_1] Warning: Spoilers Ahead for Chainsaw Man Chapter #177! Chainsaw Man has always maintained a bold streak in its storytelling, combining cutthroat plot developments with recurring, scathing political commentary. I have grown to love the series for pushing the envelope, showcasing controversial developments along the lives of Denji and Asa as they adapt to their

[ad_1] Kentucky Republican U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie poses with his family for a holiday card – Source: Instagram READ THIS COLUMN IN THE MAGAZINE First hearing of the Apalachee High School shooting earlier this month, it didn’t particularly register. It’s difficult to live in America and not be numb to a mass shooting. It’s a

[ad_1] Former President Donald Trump said a vote for Vice President Kamala Harris would leave Americans unarmed and stolen from and potentially killed by migrants on Saturday as he portrayed her as incompetent. Trump prefaced the criticism by saying, “I don’t want to be rude.” The 2024 Republican Party nominee was addressing supporters in Wilmington,

[ad_1] BERNARD COLUMN: Georgia politicians, at long last, act on gun violence Published 9:00 am Saturday, September 21, 2024 Georgia State Senator Marty Harbin who represents a district south of the metro Atlanta area wrote a column in a local paper  the day after the Winder school massacre. Typical of many GOP General Assembly members,

[ad_1] Sumter Friends of NRA will hold an event Oct. 2 at 6 p.m. at American Legion, 28 Artillery Drive, to fight for the future of the Second Amendment. The event will include a night of auctions, raffles, firearms and fun. Support the shooting sports programs in your area through this event. Tickets are $50

[ad_1] With the start of September, Oregon has joined 14 other states who have banned ghost guns. Ghost guns, or privately-made firearms that are untraceable, typically require a bit of DIY. Usually, they’re parts of guns made by a private individual, that are sold in kits to be assembled later. The term ghost guns also

[ad_1] Vice President Kamala Harris decried bad faith arguments against gun reform Thursday night at a livestream event hosted by Oprah Winfrey in the battleground state of Michigan. Harris spoke candidly at the “Unite for America” forum in light of the mass shooting at Apalachee High School in Georgia that killed two students and two

[ad_1] The Second Amendment is a contentious issue that arises every election cycle in the US. While Republicans have championed the ‘right to bear arms,’ Democrats have advocated for greater gun control. However, this time around, the Democratic candidate Kamala Harris has taken a different approach. Although she has historically supported stronger gun control laws,

[ad_1] THE TEAMSTERS union has twice roiled the race for the White House this year, first when its leader Sean O’Brien, a Medford native, muscled his way into a speaking role at the Republican National Convention and then again this week when the 1.3-million member union said it won’t be issuing an endorsement for president.

[ad_1] Earlier this month, the Associated Press claimed that Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), the running mate for former and potentially future President Donald Trump, said school shootings were a “fact of life.” In reality, Vance said “I don’t like that this is a fact of life” and was focusing on not making schools out to

[ad_1] SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Video footage of a press conference from 2007 showing then-San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris extolling the virtues of a law she helped draft provided a horrifying vision of the presidential hopeful threatening gun owners. Specifically, she said that law enforcement could just “walk into” their homes to inspect their

[ad_1] Michael Ciemnoczolowski, a lifelong Democrat, supports stricter gun laws and contributes to Sandy Hook Promise, a gun-violence-prevention nonprofit. But this summer, the liquor store clerk in Iowa City, Iowa, for the first time in his life bought a gun. Apprehension about street crime, armed right-wing extremists, and “whatever else the world could possibly throw

[ad_1] U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has expressed her support for both the Second Amendment and assault weapon bans. What Happened: On Thursday, in a conversation with Oprah Winfrey during a live-streamed “Unite for America” event in Michigan, Harris discussed various topics, including gun violence. She criticized the false dichotomy often presented in the gun

[ad_1] The federal judge overseeing a trial challenging Illinois’ assault weapons ban wondered aloud from the bench on Thursday whether the guns currently outlawed by the state might have prevented the 1917 race riots in East St. Louis – had they existed and been legal at the time. Judge Stephen McGlynn made the comments at

[ad_1] Former President Donald Trump addressed low voter turnout among gun owners and urged them to get out and vote in November during his Wednesday campaign rally in Uniondale, New York. Trump said, “You know, it’s an interesting thing — Evangelical Christians, they tend not to vote very much; if they did, you’d never lose.”

[ad_1] A 2007 clip of Kamala Harris threatening to storm the homes of law-abiding Americans for surprise gun inspections resurfaced this week, renewing concerns about what version of the vice president is now seeking her boss’ job as well as about the fate of Second and Fourth Amendment rights should Harris get what she wants.

[ad_1] This week the MAGA Disinformation Industrial Complex is spewing blame on “the left” for the apparent second assassination attempt on Trump. On Sunday, a disturbed man who had racked up dozens of weapons violations but remained armed and free thanks to decades of MAGA-pandering, loose gun laws poked his machine gun through the fence

[ad_1] The National Rifle Association is challenging a Florida law that prevents people under 21 from purchasing rifles and other long guns. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is scheduled to hear the NRA’s arguments Oct. 22 in Atlanta. A federal district judge and a three-judge panel of the appeals court upheld the age

[ad_1] On Dec. 21, 2012, only seven days after the tragic massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Former CEO of the National Rifle Association (NRA), Wayne LaPierre, stated in a news conference that, “The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun, is with a good guy with a gun.” This news conference

[ad_1] Despite the assurances of Vice President Kamala Harris, her own past and current words confirm that Americans’ Second Amendment rights will not be secure if she wins the Oval Office in November. Harris dismissed concerns about any potential violation of citizens’ rights under her administration on September 10 in the first presidential debate against

[ad_1] During a May 2007 presser in support of gun storage requirements, then-San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris stressed that being a legal gun owner does not bar police from searching your home. FOX News quoted Harris speaking at the presser. “…just because you legally possess a gun in the sanctity of your locked home,”

[ad_1] The Haitian community in Springfield, Ohio, is in a helluva lot more danger right now thanks to the convicted felon, Donald J. Trump, than Trump ever was while working hard as always on the campaign trail at a golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday. Further, AMERICA is in a helluva lot

[ad_1] As San Francisco’s district attorney, Kamala Harris told legal gun owners in her community that authorities could “walk into” their homes to inspect whether they were storing their firearms properly under a new law she helped draft. “We’re going to require responsible behaviors among everybody in the community, and just because you legally possess

[ad_1] We’ve sent questionnaires to all the candidates running across Southwest and Southside this fall and are posting their replies in our Voter Guide. Early voting for the Nov. 5 general election starts Friday, and, in the 9th Congressional District, Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Salem, and his Democratic challenger, Karen Baker, are kicking their campaigns into

[ad_1] State House Democratic Rep. Christine Hunschofsky, a former mayor of Parkland, participated in the launch on Tuesday of Legislators for Safer Communities Coalition, a nonpartisan group of state lawmakers across the country committed to reducing gun violence. According to officials, the group will serve as a hub for legislative resources, professional messaging, strategy, research,

[ad_1] In May of 2021, I attended a rally in Battle Mountain, Nevada, to celebrate the fact that Lander County had become the first “constitutional county,” cementing the county’s lifetime relationship with the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association. There, I began to understand the “constitutional sheriff” movement that would threaten democracy, even as we

[ad_1] Five of the six local candidates seeking election to represent District 18 in the South Dakota Legislature participated in Monday’s Interchange/Yankton Thrive candidate forum at the Yankton Elks Lodge. Candidates on hand Monday were: District 18 Senate candidates Sarah Carda (D) and Lauren Nelson (R) and District 18 House candidates: Reps. Julie Auch (R)