[ad_1] After a series of mass shootings this spring, including the killing of several students at a private Christian school in Tennessee, voters would prefer focusing on specific gun control measures rather than arming citizens to reduce gun violence. A new Fox News Poll finds most voters favor the following proposals: — Requiring criminal background

[ad_1] Keep your head up. This advice is so common it’s become trite. It’s directed at high schoolers going to parties in my hometown of Albuquerque, N.M. All too often, parties are interrupted by shots fired and, all too often, interrupted by kids bleeding on the street.  I’m blessed to not have experienced this horror,

[ad_1] This story was published in partnership with The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence. Subscribe to its newsletters While the public knows the National Rifle Association chiefly as a lobbying and campaign juggernaut, the Internal Revenue Service classifies the group as a “social welfare organization” whose firearms training, recreational shooting, and hunting programs support the

[ad_1] Editor’s Note: Peter Bergen is CNN’s national security analyst, a vice president at New America, a professor of practice at Arizona State University, and the host of the Audible podcast “In the Room” also on Apple and Spotify. He is the author of several books about terrorism, including most recently, “The Cost of Chaos: The Trump Administration

[ad_1] Raise understanding There have been many complaints about lack of objectivity in televised news reports, but newspapers can be just as bad, which makes it refreshing to read columnists who are trying to promote education rather than market a favored opinion. Both George Will and Paul Krugman successfully educate as do David Brooks and

[ad_1] Considering the terrible situations in the Middle East, Ukraine, and elsewhere, the effects of climate change across the planet, the Republican debacle in the House of Representatives, and the continued Republican subservience to their multiple-indicted presidential candidate, the planet often seems to be an eight-thousand-mile-deep dumpster fire. But there are signs of hope. President

[ad_1] CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) — There were numerous warning signs about Robert Card’s mental health struggles before he went on a shooting spree, accused of killing 18 people in a Maine bowling alley and bar. In the days since the initial shock, the conversation has shifted to mental health and access to firearms.  “That could

[ad_1] WASHINGTON — Here’s how area members of Congress voted on major issues during thelegislative week of Nov. 6-10. Readers can visit www.VoteFacts.com to research other topissues and individual voting records in the current 118th Congress and recent 117th Congress. House Censuring Rashida Tlaib Voting 234 for and 188 against, the House on Nov. 8

[ad_1] In domestic violence cases, battered women are five times more likely to be murdered if there’s a gun in the house. That’s why people under domestic violence restraining orders, by federal law, can’t have guns. Last week the Supreme Court heard oral arguments challenging that federal law. In March 2023, the conservative 5th Circuit

[ad_1] The owner of a Mesquite, Texas, Cash4Gold store says “everything was slow motion” when he had to draw his gun and exchanged gunfire with alleged robbers. The incident occurred Thursday, November 2, but surveillance video was released this week, FOX 4 reported. Store owner Tien said, “It’s a quick 3 seconds. No time to think,

[ad_1] Kudos to the sensible bipartisan majority in the Alaska senate for passing the Emergency Powers Bill. The House Bill 61 forwarded for governor Mike Dunleavy’s signature by a margin of 17-3 prohibits state and local government entities from closing lawful firearm businesses or restricting an individual’s access to firearms, ammunition and component parts during

[ad_1] by Jeff Gross, contributing writer The State of RI DEM has stocked numerous waterways with Rainbow and Brook Trout, and Atlantic Salmon for the celebration of Veterans Day.  Photos: Rob Henninger 16 different ponds and rivers will be stocked with the healthy size trout and salmon.  The weather will be cool this weekend so

[ad_1] On Oct. 25, 2023, Robert R. Card II, a 40-year-old member of the U.S. Army Reserve, went on a killing spree at a bar/grille and a bowling alley both located in Lewiston, Maine. It was here where he took the lives of 18 innocent people and injured another 11. Upon entering both of these

[ad_1] The House of Representatives devolved into chaos after Kevin McCarthy was ousted as speaker on Oct. 3. During the frustrating three-week stalemate that followed, three Republican representatives failed to clinch the top position.  The impasse finally broke on Oct. 25, when House Republicans rallied behind Mike Johnson, a previously little-known Republican representative from Louisiana

[ad_1] Recent Supreme Court decisions have imperiled what few gun restrictions there are by asserting a private right to guns, which effectively takes precedence over Americans’ right to live. Gun violence is at record levels and while the public demands a stop to the carnage, Congress has done more to protect the gun industry than

[ad_1] Rep. Robert Aderholt On Tuesday, Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-AL04) joined a letter by Congressman Mark Green, Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, to the Biden Administration demanding answers on restrictions on civilian firearm exports. Chairman Green’s letter to the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), an agency of the Department of Commerce, was signed by 86 other lawmakers. “President

[ad_1] Unsurprisingly, Supreme Court Justices Alito and Thomas stand by the right of a known dangerous person to have a gun over the obligation of the government to keep guns out of dangerous people’s hands. The Second Amendment keeps us all “safe,” where “safe” is in danger of being shot at any moment wherever we

[ad_1] Although I am by no means a scholar of the Constitution, a few things I do know. The Constitution is an imperfect document that can be amended when citizens see fit. It has been amended 27 times. There are sometimes limits to the rights covered by the amendments. For example, everyone knows you cannot

[ad_1] My wife and I are still reeling from the Lewiston shooting. Although we live 40 minutes away, our sense of peace, safety and perception of what it means to live in Maine has been damaged by this dreadful event. Photographs of victims of the Oct. 25 killings are displayed on Oct. 29, during a

[ad_1] And that brings me to the second missing ingredient in the briefs supporting Rahimi: the Second Amendment itself. I don’t mean that the Second Amendment is missing from every brief; a brief from the Foundation for Moral Law and signed by, among others, Roy S. Moore, the former Alabama chief justice who founded the

[ad_1] BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — By next year, there may be tighter federal restrictions on who can own guns; the United States Supreme Court is considering the constitutionality of a federal law from 1994, which bans those accused of domestic violence from possessing firearms. Reports say the Court is leaning towards such a federal regulation

[ad_1] A case over whether or not people subjected to restraining orders should lose their right to carry guns was heard by the Supreme Court on Tuesday, as justices mull a legal challenge that could upend firearms laws nationally. The high court seemed skeptical as they accepted oral arguments in United States v. Rahimi, a

[ad_1] Published 2023-11-07 17:09 5:09 November 7, 2023 pm The Supreme Court on Tuesday heard oral arguments in a case on domestic violence restraining orders and firearm possession, with the justices spending much of their time seeking clarification on how to define, refine and apply a Second Amendment ruling they made last year in the

[ad_1] Two attorneys, nationally recognized for their successful lawsuits following mass shootings, were in Maine Monday night to promote civil litigation as a way to achieve justice for Lewiston shooting victims and their families. In the absence of action from political leaders, the two say the courts are the best way to upend the status

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[ad_1] The Supreme Court appears inclined to uphold a federal law banning guns from those subject to domestic violence restraining orders (DVROs), in the first major test of the Second Amendment at the high court this term.  In oral argument Tuesday, justices on both sides of the ideological spectrum seemed to agree with the Biden

[ad_1] The Center Square) — The U.S. Supreme Court will take up a case alleging that a former New York official violated the National Rifle Association’s rights by encouraging companies to stop doing business with the organization in response to the 2018 Parkland, Florida school shooting. Justices have agreed to hear an appeal by the

[ad_1] CNN  —  The Supreme Court seemed poised Tuesday after oral arguments to rule in favor of a federal law that bars individuals subject to certain domestic violence restraining orders from possessing firearms. The case – argued in the wake of a mass shooting in Maine that killed 18 last month – is the first substantive Second Amendment case to come before the justices

[ad_1] The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in a case, United States v. Rahimi, that challenges the federal law barring subjects of domestic violence restraining orders from possessing firearms. Zackey Rahimi, who a lower court wrote is “hardly a model citizen” in its decision ruling in his favor, mounted a constitutional challenge to the statute after

[ad_1] Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared to side with the Biden administration‘s appeal of a lower court ruling that struck a federal statute barring people under a domestic violence restraining order from possessing a gun, teeing up a possible narrow ruling over the law in question. United States v. Rahimi is the high court’s