[ad_1] For months, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson faced questions regarding if he would run for president in the 2024 election cycle. Hutchinson, 70, teased a bid during the final year of his governorship and after leaving office. He journeyed to Iowa and other key places in the presidential primary process to engage with possible

[ad_1] What has become of us? A 16-year-old honor student is shot when he accidentally knocks on the wrong door.  A young woman is shot when the friends she is with accidentally pull into the wrong driveway.  Two high school girls are shot when one of them accidentally gets into the wrong car, thinking it

[ad_1] This legislative session, anti-gun politicians in the Colorado General Assembly have made gun control a top priority. As a responsible gun owner and school shooting survivor, I’m sorry to say that none of this year’s legislation will make anyone safer. It will only undermine the God-given rights of law-abiding citizens. Proponents of the bill

[ad_1] Comment on this storyComment Washington state on Tuesday banned sales of assault weapons, including the AR-15, which has been used in some of the deadliest mass shootings in the United States. Gov. Jay Inslee (D) signed into law House Bill 1240, which prohibits the “manufacture, importation, distribution, selling, and offering for sale of assault

[ad_1] Comment on this storyComment Washington state on Tuesday banned sales of assault weapons, including the AR-15, which has been used in some of the deadliest mass shootings in the United States. Gov. Jay Inslee (D) signed into law House Bill 1240, which prohibits the “manufacture, importation, distribution, selling, and offering for sale of assault

[ad_1] OLYMPIA — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed a trio of bills meant to address gun violence Tuesday, one banning the sale of certain semi-automatic rifles, one imposing a 10-day waiting period on firearms purchases, and one clearing the way for lawsuits against gun makers or sellers in certain cases. A crowd of gun-control activists

[ad_1] It has become increasingly common to see students protesting gun violence as school shootings rise, but at a rally for tighter gun control in Teaneck Tuesday afternoon, the youngest person was 86 years old.  Armed with walkers and canes, the group of 30 senior citizens ranging in age from mid-80s to 100 held up

[ad_1] Gov. Jay Inslee signed a trio of gun control bills Tuesday, including one that bans the sale, manufacture, import and distribution of assault weapons. The ban goes into effect immediately given the bill’s emergency clause, though retailers still have 90 days to sell their existing stock to out-of-state buyers. The ban applies to more

[ad_1] OPINION: Those who have been busily predicting the demise of the National Rifle Association must have been shocked earlier this month as more than 77,000 NRA members flocked to Indianapolis for the group’s annual meeting. It was the largest turnout in years and, according to virtually everyone present, one of the most successful ever.

[ad_1] The mood at the Washington State Capitol was jubilant Tuesday as Gov. Jay Inslee signed a trio of gun control bills, one of which immediately bans the manufacture, purchase or importation of so-called assault weapons. “Party safely tonight,” the governor told supporters after signing the bills. Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee and Washington Attorney

[ad_1] 2024 GOP presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy believes his heated interview with former CNN news anchor Don Lemon led to him being fired from the network on Monday. On last Wednesday morning’s edition of CNN This Morning, Ramaswamy was interviewed by Lemon and co-host Poppy Harlow. During the interview, Ramaswamy’s recent speech at the NRA

[ad_1] Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said he was “profoundly embarrassed” to see Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy lecture then-CNN host Don Lemon over Black history during a recent and heated segment on the cable news network.  During an April 19 exchange on “CNN This Morning,” Ramaswamy, 37, argued that Black Americans had received equal rights

[ad_1] CNN fired longtime anchor and New Year’s Eve boozer Don Lemon on the same day Rupert Murdoch cast Tucker Carlson out of the flaming pits of Fox News. This frees both men to star in a reality TV remake of The Odd Couple. Lemon was a mediocre journalist but not an existential threat to

[ad_1] CNN cut ties with longtime anchor Don Lemon on Monday, and according to a report from The New York Times, a testy debate with Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy might have been what pushed the network over the edge. The Times reported on Monday that the contentious segment — during which Lemon accused Ramaswamy

[ad_1] As a young man, Justin Sneegas survived cancer and being hit by a semi-trailer truck. What ultimately claimed his life a decade ago, aged 35, was gun violence. But to his family’s shock, his shooter was acquitted of second-degree murder after mounting a defense using Missouri’s “stand your ground” law. “We couldn’t believe it,”

[ad_1] Courtesy of Paul Sableman (Flickr CC0) If you listen to Fox News, today’s fake Republicans, or the NRA gun lobby, you are not only in denial, you are rejecting every fact about gun violence ever reported by legitimate journalists who have the courage to tell the truth. Our country has become an armed fortress

[ad_1] Guns have been widespread in America since its first settlement. Possibly half of all households owned one in the 18th century. But while today we might talk about an automobile culture, no one mentions a vacuum cleaner culture. Some items play a social and cultural role beyond their mere utility and today guns certainly

[ad_1] WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Monday met with three Tennessee state Democratic lawmakers, two of whom were expelled by the Republican-controlled state House after they protested for gun safety measures following a mass school shooting. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris met with Tennessee state Reps. Justin Jones of Nashville, Justin Pearson of

[ad_1] This is the case I wrote about in March, and again last week, when I noted the amicus briefs from state attorneys general, from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, and from two financial and business law scholars. I also noted last week that the New York state government defendants didn’t file a

[ad_1] On Monday, President Joe Biden hosted three Tennessee lawmakers who joined a protest calling for gun control legislation on the floor of the statehouse earlier this month and were punished with votes to expel them from office by the Republican supermajority in Nashville. “What the Republican legislature did was shocking, it was undemocratic and

[ad_1] Nikki Haley hailed CNN’s decision to fire Don Lemon on Monday as a “great day for women everywhere” while SiriusXM host Megyn Kelly blasted the network for allegedly not informing him directly that he was being terminated. Haley, the 51-year-old GOP presidential candidate whom Lemon referred to as “not in her prime” during a

[ad_1] Letters to the editor  |  Cincinnati Enquirer I would like to thank the Enquirer for taking the time to review all 123 pages of Fire Chief Michael Washington’s personnel file (“Fire chief’s file shows no record of problems,” April 5). We are left to wonder if Cincinnati City Manager Sheryl Long took the time

[ad_1] In the wake of virtually any school shooting, watch how quickly the woke faction starts talking about how we need to trample the Second Amendment. Sometimes, in fairness, it takes a little bit longer — in particular if there’s any kind of angle involving bigotry that can be pushed first. But, if that’s not

[ad_1] The Second Amendment, which concerns gun ownership, is as political now as it was during the Constitutional ratification process in 1789. The Bill of Rights was proffered by James Madison to induce those colonies (states) that had not yet ratified the Constitution. Madison wrote his fourth proposed amendment (now the Second Amendment) in response

[ad_1] INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana — Former Vice President Mike Pence told Breitbart News exclusively here at the National Rifle Association (NRA) annual gathering earlier this month he has a four-step plan that is pro-Second Amendment to combat the “scourge of mass shootings” plaguing society right now. “I think under the Biden Administration we’ve seen a steady

[ad_1] To the Editor: It is 3:11 a.m. on Tuesday, April 11, 2023, and I can’t sleep. I keep having the titles of articles on gun violence reverberate in my mind. There are so many, and they are all compelling. Some have refrains of common songs of our nation, such as “Gun Violence, when will

[ad_1] HARRISONVILLE, Mo. — Here at the Interstate 49 exit ramp, a fiberglass cowboy stands three stories high, his two giant pistols drawn on passing motorists. Max, as he’s known, welcomes visitors to the local Ford dealership, in the heart of Missouri Sen. Rick Brattin’s district. Brattin is a conservative Republican known for pushing his

[ad_1] Martha Omilian thinks of her life in two chapters: before Maggie died and after Maggie died.  Before her daughter, Maggie Wardle, was murdered at the age of 19 by an ex-boyfriend with a hunting rifle, the former psychiatric nurse knew a life in which her daughter adored basketball and golf, was double-majoring in biology

[ad_1] Ronald Reagan is invoked by many as a transformational president. Barack Obama fashioned his own presidential trajectory after the Gipper. Shrilling for the General Electric Corporation as an influencer and publicly switching political and ideological affiliations, Reagan transformed from a conservative Cold War New Deal liberal actor to a law-and-order “Goldwater conservative” Republican politician

[ad_1] Quick Take The three-day National Rifle Association convention in Indianapolis allowed attendees to carry firearms, except for a two-hour period when former President Donald Trump and other leaders spoke in a hall secured by the Secret Service. Yet, social media posts from a Democratic advocacy group misleadingly claimed that “guns were BANNED at the NRA