[ad_1] Oklahoma’s new state schools superintendent is about to take a desperate situation and make it awful.  His plans for stamping out “wokeness,” critical race theory, and boys using the girl’s bathrooms sounds nothing like a plan to advance education, and more like a platform to become Ron DeSantis Jr. The irony of this culture

[ad_1] Alabama Representative Barry Moore, a staunch gun-rights supporter, is proposing that the AR-15 rifle should be the “National Gun of America.” “The #SecondAmendment is as American a right as freedom of speech, religion, & the press,” Moore wrote on Twitter Tuesday evening. “Today I unveiled my bill to make the AR-15 the National Gun

[ad_1] Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. Firing of Oaklandchief was justified The firing of Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong was justified by an investigator’s findings that he failed to properly supervise a probe of a police officer’s misconduct and his claim of lack of awareness

[ad_1] John Kennedy  |  Capital Bureau | USA TODAY NETWORK – FLORIDA TALLAHASSEE – Florida looks bound to soon allow people to carry guns without the need for a concealed weapons permit, a showcase, pro-gun move demanded by Gov. Ron DeSantis before his widely expected run for the Republican presidential nomination.  But the measure is

[ad_1] Best to keep a critical eye and open mind on McIntyre project Feb. 16 — To the Editor: A few comments regarding the Feb 13 article concerning a letter sent to the National Parks Service arguing against the current McIntyre proposal and signed by, among others, several ex-Portsmouth city councilors: 1. The letter-writers say

[ad_1] Comment on this story Comment The 19-year-old White gunman who killed 10 Black people at a grocery store in Buffalo using a modified Bushmaster XM-15 semiautomatic rifle was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison without parole, providing some sense of justice for the community. But the city — still reeling from the racist attack

[ad_1] The American Academy of Pediatrics says around one-third of American children live in homes with firearms, and of these households, 43% contain at least one unlocked firearm. In Jefferson County, school officials have voted to include secure firearm-storage information in schools’ Student Behavior and Intervention Handbook, which will be distributed to parents. Betty McIntee,

[ad_1] Courtesy of Julie Ellis (Flickr CC0) You’ve read the headlines, or maybe you haven’t. Mass shootings are no longer “news.” They happen in our schools, our churches, at the mall, grocery stores, gyms, bars, restaurants, and dance clubs, in greater numbers than the days on a calendar. Everywhere we go, doing the normal things

[ad_1] Former SC Gov Nikki Haley announces 2024 US Presidential run Former SC Gov Nikki Haley announces 2024 US Presidential run at the Charleston Visitors Center in Charleston, SC Feb. 15, 2023. Ken Ruinard, Greenville News This week, just after a mass shooting in Michigan, lawmakers advanced a National Rifle Association-backed bill that would make

[ad_1] PROVIDENCE – A gun-rights advocate is suing state Attorney General Peter F. Neronha in federal court, challenging the constitutionality of the state’s requirement of a “showing of need” for a permit to carry a concealed weapon. Warwick resident Michael O’Neil filed suit Wednesday in U.S. District Court, arguing that the state had violated his

[ad_1] 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. This was the 67th mass shooting in the U.S. just this year. Happy Valentine’s Day. Keep

[ad_1] Nancy Rowles  |  Opinion contributor It is hopeless. It was thought that if someone who defended unlimited, uncontrolled gun rights had a loved one or been involved himself in gun violence, he would surely wake up to the need for some reasonable gun safety measures. Not so with House Majority Leader Steve Scalise who

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[ad_1] State Senate passes ban on guns at polling places Legislation prohibiting weapons within 100 feet of a polling location (except for law enforcement) passed the state Senate yesterday and will now be considered by the House. Lawmakers debated the measure—which creates the same standard for all polling places that already exists at schools operating as

[ad_1] Comment on this story Comment EAST LANSING, Mich. — At 21, Zoe Beers has already survived two school shootings. The first was in California when she was 8. The second was this week, as a gunman stormed the Michigan State campus, killing three students and wounding five more. Now, she said, she’s had enough.

[ad_1] Twenty-six-year-old Rep. Maxwell Frost travelled over to Comedy Central’s The Daily Show on Tuesday for an interview temp host Sarah Silverman to discuss an assortment of left-wing goals, one of which was gun control with Frost urging people to vote for “morally just leaders who actually give a damn about children’s lives.” Silverman began by

[ad_1] Former child actor Austin Majors’ death earlier this week from a suspected fentanyl overdose while staying at an “interim housing program” makes him the latest victim of the drug and homelessness crises plaguing California. According to Majors’ sister, Kali Raglin, the 27-year-old’s cause of death was a “suspected fentanyl poisoning with an ongoing investigation,”

[ad_1] West Virginia lawmakers are advancing the campus carry bill, despite pleas from college students and educators across the state. The House Judiciary Committee passed SB 10, the Campus Self-Defense Act, by voice vote Wednesday. It now moves to the House floor for further consideration. The bill would allow people with concealed carry permits to

[ad_1] UVALDE, Texas — Tracy King was getting ready to head to lunch from his office in this town straddling the Hill Country and South Texas on May 24 when he heard the sirens heading toward Robb Elementary. The video above is from a previous story. Within hours, questions about what drew the emergency response

[ad_1] SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – Wednesday February 15, legislators are tackling some heavy topics. Among other things, they’ll discuss the Second Amendment and a bill that could affect the lives of young immigrants. Second Amendment Today, members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are scheduled to hear from experts on both sides of the gun control

[ad_1] The deadly shooting spree at Michigan State University Monday night was another tragic American event involving firearms. But for at least two MSU students, it brought up horrific memories. A lone gunman opened fire at an academic building and the student union, killing three students and critically injuring five others. It was the second

[ad_1] Comment on this story Comment This time, the victims were students at Michigan State University. This time, the gunman had no apparent connection with the people he shot or the school they attended. This time, the assailant killed himself before we could learn why he went on his rampage. But we do know how:

[ad_1] Tuesday’s Morning Joe predictably jumped on the mass shooting at Michigan State to denounce Republicans. Among many such condemnations during the segment, Joe Scarborough said, “there’s no other way to put it. It’s the Republican party that’s allowing this to continue to happen.” Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson, who doubles as an MSNBC analyst,

[ad_1] FRANKFORT — A bill that would block local assistance with federal firearms bans — one of several filed by Republicans in the GOP-dominated Kentucky legislature that aim to curb gun control restrictions — sailed out of a state House of Representatives committee Tuesday.  House Bill 153 would prevent local law enforcement, employees of public

[ad_1] SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WTVO) — A judge taking on three federal lawsuits challenging Illinois’ semi-automatic weapons ban has ordered the state to show “each and every item banned” by the law. Federal Judge Stephen McGlynn ordered that the guns be turned over for “illustrative examples of each and every item banned.” Three federal lawsuits, including

[ad_1] X Gonzalez, a leader of the #NeverAgain movement, stood in silence for more than six minutes during the 2018 March for Our Lives rally in Washington, D.C. (Jennifer Lett/South Florida Sun-Sentinel) Five years ago today in Parkland a former student walked into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School with a military-style assault weapon and a cluster

[ad_1] Lives changed. Laws changed. But some things did not. The mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School five years ago scarred South Florida, touching off a national gun-control movement whose ripples could still be felt as recently as Tuesday night’s State of the Union address in Washington, D.C. In the aftermath of the

[ad_1] Bill Ellis / St. Vrain Valley Voices At one point in its history, the NRA developed the mistaken policy that everyone should have a gun so everyone would be protected. When the gunman entered the movie theater in Aurora and started shooting, according to this theory there would be someone in the audience armed

[ad_1] House and Senate lawmakers are pushing for new gun control restrictions that would permanently prohibit people from buying or owning firearms if they are convicted of domestic abuse while in a dating relationship. The effort to close the so-called “boyfriend loophole” comes less than a year after President Biden signed a law that took