[ad_1] Photos by Starting Line staff Iowa House Republicans voted on Wednesday to make it easier to bring guns on the campuses of Iowa schools, community colleges, and universities and to require public schools to implement K-12 gun safety curriculum that was developed by the National Rifle Association (NRA). HF 654 passed 62-37, with only
[ad_1] Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. UC students needa say in books Recently, the UC system has started to implement “Inclusive Access,” which adds the cost of course content to students’ tuition unless they opt out by a certain deadline, and takes away students’ right
[ad_1] INDIANAPOLIS – For the third time in the past decade, the National Rifle Association is bringing its annual convention to Indianapolis. Several prominent Republicans and roughly 70,000 NRA members are expected to attend the group’s annual convention. Former President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence will be among the speakers. The event
[ad_1] A 2022 Supreme Court ruling changed the boundaries of America’s fight over guns. The latest mass-shooting tragedies raise the question: Where does gun reform go next? First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic: Far More Permissive The public-radio editor Erika Mahoney, whose father was killed in a mass shooting at a grocery
[ad_1] Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) told CBS News in an interview on Tuesday that she believed Republican lawmakers were continuing to put the well-being of the National Rifle Association (NRA) over Americans and their families. Duckworth said, “We can right now today pass universal background checks. We could pass a ban on assault weapon ban. We
[ad_1] To the Editor: Another day in America startsWhere will it happen today? Will it be my city, my state? Where will we send thoughts and prayers today?While our elected officials go through the standard news conference decrying what has happened more families mourn.The almighty Second Amendment is given as the reason there is no
[ad_1] Sometimes it’s easy to forget that Jay Inslee is still the governor of Washington, what with all the competence and the just generally not making a lot of waves. But damn, he and Democrats in the state Lege have done some good governing lately. This week, the state Senate passed a “shield law” to
[ad_1] INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – Local gun control advocates prepare for the arrival of the National Rifle Association Convention at the Indiana Convention Center. Jennifer Frazier is a volunteer for Indiana Moms Demand Action. She has two children and pulled her youngest out of public school because they were afraid of being in a school shooting.
[ad_1] Louisville Courier Journal Do something! Sens. Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul and all Republicans in Kentucky and elsewhere, please spare us your offerings of “Thoughts and Prayers” regarding this latest atrocity here in Louisville. Your prayers have proven ineffective unless they are addressed to some god of chaos and despair. Your thoughts would seem to
[ad_1] CNN — The Shelby County Board of Commissioners on Wednesday voted to confirm the reappointment of Justin J. Pearson to the Tennessee House of Representatives, sending him back to fill the House District 86 seat as an interim representative. The vote to return Pearson to his seat – vacated last Thursday when the GOP-dominated chamber expelled the state representative after he and two
[ad_1] TOPEKA — Senate President Ty Masterson and Rep. Kristey Williams delivered a series of inaccurate statements on gun violence, public school cuts and special education funding during an hourlong public forum Saturday in Augusta. The forum took place a day after the Senate rejected legislation crafted by Williams to create a private school voucher
[ad_1] It’s true for anything, but especially true for guns: If you repeat a lie often enough, it gets believed by the establishment media. Take so-called “assault weapons.” No such thing really exists, but the term is used as a vague legal description of scary-looking guns like the AR-15 that were banned during former President
[ad_1] Doing more with less Looking through Monday’s paper, there’s a letter-writer who wants the government to form an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Administration and an article about a proposed new state law to police social media. With just about every family being asked to do more with less, isn’t it about time we asked the
[ad_1] In the aftermath of a school shooting last month that left children as young as 9 years old dead in the state he represents, a Republican congressman from Tennessee publicly declared that Congress “is not going to fix” gun violence. This statement is infuriating, especially because gun violence kills over 100 Americans a day.
[ad_1] Rev. Molly Shoulta Tucker | Opinion Contributor Louisville shooting: Raw video from shooting near Slugger Field At least four people were killed and eight people wounded, two critically, during a shooting near Slugger Field in downtown Louisville on Monday. Hagan Kurd, Storyful This is my hometown. I am now a Pastor here. I love
[ad_1] The deadliest acts of mass murder in the United States since 9/11 all share one feature: The killer in every case used an assault-style weapon or a firearm equipped with a high-capacity magazine. This was again the case on Monday, at a shooting at a Kentucky bank that killed five, and in the recent
[ad_1] “Republicans are openly distressed about the prospect of losing younger voters over their stances on abortion, firearms and democracy,” Politico reports. “By week’s end, their challenges on those three fronts could grow worse.” “Days after a mass shooting in Louisville, Ky., many declared and undeclared 2024 candidates will be brandishing their Second Amendment bona
[ad_1] With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross In a letter to John Roberts this week, Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) implored the Supreme Court chief justice to tackle two major accountability items. | Leah Millis/Pool via AP NEW FROM JMART — “How Tennessee Became the Poster State for Political Meltdown,” by Jonathan
[ad_1] The removal of two Black lawmakers from the Tennessee legislature last week, for disrupting proceedings in the state House of Representatives during protests of inaction on gun violence, was a raw racial drama, an overt and aggressive complement to the gun policies that spawned it. Neither Justin Jones, of Nashville, nor Justin Pearson, of
[ad_1] Gov. Bill Lee (R-TN) called for Tennessee’s Republican-majority legislature to pass a red flag law Tuesday after signing an executive order strengthening the state’s background checks on firearm buyers. The new push comes two weeks after three children and three adults were murdered at the Covenant School in Nashville when a trans-identifying shooter made
[ad_1] According to “assault weapon” ban proponents, the AR rifle’s lethality is all about how fast its bullets travel. The Washington Post recently claimed that “what makes [the AR] so deadly is the speed of [its] bullet.” “The higher speed of a bullet from an AR-15 causes far more damage after it hits the body
[ad_1] Last month, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) suggested schools could prevent mass shootings by enlisting more armed officers like banks do. On Monday, ten days after the senator’s tweet, a gunman armed with an AR-15 rifle killed five people and injured at least eight more at the Old National Bank in Louisville, Kentucky. He bought
[ad_1] The public praise comes as the NRA prepares to host its annual convention in Indianapolis for the third time. INDIANAPOLIS — Days before the NRA convention descends on Indianapolis and one day after a mass shooting in Louisville, Indiana’s Republican lawmakers passed a resolution honoring the National Rifle Association and its CEO, Wayne LaPierre.
[ad_1] The public praise comes as the NRA prepares to host its annual convention in Indianapolis for the third time. INDIANAPOLIS — Days before the NRA convention descends on Indianapolis and one day after a mass shooting in Louisville, Indiana’s Republican lawmakers passed a resolution honoring the National Rifle Association and its CEO, Wayne LaPierre.
[ad_1] The perceived threat of central bank digital currencies, otherwise known as CBDCs, appears to be transcending party lines. While many dissenters throughout the world are known to have conservative affiliations, prominent liberals are increasingly speaking out. In the month of April alone, three high-profile political detractor have spoken up against the threat. We highlight
[ad_1] Drew Angrerer/Getty Images Justice Clarence Thomas seated next to his wife, conservative activist Ginni Thomas, at an event at the Heritage Foundation celebrating his thirty-year career on the Supreme Court, Washington, D.C., October 21, 2021 Men can be measured by their real or imaginary peeves. The longer one carries them around, they more they
[ad_1] Firearms became the leading cause of death for children in the U.S. in 2020, surpassing car accidents, and signaling a complete shift in society and medicine since the year 1900, when the leading factors of child-death were pneumonia and tuberculosis. Already in 2023, there have been 146 mass shootings in the U.S., the group says.
[ad_1] United States Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (R-Colorado) quoted a non-existent alternative “version” of the Declaration of Independence during an appearance on Tuesday’s edition of The Charlie Kirk Show. Boebert’s rewriting of history occurred during a discussion about Americans’ Second Amendment rights with Daily Wire host Charlie Kirk. “So Lauren, we’re seeing the gun grabbers going
[ad_1] The Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) Tuesday released a report detailing Americans’ experiences with gun violence. The report demonstrated a disproportionate effect of gun violence on people of color. The report surveyed 1,271 U.S. adults about their personal experience with guns. Of those surveyed, 21 percent reported being personally threatened with a gun and 19
[ad_1] Guitarist Steven Van Zandt of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band ignited a social media firestorm with a Twitter post that appeared to welcome the deaths of Republicans. Ironically, the 72-year-old musician made the vile remarks last week because he was angry about the shooting deaths of six people at a Tennessee Christian school last