[ad_1] Comment on this story Comment After 17 high school students and staff were killed by a mass shooter in 2018, Pennsylvania state Rep. Todd Stephens watched his GOP cohorts in Florida rally around a new red-flag law. Such measures, which aim to temporarily remove guns from people at risk of harming themselves or others,
[ad_1] Good Monday morning. A new poll of Florida’s 13th Congressional District shows Democrat Eric Lynn with a lead over Republican Anna Paulina Luna. Conducted by David Binder Research, the poll of 600 likely General Election voters found Lynn with 45% support compared to 43% for Luna. Additionally, pollsters found Lynn’s supporters were more concrete
[ad_1] Following the horrific Independence Day mass shooting in Highland Park, Congress reacted with passage of the Active Shooter Alert Act. Like the Amber Alert system that immediately signals the public to be on the lookout for missing children through cellphones and other media, the new measure would notify the public about active shooters. It’s
[ad_1] The candidates running for the Missouri House of Representatives in the 49th District, covering much of Callaway County, have different opinions on issues, but mostly stay along the usual party lines. The district includes the towns of Fulton, Holts Summit, New Bloomfield, Mokane and Tebbetts. (See the district map at https://www.sos.mo.gov/CMSImages/Elections//Maps//House_District_49.pdf.) Education Jim Schulte,
[ad_1] Allan MacDonald of New London is a retired public school teacher and small businessman. It’s said that some songs are timeless. Let’s consider Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind.” “How many roads must a man walk down, before you call him a man?” Shortcut: Buy an assault rifle and be issued a “man card”
[ad_1] On July 11, Joe Biden held an event at the White House to celebrate what his administration called “the most significant gun violence legislation to have been signed into law in 30 years.” The ink on the so-called “Bipartisan Safer Communities Act,” passed over the NRA’s objection, is barely dry. And the same can
[ad_1] Sooner or later you are going to have to admit it. There is nowhere in this nation that is safe from gun violence. Not the supermarket, not the local theatre or church, not the school, hotel or public park, not even the 4th of July parade. Nowhere. That’s freedom? When the next heavily armed
[ad_1] In 1994, after 40 years in the wilderness, a Republican party led by Newt Gingrich recaptured the House of Representatives. Eventually, scandals of his own making, the impeachment of Bill Clinton and a drubbing in the 1998 midterms forced Gingrich to step down. But he did not leave public life. The former Georgia congressman
[ad_1] The public, in all likelihood, assumes too much. Take, for example, the people of Uvalde, Texas, and specifically the parents of children who attend Robb Elementary School. We’d bet those parents assumed the educators they entrusted their children to and local and regional law enforcement agencies had developed extensive plans for responding to a
[ad_1] Naperville’s proposed ban on the sale of some high-powered weapons is drawing mixed reactions. City council members Tuesday will begin a discussion on an ordinance prohibiting the sale of what officials describe as assault weapons and large-capacity ammunition magazines. The proposed ban comes in response to the mass shooting at the Highland Park Fourth
[ad_1] by W. D. Ehrhart In a withering, indeed breathtaking, succession of recent decisions rendered by a U.S. Supreme Court now dominated by justices vetted by the Federalist Society and nominated by presidents who did not win the popular national vote, most of the past 120 years of legal progress and precedent have been obliterated.
[ad_1] WASHINGTON — House Democrats are pushing a federal ban on assault weapons but face resistance from their more moderate members, including at least one from Texas. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, plans to vote against the ban that the House Judiciary Committee is scheduled to take up Wednesday, his press secretary Dana Youngentob said Friday.
[ad_1] PRESIDENT Joe Biden signed a new gun safety bill on July 11, 2022, one week after the Fourth of July Highland Park shooting. The bill is the first gun safety legislation to be passed by Congress in 30 years. 2 Joe Biden signed the gun safety bill in June 2022Credit: EPA What is the
[ad_1] Brandon Wolf is sick of people asking him what needs to change when it comes to gun control in America. “I’m sort of done with the ‘what would you like to see done?’ question,” he tells The Independent. “We already know what needs to be done. We get stuck in a loop of people
[ad_1] Attention candidates: Candidate questionnaire to be printed in the Aitkin Age – Email your answers to news.age@apgecm.com, please limit in entirety of 250 words or less. Deadline: Friday, July 15, 9 a.m. Community service groups/organizations: Prior city, county, or school civic service: (Boards/commissions, etc): Campaign contact: (website, Facebook page, etc.) Why are you running
[ad_1] Not happy with the prospect of ordinary, law-abiding citizens having access to their Second Amendment rights outside of the home, Montgomery County, possibly the most anti-gun county in the state, and one known for being soft on actual criminals, seeks to restrict carry in any way they can. The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed that
[ad_1] A fleet of 52 school buses have set out to form a mile-long procession to U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz‘s Texas home, carrying 4,368 empty seats for each of the children killed by gun violence since 2020. The procession, dubbed the ‘NRA Children’s Museum,’ was set up by artist Manuel Oliver, the father of Joaquin,
[ad_1] A new organisation called the NRA Children’s Museum is seeking to raise awareness of the toll that mass shootings are taking on American children — and Texas Senator Ted Cruz is its first target. On Thursday, a fleet of more than 50 school buses arrayed in the shape of a rifle proceeded to Mr
[ad_1] Courtesy of Stephen Melkisethian (Flickr CC0) New gun laws, including “red flag laws,” will not work. Domestic terrorism will continue to be the greatest danger to the American people. Here’s the proof. The tragic and deadly shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, killing seven and injuring dozens more, should have been prevented. Illinois has some
[ad_1] Another big endorsement for 4th District Congressman Dan Newhouse in his re-election campaign. The National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund (NRA-PVF), representing nearly five million members, announced their “A” rating and endorsement of Congressman Dan Newhouse for his reelection campaign. The NRA released the following statement in support of Congressman Newhouse: “On behalf of
[ad_1] In the pathos following the recent mass murders, much has been written about making changes to legislation that would have meaningful impact on these tragedies. Ron Faucheux’s opinion of June 6, “Is consensus on guns possible,” covers Second Amendment rights, tradeoffs protecting gun rights vs. limiting gun ownership, federal and state regulatory policies and
[ad_1] SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WCIA) – Senators Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) passed a Senate resolution Thursday honoring the seven people killed at the Highland Park Fourth of July parade. During the city’s Fourth of July parade, Robert Crimo III allegedly climbed a rooftop and opened fire on a section of the parade to
[ad_1] A mile-long procession of 52 buses carrying the belongings of various gun victims is traveling to Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) home and office in Texas. The bus brigade with 4,368 empty seats represents the number of children killed by gun violence in the United States this year. Some of the belongings include the checkered
[ad_1] UPDATE: This story has been updated to reflect a comment from National Rifle Association spokesman Lars Dalseide. The Associated Press informed media outlets to avoid using the term “assault weapons” in a Wednesday tweet from its AP Stylebook account. “The preferred term for a rifle that fires one bullet each time the trigger is
[ad_1] Oliver Manuel is sending a fleet of 52 busses to Sen. Ted Cruz’s house in Texas to show the number of kids killed by gun violence this year. The “NRA Children’s Museum” was created in part “with the intention that some people will think this is truly an NRA museum,” Oliver told BuzzFeed News.
[ad_1] Columbia has submitted a draft ordinance to Attorney General Alan Wilson’s office asking if it violates the state’s preemption law. The draft ordinance victimizes gun owners who have suffered the loss or theft of their property, if they fail to report a lost or stolen firearm within a certain period of time after discovering
[ad_1] Comment on this story Comment Shooters Grill, the gun-themed restaurant where the servers packed heat and which helped propel its hard-line conservative owner into the halls of Congress, served its last Swiss & Wesson burger over the weekend in the small Colorado town named, appropriately enough, Rifle. The Glenwood Springs Post Independent published a
[ad_1] Montana Congressman Matt Rosendale has signed on as a co-sponsor to a bill that would gut a nearly century-old program that provides more than $1 billion to states in conservation in order to stop what some Republican members of Congress believe is an unfair tax on guns and ammunition. The Repealing Excise Tax on
[ad_1] Marchelle Tigner, a firearms instructor, teaches a student how to shoot a gun during a 2017 class in Lawrenceville, Ga. Tigner’s goal is to train 1 million women how to shoot a gun in her lifetime. She is among the nation’s Black women gun owners who say they are picking up firearms for self-protection.
[ad_1] Media coverage of the fallout from recent mass shootings suggests growing numbers of Americans are fed up with gun violence and ready to demand change. The shifting public sentiment could eventually reduce the numbers of people killed and wounded by gunfire every year in Chicago and south suburbs like Harvey, where shooters killed 30