[ad_1] Raleigh, North Carolina; Mexico City; Basel, Switzerland; and Toronto As a commercial pilot certified to carry a gun while he flies, Paul Valone has had training on how to use a firearm to neutralize mass shooters and thwart terrorists. It’s not with glee that the North Carolinian had to learn how to unjam a
[ad_1] This week, the Boulder County Commissioners unanimously voted – without allowing public comments – to pass a gun control package to infringe on your Second Amendment rights. Citizens will finally be given the opportunity to comment on the five, anti-gun ordinances at a public hearing on August 2nd. The County Commissioners will consider oral
[ad_1] Editor’s note: This is the third of four stories in a series on the gun culture in the nation and state written by Tribune reporters Kim Dunlap and Carson Gerber, as well as other CNHI reporters from across the nation. Part 4 titled “Second Amendment interpretation central to national debate over firearms, public safety”
[ad_1] Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) called on CEOs of major gunmakers to appear at a congressional hearing later this month after a string of mass shootings including the bloody attack on a Fourth of July parade. Accusing the three weapons manufacturers of flooding America with “weapons of war” on Thursday, the liberal lawmaker, representing parts
[ad_1] Even though Highland Park, Illinois, mass shooter purchased his guns in-state, MSNBC’s The 11th Hour made it sound on Tuesday night like he might have gotten them from another state where it’s easier to buy guns with MSNBC anchor and weekend pundit Ali Velshi complaining about guns being brought in from other states. As The 11th Hour host Stephanie Ruhle set up the
[ad_1] NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The National Rifle Association has responded to Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker telling the group to “leave us the hell alone” by calling out rising crime in Chicago and the rest of the state. “Citizens of Illinois may be better served if Gov. Pritzker spent his time
[ad_1] Perhaps the most heart-rending story coming out of the July 4 massacre in Highland Park, Ill., is that of Aidan McCarthy, the 2-year-old boy found at the scene of the tragedy looking for his parents. They were among the seven people killed by a rooftop sniper as they watched an Independence Day parade. Aiden
[ad_1] Comment on this story Comment The US Supreme Court’s decision last month to strike down an 111-year-old New York law mostly prohibiting the concealed carry of firearms has not won a lot of admirers in legal academia. Saul Cornell of Fordham called it “one of the most intellectually dishonest and poorly argued decisions in
[ad_1] The House Oversight Committee is ramping up its investigation into gun manufacturers and has requested that CEOs of three major gun manufacturers appear before Congress at the end of the month in the wake of a string of harrowing mass shootings involving assault-style rifles that have killed and injured scores of Americans. Rep. Carolyn
[ad_1] It’s unlikely that provisions in the gun bill President Joe Biden recently signed would have stopped the mass shooting at an Independence Day parade in Highland Park, Illinois, if they had been enacted sooner, according to gun law experts. “It’s very, very hard to have any law that would stop someone who is willing
[ad_1] HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. — The Republican nominee for governor of Illinois, Darren Bailey, once held a campaign fundraising event at which he raffled off a Smith & Wesson AR-15, a weapon nearly identical to the type used in the Fourth of July parade massacre here this week. A 2019 video posted to Bailey’s campaign
[ad_1] HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (WTVO) — Illinois Governor JB Pritzker responded to critics of Illinois gun laws. The National Rifle Association tweeted about Monday’s Fourth of July shooting in Highland Park, saying that “since 1950… 94% of mass public shootings occurred in gun-free zones.” Highland Park bans owning assault rifles. Pritzker countered with “100% of
[ad_1] Submitted photo Don Samuels Divisiveness in the interest of democracy Former Minneapolis City Councilmember Don Samuels has his sights set on Congress after gaining national recognition for his stance on public safety. The longtime North Minneapolis resident spoke to the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder (MSR) about his bid for Congress and why he believes that the
[ad_1] Patrick Blanchfield I think we can pull back and go for a deep historical perspective here. At that point, we observe that the regulation and distribution — the control, in those terms, of firearms — has been a constitutive if not quite constitutional feature of the North American civilizational settler enterprise. Since the get-go,
[ad_1] The Supreme Court began its October 2021–22 term under the shadow of looming reform: a presidential commission to study a restructuring of the judiciary and a bill in the House to add four seats to the bench. But the justices and their right-wing backers had little reason to worry. The court’s term ended last
[ad_1] Miguel S. Coronado: “California mailed more than 22 million ballots to voters before Tuesday’s primary election. But, as of June 8, just 3.5 million had been counted. We wonder why Republicans run communities of color. If you don’t vote, don’t complain.” Most people who don’t vote, particularly people of color, choose not to because
[ad_1] I’m Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, ain’a? And so another Independence Day has come and gone, this past one focking complete with some douchebag’s celebration of the bullshit-interpretation of the Second ferkakta Amendment “rights” from the Constitution, so’s to constitutionally wreak havoc from a rooftop so’s to wreak deathly “constitutional
[ad_1] Robert Crimo III had more than a dozen knives, a dagger, and a sword confiscated by police in 2019 after he threatened to “kill everyone.” Not three years later, he allegedly carried out that threat — using high-powered rifles he purchased legally. That he was able to do so is an outrage — one that should
[ad_1] (The Center Square) – Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s rhetoric around the issue of gun violence is heating up and some say it’s “disgusting.” Before Monday’s mass shooting in a Chicago suburb at an Independence Day parade, Pritzker spoke to a group of New Hampshire Democrats saying the Republican game plan heading into November is
[ad_1] Activities once considered normal are now plagued by fear thanks to the gun culture. Bicycles remain along the sidewalk after parade-goers fled Downtown Highland Park, Ill., a Chicago suburb, after a mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade on Monday, July 4, 2022. (Mary Mathis/The New York Times) | July 6, 2022, 12:00
[ad_1] On June 23, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, in a 6-3 vote in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, found that Americans have a right to carry firearms in the street for self-defense, striking down a New York gun law that required applicants to justify why they needed to carry a
[ad_1] Our most fragile members of society are our children, which is why when shooters go after schools it disrupts society at its most fundamental level. Right behind schools are celebratory events (Vegas shooter, yesterday’s Trump supporter), stores/theaters, and places of worship. If a malignant actor — say, Putin — wanted to truly disrupt American
[ad_1] Nothing was said about it on the July 4 television interviews I saw, but among the security experts interviewed during coverage of the Highland Park parade shooting, one face and name had resonance. Crisis management expert and former FBI agent Phil Andrew survived another mass shooting in Chicago’s North Shore suburbs, more than three
[ad_1] By Tinashe Chingarande, Special to the AFRO The court exercised its federal power to uphold Second and Fourteenth Amendment rights Marylanders who want to conceal a weapon no longer have to prove that they have a “good and substantial reason” for wanting to hide a weapon. Maryland Governor Larry Hogan issued a statement on
[ad_1] SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — Two pieces of legislation allowing private rights of action against gun manufacturers and dealers in California — modeled on a Texas law that allows lawsuits against aiders and abettors of abortion — have been been signed into law. And some legal experts think they could survive inevitable legal challenges brought
[ad_1] Sen. Bernie Sanders said late Monday that Congress must take far more ambitious legislative action to combat the scourge of gun violence in the United States in the wake of the mass shooting at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois. “Today’s terrible shooting in Highland Park is the latest reminder of our
[ad_1] (Photo: Getty/iStock) Another week and another appalling mass shooting in the US. And on the Fourth of July of all days. In this case, early reports indicate that at least six people were killed, and thirty people were injured, when a lone gunman opened fire on people taking part in an Independence Day parade,
[ad_1] The tragedy that unfolded during Highland Park’s Fourth of July parade is unimaginable. But I have to say, the gunfire that erupted in the affluent northern suburb Monday should be an eye-opener to those Illinoisans and other Americans who keep complaining that these mass shootings are just a Chicago problem.This incident is proof that
[ad_1] NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Christine Emba from the Washington Post penned a scathing op-ed on Tuesday suggesting that the active shooter is the “new symbol for the Fourth of July.” She began by discussing the events surrounding the Highland Park shooting during a Fourth of July parade in Illinois. The
[ad_1] Mitt Romney made it clear that he doesn’t see Donald Trump as the right candidate for the next president of the United States to be able to unite the country, via his op-ed published by The Atlantic. While he made his points clear, some see Romney as having missed the larger context at play in