Month: June 2022

The United States accounts for less than 5% of the global population, but owns 46% of the world’s existing firearms. The accessibility of weapons has led to what White Houe calls a “gun violence epidemic.” The racist massacre in Buffalo and the shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde are just the tip of the

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So-called “Red Flag” orders, or Emergency Risk Protection Orders, are designed to empower the government to confiscate Americans’ firearms without due process of law. Aside from allowing run-of-the-mill malicious actors to indulge personal grudges against law-abiding gun owners, in the current politically-charged environment these laws enable the government to target those with First Amendment-protected political

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The Bipartisan Gun Law being negotiated in the Congress appears to have hit bumps already with majority of the American citizens and pro-gun lobby Republicans unwilling to back it unless they know what is actually in the bill. This is despite the fact that Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, Republican from Kentucky, supports the laws

Thoughts and prayers isn’t working Don’t punish the law-abiding | Letters, May 31 After reading another pro gun writer’s letter it is hard to believe how many of the NRA crowd still can’t get it through their heads that no one is going to take their guns away. What sane people want is gun safety

ELDRED, Ill. — It was a Friday fish fry night at American Legion Post 1135 and about three dozen people had gathered at the invitation of local Republicans to talk politics and candidates over cold beer, fried buffalo fish and baked beans. The Legion hall was situated in the tiny town of Eldred, located in

Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. WASHINGTON — In late May, U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema had just finished speaking to a group of reporters about the gut-wrenching shooting at a Uvalde elementary school. She beelined into the Senate chamber, where she

Presented by With Daniel Lippman PROGRAMMING NOTE: PI will be off on Monday for Juneteenth but back in your inboxes on Tuesday, June 21.   GIG COMPANIES COALITION HIRES KCDR: The Flex Association, a lobbying group formed earlier this year by a coalition of gig companies, has hired its first lobbyists. Kountoupes Denham Carr & Reid’s

After more mass shootings, one side is gaining donors and political will; the other is galvanized by gun rights. Will anything be different? After the massacre of schoolchildren at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., in 2012, the gun-control movement was small and badly outspent by the National Rifle Association. Parents seeking an outlet for

Topline Voting company Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit against far-right network Newsmax can move forward, a judge ruled Thursday, as Dominion and rival company Smartmatic pursue 11 defamation lawsuits over baseless election fraud claims about their voting machines. Key Facts Delaware state Judge Eric M. Davis denied Newsmax’s motion to dismiss the defamation suit, finding

Lake County Councilman Charlie Brown (D-Gary) and Councilwoman Christine Cid (D-East Chicago) announced their support for a proposal to ban sales of “AR-15” firearms at gun shows held at the Lake County Fairgrounds. What they are proposing is to restrict lawful, tax-paying businesses from selling legal products to law-abiding citizens, who wish to exercise an

Let’s take gun control and ask hard questions: Do pencils cause misspelled words? Do cars drive drunk? Do spoons make people fat? And, do guns kill people by themselves? Does gun control include leaving massive weapons costing billions of dollars in Afghanistan obtained by our enemies? Where did an 18-year-old guy get the money? Why