Month: July 2022

Speak Out is a reader-generated column of opinions. If you there’s something you’d like to comment on in Elgin or beyond, send an email to ksorensen@tribpub.com. Please include “speak out” in the subject line. Unsympathetic response: “A lot of panic. A lot of fear.” While Gov. JB Pritzker’s response to the Highland Park mass shooting

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker told the National Rifle Association to leave his state the “hell alone” in response to the group tweeting about mass shootings occurring in gun free zones. “And 100% of mass public shootings happen with guns,” the Illinois Democrat tweeted Tuesday night in response

Civil society requires that its citizens feel safe in public spaces; destroy that generalized sense of safety and you will radically warp public opinion to the Right, which promises safety and “tough on crime,” while producing a whole new generation of safe-space destroyers. Our most fragile members of society are our children, which is why

Pre-Production Begins in Florida on Mario Van Peeples’ “The Price For Freedom” Movie on Murdered Civil Rights Martyrs – NRA News Today – EIN Presswire Trusted News Since 1995 A service for political professionals · Wednesday, July 6, 2022 · 580,067,115 Articles · 3+ Million Readers News Monitoring and Press Release Distribution Tools News Topics

You could not ask for a sadder display of how America’s gun culture has begun to whittle away our other freedoms than the attack on the Fourth of July celebration in Highland Park, Illinois. A 21-year-old man with an assault rifle opened fire on the parade, killing seven spectators and orphaning a 2-year-old boy. Three

Tim Ryan has a problem. Gas and groceries are both spiking. Ongoing supply chain disruptions mean shelves are bare, and getting inflation under control with the Fed raising interest rates is going to sting as well. Consumers will pay more for everything from credit cards to mortgages. Homeowners looking to sell are going walk away

Fireworks What does it take for the city to start enforcing the above ground exploding fireworks ban? When I called the police dispatcher to report illegal fireworks she told me they had already had hundreds of calls about illegal fireworks and didn’t know when someone would be able to come out and check. Bombs being

As we celebrated Independence Day, there was no independence from the scourge of gun violence and the toll it is taking on the American psyche. The shooter who attacked a parade in Highland Park, Illinois, killing six people and wounding at least 38 others, used a “high-powered rifle,” according to authorities. Survivors report a rain

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 July

At first blush, there’s not much to distinguish Jill Tokuda from Patrick Branco, the top two Democrats vying for the open seat in Hawaii’s 2nd Congressional District. Both Tokuda and Branco hail from Windward Oahu, and they each walk the party line on major federal issues, from codifying Roe v. Wade to protect abortion rights

After the Supreme Court struck down New York’s tough rules for issuing concealed carry permits last month, overturning firearms laws across several large and heavily urban blue states, many Democrats predicted the decision would unleash new mayhem on their streets. New York Mayor Eric Adams—who as a candidate told a podcast he would personally pack

As police in Illinois hunted America’s latest mass shooter on Monday, the National Rifle Association left up a tweet crediting “armed citizens” for Independence Day. “The only reason you’re celebrating Independence Day is because citizens were armed,” said the tweet, posted early in the day and still up Monday evening. Advertisement In Highland Park, Illinois,

By Robert Spitzer, Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the Political Science Department, State University of New York College at Cortland The nationwide call for stronger gun laws in the aftermath of mass shootings in Buffalo, Uvalde and the over 200 other places where such tragedies took place so far in 2022 was understandable. It was

  At least six people have been killed and dozens more injured after a gunman went on a shooting spree in Chicago, Illinois. The horror has sent shockwaves across the country and comes as a major setback for Congress which passed what was labeled as a “landmark” bipartisan gun reform bill, the biggest in “30

Democratic Highland Park Mayor calls for nationwide ban on assault rifles as it’s revealed SHE outlawed them in the town in 2013 – only for parade shooter to smuggle one in nearly a decade later Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering said there needs to be tougher laws to outlaw ‘the weapons of war on our

Ukranian-American Community Leader Mazurkevich: ” Ukraine must become a NATO member.” – NRA News Today – EIN Presswire Trusted News Since 1995 A service for political professionals · Wednesday, July 6, 2022 · 579,970,472 Articles · 3+ Million Readers News Monitoring and Press Release Distribution Tools News Topics Newsletters Press Releases Events & Conferences RSS

Black Memphis Filmmaker Elmore is Connected to Obama, Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King , John F. Kennedy, & Others – NRA News Today – EIN Presswire Trusted News Since 1995 A service for political professionals · Tuesday, July 5, 2022 · 579,872,100 Articles · 3+ Million Readers News Monitoring and Press Release Distribution Tools News