Republican Michigan Rep. Fred Upton tried to downplay the concerns of Second Amendment advocates over new gun control legislation while speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday. Host Dana Bash asked whether it’s possible Congress would strike a deal on gun control before the impending recess. “I want to turn to guns. A bipartisan
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America was suffering a “crisis of confidence,” Carter reported. “It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will. We can see this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation.
Even if Congress does manage to pass gun legislation in the weeks ahead—still a big if—that legislation will leave much to be done. The proposed framework does not, for example, increase the minimum age for purchasing firearms, address assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition, or close background-check loopholes for secondary sales, among other shortcomings. Americans who
We know what Ron DeSantis, Florida’s buckaroo Governor, thinks about efforts by federal health agencies to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Two words: Nanny State. Mask mandates? Nope. Vaccine mandates? Nope. Lockdowns? Oh, pul-eeze! But just when it looked like this enormously popular guv went too far this time, a different and confusing story emerged
In 2003, policeman Dick Heller was part of a joint action in the US District Court of Washington, DC concerning the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution, better known as the right to bear and keep firearms. Living near a social housing complex that was a haven for drug deals, break-ins and gang violence,
by Vijaya Chandrasoma I have used a variance of the catchphrase, “It’s the Economy, Stupid”, which became the mantra of the successful Clinton presidential campaign in 1992, when the US was facing an economic recession during the presidency of George H.W. Bush. The slogan served to highlight and exploit one key issue in the minds
Quiet please! Mustn’t disturb the Republicans hard at work trying to do as little as possible about guns. Lord, it is excruciating to watch congressional negotiations stall over proposed gun safety laws that are already woefully — tragicomically — inadequate to begin with. But this is where we are in this country. In the face
WASHINGTON — Sheriff Sam Cochran of Mobile County, Ala., is a conservative Republican who supports the Second Amendment and estimates he has 20 or more guns locked up in his safe. And even he is at his wits’ end when it comes to his party’s extreme stance on guns. Earlier this year, the Republican-controlled state
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
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