Gun Rights

A fiery debate between former CNN anchor Don Lemon and Republican presidential candidate hopeful, Vivek Ramaswamy, has resurfaced on X, formerly known as Twitter. In April this year, Ramaswamy appeared on Lemon’s former show, CNN This Morning, where they debated Black history and the experience of Black people today in the U.S. A video posted

Nikki Haley gave millions of American voters good reason to cast their votes for Joe Biden and Democrats up and down the ballot in 2024. Donald Trump is “the most disliked politician in all of America,” and “we shouldn’t have followed him,” she told Fox News and others. But like nearly all her rivals for

Aren’t you glad it applies to public schools too? Does the 1st Amendment protect a parent from retaliation after criticizing his daughter’s coach for not putting her in games for long enough? Yes. Next question. Oh, you’re still here? Considering  ex-presidents taking Batman villain headshots are gracing headlines, now might actually be the moment to

Former U.S. Rep. Will Hurd, a Republican 2024 presidential candidate, told Scripps News’ “Morning Rush” that he favors expanding background checks for gun purchases.  Hurd joined “Morning Rush” on Tuesday just days after a racist shooting at a Jacksonville, Florida, Dollar General store left three Black people dead. Hurd said as he represented Uvalde, Texas,

UNC-Chapel Hill was in shock and mourning Tuesday following an on-campus shooting in which police say a graduate student killed the professor who acted as his academic advisor. Tailei Qi, 34, made his first appearance in Orange County criminal court Tuesday, where he faces charges of 1st degree murder and possession of a firearm on

From Justo Robles of CalMatters’ California Divide team:  Dozens of domestic workers laid banners on the state Capitol grounds Tuesday that spelled out the words “racist” and “injustice.” Then they cleaned them up.  It was all part of a rally of several hundred domestic laborers to urge state lawmakers to pass more workplace protections. Aminta

The brutal killing of three Black people by a white gunman in Jacksonville, Florida has once again brought under the spotlight the steep rise of neo-Nazism and white supremacist tendencies in the U.S. The gunman used a military-grade assault rifle emblazoned with swastikas and left behind a manifesto saying he hated Black people, officials said.

Letters to the editor are brief reader responses to stories and opinion pieces published by VTDigger. Letters give voice to community members and do not represent VTDigger’s views. To submit a letter, follow the instructions here. Earlier this year, a gunman killed five people and wounded eight others at a bank in Louisville, Kentucky. Less

This week, the California Legislature was up to their old tricks, utilizing budget related bills to make significant policy changes targeting gun owners. Assembly Bill 135 and Senate Bill 135 are what’s known as “Budget Trailer Bills” that are used to institute spending guidelines for the overall larger budget bills. However, the Legislature has had

Today, the Tennessee General Assembly adjourned sine die from its 2023 special legislative session on public safety, and we are pleased to announce that all gun control legislation failed.  One firearm-related bill passed, Senate Bill 7085/House Bill 7012, which exempts the retail sale of firearm safes and firearm safety devices from sales and use taxes

Photo: Florida State Rep. Angie Nixon, Jacksonville City Councilwoman Ju’Coby Pittman and Florida State Senator Tracie Davis (Photos from Facebook and myfloridahouse.gov). Rage, sorrow, frustration and a yearning for emotional healing and support. Those are the sentiments of a Black Jacksonville community mourning a racist mass shooting within its boundaries on Saturday. “The tone is

The 1970s were a pivotal decade, and not just because it saw the end of the Vietnam War, the resignation of Nixon, and the death of both the psychedelic hippie movement and the very political (and sometimes violent) SDS. Most consequentially, the 1970s were when the modern-day Republican Party was birthed. Prior to that, the

Charges are unlikely to be filed against whoever fatally shot a University of South Carolina fraternity brother who tried to enter the wrong house on his street, a local legal expert said Monday. Former Richland County prosecutor Lori Murray said South Carolina’s “castle doctrine” law “means you can use any force, up to deadly force,

President Joe Biden’s administration is inadvertently worsening the very problem it is trying to solve – the migrant crisis at the southern border – by facilitating a surge in gun-fueled violent crime in Latin America and beyond. The president, long a champion of gun safety, needs to move quickly to fix this policy failure. The

The National Rifle Association (NRA) issued a blistering response to Vice President Kamala Harris arguing President Biden will ban so-called “assault weapons.”  “@JoeBiden has taken on the @NRA and won. He can do it again,” Harris tweeted Tuesday evening, accompanied by a campaign ad celebrating Biden’s determination to “ban assault weapons.”  The NRA shot back

EXCLUSIVE — Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen (R-MT) filed an amicus brief in a lawsuit over a Maryland county law he says is defying the Supreme Court‘s landmark Second Amendment test by establishing “unconstitutional” gun-free buffer zones. A group of 18 attorneys general led by Knudsen filed the brief Monday at the Virginia-based U.S. Court

In further evidence of Americans’ waning attention spans, the once annual ritual of gun control activists and their media lackeys manipulating CDC fatal injury data to push a misleading factoid about children and firearms has become semiannual. This is how it works: Step one, acquire statistics on firearm-related deaths among children ages 0-14. Step two,

David Hemenway, a Professor of Health Policy at Harvard University’s Injury Control Research Center, has been a proud proponent of anti-gun “research” for many years. Rather than relying on criminologists and experts in law enforcement to diminish violent crime where firearms are used, Hemenway long-ago jumped on the anti-gun bandwagon of trying to frame the