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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

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(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, using

News of last month’s horrific Texas school shooting reached me during my current stay in London. Then came word of the Oklahoma physician shot to death by a disturbed patient. Doctors like myself suffer such shootings both as caregivers for victims and out of concern for ourselves. Like others, we nervously look over our shoulders

An Atlanta grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election have subpoenaed a handful of Trump allies, including Rudy Giuliani, Lindsey Graham, John Eastman, Jenna Ellis, Cleta Mitchell, and Kenneth Chesebro. As CNN points out, several state officials have already been subpoenaed and have appeared before the special grand jury

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman on Tuesday voiced support for a federal ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines following multiple shootings over the long holiday weekend, including one that left six dead and dozens wounded in a Chicago suburb. “Gisele and I are heartbroken for the victims of these shootings and their families,”

Pope Francis of the Catholic church in Vatican has condemned the Chicago killings as being “senseless”, saying all forms of violence should end while sending his spiritual closeness to all the families of the deceased and injured in the July 4 massacre by a lone gunman sniper from a rooftop who killed six persons besides

Gun sales in the United States have been on the rise. Credit: Jon Cherry/Bloomberg via Getty Images Advertisement About 40% of the world’s civilian-owned firearms are in the United States, a country that has had some 1.4 million gun deaths in the past four decades. And yet, until recently, there has been almost no federal