Month: March 2023

Today and tomorrow, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold decision making only hearings on two anti-gun bills: HB 426, which aims to bankrupt the firearm industry, and HB 984, to restrict lawful carry. Please consider submitting testimony AGAINST House Bills 426 and 984 through the Hawaii Legislative website. For help creating an account and submitting testimony, click here. Thursday,

Rep. Tim Burchett claimed that only a “revival” of Christianity, not Congress, can solve the problem. As the country reels from news of yet another school shooting at an elementary school in Tennessee this week, one Tennessee Republican has vowed that Congress will never solve the U.S.’s mass shooting epidemic, and that only Christian nationalism

Advertisement A federal judge hearing a challenge against gun measures in Delaware ruled against opponents iover a major question in Delaware State Sportsmen’s Association, Inc. et al. v. Delaware Department of Safety and Homeland Security et al, Attorney General Kathy Jennings announced. In an opinion issued Monday night, U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Andrews denied a preliminary

Everyone in America is sick of the gun violence that plagues us everywhere we go. Everyone that is, except the one group of people that could possibly do something about it: Republicans. They seem to think there’s nothing you can do and we all should just accept children getting slaughtered at school is an inevitability

For years, the NRA has been litigating a Florida law that bans young adults aged 18-20 from purchasing a firearm. In 2021, a federal judge begrudgingly upheld the law, despite finding that it imposed sever restrictions on the people’s right to keep and bear arms while affording very few public safety benefits. The judge, however,

One hundred thirty-nine. Say the number; let it sink in for a minute. Then consider the number 86. Let that sink in for another minute. Then consider this: Monday’s shooting at the Covenant School, a private Christian school in the Nashville, Tenn. area, became the 139th mass shooting in 2023, only 86 days into the

In the futile and hopeless hours of familiar gridlock after the most recent mass shooting in Nashville, the social media meme war that serves as proxy for our political process launched again into overdrive. Some themes were familiar: Republicans love guns more than they love children; the party that purports to revere life seems unwilling

Opinion editor’s note: Star Tribune Opinion publishes a mix of national and local commentaries online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. ••• How much further will the Supreme Court go to assist in the arming of America? That has been the question since last June, when the court ruled that New York’s

Chris Hayes highlighted a magnificent attack by Rep. Jamall Bowman (NY) on Republican congressmembers for their cowardice on gun violence. I needed that! “Tonight, a pretty incredible and emotional scene in the United States Capitol. A Democratic congressman, Jamall Bowman, who has spent more than a decade as an educator in New York public schools,

Republican North Carolina lawmakers overrode Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of a bill repealing the state’s pistol purchase permit system, enabling the repeal effort to proceed. The Republican-controlled North Carolina House of Representatives passed Senate Bill 41 earlier this month. The bill, which passed in both the House and Senate on party-line votes, repeals a

Today, the Senate voted 27-13 to pass House Bill 543, the constitutional carry bill received from the House last week. With that, Florida has taken another major step towards becoming the 26th constitutional carry state. The bill will now go to Governor Ron DeSantis, who has repeatedly and publicly stated that he will sign a

The Washington Post exposé has been described as “the most powerful article you will read this week” and “one of the most important pieces of journalism ever produced.” Christmas card from Tennessee Rep. Andy Ogles, a Republican who represents the district that Covenant School is in. Image-Shannon Watts/Twitter screengrab On Monday morning, The Washington Postpublished a series

CNN  —  It took just two minutes to encapsulate America’s hopeless estrangement on guns. Deep into a long, grueling hearing called by Republicans to target the Washington, DC, government, tensions provoked by the Nashville school shooting boiled over into an emotive exchange between Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and freshman Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz. With

Content warning: This article contains references to gun violence. I’ve attempted to stay away from the news this past year for my mental health, but no matter how hard I try, news of mass shootings and gun violence plague my life. In reading ABC7 Eyewitness News reporter Kiara Alfonseca’s latest article, my heart sank deep

The BDN Opinion section operates independently and does not set newsroom policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com. LZ Granderson is an opinion columnist for the Los Angeles Times. Sandy Hook is the mass shooting I hear mentioned most often when people talk about the moment they knew

Tomorrow morning, March 31, the Senate Judiciary Committee is considering House Bill 674 and House Bill 659. HB 674 proposes an optional, enhanced concealed carry permit that will improve recognition for Montanans’ concealed carry permits in five additional states: WA, MN, NM, SC, and DE. HB 659 allows a 30-day grace period for concealed carry permit holders to renew their permits. It is imperative that