Conor E. Ralph for The New York Times PHOENIX — Mark Kelly, a former astronaut turned Democratic Senate candidate, checked off the policy issues he expects to focus on as he campaigns to unseat the Republican Senator Martha McSally here: energy, health care, education and a strong national defense, in that order. Conspicuously missing from […]
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How should judges decide what the Constitution’s words mean? “Originalists” argue they should be interpreted to mean what they meant to the people who wrote and ratified that document. Their “living Constitution” critics think that the Constitution’s provisions should be interpreted as the needs of our own time require. Both approaches make some sense. The […]
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LOCKPORT, IL – JULY 12: A customer looks over a .45 Caliber pistol at Rinks Gun and Sport in suburban Chicago on July 12, 2010 in Lockport, Illinois. Chicago began enforcing its new gun law today, considered the toughest in the nation. Although Chicago residents can now possess handguns in the city, they are still […]
Continue ReadingComments (0) The Center Square https://www.thecentersquare.com/ Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine may have trouble getting his gun control legislation passed through the Legislature despite both chambers being controlled by his party. After a mass shooter in Dayton killed 10 people, DeWine laid out a plan to curb gun violence, which includes background checks, changes to mental […]
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Ask a U.S. citizen what the Second Amendment stands for. Some respond this amendment protects an individual’s right to carry a gun. Like a shooter who misses the target, they are confused as to the amendment’s scope and intent. Historically, the Second Amendment safeguards the citizens’ right through the states’ efforts to recruit armed militias […]
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Dwayne Carpenter/Times-Dispatch On a June night in Virginia Beach, an emotionally worn crowd of mourners stood and joined hands in the Rock Church, where they had gathered for the city’s memorial to the 12 slain at the municipal center less than a week earlier. A calming ocean scene with the words “VB Remembers” was projected […]
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President Donald Trump speaks during a rally Oct. 11 in Lake Charles. Trump encouraged supporters to vote for Eddie Rispone or Ralph Abraham, the two Republicans opposing Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards in last Saturday’s election. Edwards will race Rispone in a Nov. 16 runoff election. [AP Photo/Gerald Herbert] Hide caption By James Gill / […]
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About 150 Farmington High School students joined the national walkout last year to protest mounting gun violence in schools. Spurred by the February massacre of 17 people at Majory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., survivors of that shooting and other students from across the country began organizing massive, coordinated demonstrations intended to pressure […]
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Skip to main content Beto O’Rourke took questions and pictures during a stop to Montgomery’s Goat Haus Biergarten Kirsten Fiscus, Montgomery Advertiser Former Congressman Beto O’Rourke joked that the last time he visited Alabama, he was playing in a punk band. "We were playing in someone’s house to a crowd that was about a tenth […]
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Firearms belonging to the suspected leader of a neo-Nazi group who was thought to be preparing for a "race war" have been seized under a "red flag" law in Washington state, according to court documents. Authorities removed five rifles, three pistols and other gun components from Kaleb James Cole, 24, under a state law that […]
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