U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, speaks during a town hall meeting, Tuesday, in Boone, Iowa. King is defending his call for a ban on all abortions by questioning whether "there would be any population of the world left" if not for births due to rape and incest. To the rest of the world, I want […]
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Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times WASHINGTON — Days after a pair of deadly mass shootings in Texas and Ohio, President Trump said he was prepared to endorse what he described as “very meaningful background checks” that would be possible because of his “greater influence now over the Senate and over the House.” But after discussions […]
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Washington – The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to hear a gun case for the first time in nearly 10 years has provoked a blistering response from Sen. Richard Blumenthal and other Senate Democrats. Led by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., Blumenthal and other Senate Judiciary Committee members, Sens. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, Richard Durbin, D-Ill, and Kirsten […]
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Following the news has grown stressful for Angela Tetschner, a 39-year-old nurse raising four children in this sprawling Phoenix suburb of tile roofs, desert yards, young families, and voters who are increasingly up for grabs. "Sometimes I do think about the school shootings," said Ms. Tetschner, who doesn’t pay much attention to politics but has […]
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Trump at NRA (CNN)Listen carefully to how President Donald Trump answered a question Sunday about his support for expanded gun control measures: "So, Congress is working on that. They have bipartisan committees working on background checks and various other things. And we’ll see. I don’t want people to forget that this is a mental health […]
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FILE – In this Jan. 19, 2013, file photo, Gun rights supporters gather at a Guns Across America rally at the Texas state capitol. After three dozen people were fatally shot at a church in Sutherland Springs and a suburban Houston high school, Texas Republicans expanded gun rights instead of restricting them. The state’s latest […]
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Recent mass shootings in Ohio, Texas and California have reignited the country’s seemingly eternal gun control debate. So-called “red flag” laws have received national attention as possibly helping stem some gun violence in the country. Such laws generally allow people to petition the government, via the courts, to temporarily take away firearms from a family […]
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Men carrying AR-style rifles walked past a blocklong line of citizens waiting to enter the Pocahontas Building at Capitol Square during the July 9 special session about gun issues. On the day of the special session called by Gov. Ralph Northam to consider a suite of proposed gun safety laws in the aftermath of the […]
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House Speaker Kirk Cox, R-Colonial Heights, gavels the House of Delegates into session July 9, 2019 in Richmond. The Virginia State Crime Commission will meet this week to review dozens of proposals aimed at reducing gun violence, but it won’t deliver a report to the General Assembly until after the election. The crime commission will […]
Continue ReadingLocal Other states have passed "red flag" and background-check bills, part of a national movement for tougher gun laws now stirring again in Minnesota. In Washington state, authorities kept a gun out of the hands of a man bent on setting a record death toll for mass shootings. A Florida judge in the county where […]
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