Austin Theriault, a Maine GOP legislator running for a U.S. House seat “as a champion of the Second Amendment,” called the sheriff in January 2023 because he saw a man carry an AR-15 rifle into his house, Huffington Post reported on Monday, September 9, 2024 (read story here). The police[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Gun Control’
August 15th, 2024 - 3:34 pm § in Law and Courts
What’s the proper remedy for abuse of red flag gun laws?
Everyone agrees that Donald S. Willey (photo, left), 65, of Hoopers Island, Maryland, is a “decorated Marine combat veteran.” His neighbors claim he has mental problems. County zoning officials describe his property as a “junkyard” where fires have broken out. No photo is ava[...]
July 4th, 2024 - 5:42 pm § in Law and Courts, Republicans
Girl, 13, shot to death by teen at Alderwood Mall
She wasn’t the intended victim. When an argument erupted between two groups of kids, and a 16-year-old boy pulled a gun and fired at someone, the bullet hit her instead and now her family has to bury her. The shooting happened at Alderwood Mall in Lynnwood, Washington, on July 3, 2024 (read st[...]
June 17th, 2024 - 8:45 pm § in Law and Courts, Republicans
GOP senator calls bump stocks a “fake problem”
Last Friday the Supreme Court struck down Trump’s bump stock ban. Today Democrats wasted no time introducing ban legislation. Sen. J. D. Vance (R-OH) responded by claiming the bill is aimed at a “PR problem, not something that’s going to meaningfully reduce gun violence in this country[...]
June 15th, 2024 - 2:07 pm § in Law and Courts
Supreme Court voids bump stock ban
Six conservative justices ruled they’re not covered by the 1934 federal machinegun law. Lawyers for the Texas gun owner who challenged the rule argued “it’s a difficult skill to master.” In other words, a 12-year-old with a grudge against classmates couldn’t fire an AR-15 like a machinegun[...]
June 12th, 2024 - 10:42 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
FBI arrests racist plotting mass shooting to start race war
Mark Prieto, 58, of Prescott, Arizona, would later tell cops he wasn’t serious when he told an FBI informant at a gun show that he wanted to incite a race war before the 2024 election by shooting up an Atlanta rap concert. Nobody should believe that. When somebody tells strangers he’s tr[...]
May 20th, 2023 - 12:11 am § in News Media, Schools & Colleges
Does this story have only one side?
J’den McAdory of Severn, Maryland, doesn’t like a new gun control law recently signed by Gov. Wes Moore, so he protested by parading with an AR-15 at an elementary school bus drop-off site. A news reporter tweeted: And he’s catching flak. Former Biden press secretary Jen Psaki sai[...]
May 6th, 2023 - 7:55 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Gun violence on 5/6/23
Headlining today’s gun violence news, a mass shooter killed 8 shoppers and injured 7 others at a Texas mall before being killed by police (story here). But it doesn’t stop there: A 16-year-old boy was killed at a Texas graduation party (story here). A 17-year-old girl was killed and 5 ot[...]
April 30th, 2023 - 10:28 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Should courts go easy on teenage killers?
The gunfire, it seems, never stops. And in many cases, kids are pulling the triggers. In South Carolina, a drive-by shooting at a park wounded 9 young people, ages 16 to 20, in the wee hours of Saturday, April 29, 2023. Police found “dozens of shell casings from several different weapons,̶[...]
Republicans can’t escape their unpopular policies
It’s hard for ordinary people like me to fathom why anybody would want to be president, but a number of Republican politicians do, and they all have a problem. Most Americans hate their positions on abortion and guns. On top of that, the GOP has long been a party for the rich, and often indiff[...]