Mayor Alan Webber has long championed ideas to confront the scourge of gun violence, from designating certain city-owned properties as gun-free zones to mulling a tax on ammunition. Now Webber is pushing a proposal to repeal a provision of the state constitution that prevents local governments from regulating firearms as they so choose. As part
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‘Stick with the fight’: gun control youth activists respond to Maine shootings US response to mass shootings is ‘extremely frustrating’, but David Hogg and Trevon Bosley call on youth voices to effect change Following 2023’s deadliest mass shooting in the US that occurred in Lewiston, Maine, earlier this week, young gun control activists are once
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Golden, a tattooed Marine veteran, has long drawn on his support for gun rights as one pillar of his image as a rebel Democrat who understands the heavily-armed and politically red swath of Maine he represents. He has broken with his party on several gun safety measures, including voting against an assault weapons ban last
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Golden, a tattooed Marine veteran, has long drawn on his support for gun rights as one pillar of his image as a rebel Democrat who understands the heavily-armed and politically red swath of Maine he represents. He has broken with his party on several gun safety measures, including voting against an assault weapons ban last
(Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images) OAN’s Abril Elfi 2:00 PM – Saturday, October 28, 2023 President Joe Biden isn’t letting a tragedy go to waste and is urging Republicans in Congress to help keep Americans safe from “gun violence” after mass shootings in Maine. Advertisement Speaking at a campaign fundraiser in Washington Friday night, Biden
More attention is on gun control legislation in the wake of Wednesday’s shooting. Minnesota has stricter gun control than Wisconsin. There were 648 mass shootings in America in 2022. This week’s shooting in Maine marks the 565th mass shooting this year, with 2023 on track to be the deadliest year on record for mass shootings.
Miracles do still happen on occasion. Or, in the immortal words of sports broadcaster Al Michaels during the culmination of the USA Olympic hockey men’s team’s seemingly impossible 4-3 victory against the Soviet Union on February 22, 1980, at Lake Placid, “Do you believe in miracles? Yes!” Well, maybe “miracles” is a slight exaggeration, but it
Topline In his first public comments on gun violence in the wake of the mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, President Joe Biden this week questioned the need for high-capacity assault weapons, including the high-power rifle used in the deadly massacre that left 18 people dead, though Democrats’ efforts to ban assault weapons and enact other
Hal Phillips We’re fine. That’s what I’ve been texting to dozens of friends and family, starting at about 8 p.m. Wednesday night. We live in Auburn, across the Androscoggin River, which separates our small city from our slightly larger sister city. As of Friday, there was still an active shooter at large, two days after
It’s hard for Americans in the 21st century to think about their guns as ordinary objects. When nightmarish events like the recent mass shooting in Maine occur, we retreat to reassuring positions in the culture wars. Gun “culture”is our collective, contentious effort to apply meaning to these inanimate things made of wood, plastic, and steel.
In the wake of a mass shooting in his hometown of Lewiston in which 18 people died, U.S. Rep. Jared Golden announced his support for a national assault weapons ban, reversing a previous stance that he said had come from “a false confidence that our community was above this,” among “many other misjudgments.” Golden, a
The term “RINO” didn’t begin to describe the level of contempt the so-called “conservatives” of ABC’s The View had for the ideology and people they purported to represent. In the wake of the mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, FAKE conservatives Alyssa Farah Griffin and Ana Navarro spewed pure ignorance and hatred at any Republican (politician
Kentucky Values, a group affiliated with the Republican Governors Association (RGA), announced the launch of two advertisements backing Republican gubernatorial nominee and Attorney General Daniel Cameron in the home stretch of his race against Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY). The 15-second advertisements released Friday, titled “Strong” and “Endorsed,” highlight Cameron’s efforts to fight the Biden administration
Data from the Commerce Department showed that the U.S. economy grew at an astonishing rate of 4.9% in the third quarter. We also learned that in Lewiston, Maine, a single shooter killed at least 18 people, more people than died by gun homicide in Maine in the whole of 2021, and injured at least 13
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The mass shooting in Lewiston on Wednesday that claimed the lives of 18 people is drawing attention to Maine’s weak gun laws, with advocates and lawmakers arguing for firearm safety measures to prevent another tragedy. Many of Maine’s political leaders have a complicated history on the issue, though, often opposing large-scale reforms and working with