We’ve almost become numb to the horror of mass shootings as their frequency has increased in the last several years. But the mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, should hold particular resonance with West Virginians: Maine has a deep-rooted gun culture built around hunting and sport shooting. ...
The worst — and best — of this country was reflected in Saturday’s deadly attack on a Colorado Springs nightclub. The bar, Club Q, caters to the city’s LGBTQ community. It allegedly was targeted by 22-year-old Anderson Lee Aldrich, who on Monday was arrested on murder and hate ...
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was one bright spot that was almost entirely overshadowed: For the first time in decades, Congress passed legislation addressing America’s out of control gun violence. The bill, Bipartisan ...
by Rekha Basu On March 15, 22-year-old Eden Montang of Ames, Iowa, made an Instagram post about red flags, a topic that, uncannily, is now being debated in Congress. “Stop treating red flags as challenges instead of warning signs,” she wrote, framing it as “Unsolicited ...
Yesterday, when we mentioned the process of getting a license to drive a car, we said we’d come back to that. Well, we’re coming back to it now. At the moment, it is harder to get a driver’s license in some states than it is to get a gun. In the vein of commonsense gun reform, the ...
We’d like to have a conversation about practical ways to protect people from gun violence. Which may be easier said than done considering our Legislature is so “gun”-ho (pun fully intended) that it has proposed two pieces of legislation: One to prohibit officers from enforcing federal ...