The Legislative Council should advance proposals to keep guns out of child care centers and safely stored by home care providers.
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Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Maine Compass: In today’s classrooms, educators’ focus turns to keeping students alive
Teachers are taking lessons, and they’re on preparing for mass shootings, binding wounds and recognizing signs of abuse.
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Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Maine Compass: Solution to school shootings must come from within each institution
Bring family and school together, so parents and students are part of the same community and young people become each other’s supporters.
Posted inNation & World, News
Minnesota violence project aims to understand mass shootings
Minnesota researchers have created a new database that seeks to help understand circumstances that contribute to mass shooting incidents in the United States
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Maine 2nd District candidate’s gun raffle is an immature political stunt
Eric Brakey may think he’s being provocative, but he ought to know better.
Posted inNation & World, News
Wisconsin jury awards $450,000 in Sandy Hook defamation case
The father of a boy killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was awarded $450,000 after he filed a lawsuit against conspiracy theorists who claimed the massacre never happened.
Posted inNation & World, News
Road rage leaves 2-year-old with gunshot wound in Baltimore
The boy was in ‘somewhat stable condition’ Saturday and was expected to survive, police say.
Posted inNation & World, News, Politics
Ted Cruz warns a Trump deal with Democrats on gun control could lead conservatives to stay home in 2020
The Texas senator specifically referenced a possible deal between the Trump administration and a bipartisan group of senators on background checks.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Commentary: The NRA is not a terrorist organization
The National Rifle Association richly deserves criticism for its role in preventing the enactment of sensible gun control legislation. The Los Angeles Times put the matter bluntly in an editorial in February: “Because of the gun group’s cynical hardline policies and near-religious embrace of the Second Amendment, more and more Americans live at daily risk […]
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Democratic leaders urge Trump to intervene with Senate Republicans on gun bill
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer say the president’s ‘urgent, personal intervention is needed.’