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Letters to the editor appearing in the July 6 Carroll County Times.

The weather’s hot and humid; mosquitoes are biting; the back of my neck is sunburned. This means it's again time for my semi-annual list of pet peeves.

The recent stabbings of Japanese schoolchildren were horrible — and nowhere near as deadly as the attack would have been if a gun was involved.

A software company has decided that it doesn't want certain gun retailers to use its products blazing a trail others should follow.

Governor's veto means Maryland State Police decisions about handgun permits are destined to be undermined again.

The saga of the Russian gun-rights activist Maria Butina , who is currently in a US jail after charges of espionage were brought against her, has gained media traction since she became the first Russian national convicted of seeking to influence US politics during the 2016 presidential elections. Her attempts to infiltrate the highly influential National Rifle Association of America (NRA), in order to relay intelligence on American politicians to Russian government officials, demonstrated a high level of involvement in influential circles. Her alleged Russian government handler, a member of the Russian upper house of Parliament Alex Torshin, ...

Universal background check for all gun sales - the bipartisan gun violence legislation that is embarrassingly overdue.

Can Donald Trump recognize anti-Semitism? When he hears it, perhaps, just not when he participates in it.

There was a shooting at the University of Maryland Medical Center in downtown Baltimore on Monday morning, a spokeswoman for the hospital said.

Supreme Court may soon force communities like Baltimore to allow most everyone to carry a firearm.

In addition to the five employees killed in June in the shootings at the Annapolis Capital, the region lost a number of notable citizens in 2018. Here, we recall some of those who left a lasting mark.

A Johns Hopkins Hospital surgeon joined other doctors on Capitol Hill in recounting harrowing stories of the effects of gun violence. It's part of an effort to compel congressional action and take issue with a recent National Rifle Association assertion that doctors should "stay in their lane."

By Jeff Barker

Nov 29, 2018

Doctors have significant standing in the gun debate. Here in Maryland, Shock Trauma doctors have created a Violence Intervention Program to reduce the “revolving door phenomenon” of gunshot victims. Rep. Ruppersberger is drafting legislation to take this program nationwide.

The National Rifle Association is wrong in telling doctors they have no place in the gun control debate.

Sakran launched a Twitter campaign, which includes an account called @ThisIsOurLane, following the uproar over the NRA tweet among members of the medical community.

By Lillian Reed

Nov 13, 2018

Joseph Davies Tydings, the last Harford County resident to serve in the United States Senate, a confidante of John and Robert Kennedy and a lifelong independent voice for progressive Democrats, died Monday from cancer in Washington, D.C. He was 90.

Joseph D. Tydings, a Maryland lawyer and “Kennedy man” who followed his adoptive father’s footsteps into the U.S. Senate, died Monday of cancer in Washington surrounded by family. He was 90.

Yes, times sure have changed. Cooperation, consensus and compromise have become dirty words. Honesty and integrity seem to have become expendable commodities in our throw-away culture.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and Democratic challenger Ben Jealous met Monday for the only scheduled debate in the 2018 governor’s race. This transcript was generated through a mix of automated software and human editing.

The National Rifle Association has lowered Gov. Larry Hogan's ranking from A- to C, without explaining why.

By Luke Broadwater

Sep 22, 2018

The gamer from Baltimore had a history of mental illness - could his dangerous behavior been predicted or prevented?

Believe in what Donald Trump does, not what he says, because he rarely speaks truthfully.

March for Our Lives student leaders were at Baltimore's NAACP headquarters Monday afternoon to encourage online voter registration and digital organizing on the 53rd anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

By Catherine Rentz

Aug 6, 2018

President Trump says he is consulting with the NRA over whether it makes sense for a Texas company to publish downloadable blueprints for a 3D-printed gun.

State attorneys general are stepping in where the Trump administration did not and objecting to plastic 'ghost' guns.

Jealous has repeatedly criticized Hogan for never releasing his answers to the NRA in a four-year-old questionnaire. During the 2014 campaign, Hogan earned an A- rating from the organization.

By Luke Broadwater

Jul 23, 2018

Governor Hogan needs to put action into words on his 'common sense' approach to gun safety.

Students from Great Mills High School, where a 17-year-old girl was shot and killed earlier this year, organized a rally against gun violence Saturday in Annapolis that drew dozens despite the rain.

By Luke Broadwater

Jul 21, 2018

Judge Brett Kavanaugh's extensive record requires serious examination and raises lots of questions. Here are some important ones he needs to answer.

Johnny Olszewski Jr. eked out a9-vote win in Baltimore County Democratic primary for county executive

By Pamela Wood

Jul 6, 2018

Annapolis shooting: Easy access to mental health care is only part of the solution, restricting access to guns is needed, too.

The most important and serious action you can take, if you really want serious federal gun control successfully legislated, is to vote Democratic in 2018 and 2020.

Baltimore County’s Democratic voters are being slammed with information about gun control: flyers in their mail, e-mails in their inboxes, ads on their TVs.

By Pamela Wood

Jun 21, 2018

State Sen. Jim Brochin’s newest television ad goes on the attack against one of his rivals in the Democratic primary for Baltimore County executive, County Councilwoman Vicki Almond.

By Pamela Wood

Jun 19, 2018

With voters now casting their ballots, the intensity has ratcheted up in the Democratic primary for Baltimore County executive, with attack ads airing on the radio and negative fliers landing in voters’ mailboxes.

By Pamela Wood

Jun 15, 2018

The meaning of the Second Amendment has been twisted in modern times.

The theme of an ad for Rich Madaleno is 'Take that, Trump." It ends with what the campaign bill as the first same-sex kiss in a political ad.

By Michael Dresser

Jun 8, 2018

School safety commission gets an early failing grade by giving guns a pass.

Since the beginning of 2018, more children have died in school shootings than military service personnel in combat zones. You have to ask yourselves where the

Election-year politics burst out at the Baltimore County Council meeting Tuesday as two Democratic candidates seeking to be the next county executive offered support for a gun control bill sponsored by their common rival: Councilwoman Vicki Almond. 

By Pamela Wood

May 29, 2018

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Why can't gun rights advocates admit they're wrong about mass shootings and easy gun access?

After the Texas school shooting a reader asked us to list the gun control measures we think would make a difference. Here are a few.

There is no better time than now to demand a realistic rewriting of the Second Amendment, says Jules Witcover.

In wake of latest school shooting, Houston's police chief sickened by hypocrisy of gun rights absolutists - and so are most Americans.

Voters of Carroll County deserve better than unattributed ad hominem attacks and appeals to people’s underlying fears and prejudices. Candidates can parry this political porn by using town hall meetings, forums and this newspaper to tell us more about what they stand for and what they are aga

Critics of Jim Brochin are wrong to portray him as a Democrat-In-Name-Only when his record says otherwise.

John Olszewski Jr. may be a Democrat but he's no progressive.

If you need some relief from the daily exercise in obscene chaos inflicted on the world by Donald Trump , I have a book for you to read. “My Life in Progressive Politics” is the autobiography of Joseph D. Tydings, a Marylander raised in the lap of luxury who spent his life in service to his nation.

Some students left their classrooms at 10 a.m. Friday and gathered on the sidewalk outside the Patapsco High School building.

By Talia Richman

Apr 20, 2018

The Second Amendment provides for the people to have the means to prevent a tyrannical government takeover and means of self-defense.