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Donald Trump deserves credit for America's new moral movements, says Robert Reich: They developed as a counter to him. - NRA has yet to provide a reasonable justification for personal ownership of military weapons.
- The president doesn't have to run toward an active shooter to demonstrate his bravery, he has to stand up to the NRA.
- As a nation we have more guns in civilian hands than any other. We tend to ignore uncomfortable statistics like these or assume that, like the weather, nothing can be done about gun violence because of the Second Amendment to the Constitution. This assumption is false.
- After reading Dean Minnichs opinion, that demonized the NRA, people that own guns and citizens that take the Constitution of the United States seriously are
- I just finished reading Dean Minnich's opinion column "Admit it, guns are toys." After reading the article I find myself very confused. He bashes gun owners
- Witcover: Imagine what serious members of Congress might think of Mr. Trump's comparisons of school shootings with aircraft hijackings, and his idea to arm teachers with the concealed carrying of federal air marshals.
- The Parkland students have a right to speak out about gun control, but we also have a right to disagree, says Jonah Goldberg.
- It’s past time for the Congress of these United States to get some backbone and pay attention to the people and not kowtow to the NRA and arms manufacturers, and pass meaningful regulations on the type of firearms that can be legally kept.
- Parents and survivors of this latest school shooting are not going to be silent. They are not willing to see their friends and loved ones forgotten. They will not allow our political leaders sweep gun violence under the rug yet again.
- President Trump's call for arming teachers is just politics, and not a serious response to Florida shooting.
- Instead of arming teachers or following the NRA script, we should go back to banning assault-style weapons.
- Politicians who take the NRA's blood money are being called out by children, who want them to grow up, says Leonard Pitts Jr.
- You know it’s true. The saying, “The only difference between boys and men is the cost of their toys.” We put up with mass murder because it makes some people rich, and they get rich because some people are so insecure they need a gun like an infant needs a binky.
- The outrage of teenagers at mass shootings at schools and the failure of Congress to take effective action in response has in a matter of days grown into a mass
- Deeds, statements and behavior that would have spelled doom for any politician in the past have now become normalized. It appears that many voters have lost their moral compass, or at least set it aside for the sake of political expediency.
- NRA spokeswoman says 'insane monster' in Florida should never had access to a firearm. Does the gun lobby now support gun control? We'll have to "call B.S." on that one.
- The students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School are a moral force the likes of which we have not seen in a long, long time. And that makes them more potent than our Twitter-addled president, all the far right conspiracy theorists trying to trash them or possibly even the NRA.
- Since the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School reinvigorated the debate around gun ownership, the stances on gun issues of Maryland’s congressional representatives have fallen along familiar party lines.
- Stoneman Douglas students make a persuasive case for gun safety but will adults hear them?
- In a more genteel time, with segregation, the threat of nuclear annihilation, and politicians in both major parties making headlines, you really could satirize the news. But that was then. It’s much harder today to lampoon the top news stories.
- In the wake of this latest tragedy, some lawmakers have called for more gun control while others have talked about mental illness. I don’t need to tell you which side called for which solution.
- Women — specifically, Republican women — are the best hope for changing the gun laws in the United States.
- Fighting gun violence in schools requires an organization like MADD that so effectively fought drunk driving.
- President Donald Trump says we must do something after the Broward high school shooting. But he won't even mention the obvious: Restricting access to the guns that made this and so many other tragedies possible.
- Refusing to discuss gun control in wake of Florida shooting is another manifestation of evil behavior.
- Hopkins research shows little evidence that armed civilians can stop mass shootings.
- A Westminster man was arrested Friday after allegedly being found illegally in possession of firearms and ammunition.
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- I read with horror the words of Gary Foote's letter on Nov. 24. He wrote, "… we have to admit that this country must think it's OK for children to be gunned
- Top Democrats in the General Assembly want to expand Maryland's assault weapons ban to include bump stocks, a firearms accessory used in the Las Vegas mass shooting.
- Why isn’t this silent majority sufficiently impassioned to impose its will politically to regulate guns? Part of the answer is that for most Americans guns are too abstract, and the havoc they wreak too remote.
- The simple fact is that many elites in places such as New York and Los Angeles, regardless of ideology, just don't like guns or the culture of people who do.
- Mass shootings will continue as long as the GOP keeps its head in the sand
- Mass shootings can't be addressed by arming more people more often.
- Devin Kelley's domestic violence convictions should have stopped him from getting guns, but federal law does nothing to prevent many other violent perpetrators from owning firearms.
- I'd like to respond to Wayne Thomas' Other Voices piece of Oct. 28.
- Second Amendment gun rights are not really what many advocates claim.
- The country has gone too far with guns and violence; time to stop and make a U-turn, Dan Rodricks writes.
- The president has been the primary practitioner of fake news, starting well before his election, says Jules Witcover.
- What needs to be done is to take measures which could help to prevent or at least lessen the pain resulting from these disasters.
- Gun advocates seek to overturn Maryland law at Supreme Court
- Culleton: Semi-automatic weapons have no legitimate role in hands of civilians
- the principal gun lobby before Congress has signaled support for federal limitations on the weapons used in the Las Vegas mass assassination.
- What keeps politicians from pursuing gun restrictions isn't cash from the NRA; it's votes from their passionate constituents who favor gun rights, says Jonah Goldberg.
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- Because so many of us willingly swallow the lie that the Second Amendment cannot co-exist with reasonable regulation, the next batch of dead is only a matter of time, says Leonard Pitts Jr.
- Donald Trump and others in the GOP have perfected fake sincerity, says Jules Witcover.
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- If we can do nothing about guns, how about addressing attitudes toward guns?
