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Leonard Pitts Jr.: The price of "gun rights" is fallen bodies, broken families and children with PTSD.

On Tuesday, a Maryland Legal Aid attorney announced he had filed a complaint against a Harford County Sheriff’s deputy that alleges an officer detained and questioned him on the basis of race, suspecting he was his client impersonating a lawyer.

The recent suicides of two people connected to the mass shooting at Parkland High School last year, and another how lost his daughter in Columbine, show that the trauma of violence is long-lasting.

Three will join the Howard County Women’s Hall of Fame having shared one common bond: unwavering devotion to strengthening their communities.

According to court records, Christopher Paul Hasson found inspiration in a 1,500-page manifesto prepared by Anders Behring Breivik, a right-wing Norwegian extremist who killed 77 people, many of them children, in a bomb-and-gun rampage in 2011 that he called his “martyrdom operation."

Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler is publicly supporting a border wall between the United States and Mexico, and is calling on Congress to fund a wall to stop the “free flow of poison” coming into the country.

A group of Howard County activists promoting gun violence prevention will host an gathering this Friday in Columbia.

In wake of bombings, the president tries bipartisanship (for a matter of hours) before returning to his customary hateful rhetoric.

In the wake of the Capital-Gazette shootings, what happened to other buildings where mass shootings took place? There is no template for dealing with them. It's largely up to owners and the affected community.

By Meredith Cohn

Jul 10, 2018

The letters and emails keep arriving in lawmakers’ offices, filled with worry, passion and exclamation points.

By Jeff Barker

Jun 24, 2018

Johnny Olszewski Jr., a former state delegate from Dundalk, is one of three leading candidates for the Democratic nomination for Baltimore County executive.

By Pamela Wood

Jun 8, 2018

In their interactions with the local community, the two finalists to become Harford County Public Schools’ next superintendent have emphasized the need for extensive preparation, training and collaboration to ensure schools are safe.

By David Anderson

May 18, 2018

Sean Bulson, the second of two finalists to be the next superintendent of Harford County Public Schools, met with the community Thursday evening.

By David Anderson

May 18, 2018

DES Director Edward Hopkins gives the Harford County Council a wide-ranging update on present and future initiatives to improve emergency services and EMS in the county.

By David Anderson

May 4, 2018

From St. Mary's County to Parkland, the Orlando Pulse night club to the Las Vegas concert, and Sandy Hook to the Oklahoma City bombing, each of the individual's who carried out these heinous acts had something in common: a history of domestic violence or misogynistic attitudes toward women.

Talk of arming teachers strikes me as cavalier leaping toward insane, an answer to mass shootings that expands, rather than diminishes, the presence of guns in American life, thereby increasing the risk of injury or death.

By Dan Rodricks

Mar 6, 2018

Gov. Larry Hogan plans to shell out $125 million to outfit Maryland schools with metal detectors and panic buttons, yet he’s only willing to spend the bare minimum to ensure Baltimore City schools have heat. If he really wants to ensure our children have a future, he should fund their educations.

Students at Excel Academy in West Baltimore haven’t experienced a school shooting, but have lost seven schoolmates to street gun violence in the last year and a half, and can share stories going back decades about the outsize role guns have played in their lives and the impact it has had on them.

By Kevin Rector

Mar 1, 2018

Maryland lawmakers in the Maryland General Assembly are seeking to ban bump stocks, take guns from domestic abusers and create a "red flag" system to intervene when a gun owner's behavior is threatening but not criminal.

By Erin Cox

Feb 28, 2018

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.

A zero-tolerance policy regarding threats needs to be in place and clearly communicated to students and staff with significant and automatic disciplinary measures outlined. How significant? That’s up to the school system to decide, but the punishment needs to be enough to be a real deterrent.

Every day, I leave the children for someone else to care for, expecting – without ever thinking twice – that we will see them again at the end of the day. What a privilege. What a fallacy. 

Stoneman Douglas students make a persuasive case for gun safety but will adults hear them?

The family of 7-year-old Josephine Gay, one of 20 kids killed in the Sandy Hook school massacre, has moved back to Maryland. Mom Michele Gay, a Columbia native who has become an activist for school safety, said she finds hope in how high school students themselves are leading the fight this time.

By Jean Marbella

Feb 19, 2018

With survivors of the Feb. 14 mass shooting in Parkland, Fla. — which killed 17 — and other advocates calling for Congress to take action to prevent future school shootings, gun laws like Maryland’s are being debated on a national scale.

By Michael Dresser

Feb 19, 2018

Women — specifically, Republican women — are the best hope for changing the gun laws in the United States.

By Dan Rodricks

Feb 17, 2018

Several students walked up to Baltimore school police officer Tiffany Wiggins Thursday morning and asked her, “What are we going to do if there’s a school shooting here?” The children’s questions come a day after a 19-year-old expelled student went on a shooting rampage at his former high school,

Active-duty Army trauma surgeon Kyle Remick, of Walter Reed hospital, teaches River Hill High School ninth-graders about on-site trauma care in collaboration with the Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue Services.

By Andrew Michaels

Dec 13, 2017

For 60 years, a Lansdowne sporting goods shop has weathered debate and a changing climate over gun sales.

By Libby Solomon

Dec 12, 2017

I have this recurring dream. It’s kind of like a Bizarro World mash-up of “Seinfeld” and “Groundhog Day.” George Costanza is president of the United States. Staying true to character, he is totally self-centered and petty. He lashes out impetuously at anyone who criticizes him.

The Supreme Court has turned away an appeal from Maryland gun owners who challenged the state's assault weapons ban.

We need to limit the number of military-grade assault rifles an individual can buy.

Kennedy: On stricter gun laws, if not now, when?

Donald Trump and others in the GOP have perfected fake sincerity, says Jules Witcover.

Is Las Vegas destined to join the ranks of mass shootings ignored by Congress?

The nurses convened at the Carroll County Career and Technology Center last week to learn about, and practice, stopping the bleeding if someone is in a life-threatening situation.

Alexandria shooting exposes the violent spirit infecting American politics

An 18-year-old student is in police custody after Catoctin High School officials and law enforcement were notified by a concerned parent about a potential th

Teaching students to 'say something' when problems arise can reduce threat of gun violence in schools

The Supreme Court has rejected challenges to assault weapons bans in Connecticut and New York, in the aftermath of the shooting attack on a gay nightclub in

What if the mass shooting that took place at an Orlando night club, killing 49 and wounding 53, had taken place on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives? What if instead of having 49 anonymous partyers lying dead we had 49 members of Congress in the morgue? Would the reaction from officials in Washington have been any different? Would we still have a Florida congressman stating that it was too early after the massacre to make any judgments? I really doubt it.

In the wake of the Orlando massacre this week, top Maryland Democrats plan to renew a push to ban people on terrorist watch lists from buying guns here.

By Erin Cox

Jun 16, 2016

Van Hollen's gun control won't save anyone's life

Laurel city employees have participated in active shooter training sessions held by the Laurel Police Department to prepare themselves for any potentially dangerous scenario, according to city officials.

By Andrew Michaels

Dec 17, 2015

Let's get rid of the Second Amendment altogether. Let the states and Congress regulate firearms as they see fit.

Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh and other officials on Wednesday urged more states to adopt strict handgun purchasing laws, pointing to Johns Hopkins research that shows permit requirements are associated with reductions in gun deaths.

By Alison Knezevich

Sep 30, 2015

If Sandy Hook didn't change gun laws, the murder of two reporters on live TV won't either, Leonard Pitts writes.

A federal appeals court will hear arguments on key provisions of Maryland's sweeping gun-control law.

Two years after the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., it's tempting to think of the horrific incident as a remote, rare event, unlikely to ever hit home. That would be naive. There have been at least two gun-related incidents in my children's Baltimore County school district in the past two years alone. And while school systems nationwide, including in Baltimore County, have spent a fortune on security measures since Sandy Hook, often following the NRA's advice of

NRA endorses Hogan, the Brown campaign announces

By Michael Dresser

Oct 20, 2014