Displaying items by tag: gun control
OPINION: Curbing Gun Violence: Another plea for finding common ground
Several years ago, while driving in Raleigh to what was then a regular, weekly breakfast with my (now deceased) mom, I found myself at a stoplight, briefly shouting and shaking my fist in what, I later realized, could have appeared to reasonable observers to be a moment of angry road rage.
Cooper, Winston-Salem officials address mental health, gun issues after shooting
The shooting death of a student at Mount Tabor High School in Winston-Salem this week brought local and state leaders together Thursday in mourning and to recognize the heroism of local police and faculty. Gov. Roy Cooper traveled to Winston Salem for the news conference and took the opportunity to call for more school spending on “wraparound services” and more gun control measures.
OPINION: Gun control’s racist past is finally making big headlines
We hear plenty of lectures today about teaching America’s “true” or “complete history,” but what about the racist roots of gun control? Fortunately — and mainly because of ignorance on the left concerning history — the issue is receiving overdue attention in today’s news cycle.
OPINION: The 'Thin Blue Line' between you and your guns
People tell me all the time local cops would never enforce any kind of federal gun grab. I call B.S.
OPINION: Dear gun people — be more like the weed people
I know a lot of you are pretty upset about the prospects of a Joe Biden presidency. He’s promised to be tough on guns and you think he might start an all-out assault on the Second Amendment. We could see more federal gun control coming down the pike. We could even see some kind of weapons ban.
OPINION: Why I'm not worried about the Biden/Harris gun control talk
Richmond County declared Second Amendment sanctuary
Democratic lawmakers urge conversation on gun-control bills
COLUMN: Universal background checks are back
While everyone was chatting about the 2018-2019 United States government shutdown, House Democrats introduced a universal background check bill H.R. 8 on Jan. 8, 2019.
Cooper administration panel proposes school-safety measures
RALEIGH — Making money available for mental health programs and including students in conversations about school safety are among the recommendations in a report from the N.C. Governor’s Crime Commission Special Committee on School Shootings.