Month: February 2018

DENVER — A rural Colorado school district decided Wednesday night to allow its teachers and other school staff to carry guns on campus to protect students. The Hanover School District 28 board voted 3-2 to allow school employees to volunteer to be armed on the job after undergoing training. The district’s two schools serve about

“It was introduced in the U.S. Senate in October 1990 by Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware and was signed into law by President George H.W. Bush.” The Gun-Free School Zones Act (GFSZA) is an act of the U.S. Congress prohibiting any unauthorized individual from knowingly possessing a loaded or unsecured firearm at a

In the wake of the recent Parkland Florida school shooting in which an evil and disturbed young man opened fire on innocent, unarmed students and teachers, it shocks me to see people suggest that the best way to prevent these attacks is by disarming even more innocent people. The reality is true. The solution to

Every paragraph in this article makes important points and is well worth the time to read it all. It should be shared widely. “If we want to be realistic, we’d have to ban all guns for a ban to be effective, or at least all semi-automatic guns and revolvers, but then if we wanted to

My dad taught me to shoot when I was 6. First lesson: never point a gun at someone unless you intend to kill them. He was a WWII vet. Hmm. Not so many of my generation have committed these atrocities. Perhaps we need to rethink the relationship our kids have with guns. They are not

The FBI Uniform Crime Report (UCR) for 2016 shows more than four times as many people were stabbed to death than were killed with rifles of any kind. And because the category of rifles covers every type of rifle, this means there would be an even greater divide between the number of people stabbed to

“When terrorists attacked a school in Maalot in 1974, Israel did not declare every school a gun-free zone. It passed a law mandating armed security in schools, provided weapons training to teachers and today runs frequent active shooter drills. There have been only two school shootings since then, and both have ended with teachers killing

Newly-confirmed Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar appeared before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Thursday, the day after a mass murder in Florida that claimed the lives of 17 persons, most of whom were high school students. President Donald Trump, among others, deplored the incident and attention to mental health issues that

In the wake of the Florida school shooting, many on the left have renewed their calls for stricter gun control legislation. Tucker Carlson suggested the attack on the Second Amendment isn’t about protecting American citizens, and it’s actually “a kind of class war.” He said it’s important for our country to get to the bottom