First, the supermarket shooting in Buffalo, N.Y., that left 10 dead. Second, the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 kids and two teachers dead. Finally, […]
Tag: gun control
Justice expects decision this week on putting gas tax holiday before the Legislature
MORGANTOWN – Gov. Jim Justice said on Monday he should have a decision on a gas tax holiday by his next press briefing, which will probably be […]
June 5 letters to the editor
Guns changed since Second Amendment Another horrific mass killing of children in schools — now in Texas but previously in Florida, Connecticut, Colorado and Florida. How can […]
We must address guns but that’s not the only solution
by Cynthia M. Allen In the aftermath of a tragedy like the elementary school massacre in Uvalde, when emotions and egos are running high, few of us […]
Saving America from within
by Martin Schram “Seven Days in May,” the epic 1960s novel and a film starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas and Ava Gardner, was a fictional tale about […]
So much for the good guy with a gun
So much for the good guy with a gun. That, you will recall, was NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre’s preferred solution to America’s epidemic of firearms violence. “The […]
Gun debate needs to break old patterns
by Ramesh Ponnuru The mass murder of children in Uvalde, Texas, coming just 10 days after the mass murder of shoppers in Buffalo, N.Y., moved former Sen. […]
Will the cycle end?
Another mass shooting. Another school shooting. Another senseless tragedy. What is there left for us to say that someone else hasn’t already said? Thirty-one people, including more […]
May 29 letters to the editor
Will history repeat without Roe v. Wade? In 1944-45, Helen Cooper was a first-year teacher in Cincinnati when she told her seventh-graders their classmate had died from […]
Capito talks with West Virginia reporters about Texas school shooting
MORGANTOWN – Sen. Shelley Moore Capito met virtually with West Virginia reporters Thursday and most of the questions and answers dealt with the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting. […]