There are ample reasons daily in our state why we need to be diligent about pressing for gun control measures in the legislature. We rightly decry gun violence while in liberal places such as Madison and Dane County, there is much lamenting the lack of tougher laws and stricter enforcement to stem the violence and …
Gun crimes make the national news mostly when mass shootings occur. Still, the massive number of guns in our society (over 400 million) produces daily shootings, violence, and costly hospital bills for society. Such as in the case of Ralph Paul Yarl. How is it that people open a door or respond to a doorbell …
The carnage from gun violence struck hard in Wisconsin over Easter weekend and then erupted in Louisville Monday morning as the 146th mass shooting in the nation occurred this year. By midday, national news reports of governors in both Kentucky and Tennessee having lost friends in mass shootings in recent days were crossing the wires. …
Continue reading Gun Violence From Barron County To Louisville, What About Police Officers?
I was pleased to learn from a radio newscast that the Department of Justice reached a tentative $144.5 million settlement agreement with the victims of the 2017 shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. With the continuing list of mass shootings making headlines weekly, you can be forgiven for not recalling which mass shooting …
Chicago mayoral elections are always a frothy affair, but this year’s primary season has taken on a far more sobering mood for many voters. The primary field is large and the verbal punches are given and replied to in equal measure. But for the voters what matters is not the campaign tactics of the contenders, …
When I think of Wisconsin Supreme Court justices my mental image constructs a serious person with law books and one of those expensive type pens that write smoothly and has a nice heft when held. I recall the mesh market bag that held at least ten legal tomes as Wisconsin Justice Shirley Abramson placed them …
The first thing I ever wrote to be published was a Letter to the Editor of my county newspaper lamenting the lack of gun control. I was a high school teenager who found it hard to fathom the stunning number of handgun deaths in the nation. Several decades later and the search for an understanding …
Continue reading UW-Madison Professor Places Gun Culture Roots In Post-Civil War South
The new session of the U.S. Supreme Court started out with an action that runs in alignment with a major theme of this blog, gun safety in the nation. The Court rejected two appeals by gun owners seeking to overturn the federal government’s ban on the sale of bump stocks. Those stocks are the shortened …
Continue reading Supreme Court Starts Session With Win For Gun Control Safety In America
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