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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Tag: Guns

Crime and Justice

Jeremy Richman tried to survive his daughter’s killing in a mass shooting. He couldn’t

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 25, 2019, 2:12 PM Mar 25, 2019

In many ways, the debate over guns ended in 2012 when the nation went on about its business and changed pretty much nothing after little kids and their teachers were slaughtered in Newtown, Conn. That must have been particularly difficult for people like Jeremy Richman, who hasn’t been able to take any positives out of Read more →

Politics

Politicians wear pearls in gun hearing. But why?

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 5, 2019, 12:56 PM Mar 5, 2019
0 Comments

When the New Hampshire General Court held a public hearing at the statehouse on gun legislation opponents wore pearls. Read more →

Education

In yearbook photo decision, Blackduck avoids a brouhaha

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 25, 2019, 2:01 PM Jan 25, 2019
14 Comments

There are guns in yearbook stories and then there are guns in yearbooks stories. They’re not all created equal and the Blackduck, Minn., School Committee seemed to recognize that when it voted to allow Antonia Long’s photo to appear in the yearbook. She’s holding a gun. Read more →

This or That

Wisconsin employees get Christmas present from the boss: a gun

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 15, 2018, 8:14 AM Nov 15, 2018
27 Comments

We’re not particularly surprised that a Wisconsin company has given a gun to each employee for Christmas. Because, after all, what says ‘Merry Christmas’ more than a gun? Read more →

Crime and Justice

In the halls of power, the gun debate will get more personal

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 8, 2018, 2:25 PM Nov 8, 2018
39 Comments

There is a growing political caucus in America: people in office whose children have been killed in gun violence. Read more →

The right to print arms

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 29, 2018, 8:15 AM Aug 29, 2018
94 Comments

We’ll go out on a limb and suggest that the Founding Fathers never envisioned a country where a wizard could print a musket out of thin air. Read more →

Education

1,000 Words: The lockdown song

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 7, 2018, 7:05 AM Jun 7, 2018
20 Comments

Your kindergarteners are going to be singing new nursery rhymes. Read more →

Politics

Reluctant well-regulated militia avoids 2nd Amendment debate

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 5, 2018, 7:27 AM Apr 5, 2018
38 Comments

About 200 Colonial wannabees showed up over the weekend to practice for the annual recreation of the battles of April 19, 1775,using their muskets, which many of them insist is not a gun.
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Sports

With kids dying, Anthony Rizzo will not stick to baseball

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 29, 2018, 12:18 PM Mar 29, 2018
27 Comments

Professional baseball players tend to be conservatives who know how to keep quiet about things that might divide their fans.

Anthony Rizzo, star of the Chicago Cubs, doesn’t care about any of that. Read more →

Education

New Prague school criticized for banning pro-gun sign during protest

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 16, 2018, 6:54 AM Mar 16, 2018
72 Comments

New Prague High School is ground zero in the gun debate nationally after a video showed a student, holding a sign that said ‘Guns don’t kill people, people kill people,’ was told he couldn’t hold it during Wednesday’s protest against school shootings. Read more →

Crime and Justice

Vadnais Heights raid violated 2nd Amendment, family member says

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 5, 2018, 9:21 AM Mar 5, 2018
93 Comments

A haul of unsecured weapons was found inside the home of a boy with autism who allegedly made a threat at a Vadnais Heights school. His grandfather says they were only family heirlooms. Read more →

Crime and Justice

Baseball team sells AR-15 in raffle

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 19, 2018, 7:26 AM Feb 19, 2018
13 Comments

Levi Patterson, the coach of a 9-and-under baseball team in Neosho, Missouri, is going ahead with the gun raffle. He owns a gun store in town and says he came up with the idea before the shooting in Parkland, Florida.
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Arts & Culture · Crime and Justice

1,000 Words: The cartoon

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 16, 2018, 3:59 PM Feb 16, 2018
4 Comments

Editorial cartoons, despite their name, are plenty serious. With a few strokes of a pen, they can destroy whatever reserve you have left. Read more →

Crime and Justice

The acceptable normalcy of mass slaughter

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 15, 2018, 6:51 AM Feb 15, 2018
140 Comments

Embracing God and a perverted definition of freedom, we believe that a person should be able to buy a gun intended to kill lots of kids in a hurry, faster than the security guard with a gun that you think is the solution, can put down his doughnut. Read more →

Education

Crookston senior can’t use picture of his gun and pickup in yearbook

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 23, 2018, 3:00 PM Jan 23, 2018
11 Comments

The annual controversies surrounding yearbook photos are off to an early start this year with the school board in Crookston deciding to back away from a policy announced earlier this month that bans guns from yearbook photos. Read more →

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