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Point: America's murder rate dropped historically but …

2/8/2024
Following an alarming national spike in violent crime over the first two years of the coronavirus pandemic, in 2023, we saw the largest one-year decline in murder rates in modern U.S. history.

Counterpoint: More guns don't equal more crime

2/8/2024
There may be no tenet of faith so fundamental to the cult of gun control than the idea that more guns equate to more crime — a theory that was soundly disproven in 2023.

Buckeye school districts take campus safety measures

6/1/2022
BUCKEYE — With last week’s Uvalde, Texas student and teacher massacre still fresh in their minds, administrators at two school districts in the Southwest Valley will move ahead this …

Gun tax exemption advances

2/16/2022
PHOENIX — Arizona lawmakers are moving to help make the purchase of guns just a bit more affordable. By a 6-4 margin, the House Ways and Means Committee voted Wednesday to exempt the sale of …

Arizona bill would OK guns on college campuses

1/20/2022
PHOENIX — Insisting it will make students safer, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to let anyone with a permit to carry a concealed weapon bring it on to university and college …

Lawmaker: Waive taxes on firearms

1/13/2022
PHOENIX — Calling them necessities, a first-term lawmaker wants the same sales tax rate on guns as to the food you buy from the grocery and the prescriptions you get from your …

Patriot Store in Peoria raises questions over ammo …

4/12/2021
A pop-up tent named the Patriot Store selling ammunition near Candeo charter school between Happy Valley and Pinnacle Peak roads in north Peoria drew the ire of many parents last week.

Miller: What guns do I really need?

4/9/2021
In the ongoing debate over gun control you often hear statements like “no one really needs an AK-47 or an AR-15” (these are usually mislabeled “assault weapons”) or “no …

Feess: Ideas on immigration, gun control

4/1/2021
I, like most Americans, am frustrated by Congress’s inabilities to do anything toward solving pressing current problems. I would like to suggest two remedies here on which members of both …