guns
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Locals react to court’s gun ruling
Last Friday, June 24, a team of Addison Independent interns/reporters took to the streets of Middlebury to find out how people were feeling about the Supreme Court’s ruling…
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Letter to the editor: The AR-15 is a killing machine
It must be banned.
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Letter to the editor: Guns argument fails the test
In what bizarre alternate universe does the gun violence in America today resemble a “well-regulated militia”?
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Guest editorial: Shootings are the convulsions of a society in decline
It is senseless, right? But what seems “senseless” to the witness observing it, frighteningly, must be sensible to the mind filled with hate and fear and clouded by…
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Guest editorial: Gun proliferation is what has changed
In the wake of yet another mass shooting in the United States, we mourn the child victims and again ask: Why are we as a nation unable to…
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Letter to the editor: Guns do not make us safe
This is not a foreign war. The terrorists are us.
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Letter to the editor: Dubious honor: U.S. is the gun capital of the world
Just this week we all witnessed yet another terrorist attack. This time it was a white suprematist who killed thirteen individuals of which eleven were our black brothers…
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Editorial: If reason prevailed, gun safety would too
If commonsense gun control legislation can’t convince Republican Senators to protect their constituents for fear of upsetting the gun lobby and white supremacists within their party, perhaps portraying…
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GOP gun rights meeting to be held at Ilsley
The Addison County Republicans next week will host an event promoted as the “Gun Rights in Vermont” briefing in Middlebury.
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Editorial: Cruz and the politics of guns
Hunters and reasonable gun owners may be the only Americans capable of talking sense to Republican representatives in the U.S. House and Senate. That’s because political leeches like…
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Six loose cows shot dead in Orwell (updated)
ORWELL — Six loose cows appear to have been shot and killed Friday night in Orwell, according to a press release issued by Vermont State Police Saturday. The…
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Letter to the editor: Yes on guns but no on masks?
I just read Christopher Ross’s piece on mask wearing in Bristol. I agree with the wearing of masks in public. It is such a simple and proactive measure…
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Letter to the editor: Bipartisan gun legislation deserves consideration
Just a few hours after a lobby visit at Senator Leahy’s Burlington office, his staffer sent me the headlining news, “Leahy, Pascrell, King Introduce Crime Gun Tracing Modernization…
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Pittsford board takes a stand on gun rights
PITTSFORD – The Pittsford selectboard has unanimously supported a resolution making the Sunshine Village a gun owner sanctuary. The resolution claims the right to nullify, or invalidate, laws…
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Armed bandit fires gun at East Middlebury robbery
EAST MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury police are searching for an armed bandit who fired his gun — twice — while robbing Mac’s Convenience Store in East Middlebury on Monday…
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Guest editorial: Gun debate stigmatizes those with mental illness
The two recent mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, have increased the climate of fear and hateful rhetoric in our country, causing social division between…