The Press Herald website prominently featured Senator Collins’ participation in a one-hour bipartisan discussion of gun safety measures in the U.S. Senate. Collins voiced her support for a “Yellow Flag” law requiring a “medical practitioner to approve a request to temporarily take away someone’s firearms.” In the article, the senator failed to endorse other effective […]

The mass shooting at Robb Elementary is devastating to all the parents who lost their precious children. Now the impetus is on gun control, as it always is after any mass shootings. Please think about the following: New York and Chicago have strict gun control laws, yet 10 people were killed in a mass shooting […]

In the last week, I have consumed media almost exclusively about two horrors: the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Texas and daily reports of Palestinian youth murdered by the Israeli military. I have spent months living in a refugee camp in the West Bank. My friends and neighbors have all experienced physical violence at […]

For far too long, gun promoters have argued that guns should be easy to get, that guns in the hands of citizens will make everyone safer. They do not. We grow less safe year after year. More guns equal more suicides, more murders, more fear. I am a third-grade teacher – if a child, in […]