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| DAILY ALERT FOR Saturday, October 27, 2018 |
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| Fortunes seem to rise and fall on Twitter with alarming regularity. But the platform may not be an equal opportunity soapbox, with some opinions reportedly getting more exposure than others and some speakers seemingly operating with greater impunity. That’s why it was refreshing this week to see the people of Waterville, Me. stand behind their Republican mayor, Nick Isgro, after an effort was launched to recall him from office. Mayor Isgro’s supposed offense? Calling gun control activist David Hogg to task in a tweet. |
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| Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York City, plowed $43 million into super PACs supporting Democrats in the first two weeks of October, a sign of his intensifying political influence in the final stretch of the midterms as he secures his place among the top three donors this election. |
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| Gun control groups representing those affected by some of Canada’s worst mass shootings say time is running out for the federal government to ban handguns and assault weapons before the 2019 election. |
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| Last week, we looked at a Gallup poll that found a majority of adults now oppose a ban on so-called “assault weapons” and discussed how even Everytown for Gun Safety is now running campaign ads focused on anything but gun control to help push their agenda. |
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| It’s as if someone confiscated the facts from CNN. When it comes to guns or President Donald Trump the self-professed “most trusted name in news” has a difficult time telling the truth. Combine those topics into a single story and the network can’t seem to help but fabricate a story. |
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| No, our recent article on the latest installment in the Halloween movie franchise, and lead actress Jamie Lee Curtis’s confusing, empty rhetoric about her “support” for the Second Amendment, will not lead to unending “sequels,” like the Halloween series. But with the movie’s release last Friday adding some details about the film’s portrayal of firearms use, and considering Curtis defended her support of repressive gun control policies while trying to maintain that she is not anti-gun, it seemed appropriate for at least this follow-up. |
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| These days the cynical adage “if it bleeds, it leads” seems as applicable to the news media as ever. This is all the more reason that Washington Post advice columnist Carolyn Hax should be applauded for a recent piece where she sought to quell her readers’ out-sized fears about school shootings. Titled, “Apply the empirical method to your school-shooting anxieties,” Hax urged her readers to take a moment to look at the facts about school shootings before succumbing to fear. |
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| It is all all-too-predictable pattern: Every time a mass shooting happens in this country — and they occur with sickening frequency — calls for gun reform rise from growing segments of the populace. Politicians offer “thoughts and prayers” but often little else in terms of real change to a gun violence problem that seems uniquely American. Closer to home, the state Legislature has failed several times to implement measures to curtail gun violence – the exception being the ban on bump stocks signed into law earlier this year. So, with a lack of political will, it is left to the voter-initiative process to try to break the governmental gridlock on gun safety. Which brings us to Initiative 1639, a wide-ranging measure that attempts to solve an arsenal of issues: an age requirement of 21 to buy semiautomatic rifles, in line with the law on handgun purchases; a law specifying “safe storage” of weapons in homes; mandatory training; and a 10-day waiting period on semiautomatic rifle purchase. |
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