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I attended the remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki event on Thursday, Aug. 4, at Riverfront Commemorative Park in Corvallis, and it was both eye-opening and heartfelt.
While criticizing the ease in which the Uvalde school gunman got a rifle, Beto O'Rourke responded to a heckler at a campaign stop with an expletive.
An unexploded bomb from World War 2 was detonated by the Italian Army in Borgo Virgilio, Italy.
History-events
It's been 77 years, but the impacts of the atomic bomb are still felt.
Letters
In his July 22 letter “Think when you vote in elections,” Robert Harris blamed Republicans and the Supreme Court for the recent slaughter occurring in American towns.
THURSDAY, July 28, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- One in 15 male and one in 50 female high school students aged younger than 18 years report gun carrying during the past year, according to research published in the July 29 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Letters
Perhaps Mr. Harris (“Think when you vote in elections,” July 22) does not understand that firearms, regardless of configuration and caliber, have no human feelings.
Editor’s note: The Denver Post respects the wishes of Aurora theater shooting victims and their families that the assailant’s name not be repeated in news stories. In this article, his name is only mentioned in direct quotes by the author. Ten years ago, Dr. Lynne Fenton felt villainized after she was identified as the psychiatrist who treated the Aurora theater shooter in the months leading ...
Paul Sorvino, noted for playing Paulie Cicero in "Goodfellas" and Phil Cerreta on "Law & Order," has died. Get that and more of today's trending news here.
There is so much action in “The Gray Man” you wonder if, maybe, a screenwriter or two got trampled early on.
Letters
With the latest spate of mass shootings, we must honestly face the fact that the Supreme Court, with its libertarian interpretation of the Second Amendment, and Republicans in Congress blocking any meaningful gun control legislation are responsible for the slaughter occurring in American towns and cities.
Three family members were shot to death while camping in an Iowa park, and the suspected gunman died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.
Letters
Thanks to the editors for picking Michael Paul Williams’ piece on solutions to gun violence (“U.S. gun violence knows no boundaries. Our solutions must cross divides,” July 13).
How often do armed bystanders stop active shooters? A closer look at the numbers.
Greenwood Police Chief James Ison said at a news conference today that the actions of the civilian who shot and killed 20-year-old mall shooter Jonathan Sapirman were “nothing short of heroic".
Letters
Petitioners in Oregon are pushing the Legislature to set new requirements for firearm permits and limits on magazines to 10 rounds each.
Letters
Guns don’t kill. Guns are tools. Crazy people use tools to kill.
Preliminary autopsy findings show a Black man killed in a hail of police gunfire by Akron, Ohio, police last month was shot more than 40 times.
"Gun owners that do not properly secure their firearms are just one split second away from one of these tragedies happening in their home," the sheriff said.
Letters
There is no moral defense for allowing anyone outside the military or a police force to own assault weapons or high-capacity magazines.
Letters
When I heard the Fourth of July fireworks this year, the glory they were supposed to mark instead marked the gunshots and gory mass murders this country sees on a regular and insane basis.
Military
The Oregon training is meant to train pilots from different branches of the U.S. military on how to work together in a combat situation. Here's what's flying above and where.
TUESDAY, July 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Pediatricians may become the trusted middle men between gun owners and non-gun owners when it comes to talks about gun safety, a new study shows.
MONDAY, July 11, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Among handgun purchase transactions classified in the riskiest 5 percent, more than one-third are associated with a purchaser who died by firearm suicide within one year, according to a study published online July 11 in JAMA Network Open.