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PublishedJune 12, 2022
Maine Voices: Beware excess moderation on guns
Even Aristotle, who taught 'everything in moderation,' understood that outrage can be more virtuous than a lack of human feeling.
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PublishedJune 11, 2022
‘It’s hard to give it up, but I don’t want it to get into the wrong hands,’ says gun owner at Waterville’s ‘gun giveback’ event
The Waterville Police Department teamed up with the Maine Gun Safety Coalition on Saturday to accept firearms and ammunition from people who wanted to safely dispose of them.
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PublishedJune 10, 2022
Maine Voices: America’s gun laws contribute to bloodshed abroad
Gun ownership is tightly restricted in Mexico, but guns smuggled across the border from the U.S. make crime there more deadly.
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PublishedMay 27, 2022
Police waited as children inside Texas school called 911 begging for help
The commander at the scene in Uvalde believed that 18-year-old gunman was barricaded inside adjoining classrooms at Robb Elementary School and that children were no longer at risk.
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PublishedMay 10, 2022
Pittston felon caught with meth and guns pleads guilty to trafficking
Maine Drug Enforcement Agency agents arranged to buy drugs from another man whom they pulled over in a car driven by Tyrel Cox in 2020.
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PublishedMay 2, 2022
Augusta City Council gives police approval to sell some guns in evidence locker, destroy those used in crimes
Augusta Police Department to sell 62 guns and destroy 57 it has acquired over the years.
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PublishedApril 8, 2022
State police shooting of Thorndike man in 2019 found to be justified
Trooper Thomas Bureau II reasonably believed Eric Fitzpatrick, then 33, was about to use unlawful deadly force against him when he shot Fitzpatrick in 2019, the state Attorney General's Office determined.
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PublishedDecember 8, 2021
Sagadahoc police launch gun safety program in light of unintentional shootings by children
Nationwide, 25% of all gun owners reported storing all of their guns in an unlocked location in their home, and 4.6 million minors live in homes with loaded, unlocked firearms, according to a national nonprofit.
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PublishedSeptember 1, 2021
Man found with loaded guns in truck at Acadia National Park
The Ohio man had been drinking alcohol, rangers said, and did not have a concealed weapons permit for the guns.
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PublishedAugust 21, 2021
Maine Voices: Well-meaning ‘yellow flag’ law puts ER doctors in a role they’re not trained for
Assessing who is safe to own or carry weapons should be done with care – not under the time constraints typical of Maine’s emergency departments.
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