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The rights of nature to be added to
the Constitution
Friday
May 12, 2023
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A r u b a ’ s O N L Y E n g l i s h n e w s p a p e r
Despite cracks in Republican gun-rights wall, differences between states widen

By JEFF AMY
Associated Press
There have been a few
cracks in the predictable
pattern of Republican-
controlled states loosening
gun laws while Democratic
states tighten them.
But it’s far too soon to say
the GOP is changing direc-
tion even amid a record-
setting pace for mass kill-
ings in the United States.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, a
Republican, is sticking by
his plan to call a special
legislative session on gun
control.
Lee had asked lawmak-
ers to pass a bill allow-
ing judges to take away
guns from people who the
judge thinks pose an immi-
nent threat to themselves
or others.
Lee shies away from call-
ing his plan a red flag law,
which he calls a “toxic po-
litical label.”
Monday, May 1, 2023, in Pontiac, Mich. Ruby shot and killed her boyfriend and brother before taking her own life hours later on May
8, 2022. Kobylik had spent the weeks prior calling police asking them to remove her daughter’s firearm. “They said we can’t take
any guns away from her because we cannot step on her second amendment right,” Kobylik told The Associated Press. Michigan is
Continued on Page 3 poised to become the 20th state in the nation to pass red flag laws. s
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