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In an article by Todd Ruger posted 3/21/21 at 12:23 p.m., Senator Schumer said, “No more hopes and prayers, thoughts & prayers. A vote is what we need.”
Senator Schumer went on to say HR 1446 would require background checks between private individuals and licensed gun dealers at gun shows closing the so called “gun show loopholes.” This is a false statement as the present law requires a F.F.L. dealer to do a background check any time they sell a firearm regardless of where they are.
Senator Schumer went on to say “that in 1994 when the Brady Bill was passed we didn’t have the internet. It saved hundreds of thousands if not millions of lives.” Again both of his statements are incorrect. The first thing sold on the internet according to Shopify was on Arpanetin 1972. It was a deal to sell marijuana between Stanford University and MIT students.
rgallabrese@heraldstaronline.com
As more and more people get their COVID-19 vaccinations, people are looking to resume their lives and spend some time away from their homes.
That means we are returning to the highways.
And it follows there is no shortage of surveys and statistics that remind us about the importance of staying safe while we are behind the wheel.
For instance, it should come as no secret that there have been a lot fewer miles driven during the last 12 months than there normally would have been. In Ohio, that works out to a 12.9 percent decrease, according to quotewizard.com.
Apr 17, 2021
BOSTON (AP) A global epidemic of digital extortion known as ransomware is crippling local governments, hospitals, school districts and businesses by scrambling their data files until they pay up. Law enforcement has been largely powerless to stop it.
One big reason: Ransomware rackets are dominated by Russian-speaking cybercriminals who are shielded and sometimes employed by Russian intelligence agencies, according to security researchers, U.S. law enforcement, and now the Biden administration.
On Thursday, as the U.S. slapped sanctions on Russia for malign activities including state-backed hacking, the Treasury Department said Russian intelligence has enabled ransomware attacks by cultivating and co-opting criminal hackers and giving them safe harbor. With ransomware damages now well into the tens of billions of dollars, former British intelligence cyber chief Marcus Willett recently deemed the scourge “arguably more strategically damaging than state cyber-sp
My daily “aerobics” workout has changed quite a bit. It used to be that my co-workers and I had three flights of 28 steep steps to climb to get to the sec
There are so many things that require our attention. We often think that there is nothing we can do that will change anything, make any kind of difference. That