The "extreme risk protection order" bill would allow law enforcement officers to ask a judge for an order to take away someone's guns for up to 60 days if police determine the person is an "extreme risk" to himself or others.
The Vermont Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved Senate Bill 221 on Friday, in the wake of the mass-shooting at a high school in Florida and an apparent near-miss in Fair Haven, Vermont. It now goes to the full Senate.
Two U.S. senators plan to revise the federal Higher Education Act to make it ready for re-authorization. Should we find that reassuring?
The senators, Lamar Alexander (R-Tennessee) and Patti Murray (D-Washington), don't tell us who will be writing or paying for the drafting of this mammoth bill — just as they didn't tell us who wrote or paid for the 1,000-page re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
