Kathleen ORourke, Author at Greenfield Recorder

Flowers and candles are placed around crosses at a memorial outside Robb Elementary School to honor the victims killed in the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas Saturday, May 28, 2022. The gunmen in two of the nation’s most recent mass shootings, including last week’s massacre at the Texas elementary school, legally bought the assault weapons they used after they turned 18. That’s prompting Congress and policymakers in even the reddest of states to revisit whether to raise the age limit to purchase such weapons.

My Turn: More voices needed on gun control

by Kathleen ORourke June 2, 2022

Another shooting. I’m asking, once again for our police, veterans, hunters and members of the NRA to use your strong voices for gun regulation, and a national ban on assault weapons. You know about guns, their potential to do harm, and I’m sure you…

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My Turn: Bringing in the working class

by Kathleen ORourke March 10, 2021

‘Let’s try to worry less and hum more’

by Kathleen ORourke March 19, 2020