Mass Shootings

AP: Club Q Mass Shooter Expected To Take Plea Deal

The Associated Press reports: The suspect in a mass shooting at a Colorado Springs gay nightclub is expected to strike a plea deal to state murder and hate charges that would ensure at least a life sentence for the attack that killed five people and wounded 17, several survivors told The Associated Press. Word of a possible legal resolution of …

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CA Gov Proposes Constitutional Amendment On Guns

Via press release from California Gov. Gavin Newsom: Today Governor Gavin Newsom proposed a 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution to enshrine fundamental, broadly supported gun safety measures into law. While leaving the 2nd Amendment unchanged and respecting America’s gun-owning tradition, the Governor’s proposal guarantees common sense constitutional protections and gun safety measures that Democrats, Republicans, independent voters, and …

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Trial Begins For Pennsylvania Synagogue Mass Shooter

The Washington Post reports: Testimony is scheduled to begin Tuesday in the federal trial of the man accused of killing 11 people and wounding two others at the Tree of Life synagogue in 2018, the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history. Robert G. Bowers, 50, of Baldwin, Pa., is facing 63 hate-crime and gun-related charges in the mass killing during …

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Cops: 15 Year-Old Brought AR-15 To AZ High School

NBC News reports: Police arrested a student after he allegedly brought an AR-15 and ammunition to a Phoenix high school on Friday, authorities said. The student is facing “serious felony charges” after allegedly bringing the semi-automatic rifle — the weapon behind a dozen of the 21 deadliest mass shootings in the U.S. since 2006 — to Bostrom High School, where …

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SCOTUS Rejects Challenge To IL Assault Weapons Ban

NBC News reports: The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined for now to block a new law in Illinois that bans assault-style weapons such as the AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, which has been used in multiple mass shootings. The decision in a brief unsigned order means the Illinois law enacted in the wake of a July 4 shooting in the city of …

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Bush Judge Strikes Down NJ Ban On Guns In Schools

Courthouse News reports: A New Jersey law that bars firearms from schools, beaches and other areas deemed sensitive was gutted on Tuesday by a Republican-appointed federal judge. The 235-page ruling from U.S. District Judge Renee Marie Bumb guts most of the provisions of Chapter 131, which had prohibited carrying a firearm in 25 designated “sensitive places,” including beaches, parks, schools, …

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Musk Denies Nazi TX Mass Shooter Was Nazi [VIDEO]

Tech Dirt reports: Days earlier, Musk had smeared Bellingcat for its investigation into Mauricio Garcia, the gunman who killed eight bystanders (and himself) at a mall in Allen, Texas. The investigation highlighted that Garcia had Nazi-associated tattoos and was active on a Russian social network. The investigation actually goes into great detail (in the usual Bellingcat fashion) explaining how they …

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Lauren Boebert Intros Bill To Repeal 2022 Red Flag Law

The Hill reports: Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) has introduced a bill to repeal bipartisan gun control measures passed by the last Congress. Boebert’s proposed bill, the Shall Not Be Infringed Act, would “repeal the gun control provisions and every Second Amendment infringement” that was passed and by the 117th Congress and signed into law by President Biden. The bill enhanced …

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Three Dead, Six Injured In New Mexico Mass Shooting

The New York Times reports: An 18-year-old gunman fired indiscriminately while roaming a residential street in Farmington, N.M., on Monday morning, killing three people before the police arrived and killed the suspect, the authorities said. Six other people, including two officers, were injured. The authorities received several reports of shots fired near Dustin Avenue and Ute Street just before 11 …

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Serbians Surrender 13K Weapons After Mass Shootings

NPR reports: Authorities in Serbia on Sunday displayed stacks of guns and cartons of hand grenades from the thousands of weapons, including anti-tank rocket launchers, that they said people handed over since back-to-back mass shootings stunned the Balkan nation. The government declared a one-month amnesty period for citizens to surrender unregistered weapons as part of a crackdown on guns following …

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Blackburn Calls For Armed Grandparents At Schools

“To have this grant pool and to allow local school systems and local law enforcement to work together to bring in veterans and retired law enforcement to serve as a security officer at a school — they know how to use weapons. They know to deescalate situations. I’ve talked to a lot of them. They like this idea. They are …

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DOJ: Man Threatened Repeat Of Buffalo Mass Shooting

From the Justice Department: U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced that Daniel Parson, 33, of Charlotte, NC, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with making threats in or affecting interstate commerce. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Assistant U.S. Attorney Joel L. Violanti, who is handling the case, stated that …

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Far-Right Podcaster Cited By Mass Shooter Claims It’s All A “PSYOP,” Blames TX Shooting On “Multiculturalism”

“I’ll put it simply, I think it’s multiculturalism. And not the idea that people of all different types are holding hands under the rainbow, it’s that you have different communities stacked on top of each other and next to each other with wildly different views and they don’t like each other. “And then people who are crazy will do crazy …

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Texas Mass Shooter Posted Praise Of Libs Of TikTok

The SPLC’s Hatewatch reports: Mauricio Garcia, the man who shot and killed eight people and injured seven others in a shooting spree at an outlet mall in Allen, Texas, posted neo-Nazi and incel content to a Russian website and to YouTube. Garcia, 33, whom police shot and killed at the scene of the massacre he perpetrated, posted to the Russian …

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TX Mass Shooter Had Profile Pic With Hitler Mustache

The Daily Beast reports: The gunman who opened fire on an Allen, Texas shopping mall on Saturday, killing eight, appears to have posted neo-Nazi content on the social media site OK.ru, where his profile picture was a smiley face with a Hitler mustache. Some of the account’s most recent posts appear to foreshadow the mass killing. On April 16, it …

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TX House Advances Bill To Raise AR-15 Purchase Age

The Texas Tribune reports: In a surprise move days after the Allen mall shooting and hours before a key legislative deadline, a Texas House committee advanced a bill Monday that would raise the minimum age to purchase certain semi-automatic rifles. The bill faces an uphill climb to becoming state law, but the vote marked a milestone for the proposal that …

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Junior And Coulter Claim Hispanics Can’t Be Nazis

Raw Story reports: Accusations that the Texas mall shooter had neo-Nazi links left Donald Trump Jr. and Ann Coulter puzzled Monday – because the man who shot and killed eight people is Hispanic. “Because the name Mauricio Garcia screams white supremacy,” former President Donald Trump’s son, Don Jr., posted on Truth Social, along with a puzzled face emoji. Garcia, 33, …

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Dallas Paper Begs Governor To Act On Gun Violence

From the editorial board of the Dallas Morning News: There is nothing conservative about refusing to acknowledge evidence or give voice to the true nature of a problem. The people who are dead today are not dead because a twisted and evil soul walked among them. They are dead because that person was able to obtain a weapon so powerful …

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Texas Mass Shooting Renews Debate On Gory Photos

Bloomberg News reports: Another mass shooting, but this time something is different: Exceedingly graphic images of bloodied and disfigured victims, among them at least one child, circulated widely on social media. Though it was impossible to authenticate the depictions of carnage at an outlet mall in Allen, Texas, a discussion ensued over whether they should be part of the entrenched …

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Texas Mass Shooter Posted Nazi And Incel Materials

Rolling Stone reports: The suspected mass shooter who killed at least eight people at an Allen, Texas mall on Saturday frequently posted pro-white supremacist and neo-Nazi materials on social media, according to an FBI bulletin reviewed by Rolling Stone. The FBI’s “review and triage of the subject’s social media accounts revealed hundreds of postings and images to include writings with …

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