Mass Shootings

The Associated Press reports: Colorado’s governor signed four gun control bills Friday, edging the once-purple state closer to liberal-leaning governments in California and New York just months after a shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, the latest in the state’s long history of notorious massacres. The new laws are aimed at quelling rising suicides and youth violence, preventing …

The Olympian reports: Washington state became the 10th state in the U.S. to ban assault weapons on Tuesday when Gov. Jay Inslee signed a bill passed by this year’s legislature as part of a sweeping package of proposals aimed at reducing gun violence. An emergency clause in the assault weapons bill means that the manufacture, importation, distribution, sale, or offer …

Fox News reports: Parents who attended an NRA event last week slammed a Reuters photographer they claim took pictures of their children without their permission – which were then published by various outlets. The news service’s photos, taken at the NRA’s annual meeting in Indianapolis last week, included a picture of a young child appearing to point a gun at …

The Associated Press reports: Nebraska lawmakers passed a bill Wednesday to allow people to carry concealed guns in the state without a permit, just as national attention has ramped up over gun violence in the wake of several mass shootings, including the killing last month of six people at a Tennessee school. Despite opponents filibustering the bill for 14 hours …

The Associated Press reports: In the wake of a deadly school shooting last month, Republican lawmakers in Tennessee awarded final passage Tuesday to a proposal that would further protect gun and ammunition dealers, manufacturers and sellers against lawsuits. The Senate’s 19-9 vote sends the bill to Republican Gov. Bill Lee, despite pushback from Democratic lawmakers saying their GOP counterparts are …

The Daily Beast reports: Kyle Rittenhouse became a GOP celebrity when he got away with killing two unarmed protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, almost three years ago. But the Bonneville County Republican Central Committee in Idaho sunk to a ghoulish new low this weekend with a fundraiser that underscored the right’s sickening obsession with firearms. “TRIGGER TIME WITH KYLE RITTENHOUSE,” read …

The Hill reports: A Nashville, Tenn., florist is refusing to serve a Republican National Committee (RNC) fundraiser featuring former President Trump in protest over lack of action on gun control laws. In a statement posted on Instagram this week, FLWR Shop said it declined an inquiry from the RNC to provide floral design services for a fundraising event in Nashville …

The Tennessean reports: Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Tuesday signed an executive order aimed at strengthening background checks for firearm purchases, in addition to calling for lawmakers to pass an order of protection law to keep guns away from people who present a danger to themselves or others. “I’m asking the General Assembly to bring forward an order of protection …

Reuters reports: The 23-year-old bank employee who shot dead five colleagues and wounded nine other people at his workplace in Louisville on Monday legally purchased the rifle, Louisville Police Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel told reporters at a news conference on Tuesday. The gun used to carry out the attack was bought at a local dealership on April 4, the chief said. …

“The Democratic Party and Big Pharma that are unleashing the crazies on you, and nobody seems to have a solution for it. So here’s one. We need to reopen the asylums. There are severely mentally ill people who do not have a right to wander our streets seeking and selecting who they are going to terrorize, whether there is criminal …

Kentucky.com reports: Louisville police confirmed five people were killed and six others were injured from an active shooter situation in downtown Louisville Monday, according to multiple media reports. Reports of an active shooter first came in at approximately 8:30 a.m., LMPD Deputy Chief Paul Humphrey said to media. Arriving officers heard gunshots. One officer was transported to a hospital, according …

Memphis’s Fox affiliate reports: A Shelby County commissioner told FOX13 on Friday that Nashville leaders are threatening to take away funding from Memphis and other Shelby County projects if the county commission decides to reinstate expelled state Rep. Justin J. Pearson. According to Shelby County Commissioner Erika Sugarmon, leaders in Nashville threatened to pull state funding for projects in the …

The Associated Press reports: In an extraordinary act of political retaliation, Tennessee Republicans on Thursday expelled two Democratic lawmakers from the state Legislature for their role in a protest calling for more gun control in the aftermath of a deadly school shooting in Nashville. A third Democrat was narrowly spared by a one-vote margin. The split votes drew accusations of …

The Tennessean reports: Ten days after a shooter unloaded 152 rounds inside a Nashville school and killed six people, Tennessee House Republicans on Thursday began attempts to expel from the General Assembly three Democratic lawmakers for breaking House rules and mounting a gun reform protest on the chamber’s floor. The House expelled Reps. Justin Jones, D-Nashville, on a 72-25 vote …

The Tennessean reports: Cheers erupted as Jones, Johnson and Pearson stepped off the elevator on the second floor at 9:02 a.m. Raising joined hands, they slowly walked down between lines of state troopers toward the House chamber door. From the floor, they roused cheers from the crowd in the galleries before the chamber gaveled in for business. During welcoming and …

Media Matters has the transcript: Having an armed citizenry comes with a price, and that is part of liberty. Driving comes with a price — 50,000 people die on the road every year. That’s a price. You get rid of driving, you’d have 50,000 less auto fatalities. But we have decided that the benefit of driving — speed, accessibility, mobility, …

Reuters reports: Republicans who control the Tennessee House of Representatives will vote on Thursday on whether to expel three Democratic members for their role in a gun control demonstration at the statehouse last week. Last Friday’s protest saw hundreds of demonstrators flood into the statehouse, four days after a Nashville school shooting ended with three 9-year-old children and three school …

NBC News reports: The victims of the 2017 mass shooting at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, in which 26 were killed, have reached a “tentative agreement” with the Justice Department to settle a case against the federal government for $144.5 million. If given approval, which is expected, it would end a yearslong legal battle over a federal judge’s ruling …

The Associated Press reports: Tennessee Republican lawmakers took the first steps Monday to expel three Democratic members from the GOP-dominant House for their role in a recent gun control protest at the state Capitol. The extraordinarily rare move resulted in a chaotic and fiery confrontation between lawmakers and supporters opposing the move. Resolutions have been filed against Reps. Gloria Johnson, …

The Knoxville News reports: The Republican leadership of Tennessee’s House of Representatives stripped state Rep. Gloria Johnson, D-Knoxville, of her committee assignments April 3 in retaliation for her peaceful participation in last week’s demonstration for gun reform that spilled over to the House floor March 30, Knox News has learned. When asked whether her assignments had been rescinded, state Rep. …