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“If school shield had been in place in Sante Fe High School, far less likely that would have happened. The problem we’ve got is we’re trying like the dickens to fight the symptom without treating the disease. The disease in this case isn’t the 2nd amendment, the disease is youngsters who are steeped in a culture of violence, they’ve been …

“There is certain reflexive and thoughtless and pretty predictable and pathetic reaction coming from lots of folks. And frankly, it usually comes from folks who, unlike Donald J. Trump, have been in office for decades and decades and decades. It also is insensitive that they will gloss right over, right past the fact that people are suffering, their lives have …

ESPN reports: Texans defensive end J.J. Watt will pay for the funerals of those killed in the shooting at Santa Fe High School, the team confirmed. Ten people were killed Friday morning and 10 more were wounded when a 17-year-old carrying a shotgun and revolver opened fire at the high school about 30 miles from downtown Houston. Watt has been …

“It’s not a gun issue. Every time it happens, the worse — it’s always a different gun. So that’s not the issue here. The issue here — well, there is some issues with gun safety, you can’t let mentally ill people have guns. Criminals don’t obey the laws by their very nature. We also have to have, every school district …

Far-right Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick reacted to the mass shooting in his home state by blaming schools for having too many entrances and exits. “We may need to harden our schools,” he said. “There aren’t enough people to put a guard at every one.” Patrick, perhaps obviously, is a favorite of the NRA and once appeared on Dana Loesch’s …

Mediaite reports: The gunman who allegedly opened fire at a high school in Texas on Friday morning has been identified. Police sources told CBS News that the shooter is 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis. Police believe he is a student at Santa Fe High School. He allegedly began his shooting spree around 7:45 a.m., killing at least 10 people and wounding a …

NBC News reports: Multiple fatalities were reported at a Texas high school on Friday after a 17-year-old student clad in a trench coat and armed with a gun barged inside a classroom and fired several shots, witnesses, police and law enforcement sources said. Several law enforcement sources told NBC News that nine people were killed in the shooting at Santa …

The Hill reports: Parkland, Fla., shooting survivors Emma Gonzalez and David Hogg responded Friday to the deadly Texas high school shooting, with Gonzalez saying in a tweet that the students deserve more than “thoughts and prayers.” Gonzalez tweeted hours after a shooter opened fire at Santa Fe High School near Houston. At least nine fatalities and several injuries, including one …

“The fact that so many kids are awash in video games, I mean these kids spend so much time in front of their television screens with some of these very violent and realistic video games. That has to be something that gets looked at, but how do you police that kind of thing?” – Fox News host Jon Scott, reacting …

The Corpus Christi Caller-Times reports: An active shooter at a Texas high school Friday prompted a lockdown and law enforcement are still on scene. A dispatcher at the Santa Fe Police Department told the Caller-Times officers were still on the scene. Galveston County Sheriff’s Office, Houston police and SWAT also responded. Several ambulances are there. The report about the shooting …

The Associated Press reports: A man who says he met Las Vegas mass shooter Stephen Paddock less than a month before the Oct. 1 attack told authorities that Paddock had ranted against the government and warned that law enforcement and the military would start confiscating guns. In a jailhouse interview with police and the FBI, the man said Paddock called …

The Associated Press reports: Oklahoma’s Republican Gov. Mary Fallin vetoed a bill late Friday that would have authorized adults to carry firearms without a permit or training, dealing a rare defeat to the National Rifle Association in a conservative state. The veto comes after opposition from the business community and law enforcement authorities, including top officials with the Oklahoma State …

The Huffington Post reports: A Democratic congressional candidate is out with a new TV ad using far more explicit language than the usual political spot. “Fuck the NRA,” Pat Davis says in the 15-second ad. “Their pro-gun policies have resulted in dead children, dead mothers and dead fathers.” Davis is an Albuquerque city council member running for the Democratic nomination …

Reuters reports: The National Rifle Association on Friday sued New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and the state’s financial regulator for engaging in what it said was a “blacklisting campaign” aimed at swaying banks and insurers to stop doing business with the gun advocacy group, according to a complaint. Cuomo and the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) aimed …

The Hill reports: NRATV host Dan Bongino delivered a stark warning to President Trump’s supporters on Wednesday that Democrats are likely to impeach the president if they take back the House in November. “Make absolutely no mistake, if we lose the House, this president will in fact be impeached, there’s no question about it,” said Bongino, who hosts NRATV’s “We …

Splinter News reports: The National Rifle Association named Oliver North—the Reaganite ghoul who was indicted in 1988 for his involvement in the Iran-Contra affair—its new president this week. In an interview with the conservative Washington Times, published on Wednesday, North said his organization has been the victim of “civil terrorism” by gun control activists. From the interview:  “They call them …

Reuters reports: Lloyd’s of London said on Wednesday it would direct underwriters to terminate all insurance offered, marketed, endorsed or otherwise made available through the National Rifle Association of America. The move comes after insurer Chubb was fined $1.3 million over its role in an NRA insurance program after an investigation found the NRA’s “Carry Guard” insurance program unlawfully provided …

The Daily Beast reports: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North is poised to become the new president of the National Rifle Association, according to a press release. North, a Fox News host and key figure in the Iran-Contra scandal, will become president “within a few weeks, a process the NRA Board of Directors initiated” Monday morning, the release says. North is retiring …

Buzzfeed News reports: A popular Dallas restaurant received threats of shootings after the National Rifle Association tweeted for its supporters to “steer clear” of the eatery because it put a message advocating gun regulation on its receipts during an NRA convention. “We’ve had people calling and say they’re going to shoot the place up, one that implied he would be …

Reuters reports: President Donald Trump, who briefly pledged to “fight” the National Rifle Association after a February mass shooting at a Florida high school, is expected to throw his full weight behind the powerful gun rights group on Friday at an event in Dallas. In addressing the gun lobbying group’s annual convention, the Republican president will emphasize his support for …