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Post by Admin on Jun 14, 2022 23:38:28 GMT
Why do people need an AR-15? Hear lawmakers' responses 262,281 views Jun 9, 2022 CNN's Manu Raju asked members of congress about gun safety laws around AR-15s and people under the age of 21 needing to own the semi-automatic rifle. #CNN #News
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Post by Admin on Jun 21, 2022 17:08:15 GMT
Uvalde shooting police response was 'abject failure:' Texas DPS director 160 views Jun 22, 2022 Texas DPS Director Steven McCraw testified on the police response to the Robb Elementary school shooting on Tuesday.
Law enforcement authorities had enough officers on the scene of the Uvalde school massacre to have stopped the gunman three minutes after he entered the building, the Texas public safety chief testified Tuesday, pronouncing the police response an "abject failure."
Police officers with rifles instead stood and waited in a school hallway for nearly an hour while the gunman carried out the May 24 attack at Robb Elementary School that left 19 children and two teachers dead. The 18-year-old gunman used an AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle.
Col. Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, testified at a state Senate hearing on the police handling of the tragedy. Delays in the law enforcement response have become the focus of federal, state and local investigations.
Eight minutes after the shooter entered the building, an officer reported that police had a "hooligan" crowbar that they could use to break down the classroom door, McGraw said. Nineteen minutes after the gunman entered, the first ballistic shield was brought into the building by police, the witness testified.
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Post by Admin on Jun 22, 2022 17:29:31 GMT
Senate negotiators on Tuesday reached a long-awaited deal on a bipartisan gun safety bill to take firearms away from dangerous people and provide billions of dollars in new mental health funding.
The legislation represents a rare moment of bipartisan agreement on the charged issues of gun violence and gun control, breaking nearly 30 years of stalemate on those issues.
The bill does not ban assault-style rifles or high-capacity magazines or significantly expand background-check requirements for gun purchases, reforms that were top Democratic priorities a decade ago.
But it does give states more resources to take guns away from dangerous individuals, even if they haven’t been convicted of a crime, and provides billions of dollars in funding for mental health treatment.
Lawmakers who crafted the legislation say their goal from the start was to prevent mass shootings, such as the mass-casualty events that left 10 people dead at a Buffalo supermarket and 21 dead at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
“I want to make sure we actually do something useful, something that is capable of becoming a law, something that will have the potential to save lives,” Sen. John Cornyn (Texas), the lead Republican negotiator said on the Senate floor Tuesday.
“I’m happy to report as a result of the hard work of a number of senators in this chamber that we’ve made some serious progress,” he said.
Senators and staff worked through the weekend and said Tuesday afternoon they had resolved all their outstanding disagreements, giving Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) a good chance of passing a bill before the July 4 recess.
Sen. Chris Murphy (Conn.), the lead Democratic negotiator, hailed the bill as a major breakthrough.
“I believe that this week we will pass legislation that will become the most significant piece of anti-gun-violence legislation Congress will have passed in 30 years. This is a breakthrough, and, more importantly, it is a bipartisan breakthrough,” he said.
Senate Republican Whip John Thune (R-S.D.) said Tuesday the legislation is likely to pass because 10 Republican senators have already signed off on the framework of principles upon which the bill is based.
“My assumption is that based on that fact that they had 60 votes for the framework that they’ll have enough to pass,” he said.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) said last week that he will likely vote for the bill, giving it at least 61 votes, enough to overcome a filibuster.
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Post by Admin on Jun 23, 2022 0:57:57 GMT
Uvalde Mayor Pushes Back At School And Police Department Critique 17,793 views Jun 23, 2022 Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin is pushing back at critics and rejecting the notion that Uvalde’s school and police department deserve the brunt of the blame for the slow response to the Robb Elementary School shooting. He is demanding accountability and has accused some state agencies of leaks, lies and misstated information. Despite numerous public record requests, 911 recordings and police body cameras and surveillance footage has not been released.
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Post by Admin on Jun 23, 2022 16:55:57 GMT
'Go back to your country' Republican congresswoman tells British journalist 3,376 views Jun 24, 2022
A Republican congresswoman has told a British journalist to "go back to your country" during a press conference in which she was questioned about mass shootings in the US.
"You have mass stabbings, lady," said Marjorie Taylor Greene, who represents Georgia. The far-right lawmaker, who has previously shared QAnon conspiracy theories, was responding to a reporter pointing out that "children were scared to go to school."
Greene had just finished reading a statement in opposition to America's first major gun-control legislation which is being pushed by the Democrats.
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