Uvalde Cops Reportedly Tried To Silence the Mom Who Rescued Her Kids and Criticized the Police Response
"She was holding back from sharing her story until now."
"She was holding back from sharing her story until now."
The president implies that anyone who resists his agenda is complicit in the murder of innocents.
Because there is no reliable way to identify future mass shooters, it is inevitable that many innocent people will lose their Second Amendment rights.
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While that impulse is understandable, it can lead to policies that do more harm than good.
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“Scared straight” juvenile policing programs have a history of not working. They’re not the solution to school shootings.
Two federal appeals courts recently concluded that such age restrictions are unconstitutional.
"There were 19 officers in there," said a police spokesperson. "In fact, there were plenty of officers to do whatever needed to be done."
Why did it take an hour for the police to stop alleged killer Salvador Ramos?
Don't conflate mass shootings with school shootings.
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Making schools more like prisons would not appreciably decrease violence.
Neither expanded background checks nor a federal "assault weapon" ban can reasonably be expected to have a meaningful impact on such crimes.
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These three gun controls failed in New York, and there is little reason to think they would work elsewhere.
There's much we don't know about the shooting in Texas that left at least 21 people dead, including 19 children. Nevertheless, Joe Biden knows exactly who to blame and how to stop future shootings.
Despite caricaturing (some) gun owners, Nick Mamatas' conspiracy-fueled science fiction novel avoids moralizing in favor of dark humor.
It's not clear which guns she is talking about, and even Collins does not seem to know.
Predicting violence is a lot harder than people claim in retrospect, and a wider net inevitably ensnares more innocent people.
In response to the Buffalo massacre, Gov. Kathy Hochul invoked a hoary analogy to justify censorship.
The vast majority do not have disqualifying records, and "universal" requirements are easily evaded.
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"It's all induced by the internet," she said.
The problem is not sneaky entrepreneurs who sell accessories; it's legislators who ban guns based on functionally unimportant features.
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Maybe it's not a good idea for the government to prohibit all viewpoint-based moderation on social media.
Maybe it shows that the existing restrictions are not working as advertised.
The charge requires proof that James and Jennifer Crumbley knew their son posed a threat and could have prevented the attack through "ordinary care."
The shooting was horrific, and the shooter deserves prosecution. But the charges should fit the crimes.
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The fees would be used to reimburse the city for the public costs of gun violence.
David Chipman's obfuscation, like the president's vagueness, is aimed at concealing the illogic of targeting firearms based on their "military-style" appearance.
Even when states authorize gun confiscation orders, identifying would-be mass shooters is a daunting challenge.
Georgia D.A. reverses her previous position when faced with a mass shooting she sees as a hate crime.
A new RAND analysis shows how difficult it is to answer basic questions about this rare variety of homicide.
Although police seized the perpetrator's shotgun when he was deemed suicidal, he was never identified as a potential murderer.
Both advocates and skeptics of the copycat theory recommend self-restraint by the news media.
The president's unilateral restrictions are legally dubious and unlikely to "save lives."
The journalist and free-speech activist says identity politics are destroying the media, higher education, and Hollywood.
The suggestion that the ordinance could have prevented Monday's mass shooting is utterly implausible.
The Singapore-born journalist and free-speech activist says identity politics are destroying the media, higher ed, and Hollywood.
It is hard to see how an "assault weapon" ban or expanded background checks could have prevented this attack.
Rhetoric around the shootings risks putting massage workers everywhere in more danger.
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The policies he favors would arbitrarily limit Second Amendment rights and threaten the industry that makes it possible to exercise them.
There were four times as many incidents of physical restraint against students the year after Florida doubled the number of police in its schools.