CNN national security analyst Juliette Kayyem pushed back against critics of transgender people following Monday's school shooting in Nashville.During a Tuesday panel discussion on CNN, host Don Lemon noted that it was unusual to have the shooter, 28-year-old Audrey Hale, identify as a transgender person."The police are identifying the shooter as a trans woman, would actually be a trans man," Lemon explained. "So there's sort of a misidentification there, but this is all new.""I'm just...
On Monday, three children and three staff members were fatally shot at the Covenant School in Nashville, which one expert describes as part of an "astronomical increase" in violence on school campuses in recent years. There is no universal definition of a school shooting, explains Jillian Peterson, an associate professor of criminology and the president of the Violence Project, a non-profit research center. "In my research, we focus on school mass shootings, which is a really narrow definition...
The Nashville school shooting is leading conservatives to finally call for gun control. Their newfound enthusiasm for reforming gun laws is based on transphobia, but some of their suggestions are also supported by gun control advocates. On Monday, a transgender person killed three children and three adults at Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee. The shooter, who was fatally shot by police, used assault-style rifles in the attack. Although the vast majority of mass shooters are...
They key to understanding the real motives of the gun grabbers is their hypocrisy when one of their favored class gets caught violating the laws they support so fervently. You see, it’s not guns that they object to, it’s guns in the wrong hands.
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Days after a heavily-armed assailant killed three 9-year-olds and three adults in a Nashville Christian school, lawmakers in Florida and Nebraska are close to rolling back gun control laws governing concealed weapons. If both states lift the requirements for permits that are now in place, the number of so-called permitless-carry states would rise to 27. The Nashville killings have sparked calls for new gun control laws, with demonstrations at Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., and the...
Houston police say that a grandmother trying to run her food truck shot and killed a man who pointed a gun through their window in a thwarted robbery attempt. The Houston Police Department said the incident unfolded in a parking lot on South Main Street on Tuesday at about 2 p.m. in the southwest part of the city. Police Lt. Bryan Bui told KHOU-TV that the suspect, a Hispanic male, pulled up to the food truck in his black truck and asked a brother and sister inside what they served. When they...
We’re coming after your AR-15s, said Beto O'Rourke when running for POTUS in 2019. But in February, O'Rourke moderated that warning with:
Yesterday a 28-year-old graduate of a Christian school shot up the place, killing three 9-year-old students and three adults. This was almost 2 years to the day that Republican Governor Bill Lee signed a wide-ranging gun deregulation bill allowing Tennesseans to carry guns — open or concealed — without a permit or any other government interference.Republicans are trying to distract America from the easy access Audrey Hale had to weapons of war by discussing Hale’s personal life, but the...
Yesterday a 28-year old graduate of a Christian school shot up the place, killing three 9-year-old students and three adults. This was almost 2 years to the day that Republican Governor Bill Lee signed a wide-ranging gun deregulation bill allowing Tennesseans to carry guns — open or concealed — without a permit or any other government interference.Republicans are trying to distract America from the easy access Audrey Hale had to weapons of war by discussing Hale’s personal life, but the...
SPRINGFIELD, MASS. (WHDH) - A fire killed two people in Springfield Thursday morning after tearing through a home on East Street.Huge flames engulfed the building