Mass Shootings - Page 2

A manhunt is underway in Austin, Texas, for a gunman suspected of shooting 13 people on the city’s infamous 6th Street early Saturday morning. The shooting comes amid defunding police actions by the city council and an uptick in violent crime.

Vice President Kamala Harris said Wednesday on “CBS This Morning” that Congress needs to act in the wake of the Atlanta and Boulder mass shootings.

On the heels of the mass shooting in Colorado, Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr attacked gun owners.

Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said Tuesday on CNN’s “OutFront” that Republican lawmakers were “complicit” in all the mass shootings that take place in the United States, given their opposition to gun legislation.

CLAIM: Forbes reports 592 “mass shootings” through December 8th of this year based on a compilation of data by the Gun Violence Archive (GVA).  VERDICT: False.

The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) board failed to agree on a proposal to defund the L.A. School Police on Tuesday evening, defeating an effort by the Black Lives Matter movement and United Teachers L.A. (UTLA).

China’s state-run Global Times on Monday used the weekend’s shootings to argue that gun ownership is “out of control” in the United States and mass shootings are “shocking in a U.S. allegedly governed by law.”

The individual who attacked Naval Air Station Pensacola hosted a party to watch videos of mass shootings before the incident, the Associated Press (AP) reported.

In the wake of the November 14, 2019, Santa Clarita, California, school attack CBS News claimed there have been more mass shootings than days to this point in 2019.

Administrators at the University of Virginia ignited a backlash this week when it announced that it is canceling its annual 21-gun salute, which had become a staple of the school’s Veterans Day events.

During an October 16, 2019, CNN interview, Democrat presidential hopeful Robert “Beto” O’Rourke suggested that mass shooters will hand over their AR-15s under his forced buyback plan.

Fifty-three people were reportedly killed by mass shootings in America in August while 40,000 were killed by obesity during that same month.

HOUSTON, Texas — Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke is “done in Texas,” Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick said in response to the Democratic presidential candidate’s promise to confiscate AR-15s.

A Texas grand jury handed down capital murder indictments against the man who allegedly opened fire on customers and employees at an El Paso Walmart, killing 22 and wounding many more. If convicted, the man will face the death penalty or life in prison without parole.

No mention of radical Islam was made by any senators during Monday’s Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing — uniquely held at the National 9/11 Memorial & Museum in New York City, NY — days before the 18th anniversary of the Islamic terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Trump could expand concealed carry as well as background checks — and do the one thing that might actually address the problem.

“These incredible patriots responded to the worst violence and most barbaric hatred with the best of American courage, character, and strength,” Trump said.

President Donald Trump has been projecting a sense of uncertainty and frustration. He needs to do the opposite, and project reassurance and leadership.

Both Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Democrat candidate Andrew Yang (D) agree that public officials and media should work to refrain from publicizing the names of mass shooters after such tragedies take place.

Debate over America’s mentally ill and how best to help them — and protect the public if they pose a threat — goes back decades.

A Texas pastor who lost his daughter in a mass shooting at his church announced he will run against one of Texas’ most senior Democrat state senators. The pastor was out of town the day a gunman opened fire in his church, leaving his daughter and 25 others dead with 20 more injured.

The media realize it is generally absurd and divisive to blame Democrats for the crazed, murderous actions of a few disturbed individuals. But they believe it is beyond obvious that President Trump is somehow responsible for events like El Paso, or the Pittsburgh synagogue attack last year — even though the shooters disavowed Trump.

On Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell declared that the Senate would take up gun control in the wake of the El Paso and Dayton mass shootings, with expanded background checks “front and center.”  He added, “What we can’t do is fail to pass something.” 

While universal background checks are pushed as a response to the El Paso and Dayton shooting attacks, it should be remembered that such checks are unenforceable without a gun registry.

A member of the U.S. men’s fencing team took a knee during the Star-Spangled Banner on Friday, at the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru.

Former Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairwoman Donna Brazile said in a conversation with Fox News contributor Guy Benson on Friday that President Donald Trump “had nothing to do” with the mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas.

The Washington Post reported on El Paso mass shooting survivors who are Trump supporters and don’t blame him for the tragedy.

ESPN has postponed the broadcast of a first-person shooter video game tournament out of respect to victims in last week’s mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton.

Actress Rosanna Arquette has declared that President Donald Trump “incites racist violence” in the aftermath of two separate mass shootings that have added fuel to the fire on debates surrounding racism, gun control, and mental health in America.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) reached out to white supremacists at a vigil on Monday night asking them to “come back” to family and friends.

A series of private messages between three wives of Chicago White Sox players turned vicious, as they began calling each other “racist” during a discussion of last weekend’s mass shootings.

Former vice preisdent Joe Biden relied on the discredited Charlottesville hoax — also known as the “very fine people” hoax — in blaming President Donald Trump in a speech in Iowa on Wednesday  for recent mass shootings.

Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr says he fears that at any moment someone cold walk into the gym where Team USA is practicing, and “start spraying us with an AR-15.”

National Public Radio claimed Tuesday that President Donald Trump was responsible for inspiring mass shootings in the United States, and that he ought to have acknowledged his culpability in his White House speech on Monday.

California Governor Gavin Newsom proposed Monday that the U.S. as a whole adopt California’s new law requiring background checks for purchasing ammunition.

China’s state-run media quickly seized on the obsessions of their American counterparts over the weekend by linking President Donald Trump to “white nationalism” and blaming gun violence on the large supply of firearms and loose gun laws in the United States.