The second largest school district in Texas will now require students to use clear or mesh backpacks in response to school security concerns following the Uvalde, Texas, mass shooting. Students in grades 6 through 12 in the Dallas Independent School District will not be permitted to carry opaque backpacksbeginning in …
Read More »New Uvalde Report: Police Protected Themselves at Expense of Children
A series of failures by multiple agencies could have contributed to the horrific outcome in the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, according to a Texas House investigative report. The investigation, conducted by two members of the Texas House of Representatives alongside a former member of the Texas Supreme …
Read More »Parkland Dad Interrupts Biden's Gun Violence Address
The father of a Parkland High School Shooting victim interrupted President Joe Biden’s Monday speech on gun control at the White House. Manuel Oliver, the father of Parkland victim Joaquin Oliver, interrupted Biden’s remarks during a televised event celebrating the passage of modest gun reform legislation. Oliver, whose interjection was …
Read More »Uvalde Cop Asked to Shoot Gunman Before He Entered the Building — But Didn't Get a Response
A Uvalde police officer requested permission to shoot the armed gunman as he approached Robb Elementary on May 24, but he didn’t receive a response from his supervisor, according to a new damning report from Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training (ALERRT) Center. The shooter went on to kill 19 …
Read More »Uvalde Cops Could've Ended Shooting in Three Minutes, Says Texas Head of Public Safety
Steve McCraw, the Director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, decried law enforcement’s response to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, saying police could’ve stopped the gunman within three minutes after he entered the building, but didn’t. “There’s compelling evidence that the law enforcement response to the …
Read More »Weeks After Uvalde School Massacre, No One Knows What Really Happened
Jose Flores Jr. dreamed of being a police officer because he wanted to protect people. But the 10-year-old’s life was cut short when he, 18 of his classmates, and two teachers were killed in the May 24 massacre at Robb Elementary School. Now, Jose’s uncle, Christopher Salazar, tells Rolling Stone …
Read More »The Senate's Gun Control Deal Falls Short. Here's Why Activists Are Excited About It Anyway
When a group of 20 senators announced a framework of “commonsense” gun reforms on Sunday evening, the most surprising thing about it was that it came into existence at all. A decade of demands for stricter gun laws in the wake of tragedies like those in Buffalo, New York, and …
Read More »The Senate Has a Deal on Gun Control
Republican and Democratic Senators have signed onto a tentative agreement for gun reform legislation in the wake of the shooting at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school. The proposed deal for bipartisan reform, a group of senators announced Sunday, includes enhanced background checks for buyers ages 18-21 as well as funding …
Read More »Police Delayed Confronting Uvalde Gunman While Aware Victims Inside Were Still Alive: Report
Officers called in to stop a mass shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas on May 24 delayed confronting the gunman for 77 minutes, despite supervisors being aware that some of the people trapped with the shooter needed medical attention, according to The New York Times, who reviewed video footage …
Read More »Matthew McConaughey Calls for Gun Control Reform During Impassioned Speech at White House Briefing
Matthew McConaughey, the actor and Uvalde native who has been one of the most outspoken and prominent voices since the mass shooting in his hometown last month, called for “reasonable, practical, tactical” gun regulations during an emotional speech at a White House press briefing Tuesday, June 7. The speech was …
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