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Post by SSHoya on May 2, 2023 6:25:24 GMT -5
At the end of the article is a compilation of the nineteen mass shootings mentioned in the fourth paragraph of the article. It has become a mournful pattern. Following mass shootings, lawmakers in many states have taken stock of what happened and voted to approve gun control legislation to try to prevent additional bloodshed. In Colorado, the Legislature passed universal background checks in 2013 after a shooter at an Aurora movie theater killed 12 people. After 58 people were shot dead during a 2017 concert in Las Vegas, the Nevada Legislature passed a red flag law that allows a judge to order that weapons be taken from people who are deemed a threat. And in Florida in 2018, then-Gov. Rick Scott signed a bill that raised the minimum age to buy a firearm to 21 after a teenager with a semi-automatic rifle opened fire at a Parkland high school, killing 17 people. But not in Texas. In the past six decades, the state has experienced at least 19 mass shootings that have killed a total of nearly 200 people and wounded more than 230 others. Yet state leaders have repeatedly batted away measures that would limit access to guns, opting instead to ease restrictions on publicly carrying them while making it harder for local governments to regulate them. www.texastribune.org/2023/02/16/mass-shootings-texas-gun-control/
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Post by Massholya on May 3, 2023 16:55:28 GMT -5
Another day in America. Need to harden medical clinics too I guess.
Oh and there was also the sex offender who managed to get a gun and to kill his whole family and then himself In Oklahoma.
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Post by hoyarooter on May 3, 2023 17:51:45 GMT -5
Another day in America. Need to harden medical clinics too I guess. Oh and there was also the sex offender who managed to get a gun and to kill his whole family and then himself In Oklahoma. The Atlanta shooting at the medical clinic doesn't count, because last I heard, "only" one person has died. We can relegate this to the back burner, where it belongs.
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Post by SSHoya on May 6, 2023 20:03:09 GMT -5
Gee, Texas. I'm shocked. NINE DEAD including the shooter. Keep voting Republican, Texans. so you can ban books and drag queen shows. Last I checked books and drag queen shows don't kill people. But you pretend to be "pro-life" right? Hypocrites. Thoughts and prayers, anyone? Multiple people were shot, some fatally, at a mall near Dallas by a gunman who authorities believe was acting alone — and who is now dead — and at least nine victims were transported to trauma facilities, officials said Saturday. A Dallas-area medical group says it is treating victims as young as 5 years old. Authorities in Allen, Texas, responded to the shooting at an outlet mall in the afternoon, with ATF personnel on the scene at Allen Premium Outlets. Video from above the scene showed hundreds of shoppers exiting the area, many holding their hands up. The aerial footage appeared to show at least three bodies covered by sheets outside the mall. www.cnn.com/2023/05/06/us/allen-texas-mall-shooter-reports/index.htmlC'mon Abbott. What's the immigration status of the victims? Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) issued a statement describing the shooting at Allen Premium Outlets as an “unspeakable tragedy.” He said state law enforcement agencies including the Texas Rangers would investigate. “Our hearts are with the people of Allen, Texas tonight,” the statement said.
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Post by DanMcQ on May 6, 2023 20:17:34 GMT -5
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Post by Massholya on May 7, 2023 8:51:51 GMT -5
It doesn’t matter how many die. A hundred, a thousand, teachers, kids, immigrants, citizens. They just don’t care at all. Selfish, amoral, evil. How else can you explain people standing by and watching this happen again and again.
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Post by SSHoya on May 7, 2023 9:34:07 GMT -5
Gee, Texas. I'm shocked. Texas congressman slammed for prayers comment after mall shooting Statewide, Texas has witnessed a steady rise in the number of firearm deaths, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Lawmakers there have expanded access to guns in recent years, with residents now allowed to carry handguns in public without a license. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/05/07/keith-self-shooting-prayers-allen-texas/
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Post by DFW HOYA on May 7, 2023 12:56:24 GMT -5
Statewide, Texas has witnessed a steady rise in the number of firearm deaths, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Lawmakers there have expanded access to guns in recent years, with residents now allowed to carry handguns in public without a license. Yes, Texas is an open carry state. So too is Virginia, Pennsylvania, and 34 other states where it is "permitless". Nine states allow it with a permit. The only states where open carry is illegal are New York, California, Illinois, and Florida. As to the latter, its governor has signed legislation to allow Florida to go open carry effective July 1. www.flgov.com/2023/04/03/governor-ron-desantis-signs-hb-543-constitutional-carry/
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Post by SSHoya on May 7, 2023 13:02:40 GMT -5
Statewide, Texas has witnessed a steady rise in the number of firearm deaths, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Lawmakers there have expanded access to guns in recent years, with residents now allowed to carry handguns in public without a license. Yes, Texas is an open carry state. So too is Virginia, Pennsylvania, and 43 other states. The only states where open carry is illegal are New York, California, Illinois, and Florida. As to the latter, its governor has signed legislation to allow Florida to go open carry effective July 1. www.flgov.com/2023/04/03/governor-ron-desantis-signs-hb-543-constitutional-carry/And Texas is one of the leaders in mass shootings and its gun violence issue (homicides and suicides) is worsening, aside from the mass murders. I live in Delaware, also an open carry state. So I'm not sure how this is a "defense" of Texas gun culture, if that was what was intended. I guess loosening gun laws makes sense in Texas, right? But when lawmakers have reconvened in Austin in the months after a mass shooting, those same leaders tend to fall silent on any restrictive measures when it comes to guns. In the last two legislative sessions, Texas legislators have loosened gun laws, most notably by passing permitless carry in 2021, less than two years after mass shootings in El Paso and Odessa took the lives of 30 people. www.texastribune.org/2022/05/24/texas-gun-laws-uvalde-mass-shootings/And how much $$$ has Abbott dedicated to mental health in Texas? UVALDE, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday that the Uvalde school shooter had a "mental health challenge" and the state needed to "do a better job with mental health" — yet in April he slashed $211 million from the department that oversees mental health programs. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/abbott-calls-texas-school-shooting-mental-health-issue-cut-state-spend-rcna30557Excellent governance in Texas!
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Post by Elvado on May 7, 2023 13:08:19 GMT -5
Only police and military should have automatic weapons. Period.
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Post by SSHoya on May 7, 2023 13:15:14 GMT -5
The last federal assault weapons ban expired in 2004, but a new study from Northwestern Medicine says that the ten-year ban likely prevented as many as 11 mass shootings, and had it remained in place, as many as 30 more mass shootings could have been prevented. The lead author of the study is Lori Ann Post, professor of emergency medicine and medical sciences at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. Post says that what makes her study unique is that it focuses just on mass shootings whereas previous studies into the effectiveness of the assault weapons ban had looked at overall gun deaths. news.wttw.com/2021/03/31/northwestern-study-says-1994-2004-federal-assault-weapons-ban-worked
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Post by DFW HOYA on May 7, 2023 13:44:42 GMT -5
Only police and military should have automatic weapons. Period. Automatic weapons are illegal in 45 states (the five that allow it are Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, New Hampshire, and New Mexico). By federal law, only automatic weapons produced before 1986 even qualify, so they tend to be fairly rare. An AR-15 is not considered an automatic weapon per federal law, so that's a place to start.
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Post by SSHoya on May 7, 2023 14:27:08 GMT -5
Another MAGA GOPer White supremacist? Afterall, the "Republicans" have given these racists a permission structure to target minorities, immigrants, and Jews. And the gunman's name is Garcia? Go figure. Gunman in Texas mall shooting may have had neo-Nazi beliefs Last year, Texas had the most mass killings by gun of any state, with six. This year it has had three. In 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recorded 4,613 firearms-related deaths in Texas. The state’s annual death toll from guns has increased steadily since 2014.f N.B. That is almost 13 gun-related deaths EACH DAY! Yee haw! www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/05/07/texas-allen-outlets-shooting-dallas/
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Post by SSHoya on May 7, 2023 14:59:01 GMT -5
Seems that the number of mass shootings in Texas are remarkable enough that the CBS affiliate in Dallas compiled this list. I wonder if the CBS Dallas newsroom was shocked? DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - Before Uvalde, there was White Settlement. Before that, there was El Paso, Sutherland Springs and Killeen. Since 1966, Texas has been the site of more than 20 deadly mass shootings. From church to the workplace, these events have claimed the lives of more than 200 Texans. Serious, yes. Shocked? Probably not. In the view of a state with a population approaching 30 million people, with an estimated 51 million firearms in personal possession at any one time, and the lack of any leadership, Democratic or Republican, to address it, these type of events are not getting solved by broad public consensus. Nor is a statistic largely ignored in and out of the state: fatality driving accidents. If you've ever driven on Texas interstates, you may have seen the digital signage imploring drivers to "break the streak": Texas has not had a single day without a fatality accident in 23 years. The numbers ftp.txdot.gov/pub/txdot-info/trf/crash_statistics/2021/01.pdf are striking: -- The 2021 death toll was 4,489. Based on reportable crashes in 2021, one person was killed every 1 hour 57 minutes, and injured every 2 minutes 12 seconds. -- In 2021 there were 1,037 people killed in crashes occurring in intersections or related to an intersection. -- On the deadliest day in 2021, 27 persons were killed in traffic crashes. August was the deadliest month with 418 persons killed. -- There were four crashes that resulted in six or more fatalities in 2021. That last statistic could be considered a mass killing. Does it get coverage? No. Here's the coverage you've been hoping for . . .Sounds like a drunk driver and not a targeting of immigrants. EDIT: Investigators now looking into intent behind this mass killing as potentially anti-immigrant. Yee Haw, Texas! At least seven people were killed and at least five were injured Sunday in Brownsville, Tex., when an SUV struck a crowd waiting for the bus outside a migrant shelter, according the director of the center. Brownsville police investigator Martin Sandoval said in a video posted by the department that the crash happened about 8:30 a.m. local time. The victims were standing outside the Bishop Enrique San Pedro Ozanam Center, a migrant and homeless shelter in the border town. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/05/07/brownsville-texas-car-crash-deaths/
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Post by SSHoya on May 8, 2023 5:56:36 GMT -5
Texas has had nine mass shootings in the past 14 years, while lawmakers have steadily loosened restrictions on carrying firearms While University of Texas polls consistently show that Texans are divided about gun control — with 40% to 50% saying they want stricter gun laws — the vast majority of the laws passed by the state’s Republican-controlled Legislature have expanded where guns are allowed, who can have a firearm in schools and the right to openly carry guns. apps.texastribune.org/features/2019/texas-10-years-of-mass-shootings-timeline/
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