(The New Yorker)
The Onion: 'No way to prevent this,' says only nation where this regularly happens.
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Firearms are now the leading cause of death for U.S. children.
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Senator Chris Murphy's desperate plea for gun action: "Spare me the bullshit about mental illness," Murphy said. "We don't have any more mental illness than any other country in the world. You cannot explain this through a prism of mental illness because we're not an outlier on mental illness... We're an outlier when it comes to access to firearms and the ability of criminals and very sick people to get their arms on firearms. That's what makes America different."
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Noted American historian Heather Cox Richardson makes it clear: The idea that massacres are "the price of freedom," as right-wing personality Bill O'Reilly said in 2017 after the Mandalay Bay massacre in Las Vegas, in which a gunman killed 60 people and wounded 411 others, is new, and it is about politics, not our history. (Thanks to friend and reader Paul Stockhausen for reminding me to check my newsletter emails.)
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Governor: Texas gunman said he was going to shoot up school. The murderer sent private, one-to-one text messages on Facebook that were "discovered after the terrible tragedy," company spokesman Andy Stone said. He said Facebook is cooperating with investigators.
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From Columbine to Robb, 169 dead in US mass school shootings. Here's a complete chronological list.
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AP full coverage: Uvalde school shooting
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Mass shootings: the Supreme Court may be about to make the problem worse.
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Guns are just dandy, but Texas bans the possession of or promoting the use of more than six dildos.
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Guns are banned during Trump's upcoming speech at the NRA conference. Of course they are.
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Beto O'Rourke interrupts Texas governor's press conference on shooting
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Tweets, observations, and diversions:
Mass killers are frequently too insane to stand trial but rarely too
insane to buy AR-15s.
-John Fugelsang
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I bet the folks who wrote the Second Amendment never thought a
well-regulated militia would spend so much time killing children.
-Mrs.
Betty Bowers
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If you think gun violence is strictly a mental health issue, you're
crazy.
-Middle Age Riot
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Daring someone to come and try to take your AR-15 away from you is a
pretty good reason to have your AR-15 taken away from you.
-Jeff
Tiedrich
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Don't even suggest arming teachers. Some of y'all don't even trust us to
select library books.
-Amanda Lee
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Friends and patients of the late Lawrence J. Nelson, MD... A memorial will be held Sunday, June 12 at noon at the George Irvin Green Funeral Home, 3511 Main Street, Munhall.
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