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Senate Republicans block Durbin, Schneider domestic terrorism bill; lax to act after Uvalde, Buffalo

Once again, Democrats are pushing for not the perfect, but at least some good when it comes to responding to mass shootings, the latest in Buffalo and Uvalde, Texas.

Chicago Sun-Times

Why gun control laws don't pass Congress, despite majority public support and repeated outrage over mass shootings

With the carnage in Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York in May 2022, calls have begun again for Congress to enact gun control. Since the 2012 massacre of 20 children and four staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, legislation introduced in response to mass killings has…

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Parsons Bags Contract For AI-Based Smart Mobility System

Parsons Corp (NYSE:PSN) was selected by the Niagara International Transportation Technology Coalition (NITTEC) to provide artificial intelligence (AI) based regional border transportation management system. Financial terms were not disclosed. The system will help expedite the movement of goods and people around the Buffalo-Niagara bi-national region in Western New York State and Southern Ontario.…

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McConnell offers to negotiate with Democrats for ‘bipartisan solution’ to gun violence

The legislation passed the House after a white supremacist shooting in Buffalo

The Independent UK

Senate GOP blocks domestic terrorism bill, gun policy debate

Democrats’ first attempt at responding to the back-to-back mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, Texas, has failed in the Senate

The Independent UK

Ramesh Ponnuru: The gun debate needs to break old patterns

The mass murder of children in Uvalde, Texas, coming just 10 days after the mass murder of shoppers in Buffalo, New York, moved former Sen. Bill Frist — who was the majority leader of a Republican Senate when President George W. Bush was in the White House — to issue…

Tribune News Service

After the Uvalde shooting, even parents can't enter Buffalo schools without notice

The school district in Buffalo, N.Y., announced Wednesday it would keep all school doors locked during the school day, and bar all unannounced visits to its buildings, including by students' parents.

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Commentary: Shootings show that an armed society is nothing more than a fearful society

For decades, lies about gun violence have sustained policies that get many people killed. Tops Fresh Market in Buffalo, New York, and Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, now enter America’s list of mass shootings. It is a list of intense sorrow and shame. And it is a list we…

Chicago Tribune

How the NRA evolved from backing a 1934 ban on machine guns to blocking nearly all firearm restrictions today

The mass shootings at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket and an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, just 10 days apart, are stirring the now-familiar national debate over guns seen after the tragic 2012 and 2018 school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, and Parkland, Florida.

The Conversation

On 2nd anniversary of George Floyd's killing, Black Buffalo residents feel the weight

The shooting at a Tops grocery store, which authorities say was motivated by racist hate, brought into sharper focus the weight of being a target.

WEKU

Two years after Floyd murder, racial trauma permeates US

Wednesday marks the second anniversary of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, which sparked a global protest movement and calls for a racial reckoning to address structural racism that has created long-standing inequities impacting generations of Black Americans

The Independent UK

New York governor says only people over age of 21 should be allowed to buy AR-15s

Alleged shooters in Buffalo and Ulvade were aged 18

The Independent UK

Notre Dame says it is ‘appalled’ the Buffalo shooting suspect cited an article by one of its professors

CHICAGO — The University of Notre Dame issued a statement saying it is “appalled” that the suspect in the Buffalo grocery store shooting cited an article written by one of its professors in his diatribe before he killed 10 people.

Chicago Tribune

Will Congress act on guns after Sandy Hook, Buffalo, Uvalde?

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has quickly set in motion a pair of firearms background check bills in response to the school massacre in Texas

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Los Angeles Times

US gun laws are getting looser, not stronger, despite more mass shootings

In recent weeks, a string of devastating shootings — at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, a church in Laguna Woods, California, and now an elementary school in little Uvalde, Texas — has renewed calls for tighter gun restrictions.

The Independent UK

Services set for 'hero' officer killed in supermarket attack

The security guard killed in the Buffalo supermarket shooting on May 14 will be laid to rest Wednesday, as the country grapples with another massacre at a Texas school that killed 19 children and two adults

The Conversation

Replacement theory isn't new – 3 things to know about how this once-fringe conspiracy has become more mainstream

The recent grocery store mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, is placing a spotlight on white supremacy.

Salon

More guns is the NRA's only answer

Repeated massacres, even of tiny children, automatically evoke calls to put more guns in schools and on the streets

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Salon

After Buffalo, Trump threatens civil war

As the Trump movement builds toward violent conquest, mainstream media keeps pretending it's all a game

The Guardian - US

White solidarity doesn’t last much longer than the flowers left as memorials to Black lives

Two years ago, George Floyd was murdered. I remember the outpouring of grief. But apparently ‘healing’ is synonymous with forgetting

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Mass shooters aren’t mentally ill people who suddenly snap. They decide to kill

In the aftermath of major mass shootings, politicians and pundits depict the killers as crazed monsters and blame mental illness as the fundamental cause. The same story has played out since the horrific massacre May 14 at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, where an 18-year-old allegedly motivated by racist…

WEKU

She lost her daughter in a mass shooting. Here's what she will tell parents in Uvalde

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Sandy Phillips, whose daughter died in the 2012 movie theater mass shooting in Colorado. She's been supporting shooting survivors in Buffalo, now she heads to Texas.

WEKU

The Buffalo shooting is a reminder that millions don't live near a grocery store

Grocery stores provide healthy foods, create jobs and offer a place for community connection. "We started calling them front-line and essential workers for a reason," says one food access advocate.

Reason

Commonly Touted Policies Are Ill-Suited to Stopping Mass Shooters

These three gun controls failed in New York, and there is little reason to think they would work elsewhere.

The Independent UK

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