After more mass shootings, one side is gaining donors and political will; the other is galvanized by gun rights. Will anything be different?
Tag: Buffalo, NY, Shooting (May 14, 2022)
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Buffalo Shooting Suspect Charged With Federal Hate Crimes
Attorney General Merrick Garland has announced 26 counts of hate crimes and weapons violations. Some charges may carry the death penalty.
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Democrats Failed to Extend Assault Weapons Ban in 2004. They Regret It.
A push to renew the ban is so unlikely to succeed that one Democratic aide likened it to trying to jam the world’s biggest genie back into the world’s smallest bottle.
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House Passes Red-Flag Bill as Senate Talks on Gun Violence Continue
The legislation stands little chance of enactment in its current form, but the idea of incentivizing states to allow guns to be taken from dangerous people is in play in bipartisan Senate talks.
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The Racist Researcher Cited in the Buffalo Gunman’s Manifesto
The work of Michael Woodley, a Briton who was cited by the teenager who killed 10 Black people at a supermarket in Buffalo, included pseudoscientific theories that have been used to justify racism.