#GunViolence
Is this what the #MAGA #GOP meant by #MakeAmericaGreatAgain ? 😤
“As of this week, the U.S. has now reached over 500 mass shootings this year.”
on friday 12 reported shot and killed in the divided states #gunviolence
#Marchforourlives
https://marchforourlives.com/actions/
https://twitter.com/AMarch4OurLives/status/1704981458685678071?s=19
BREAKING 🚨: President #Biden officially orders an Office of #GunViolence Prevention 🎉.
We’ve been fighting for this since 2019, with our friends in the movement because we know it’ll make an impact.
This marks a HUGE win and shows us just how young people get shit done.
"Because of all of you here today — all across the country — survivors, families, advocates, especially young people who demand our nation do better to protect all, who protested, organized, voted, and ran for office, and yes, marched for their lives, I'm proud to announce the creation of the first ever White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention [...] After every mass shooting we hear a simple message: Do something. Please do something."
New Yorker: The Last Gun I Shot https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/the-last-gun-i-shot #NewYorker #News/LetterfromtheSouthwest #DisableInlineSignupUnit #News/TheWeekendEssay #GunViolence #Weapons #Texas #Guns
⚡️ Tragic incident: 14-year-old boy killed, 6 wounded in Maryland mass shooting at a Fourth of July block party. Authorities investigating, no suspects identified. Similar shootings occurred in Washington D.C., Fort Worth, Philadelphia, and Baltimore over the holiday weekend, resulting in multiple deaths and injuries. National concern over the surge in deadly mass shootings persists. #publicsafety #gunviolence https://www.riskmap.com/incidents/1848052/articles/182971333/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
This is a FYI for all. It comes from the website:
https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/
BTW so far in 2023 there has been 507 mass shootings & 30 Mass Murders in the US.
Roaming Charges: Then They Walked
Ismael Lopez and his wife were asleep in their beds on the night of July 23, 2017, when they were awakened by a loud knocking on the door
Two men were standing on the porch with guns.
shot Lopez in the back of the head, killing him instantly. With Lopez’s body lying still on the floor, Durden cuffed him
Maze and Durden were cops with the Southaven, Mississippi police
But they were at the wrong address.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/09/22/roaming-charges-101/
⚡️ Update: Philadelphia gunman's disturbing social media messages preceded a mass shooting that killed five people and injured two children. This incident was among 16 mass shootings over the Fourth of July weekend, leaving 15 dead and 94 injured. The motive remains unknown, and no arrests have been made. The surge in mass shootings since the pandemic began in 2020 is concerning. @riskmap.com #gunviolence #publicsafety https://www.riskmap.com/incidents/1848419/articles/183052027/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
{{{GASP!}}} This excites me no end!!! #GQP #GOP #GunViolence #PathologicalLiars #Hipocrits #GOPDeathCult https://www.axios.com/2023/09/22/biden-gun-violence-prevention-democrats
You know there must be evidence coming out of the cops' ears, for a white Oklahoma District judge to be arrested *in Texas* over firing his gun.
It's almost shocking that no one actually died at his hands during the shootings (yes, plural).
I would not be surprised and and when he does kill someone soon, however.
https://kfor.com/news/local/long-time-ok-judge-arrested-in-tx-for-firing-gun-road-rage/
Insane how much investment goes into protecting #US #schools from #gunviolence when the alternative could be so simple: Just toughen the #gunlaws !
I certainly would not feel safe sending my kids into such a military bunker knowing that another shooting could happen any day.
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2023/us/changing-classrooms-shooting-safety-dg/
America - you are solving the wrong part of the problem... Classrooms should not need safe rooms and bulletproof glass. Deal with the guns #guns #uspolitics #GunViolence https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2023/us/changing-classrooms-shooting-safety-dg/
#GunViolence #MassShooting #NRA #GunWankers
No Mass Shooting Today
(SO FAR)
#GunViolence #MassShooting #NRA #GunWankers
No Mass Shooting Today
#GunViolence #MassShooting #NRA #GunWankers
No Mass Shooting Today
11 reported dead yesterday as a result of #gunviolence in the divided states
Vice President Kamala Harris will lead a new federal office of gun violence prevention, the White House said Thursday.
President Joe Biden will formally announce the new office Friday during a Rose Garden event where several advocates and lawmakers have been invited to attend.
#GunViolence #VicePresidentHarris #PresidentBiden
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/21/kamala-harris-lead-office-gun-violence-prevention-00117497
This is the best that Republicans can do re: mass shootings at schools. Fucking disgusting fascist bullshit.
“But we gave them tourniquets and compression dressings!” is the worst possible response to gun violence in schools.
#gunviolence #ohio #uspol https://www.wdtn.com/news/local-news/nonprofit-provides-emergency-equipment-bags-for-beavercreek-city-schools/
#VPHarris, a former prosecutor, will lead new #WhiteHouse office of #gunviolence prevention
https://ground.news/article/biden-to-establish-new-office-of-gun-violence-prevention
Courtesy of Politics Girl: Dear White Women
https://youtu.be/QrS96UsQUCE
#reproductiverights #DonaldTrump #bookbanning #patriarchy #MAGA #elections #voting #history #Education #gunviolence #schoolshootings #BlackMastodon
Gentrified neighborhoods see a rise in gun injuries
#GunViolence #GentrifiedNeighborhoods #FirearmInjury #NationalnworldAffairs
A list of mass killings in the United States since January
> So far this year, the nation has witnessed the highest number on record of mass killings and deaths to this point in a single year. According to the database, there have been more than 560 mass killings since 2006, in which at least 2,900 people died and at least 2,000 were injured. https://apnews.com/article/mass-killings-list-united-states-17500a1e9085c5ffd612549e6c386742 #US #gunviolence #massshootings #guns
yesterday 16 reported shot and killed in the divided states #gunviolence
Hey #Mastodon, join us tomorrow for an important conversation about guns and suicide prevention. Registration info below! #GunViolence
Republicans may side with the #NRA and be perfectly ok with this, but I will side with our children instead.
"Regarding where children and teens had the highest rates of firearm deaths, the study found that places where baseline death rates were already high got worse—namely in the South."
#gunviolence
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Gun deaths among US kids continue to rise; Southern states have worst rates
https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/09/gun-deaths-among-us-children-reached-new-record-high-in-2021-study-finds/
The man you drove up to a police officer's patrol car, shot the officer dead and drove away "had a history of mental illness."
He purchased his weapon LEGALLY. #GunViolence #GunViolence
11 reported dead as a result of #gunviolence yesterday in the divided states
#Biden to create new office of #gunviolence prevention
https://ground.news/article/biden-to-create-office-of-gun-violence-prevention
⚡️ Update: Gunman on scooter kills elderly man and injures three in a shooting spree in Brooklyn and Queens, New York. Shooter, aged 25, was apprehended. Recovery of a 9mm pistol with an extended ammo magazine. NYC has recorded 482 shooting incidents in H1 2023, while the US has seen over 22,000 gun violence deaths this year. #GunViolence #NYCShooting https://www.riskmap.com/incidents/1851736/articles/183468106/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Author Jessie Kwak, recent random gun violence victim, speaks out on Oregon gun control measure.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CxYyScXSFyU/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
#gunviolence #jessiekwak #oregon #measure114 #politicalaction
Gunshots strike a girl
Parents' pain and anguish untold
Justice sought by all
#dc #mothersday #gunviolence #justice #haiku #poetry
https://abcnews.go.com/US/dc-police-announce-arrest-mothers-day-killing-10/story?id=103290325
16 reported dead on monday as a result of #gunviolence in the divided states
Suspect arrested in ambush slaying of US deputy sheriff in California
@Johnnyblaze The GOP conveniently forget that most 'after-birth abortions' don't happen in hospitals but in schools.
#schoolshooting #gunviolence
#GunViolence #MassShooting #NRA #GunWankers
2 Mass Shootings Today
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Spring Lake, North Carolina
3 injured
1 killed
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Charlotte, North Carolina
4 injured
#GunViolence #MassShooting #NRA #GunWankers
3 Mass Shootings Today
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Romeoville, Illinois
4 killed
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El Paso, Texas
5 injured
1 killed
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Boston, Massachusetts
5 injured
America’s lethal epidemic: The tragic toll of gun violence
> It is a fatal epidemic. In the first eight months of the year alone, there have been 470 mass shootings — Gun Violence Archive describes it as when four or more people are shot, not including the perpetrator — across the United States with more than 25,000 Americans dead this year alone from gun violence.
> It gets worse. 22 children aged 17 and under are shot daily https://gulfnews.com/opinion/op-eds/americas-lethal-epidemic-the-tragic-toll-of-gun-violence-1.98095709 #guns #NRA #gunviolence
#newsjunkie #race #guns #gunviolence
As of late it has become obvious, if it wasn't before, that more white nationalists are hunting and murdering black people simply because of their color. Maybe it's time for the Black Panthers, heavily armed, as is their right, to make a reappearance -- as they did in the 60's -- to remind those that hunt them, that retribution is possible and deadly. That might change the current socio/political equation.
We're already up to 500 mass shootings and still have 3 months to go! Maybe a new record this year?
By the numbers: Just five years ago, the country had never experienced 500 mass shootings in one year:
- 2018: 335 mass shootings
- 2019: 414 mass shootings
- 2020: 610 mass shootings
- 2021: 689 mass shootings
- 2022: 645 mass shootings
#GunControl #GunLaws #gunviolence #Guns #MassShooting
https://www.axios.com/2023/09/17/mass-shootings-500-united-states-2023
$250,000 reward offered in search for killer of California deputy sheriff
#Halliburton equipment worth $7.1m imported into Russia in past year, customs records show
Exclusive: #US oil multinationals face questions over trade with #Russia amid pressure to cease operations
The products were imported from #Turkey, bringing the total value of exports of Halliburton equipment to Russia since the company closed its operations to at least $7,163,317.
Of all the exports to Russia made since last September
"Merchants of Death"
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/sep/17/russia-trade-halliburton-equipment-export-us-oil
#UnitedStates surpasses 500 #MassShooting count in 2023: #GunViolence Archive
🎯👇🏼
Via Fred Guttenberg:
#Trump said "Democrats are able to kill the baby after birth." Beyond this being a truly dumb lie, here are facts.
My baby was killed after birth because of #GunViolence. Republicans, by blocking gun violence prevention, apparently support killing babies after birth.
'War Is Good for Business,' Declares Executive at London's Global Arms Fair
Military-industrial complex players big and small gathered in London this week, hawking everything from long-range missiles to gold-plated pistols to arms fair attendees—including representatives of horrific human rights violators—as weapon-makers and other merchants of the machinery of death reap record profits.
As I'm reading through the (potentially triggering) statistics in this article, I'm struck by how much is relevant to me and my circle directly, and it's staggering to realize it all at once. #Pandemic #Covid #COVID19 #Trauma #GunViolence #MassShooting #MassShootings #OpioidCrisis #ClimateChange #NaturalDisasters #HurricaneHarvey #USPolitics https://newrepublic.com/article/175311/america-polarized-traumatized-trump-violence
#UnitedStates #school shootings reach new high, doubled in past year
#GunViolence
https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4204651-us-school-shootings-reach-new-high-doubled-in-past-year/
Capital #murder #trial begins for violent 2017 #shooting of #Trans #sexworker, and her #rooomate in their #Texas #home. (1/2)
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #SexWork #SexWorkers #GunViolence
#GunViolence #MassShooting #NRA #GunWankers
1 Mass Shooting Today
(SO FAR)
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
4 injured
How US police found killer Danelo Cavalcante using dogs, heat-sensing plane
For those who may not know or have forgotten:
Tennessee's Governor Bill Lee started the process of striking down what few gun control measures in the state early this year.
Not 3 weeks after that piece, there was a deadly school shooting in Nashville:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Nashville_school_shooting
GOPpers still went ahead, because they don't give one fuck about children, dead or alive.
Today (Sen Yarbro is a Dem)
Of course.
“A federal judge has blocked part of a public health order that suspended the right to carry guns in public across #NewMexico’s largest metro area.
The ruling Wednesday by U.S. District Judge David Urias marks a setback for Democratic New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham as she responds to several recent shootings that took the lives of children, including an 11-year-old boy as he left a minor league baseball game in Albuquerque.” #legsl #GunViolence
"Shootings, with horrific consequences, have become almost commonplace at Texas schools, houses of worship, restaurants, shopping malls, and concerts. This time, Sanchez feared she’d have to explain to Luna that she might not even be safe from gunfire in her own home...
“So when your house is not safe anymore, you’re like, ‘Well, that sucks. I failed.’”
https://www.texasobserver.org/short-term-rentals-airbnb-vrbo-neighborhoods/
#Texas #AirBnB #STRP #ShortTermRentalProperty #Violence #GunViolence #USA #News
#GunViolence #MassShooting #NRA #GunWankers
3 Mass Shootings Today
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Jersey City, New Jersey
5 injured
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Indianapolis, Indiana
5 injured
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Detroit, Michigan
2 injured
2 killed
@georgetakei @cowvin @gmliii @hrtsmom
But seriously, in Albuquerque...public health emergency declared because of high level of gun violence.
Even Elon is mentioning it:
https://pinonpost.com/elon-musk-agrees-lujan-grisham-should-be-removed-from-office/
"State Reps. John Block (R-Alamogordo) and Stefani Lord (R-Sandia Park) have announced that they are already lining up impeachment articles with legal counsel."
Lawsuits are flying back and forth.
Local rallies/protests, such as:
https://2ndlifemediaalamogordo.town.news/g/alamogordo-nm/n/214118/rpoc-2nd-amendment-rally-alamogordo-9-11-23
#NewMexico #GunViolence #PublicHealth
Tom
Southern New Mexico
#NewMexico #GunViolence #PublicHealth
More local reporting.
In Alamogordo, the Otero county seat:
Monday rally/protest
#gunviolence
So as of 23:00 hours on 09/09/23 There has been 494 Mass Shootings in America!!!
BTW it's day 252 of the year. So only 10 Mass Shootings short of 2 per day every day of the year.
In 2016 there were 383 TOTAL Mass Shootings!!!
A difference of 111 Mass Shootings between all 2016 & 09/09/23.
Still have 1/4 of 2023 to go!!!
Governor suspends right to carry firearms in public in Albuquerque due to gun violence Gun violence was also declared a public health emergency in New Mexico.
#GunViolence #PublicHealthEmergency #Albuquerque #FirearmsBan #NewMexico #Governor #Politics #News
Legal Fight Expected After New Mexico Governor Suspends the Right to Carry Guns in Public
> Legal scholars and advocates say New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s emergency order suspending the right to carry firearms in public in and around Albuquerque will spur a legal fight but might also move the debate about gun violence https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/new-mexico/articles/2023-09-09/legal-fight-expected-after-new-mexico-governor-suspends-the-right-to-carry-guns-in-public #NewMexico #US #Guns #GunViolence
#NewMexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Friday issued an emergency order suspending the right to carry firearms in public across #Albuquerque and the surrounding county for at least 30 days in response to a spate of #GunViolence.
The Democratic governor said she expects legal challenges but was compelled to act because of recent shootings, including the death of an 11-year-old boy outside a minor league baseball stadium this week.
I'm no longer on X/Twitter, but I did see this:
It's getting many views.
@GottaLaff This is why voting Democratic up and down the ballot is not just important, but vital. #gunviolence #voteblue
New Mexico governor issues order suspending the right to carry firearms in public across #Albuquerque
> The Democratic governor said she expects legal challenges but was compelled to act in response to gun deaths, including the fatal shooting of an 11-year-old boy outside a minor league baseball stadium this week
https://apnews.com/article/albuquerque-guns-governor-concealed-carry-fc5b4b79bf411b8022c3ad58975724d7 #GunViolence #NewMexico
New Mexico Gov. Issues Public Health Order Suspending Carry Of Guns In Albuquerque
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Friday issued an emergency public health order that suspends the open and permitted concealed carry of firearms in Albuquerque for 30 days in the midst of a spate of gun violence.
The Democratic governor said she is expecting legal challenges but felt compelled to act in response to gun deaths, including the fatal shooting of an 11-year-old boy outside a minor league baseball stadium this week.
The firearms suspension is tied to a threshold for violent crime rates that only the Albuquerque area currently meets. Police are exempt from the temporary ban on carrying firearms.
Lujan Grisham said the restrictions “are going to pose incredible challenges for me as a governor and as a state.”
“I welcome the debate and fight about how to make New Mexicans safer,” she said at a news conference, flanked by leading law enforcement officials, including the district attorney for the Albuquerque area.
#NewMexico #Albuquerque
#GunViolence #OpenCarry #ConcealedCarry #suspension
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/albuquerque-new-mexico-gun-ban_n_64fbb4d9e4b02beef75cdce9
"New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Friday issued an emergency order suspending the right to carry firearms in public across Albuquerque and the surrounding county for at least 30 days"
Wow!
“#NewMexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham issued an emergency public health order that suspends the open and permitted concealed carry of firearms in Albuquerque for 30 days in the midst of a spate of #GunViolence.
Dem gov said she is expecting legal challenges but felt compelled to act in response to gun violence, incl the fatal shooting of an 11-year-old boy outside a minor league baseball stadium this week”
#Ohio - Additional bodycam footage is released in the death of pregnant Black mother Ta'Kiya Young
> footage [..] shows Young and two other women [..] Young can be seen putting multiple bottles of alcohol into her purse and a tote bag while out of sight of the cash register. She and the two other women then leave without paying.
> bodycam footage also shows [..] the tote bag full of liquor (which) is visible as they drag her from the car.
https://news.yahoo.com/additional-bodycam-footage-released-death-201919325.html #GunViolence
She awoke to a gun in her face. What happened next would change Mexican law
"A glassblowing studio, with its hard edges, hot surfaces and industrial feel, might seem an unlikely place for healing. But Project Fire draws on principles of art therapy to help survivors overcome their trauma."
Justin Agrelo for Stranger's Guide: https://strangersguide.com/articles/project-fire/
SWAT on the scene and residents are being asked to stay indoors after a police officer was shot during a traffic stop by gunfire from inside a house in Louisville, #Kentucky. https://www.wave3.com/2023/09/07/lmpd-officer-critical-condition-after-shooting-chickasaw-neighborhood/ #GunViolence
Via Josh Gerstein:
JUST IN: #SCOTUS sets one of biggest cases of the term, U.S. v. Rahimi--on limiting gun access to people covered by domestic-abuse restraining orders and fallout of Bruen, to be argued Nov. 7. Happens to be election day in states w/off-year elections. #GunViolence #legal.
Two women are dead and a teenage girl is in critical condition after a Friday night shooting in Northwest #DC. https://wtop.com/dc/2023/09/2-women-dead-teen-injured-after-shooting-in-northwest-dc/ #GunViolence
“#Ohio authorities on Friday released bodycam video showing the fatal police #shooting of Ta’Kiya Young, a young pregnant Black woman.
Young’s family has seen the video, the family’s lawyer said Friday.”
#GunViolence
https://apnews.com/article/pregnant-woman-killed-police-ohio-footage-95daff91130a64bb43848431ea4441af
White man faces trial in US for shooting Black teen who went to wrong house
“#Biden administration moved to expand background checks for #guns purchases, a step toward fulfilling a key ask from gun safety groups.
The new rule, submitted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to the Federal Register, would clarify who qualifies as a firearms dealer, and therefore, who would have to conduct background checks on gun buyers” #GunViolence
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/31/biden-close-loophole-background-checks-00113642
“Almost 42 million Americans – over one-eighth of the US population – are estimated to have lived within one mile of a mass shooting since 2014, according to an original CNN analysis of data from the Gun Violence Archive (GVA) and US Census Bureau.” #GunViolence
The Daily Tar Heel front page this morning. https://s3.amazonaws.com/snwceomedia/dth/a05ac798-5a0a-468c-b74d-4db0a2a8b559.original.pdf #GunViolence #NorthCarolina
#UNC-Chapel Hill grad student Tailei Qi charged with murder in shooting death of professor #GunViolence
"The US leads the developed world in gun deaths, with about 12 gun-related deaths per 100,000 people, according to data collected from GunPolicy.org. Not coincidentally, the country also has a lot more guns. For every 100 Americans, the US has 120 guns.
There are many extenuating circumstances that lead to gun deaths in the US.
Let’s start with the easy one: guns."
~https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23141964/america-gun-violence-epidemic-chart
ICYMI in 2022: The Guns of Summer in the #US & #Canada: Whose Rights Count? “Rarely mentioned in the…debates about misuse of guns are the international law obligations…to protect human rights. Everyone – including every child – has the fundamental right to life & security of the person…without discrimination…”
| Catherine Morris, Slaw: Canada’s online legal magazine, July 2022 https://www.slaw.ca/2022/07/22/the-guns-of-summer-in-the-us-and-canada-whose-rights-count/ #GunViolence #MassShooting #HumanRights #RightToLife @cmorris
Finally. Confirmation. So tragic.
Another day, another...
“A University of North Carolina faculty member was killed Monday afternoon after a suspect opened fire on the Chapel Hill campus, prompting a lockdown for three hours, the school said.” #GunViolence
ICYMY in 2022: The Guns of Summer in the #US & #Canada: Whose Rights Count? “Rarely mentioned in the…debates about misuse of guns are the international law obligations…to protect human rights. Everyone – including every child – has the fundamental right to life & security of the person…without discrimination…”
| Catherine Morris, Slaw: Canada’s online legal magazine, July 2022 https://www.slaw.ca/2022/07/22/the-guns-of-summer-in-the-us-and-canada-whose-rights-count/ #GunViolence #MassShooting #HumanRights #RightToLife @cmorris
Fact: Democrats enact laws that ban assault rifles.
If you announce that you don't plan to vote, or that you're voting for third party candidates, you're announcing that it's okay with you if an actual Nazi can legally buy an assault rifle and use it to massacre Black people.
#USPol #DollarGeneral #Jacksonville #GunViolence
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/27/us/jacksonville-florida-shooting-sunday
Jacksonville shooter started out at a historically Black university where he put on tactical gear but also caught the attention of security. https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/crime/2023/08/27/ryan-palmeter-killed-blacks-in-jacksonville-hate-crime-at-dollar-general/70695281007/ #GunViolence #hatecrime #Florida
