A person named Audrey Elizabeth Hale, age 28, gunned down 3 teachers and 3 children at a private Christian school before being killed by police gunfire. The incident occurred in Nashville, Tennessee, on Monday, March 27, 2023. That evening, the Fox News headlines blared, Nashville police identify tw[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Gun Violence’
March 28th, 2023 - 12:20 am § in News Media
Are conservative media exploiting a school shooting to demonize LGBQT people?
Why do Republicans think crazy is a winning election strategy?
Probably because they’ve been around their own voters too long, and need to get out of the barn more. After 3 teachers and 3 kids were murdered by an AK47-wielding woman at a Nashville Christian school on Monday, March 27, 2023 (see story here), a survivor of the July 4, 2022, Highland Park pa[...]
March 4th, 2023 - 6:57 pm § in Politics, Republicans
WTF Texas Republicans?!
Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) represents southwest Texas. The Uvalde elementary school, scene of a mass shooting in May 2022, is in his district. The perpetrator bought the gun legally a day after his 18th birthday, and committed the crime a week later. Following that school massacre, there was another [...]
Guns in schools news for 2/24/23
“A 2-year-old girl, 13-year-old boy, 15-year-old boy and two 16-year-old boys were shot in the schoolyard of the James G. Blaine School at about 5:52 p.m. Thursday, according to Philadelphia police.” (Read story here.) “A male juvenile suspect has been arrested at a high school bas[...]
February 22nd, 2023 - 1:37 pm § in Law and Courts
The Supreme Court doesn’t care about gun violence
Last year’s Supreme Court decision in the Bruen case is “upending gun laws across the country,” Huffington Post says (see story here). That’s because the court changed the rules about how gun laws are reviewed for constitutionality, in a way that’s very bad for public s[...]
How much are Republicans and the Supreme Court to blame for gun violence?
Well, for starters, America’s gun violence problem is unique. No other country experiences the mass shootings we do. So we’re doing something different from others that encourages it or at least makes it possible. How about lax gun laws? In May 2022, a CNN columnist wrote (here), “[...]
GOP judges rule wife-beaters are entitled to guns
“A federal law that prohibits people subject to domestic violence restraining orders from possessing firearms is unconstitutional,” a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Thursday, February 2, 2023 (read story here). The Fifth Circuit, which is based in the De[...]
January 25th, 2023 - 8:32 pm § in Law and Courts
Res ipsa loquitur
That’s a “legal Latin” term describing a common law doctrine taught to first-year law students in their torts class. A “tort” is negligence or other wrongful behavior that results in harm, giving rise to liability for injury or damage. A car accident is a common example[...]
January 6th, 2023 - 10:07 pm § in Politics, Republicans
6-year-old gunman shoots teacher
That’s not a typo. A six-year-old kid shot a teacher in a first grade classroom in Newport News, Virginia, on Friday, December 6, 2023 (read story here). The teacher, Abby Zwerner (photo, left), 25, was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries. She was shot in the chest. Police, who arreste[...]
January 2nd, 2023 - 3:39 pm § in Law and Courts
Another case of trigger-happy vigilantism
Quadarius McDowell, 30 (photo, left), of Decatur, Georgia, took his car to a tire shop (photo below) on Saturday, December 31, 2022. When he saw Daniel Gorden, 24 (photo, right), a tire shop employee, moving his car he assumed Gorden was stealing it and shot him to death (see story here). McDowell w[...]