White House unveils proposals on guns and school safety. The Trump administration unveiled several gun and school safety proposals Sunday night, including measures to harden security at the nation's schools, improve background checks of those buying guns, and overhaul aspects of the mental health system.
The proposals do not include a formal plan to increase the age limit for buying certain firearms, a policy President Donald Trump has said he would support. Ref. CNN.
March for Our Lives rallies massive in San Diego County, nationwide. Thousands of people of all ages began marching throughout San Diego County Saturday morning as part of a nationwide student-led movement calling for politicians to take action on tighter restrictions to quell gun violence at schools. Source 6e.
Marching is nice and all but they are focusing way too much on the guns as though the guns do the shooting on their own. They need to talk about all the bullying they do in school that contributes to the hate and better treatment for those with any kind of mental condition.
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Group of senators — including 10 Republicans — announces breakthrough deal on gun control legislation. The bipartisan group, which includes the needed number of GOP senators to break a filibuster, said it has found common ground on gun control measures. The proposal is vastly more limited than changes pushed by President Joe Biden, though he urged immediate passage. Source 5d.
There is no reason for young crazy or extremist people to be buying weapons meant for the military. The arguments about the right to have arms in this context is silly otherwise anyone could go buy a tank, a missile, a nuke, a battleship and say its their right to bare arms.
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At least 5 dead, dozens more injured in weekend shootings. At least five people including a Pennsylvania state trooper were killed and dozens injured in a string of weekend violence and mass shootings across the U.S. The shootings in suburban Chicago, Washington state, Pennsylvania, St. Louis, Southern California and Baltimore follow a surge in homicides and other violence over the past several years that experts say accelerated during the coronavirus pandemic. Source 5h.
US on grim pace for gun violence, mass killings in 2023: 'The bad year continues'. There have been dozens of mass killings in the United States in 2023, including an unusually high number of public mass shootings. Source 4l.