With gun crimes surging in Pittsburgh, Mayor Bill Peduto and State Rep. Dan Frankel, D-Squirrel Hill, led a group of community leaders speaking out Thursday against state laws preventing municipalities from enacting their own gun laws. Appearing before media gathered under a tent in Schenley Park, Peduto and Frankel expressed
–Last week, Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-Santa Barbara) and Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-San Francisco) reintroduced the Extreme Risk Protection Order Act. The legislation was introduced by Rep. Salud Carbajal and co-led by Rep. Julia Brownley (D-Thousand Oaks), Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), and Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI). Senator Dianne Feinstein introduced companion legislation in the senate.
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March’s mass shooting in Atlanta, Georgia, is the latest tragic reminder of what we already know: Gun violence turns oppressive ideologies lethal.
And from last year’s permit approval for a white supremacist group to operate a church in Murdock to recent reports of anti-Asian hate in the Twin Cities, Minnesota has many reasons to take action against violent ideologies.
Minnesota must recognize the part it has to play in taking on the American epidemic of racialized gun violence. The state should pass Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) legislation as a first step toward greater safety for all Minnesotans.
The link between intimate partner violence and mass shootings
Police believe domestic violence was ‘at the core’ of the Colorado Springs shooting (iStock; Washington Post illustration)
Updated on May 11 at 6 p.m. Eastern.
Just hours before, Freddy Marquez and his wife, Nubia Marquez, had been inside the house at Canterbury Mobile Home Park in Colorado Springs, Colo., celebrating a constellation of family birthdays. This included Nubia, who is turning 28 this week, her bother Melvin Perez and their mother Joana Cruz who was hosting the birthdays at her home.
The couple left the party around 10 p.m. on Saturday night, they told the Colorado Springs Gazette. They were back huddled outside the trailer on Sunday morning, yellow crime tape now cordoning off a crime scene. The home was the site of another mass shooting at least the 11th this year, according to the Associated Press.
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Washington: Just hours before, Freddy Marquez and his wife, Nubia Marquez, had been inside the house at Canterbury Mobile Home Park in Colorado Springs, Colorado, celebrating a constellation of family birthdays. This included Nubia, who is turning 28 this week, her bother Melvin Perez and their mother Joana Cruz, who was hosting the birthdays at her home.
The couple left the party about 10pm on Saturday night, they told the
Colorado Springs Gazette. They were back huddled outside the trailer on Sunday morning, yellow crime tape cordoning off a crime scene. The home was the site of another mass shooting - at least the 11th this year, according to The Associated Press.