Attorney General Kwame Raoul and Tennessee Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery led a coalition of 40 attorneys general urging Congress to pass the EAGLES Act of 2021, which would provide research-based threat assessment training to prevent targeted school violence.
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Utah Being Fastest Growing State Doesn’t Come With Extra Congressional Seat
Utah’s population grew by about 18% over the past decade. That makes it the fastest growing state in the country. But it isn’t getting an extra Congressional seat. Utah only added about 508,000 people. Meanwhile Texas, which gained two seats, added about 4 million. Since Congressional representation is based on population, Utah didn’t gain enough people to require a fifth seat. Michael Barber is a political science professor at Brigham Young University. He said this just means there will be more work for the state’s elected officials. But Barber said if Utah keeps growing at this pace, it could very
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As the U.S. has seen at least 147 mass shootings so far this year, Senator Charles Grassley (R) points to legislation reintroduced this past February to mitigate threats of violence at schools as a solution to the issue.
The Gun Violence Archive, a non-profit corporation based in Washington, D.C., has gathered the data, and defines a mass shooting as when four or more people are shot or killed, not including the shooter. There have been 11 in last week, the largest being the Indianapolis shooting on April 15th that killed nine people and injured seven. President Joe Biden has recently issued executive orders regarding gun violence in the wake of other recent shootings in Georgia and Colorado, and two bills passed in the U.S. House last month regarding gun laws which have also been introduced in the Senate.