Republican responses to deadly mass shooting fall short (again)
Republican presidential candidates responded to the mass shooting in Jacksonville in predictable ways that fell far short.
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Republican presidential candidates responded to the mass shooting in Jacksonville in predictable ways that fell far short.
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The white man who shot and killed three black people at the Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida on Saturday was a 21-year-old who bought his guns legally and had no criminal history. According to Sheriff T.K. Waters in a news conference on Sunday, the shooter Ryan Christopher Palmeter, who lived with his parents in a suburb of Jacksonville died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Gunman taken into care under state’s Baker Act in 2017 over concern for mental health, sheriff says, which would ordinarily have prevented him being allowed to access firearms
The shooter responsible for killing 3 people in a racially-motivated shooting at a Dollar General in Jacksonville, has been identified as Ryan Christopher Palmeter.