They did nothing to absolve our pain. while you may think about may 24th, we live it every single day. while you pray that your children grow up to be healthy and happy, contributing members to society, we pray that our children knew we were doing everything we could to get to them in that school to protect them. your thoughts and prayers didn t stop an 18-year-old from purchasing to high power semiautomatic rifles and all those rounds of ammunition. your thoughts and prayers don t stop us from having to bury our children and two teachers. your thoughts and prayers do not help the children that survived, that were injured. senator, you and i stood outside of robb elementary and what i remember from that discussion with you is that you re very clear-eyed about the fact that there were two different things happening here. on one hand, there was going to be a need for major gun safety reforms. i want you to talk me through where we are there. actually three things, there s
Will be new new legislation into the year 2025. and in the years and the uvalde shooting, the big thing uvalde parents pushed for was to raise the minimum age for buying a semiautomatic rifles from 18 to 21. but the republican controlled legislature wouldn t even do that. so in a state where schools are now turning to winnie-the-pooh to teach 40 year old how to survive mass shootings what just hours left to pass anything for the next year and a half, and hours until the anniversary of the deadliest school shooting in the past decade, what are republicans in the state of texas focused on? well yesterday the texas house passed a bill banning diversity equity and inclusion efforts on college campuses. another bill regulating drag shows. today, they pass one bill that gets rid of the county election administrator and just one single county, harris county,
And in the years and the uvalde shooting, the big thing uvalde parents pushed for was to raise the minimum age for buying a semiautomatic rifles from 18 to 21. but the republican controlled legislature wouldn t even do that. so in a state where schools are now turning to winnie-the-pooh to teach 4 year old how to survive mass shootings what just hours left to pass anything for the next year and a half, and hours until the anniversary of the deadliest school shooting in the past decade, what are republicans in the state of texas focused on? well yesterday the texas house passed a bill banning diversity equity and inclusion efforts on college campuses. another bill regulating drag shows. today, they pass one bill that gets rid of the county election administrator and just one single county, harris county, which is the largest most diverse county and all of texas. they passed another bill that gives the texas secretary of state the ability to take over elections administration in any county where a complaint is filed.
Its next session. and if you did not know, the texas legislature only meet every two years. the legislature can technically meet more than that if the governor calls for a special legislative session, but with the conservative greg abbott in the governor s mansion that means after midnight tonight only republican priorities are going to see the light of day. other than that, if bills are not passed by midnight tonight, then nothing will happen in the texas state legislature until it meet again in january of 2025. i m not misspeaking here. there will be no new legislation into the year 2025. and in the year since the uvalde shooting the big thing uvalde parents pushed for was to raise the minimum age for buying semiautomatic rifles from 18 to 21. but the republican controlled legislature wouldn t even do that. so in a state where schools are
The tension between the right to life, liberty, and the right to bear arms is reaching its boiling point. We ve long known that Bruen was a soothsaying
Deterrence. is he tone deaf? he s making a point for the other team. this is just seems to highlight the argument that this is not what the framers intended, that this kind of weird, cultic, strange fetishization of guns and semiautomatic weapons this is not what the old nra stood for when they stood for responsible gun ownership. this guy has nothing in common with a responsible gun owner who might have a small gun for self-defense or hunting, something like that. this is a great example, however, of the near psychosis that pervades a certain extreme edge on this issue. and the real crime though is that this is not a crime, that this is actually legal. isn t it only legal until october 1st because the law just changed in maryland? right. in the wake of the supreme court decision, invalidating new york s gun control laws, maryland passed a very skillfully written gun control law, where everybody has a right to conceal carry. but this is open carry, right?
These violent offenders off our streets. we re taking aggressive measures in making sure we re tracking and eliminating the problem of illegal guns within our neighborhoods. so we know that the all of the above approach in the way we re dealing with public safety, supporting mental health and supporting mental health capacities, making sure we re doing more investments in our schools and job training programs, that s it s not just going to be about sentencing for gun laws. that the way you re going to deal with public health and public safety in our society is making sure you re dealing with not just all the root causes but all the root challenges our society continues to face. the u.s. supreme court this week just refused to intervene when it comes to illinois ban on what they call assault weapons, semiautomatic weapons. that s the latest example of justices kind of just like staying away from second amendment related disputes. do you think that will be how the court looks at your law? well, i think the you know, you look at the state of
His city and learn to work with police and his constituents even though he was part of calls to defund police. he says his policies go after root causes of crime. chicago police report murder is slightly down from this time last year, but still in the hundreds and motor vehicle thefts up 130%. just yesterday, a gang of four people threatened people with semiautomatic weapons. police are still looking for the suspects and adding to violence, this past weekend alone 25 shot and six kaied, some victims just 16 and 17 years old. the soon to be mayor johnson will follow outgoing mayor lori lightfoots, who lost her campaign by massive numbers for her failure to reign in crime.
Her the suspect and an armed robbery. this is 9-1-1. what incident happened? i was mugged the collar was a woman named luz johnson, who had been driving in a quite long island neighborhood just over the border from queens. ma am? when they pulled you over, they say they were officers? yes. she said it was two males, brown complexion. one female, either indian or hispanic. she was pulled over by this male and female police officer in a jeep sharkey with a red flashing light. reporter sherrie covered the story for news 12 long island. they are wearing bulletproof vests with badges, shields hanging from their next. they have black semiautomatic who guns. but it turned out these were not police officers. johnson says they were bandits who robbed her at gunpoint, walking off with her money, 1400 dollars in cash.
People get radicalized on social media so i agree wholeheartedly with the president that white supremacy is a major domestic terrorism threat to our country. following the shooting, your governor kathy hochul signed a legislative package to strengthen gun laws, the plan calls for closing critical loopholes and would require a license for those under 21 years old to purchase semiautomatic rifles. those ideas seem like a good start. is there a way to simply keep guns out of the hands of those who hate? governor hochul and the new york state legislature acted very swiftly after may 14th 2022, in the city of buffalo, the legislation, the package of ten pieces of legislation that were passed in new york hope to keep guns out of the hands of