#assault-weapons

#assault-weapons

President Joe Biden was accused by conservative critics of being tone-deaf for using his first public appearance since the Nashville school shooting to make jokey, lighthearted comments instead of immediately addressing the massacre.Three children and three adults were killed at The Covenant School on Monday when a 28-year-old attacked the building before she was shot dead by the police.

In the hours before Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a law banning military style firearms Tuesday, Kee Firearms and Training in New Lenox was busy with customers scrambling to buy gun products listed in the bill while they were still legal.Customers and employees weren't sure when the law would be signed, though it was clear it would be soon, so there was a sense of urgency to buy the banned items, said Kee Firearms and Training owner Jeff Regnier.

Politicians and anti-violence advocates issued calls to action Sunday evening at the 10th annual vigil for victims of gun violence in Chicago and across the country.At Augustana Lutheran Church of Hyde Park, more than 10 speakers from different offices and religious faiths called for a ban on assault weapons and an increase in mental health services, many echoing a sentiment from the Rev. Veronica Johnson, a local pastor and anti-violence advocate: "We should not be here today."

An intense police pursuit in California ended in death when a man who stole a cop cruiser bailed out of the vehicle while it was still moving at 46 miles per hour.It all began on Tuesday when California Highway Patrol was called to a freeway after being alerted about a reckless driver who crashed into another car.

President Biden called the deadly school shooting in Nashville that left three kids and three adults dead sick, heartbreaking and a family's worst nightmare before calling for legislative action to address gun violence.We have to do more to stop gun violence.It's ripping our communities apart.It's ripping at the very soul of the nation.

Dozens of leaders from different faith communities came together Wednesday morning to share their support and perspectives on proposed state legislation aimed at addressing one of the biggest problems to plague Chicago - gun violence.Pastors, reverends, rabbis and imams, including Rev. Michael Pfleger and Pastor Cornelius Parks, filled the stage of Good Hope Free Will Baptist Church in East Garfield Park - just blocks from where a deadly mass shooting took place on Halloween - to voice their concerns on gun violence across the city.

As more families learn to live with the daily threat of school shootings, San Jose residents are pushing to address campus violence before tragedy strikes.A Pew Research Center study released last week reveals nearly two-thirds of parents worry about their children's safety at school.The study shows 32% of parents are extremely concerned about potential shootings, while 37% of parents are at least somewhat concerned.

The Illinois Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to an accelerated hearing schedule for the state's appeal of a downstate judge's ruling that struck down a state ban on certain high-powered semi-automatic firearms and high-capacity ammunition magazines.The high court will hear oral arguments on the matter during its May term, according to an unsigned order issued Tuesday.

Over the past three decades, the idea of banning "assault weapons" has gained traction not because this policy has significant potential to save lives, but because proponents promise that such a ban will save lives without infringing on the rights of hunters or those who keep handguns for home defense.

Democrats in the Illinois House on Thursday unveiled a proposal to ban assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines and eliminate the ability for most people under 21 to obtain a gun permit in the state.The legislation, filed on the final legislative session day of 2022, is a response to the mass shooting at the Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, where seven people were killed and dozens of others injured by a shooter using an assault-style rifle and high capacity magazines.

At least five people were injured in a shooting Saturday night at a San Pedro beach, authorities said.Police received a call at 5:44 p.m. reporting gunfire at Royal Palms Beach near Paseo del Mar and Graysby Avenue, said Lt. Sharon Brady with the Los Angeles Police Department's Harbor Community Police Station.

An Ontario man agreed this week to plead guilty to a series of BB gun shootings against a Planned Parenthood facility in Pasadena and violating a federal law that prohibits interfering with a woman seeking reproductive health services, authorities said.The man, Richard Royden Chamberlin, 54, agreed to a plea deal with federal prosecutors in court documents filed Tuesday, the U.S. attorney's office for the Central District of California said in a statement.

Rappers Offset (from left), Quavo and Takeoff of the group Migos appear at a Met gala in 2018.Kirshnik Khari Ball, known professionally as Takeoff, died early Tuesday morning after gunshots were fired at a party in Houston.Neilson Barnard/Getty Images Houston police are looking for witnesses in Tuesday's fatal shooting of 28-year-old rapper Takeoff.

Video on social media apparently showing Russian troops executing a Ukrainian soldier is the latest proof this war is genocidal', Ukraine's foreign minister says.Ukraine has demanded the International Criminal Court (ICC) investigate grisly footage circulating on social media allegedly showing Russian forces killing a Ukrainian prisoner of war with a series of blasts from assault weapons.

Schools in Russia will no longer only teach young students that there is nothing to fear in dying for the Motherland, as stated by a compulsory activity added to the curriculum this academic year entitled Important Conversations.They will also show teenagers how to kill for their country.The government of Vladimir Putin is planning to introduce a new mandatory subject at school that will prepare children for war.