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  • Texas Mass Shooter Devin Kelley Escaped From a Mental Hospital in 2012

    The gunman who killed 26 people on Saturday in Sutherland Springs, Texas, escaped from a psychiatric hospital in 2012. Such evidence may indeed feed the beast in the “gun control vs. mental-health care” debate that inevitably arrises after a mass shooting. The New York Times reports that while Devin P. Kelley was in the Air…

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    Angela Helm

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  • Air Force: Failure to Follow Policies Allowed Texas Shooter to Buy Firearms 

    Texas church shooter Devin P. Kelley, who was known to have a violent past, should not have been able to buy firearms and body armor because of his domestic violence conviction back in 2014 while serving at the Halloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. However, according to the Washington Post, the Air Force has…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Fox News Host Looks for the ‘Positive’ in Texas Shooting, Insinuates Church Is the Best Place to Be Shot

    I’m not sure if Fox News host Ainsley Earhardt was attempting to comfort the grieving families of those who lost loved ones in the Texas church massacre over the weekend, or if she were extolling her own faith and preferences, or if she just, as a matter of fact, enjoys shoving her whole entire foot…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Authorities Believe ‘Domestic Situation’ May Have Motivated Gunman in Texas Church Shooting

    Authorities say that a “domestic situation” within the Texas gunman’s family may have sparked the horrific shooting that left 26 dead in a Sutherland Springs, Texas, church. “The suspect’s mother-in-law attended this church,” Texas Department of Public Safety spokesperson Freeman Martin told reporters Monday morning, according to the New York Times. “We know that he…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Trump Says Texas Shooting Is a ‘Mental Health Problem,’ but Was It?

    President Donald Trump is insisting that the horrific mass shooting at a Texas church Sunday was not “a guns situation” but, rather, an issue with mental health—because that’s always how these conversations go. “I think that mental health is your problem here,” Trump told reporters at a press conference in Tokyo Monday, according to Time…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Devin Patrick Kelley Identified as Gunman in Texas Church Mass Shooting

    Updated Sunday, Nov. 5, 2017, 9:10 p.m. EST: Several reports have identified the man who fired numerous times inside the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, as 26-year-old Devin Patrick Kelley. The New York Times confirms that at least two anonymous law-enforcement sources told the outlet that Kelley, who lived in New Braunfels, Texas,…

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    Angela Helm

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  • Girlfriend of Las Vegas Gunman Returns to the US

    The girlfriend of the Las Vegas mass shooter has returned to the United States after traveling abroad for the week and will now be at the center of the investigation into the horrific attack as authorities try to pin down a motive for Stephen Paddock’s deadly rampage. Paddock’s girlfriend, 62-year-old Marilou Danley, was in the…

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    Breanna Edwards

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  • Shooter Opens Fire at Country Music Festival on Las Vegas Strip: More Than 58 Dead, Including Suspect

    Updated Monday, Oct. 2, 2017, 12:15 p.m. EDT: Police have confirmed that 58 people are dead and more than 515 are injured in what is being called the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. Sixty-four-year-old Stephen Paddock, whom police have identified as the shooter, opened fire from two windows on the 32nd floor of the…

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    Monique Judge

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  • The Doctor Who Shot Up the Hospital in NYC? Yeah, He Was Black. Damn

    As my little bio in at the end of this post notes, I am not into “respectability politics”—that is, giving a fuck about what white folks think about my choices, whether speaking “black English” (loudly, of course), giving my children black-ass names or tamping myself down in any way to fit into some vague notion…

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    Angela Helm

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  • 8 Killed in Miss. Mass Shooting: ‘I Ain’t Fit to Live,’ Says Suspect

    A 35-year-old man was arrested after he allegedly shot and killed eight people, including a police deputy who the suspect said “was just there,” on Saturday in rural Mississippi. Willie Cory Godbolt, 35, confessed on video to a reporter from the Jackson Clarion-Ledger, who was on the scene before the suspect was transported to jail.…

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    Angela Helm

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