"Families in Uvalde took more legal action Friday on the second anniversary of the Robb Elementary School attack, suing Meta Platforms, which owns Instagram..
@virtualbri I think there’s merit to the suit since it alleges that the games are effectively marketing for the guns. Game companies aren’t blameless for fetishizing weapons, and I’m hoping that it gives more visibility to the suit.
"A vote for Trump is a vote for more gun violence. It got lost in the coverage, but Trump promised the NRA that he would repeal all of Biden's gun safety actions. …
Trump promised, 'In my second term, we will roll back every Biden attack on the Second Amendment.'
“When a #police department upgrades its #guns, what happens to the old ones? A CBS #News investigation found #law enforcement agencies routinely resold or traded in their used duty #weapons, a practice that has sent thousands of guns into the hands of criminals.
In a 16-year period ending in 2022, the ATF identified more than 52,000 guns recovered from #crime scenes that were once used by police agencies. It took a federal court order for the ATF to release that data”
@RememberUsAlways Indeed. I want to get better at thinking ahead.
I recently read that historical inflection points aren't dependent on a person, but are stochastic inevitabilities. If that's so, an environment can be cultivated to facilitate desirable outcomes, which provides resiliency against these worrisome "tides" sweeping this way and that. Just as the debt of tfg's chaotic hypocrisy is inescapable, the fruits of virtuous action are always at hand.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott granted a full pardon to Daniel Perry, a man convicted of murdering a Black Lives Matter protester in downtown Austin in 2020, after the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles unanimously recommended the move. Perry claimed during the trial that he shot Garrett Foster, who was carrying an AK-47 rifle, in self-defense. Prosecutors argued Perry was seeking out the confrontation. Read more from USA Today.
Woman pleads guilty to conspiring with neo-Nazi leader to attack energy grid
A Maryland woman admitted to scheming with a neo-Nazi leader from Florida to destroy electrical substations surrounding Baltimore in an attack that she told a confidential FBI source would be “legendary” and “probably permanently completely lay this city to waste.”