Former Uvalde police chief slapped with 10 felony child endangerment charges



The former school district police chief who oversaw the failed response to the May 24, 2022, elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, has been indicted on 10 counts of felony child endangerment.

An 18-year-old gunman entered Robb Elementary School and slaughtered 19 children and two teachers in adjoining classrooms 111 and 112. It was not until 77 minutes after police first arrived on the scene that U.S. Border Patrol neutralized the shooter. In the meantime, Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Department Chief Pete Arredondo ostensibly worked against an effective solution and wasted precious time down the hall.

The Department of Justice's 600-page January report on law enforcement's response to the shooting concluded that Arredondo, the de facto incident commander on the day of the incident, "had the necessary authority, training, and tools" but did not ultimately "provide appropriate leadership, command, and control, including not establishing an incident command structure nor directing entry into classrooms 111 and 112."

Extra to ordering officers not to enter the classrooms where the shooter was located, Arredondo dropped his radios at the time of arrival, treated the incident "as a barricaded subject scenario and not as an active shooter situation," and waited for SWAT to arrive.

The DOJ's report made clear that rather than "push forward immediately and continuously toward the threat until entry was made into classrooms 111/112 and the threat was eliminated," Arredondo and those with him retreated after the initial burst of gunfire.

The Texas House of Representatives' 2022 interim report similarly indicated that while in the position to act, Arredondo impotently "remained in the hallway where he lacked reliable communication with other elements of law enforcement, and he was unable to effectively implement staging or command and control of the situation."

The Ulvalde Leader-News reported that Arredondo's indictment this week accused him of "intentionally, knowingly, recklessly, and with criminal negligence" placing 10 children in imminent danger of bodily injury or death by failing to identify the situation as an active shooter incident despite hearing gunshots in the classroom.

The indictment further indicated that upon learning children had been injured, Arredondo elected to direct officers to evacuate the wing before confronting the shooter; failed to ascertain whether the door to classroom 111 was even locked; and failed to "timely provide keys and breaching tools to enter classrooms 111 and 112," reported NBC News.

The DOJ's report had noted the likelihood that the door was unlocked.

Shortly after turning himself in to the Uvalde County Jail Thursday, Arredondo was released on bail.

The Uvalde Police Department noted that it had not been contacted by the district attorney's office regarding any of its staff and presently had no comment on the matter.

The Austin American-Statesman reported that a grand jury also indicted former UCISD officer Adrian Gonzales. Arredondo and Gonzales each face up to two years in jail and a $10,000 fine if convicted.

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Effort under way to downplay role of religious and political hatred in pro-Palestinian shooter's attempted church massacre



A raving anti-Semite from El Salvador marched into Joel Osteen's Houston-area megachurch on Sunday and opened fire using a gun with a brand-new "Palestine" sticker on its stock. Two off-duty officers quickly returned fire and made quick and definitive work of the attacker.

While it is not yet entirely clear why the gender-bending pro-Palestinian shooter opened fire in the pro-Israel Christian church, there appears to be an effort under way to downplay the possibility that religious and political hatred were major factors and instead blame gun access.

Quick background

Blaze News previously reported that Genesse Moreno, 36, bypassed a security guard and entered Lakewood Church with a 7-year-old child in tow just before the 2 p.m. Spanish-language service was scheduled to begin. Moreno, reportedly the child's biological mother despite sometimes going by the name Jeffrey Escalante, was dressed in a trench coat and armed with an Anderson Manufacturing AR-15 rifle. She was also carrying a .22 caliber rifle in a duffel bag.

According to police, Moreno began firing inside the hallway on the west side of the church at 1:55 p.m., prompting a response from a 28-year-old off-duty Houston Police Department officer and a 38-year-old Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission agent, who fatally shot her.

The child who accompanied Moreno inside the building was struck in the head by a bullet during the exchange. He remains in critical condition at Texas Children's Hospital. Tom George Thomas, a 57-year-old volunteer at the church, took a bullet to the hip but has since been released from a hospital.

While certainly her last, this was not Moreno's first run-in with the law.

Over the past two decades, Moreno has been slapped with charges for drug possession, assault, illegal possession of a weapon, resisting arrest, and forgery, reported CNN.

Houston Homicide Commander Christopher Hassig indicated that the gender-bending shooter was also temporarily detained in 2016 over mental health concerns and has a history of mental illness.

KHOU-TV reported that Moreno's former mother-in-law, Rabbi Walli Carranza, claimed in court documents that the shooter had a diagnosis of schizophrenia and Munchausen by proxy; had harmed her child more than once; and had been the subject of multiple child protective services investigations.

The Houston Chronicle noted that Moreno lost custody of her son to her Jewish ex-husband at one point but apparently regained it in 2022.

Early in the investigation, police also indicated they had uncovered some of the shooter's "anti-Semitic writings."

Downplaying ideological motives

One of Moreno's neighbors told KPRC-TV that she routinely threatened nearby residents with weapons. Extra to painting a swastika on a neighbor's fence, she is alleged to have repeatedly made Nazi salutes in public.

Carranza told the New York Times that Moreno frequently targeted her Jewish in-laws with "very anti-Semitic" rants that "were very profane and ... horrible."

Despite acknowledging that her former daughter-in-law had been a practicing Muslim, Carranza stressed, "This has nothing to do with Islam. This ranting, I'm sure, was fueled by mental illness."

The former mother-in-law appeared to suggest in a Monday Facebook statement that religious or political hatred were ultimately the "excuse" for Moreno's attack.

"Although my former daughter-in-law raged against Israel and Jews in a pro Palestinian rant yesterday this has nothing to do with Judaism or Islam. Nothing," wrote Carranza. "But this is what happens when reckless and irresponsible reporting lets people with severe mental illness have an excuse for violence."

After highlighting a potential trigger for the violence, Carranza pinned blame on the Lone Star State for "not having strong red flag laws that would have prevented her from owning or possessing a gun. Let it be clear that the second amendment stops where the first amendment right to life begins and it's time to remove from the US Constitution any protection for gun ownership."

Various Democratic lawmakers, including state Reps. Ann Johnson and Gene Wu, have amplified the suggestion that red-flag legislation such as Texas House Bill 3057 "could have prevented this very incident," reported the Chronicle.

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'Non-binary' shooter behind Colorado LGBT club massacre will plead guilty to federal hate crime charges



The so-called "non-binary" shooter behind the November 2022 massacre at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs received five consecutive life sentences plus an additional 2,208 years of prison time in June. He is now set add some years to the total, pleading guilty to 74 counts of federal hate and gun crime charges.

The shooter hung out at Club Q on Nov. 19, 2022, then briefly left, returning dressed in body armor and toting a semi-automatic rifle. He proceeded to murder five people and injure 19 in what the Department of Justice characterized as a "willful, deliberate, malicious and premeditated attack." While he attempted to mow down dozens of additional victims, heroic patrons at the club were able to restrain him until police arrived on the scene.

The victims killed in the shooting were Daniel Aston, 28; Kelly Loving, 40; Ashley Paugh, 35; Derrick Rump, 38; and Raymond Green Vance, 22.

The mother of Ashtin Gamblin, a victim who was riddled with bullets but nevertheless managed to survive, asked the judge presiding over the shooter's state case to "lock this animal away to the depths of hell."

Judge Michael McHenry obliged the victim's mother, ensuring the shooter, now 23, would never again walk free, with thousands of years of prison time and no chance at parole.

"That is the longest sentence ever achieved in the Fourth Judicial District and the second, to my knowledge, longest sentence ever achieved in the state of Colorado, second only to the sentence achieved in the Aurora theater shooting case," said Fourth Judicial District Attorney Michael Allen, reported CNN.

While the shooter, son of a pornographer, identified as "non-binary" in court filings for the case and indicated his pronouns were "they/them," Allen addressed him as a male throughout the case, stressing that "there is zero evidence prior to the shooting that he was non-binary."

On Tuesday, the DOJ announced the shooter had been slapped with hate crime and firearms charges.

CNN, which elected to use the shooter's preferred pronouns, reported that the shooter struck a deal with prosecutors whereby he will plead guilty to all 74 counts — including 50 hate crime charges — and in exchange receive "multiple concurrent life sentences plus additional consecutive sentences totaling 190 years imprisonment," in the event a judge approves of the plea deal.

The Jan. 9 plea agreement was unsealed Tuesday after the shooter pleaded not guilty earlier in the day, reported the Associated Press.

While the death penalty was on the table, the plea agreement would let the shooter squeak by unscathed.

"It's angering and upsetting," said Ashtin Gamblin, reported Colorado Public Radio, which revised Gamblin's comments to respect the mass shooter's preferred pronouns. "Honestly I was hoping for a death penalty."

"I feel like [they] just got grounded, personally, it feels like with the 2,208 years, it's like [they] got grounded, go sit in your room for the rest of your life," said Gamblin. "The death penalty for me. … I just want [them] to sit with the thought of not knowing when [they're] going to die, or the fact [they] could die at any day, at any time, because that’s exactly what [they] did to us."

Michael Anderson, who was bartending at the club on the night of the shooting, suggested the federal charges would send "a message to people who want to commit violent acts against this community, and lets them know this is not something that is swept away or overlooked."

The shooter told the AP that at the time of the shooting, he was on a "very large plethora of drugs" and abusing steroids.

Just over a year before the shooting, the "non-binary" shooter was reportedly arrested for threatening his grandparents and vowing to become "the next mass killer," stockpiling weapons and bomb-making materials. He was cut loose and his case was dismissed in 2021after his grandparents stopped cooperating with prosecutors.

The shooter is presently siting in the Wyoming State Penitentiary, having been relocated on account of safety concerns.

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Suspected Iowa school shooter's digital footprint indicates his was possibly yet another trans rampage



Students returning to school for their second semester in the small town of Perry, Iowa, were met Thursday morning with gunfire and bloodshed. The suspect responsible for ushering in the new year with senseless violence appears to have been yet another butcher captive to trans ideology.

According to authorities, the 17-year-old suspect, a student at the school, stalked the halls of Perry Middle and High School Thursday morning armed with a pump-action shotgun, a homemade bomb, and a small-caliber handgun. He began opening fire on children and staff around 7:47 a.m., before the start of classes.

Dallas County Sheriff Adam Infante indicated the fact classes had not yet begun may have been a limiting factor on the number of victims ultimately attacked, reported Newsweek.

"School didn't start yet, luckily, so there were very few students and faculty in the building, which I think contributed to a good outcome in that sense," said Infante.

The suspect murdered a sixth-grader from Perry Middle School and injured five others, four of whom were students. The fifth victim was identified by the school district as the school's principal, Dan Marburger.

Three of the victims were taken to Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines, and others were taken to MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center, reported the Associated Press — a news agency that has attempted to paint the shooter as a victim of bullying.

One of the survivors is in critical condition. The other four are reportedly now in stable condition.

Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds said in a statement, "Our hearts are broken by this senseless tragedy. Our prayers are with the students, teachers & families of the Perry Community."

Reynolds thanked police and first responders for their fast response, stating, "Their heroic actions today we can say saved lives."

Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation Assistant Director Mitch Mortvedt underscored during a press conference Thursday that the response by law enforcement was swift and unflinching. At least 150 law enforcement agents ultimately rushed to the scene.

"Perry Police officers responded within minutes. They immediately made entry and witnessed students and faculty either sheltering in place or running from the school," said Mortvedt. "Once inside, they located multiple individuals with gunshot wounds. Officers immediately attempted to locate the source of the threat and quickly found what appeared to be the shooter with a self-inflicted gunshot wound."

The shooter evidently offed himself before being able to deploy his improvised explosive device against innocents. Mortvedt indicated that the bomb, which was "pretty rudimentary," was successfully neutralized by the state fire marshal and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents.

Investigators are now analyzing the suspect's posts on social media, particularly on Reddit and TikTok — both of which have been deactivated.

Prior to the shooting, the suspect reportedly posted a selfie taken inside the school's bathroom to his TikTok account along with the lyrics "now we wait" from the song "Stray Bullet" from the German band KMFDM.

The New York Post highlighted that that the same song referenced by the suspect was also used on the personal website of one of the shooters behind the 1999 Columbine High School massacre.

This is the Perry High School shooter\xe2\x80\x99s TikTok account just before they removed his social media. This was the last photo he posted accompanied with the song \xe2\x80\x9cStray Bullet\xe2\x80\x9d by KMFDM.
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An archived version of the suspect's TikTok account reveals his bio was limited to an LGBT activist flag emoji. Extra to stating "he/they" pronouns on social media and allegedly engaging with other LGBT activists about transgenderism, the suspect also appears to used the hashtag "genderfluid" and posted, "love your trans kids."

In one of the suspect's alleged Reddit posts, he noted he was being held back from beginning the sex-change process because he didn't "want to look ugly."

While acknowledging that the shooter may have been trans, leftists have rushed to downplay the relevance as well as the corresponding trend.

The Advocate, an LGBT activist publication, stressed, "While there have been isolated incidents involving transgender or nonbinary people in mass shootings, these are not representative of the broader trend."

The 26-year-old behind the Sept. 20, 2018, mass shooting outside a Rite Aid distribution center in Aberdeen, Maryland, was a transvestite who had reportedly been receiving hormone therapy and planning to get a sex change operation.

The woman behind the 2019 STEM School Highlands Ranch mass shooting in Colorado was also a transvestite transitioning at the time she took aim at unarmed students.

The lawyers for the man behind the November 2022 massacre at a non-straight nightclub in Colorado Springs, which left five dead and 25 injured, indicated he identified as non-binary, reported Newsweek.

The female LGBT activist who shot up a Christian elementary school in Nashville last March, killing three children and three adults, was another transvestite who identified as a man.

Angela Ferell-Zaballa, executive director of the gun-grab group Moms Demand Action, told the Advocate, "Extremists often try to muddy the waters by blaming our gun violence crisis on mental health or gender identity, when often people with these lived realities are most likely to be victims of gun violence, rather than perpetrators of it."

Sarah Kate Ellis, president and CEO of GLAAD, stated, "Media outlets that speculate on the shooter's identity or their support of LGBTQ rights instead of focusing on those impacted are contributing to a false and sweeping narrative about vulnerable communities."

The Human Rights Campaign's national propagandist, Brandon Wolf, told the Advocate that Libs of TikTok's Chaya Raichik, among those who have highlighted the suspect's apparent trans-identification, "is using a horrific shooting to try and drum up anti-LGBTQ+ hysteria for her cause. In truth, LGBTQ+ people are disproportionately impacted by gun violence, a reality made worse by those like her, who demonize the community at every turn and peddle dangerous, bogus narratives in exchange for influence."

LGBTQ Nation, which recognized the shooter as "nonbinary," similarly lashed out at those dredging up evidence of his LGBT affinities, noting, "The right-wing focus on gun-toting queers and shooters' mental illness is merely a way to stigmatize queer people while also drawing attention away from gun control regulations that could help stop mass shootings in the first place."

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'He died as a hero': Families begin opening up about Maine massacre victims, including those who went down fighting



A gunman opened fire in a bowling alley and a bar in Lewiston, Maine, Wednesday evening, slaughtering 18 people and grievously wounding 13 others. While authorities have waited to identify the victims, some family members have already begun to do so.

In addition to the names of the victims, stories of their heroism and defiance in the face of evil have begun to emerge.

Eight people were killed at Schemengees Bar and Grille, according to the Maine State Police. Among them was bar manager Joseph Walker.

Walker's dad, Leroy Walker, an Auburn city councilor, shared with NBC Nightly News what state police told his daughter-in-law, Tracey Walker, about the shooting.

The visibly devastated father indicated that after MSP told Joseph Walker's widow that he had been slain, they "went into telling her that he died as a hero because he picked up a butcher knife from somewhere — he has all that stuff near the bar anyways. And he tried to go at the gunman to stop him from shooting anybody else. The gunman shot him twice through the stomach."

NBC News' Lester Holt pressed the councilor on whether the knowledge that his son went down fighting changed his pain at all.

Leroy Walker answered, "Oh. ... It made it worse. Yeah, it made it worse."

The Station Grill Restaurant, where Joseph Walker was also a manager, noted in a Meta post, "For those of you that don't know Joe. Let me tell you, this man would give the shirt off his back to help a total stranger. But last night he gave up more than that, he gave up his life."

"Somehow Joe made it to the kitchen. Most of you might not realize this but there is a door that he could have exited and saved his own life but not Joe. He grabbed a knife and went back out into danger to try and stop the shooter," said the Station Grill. "When I heard this, I was so upset but not surprised. I can ask myself 100 times. Why not leave Joe. Please take the door and you would be here. Joe would tell me that he would have to stop the shooter. That's Joseph Walker, the man that I know. Putting everyone first. He will alway be our hero."

Leroy Walker told MSNBC that it was not until 14 hours after the shooting that his family discovered his son's fate.

"None of us slept. We were up all night," said Walker. "We didn't know where to go, who to run to. They didn't notify any of us."

Finally, Walker's youngest son called him with the news.

"I almost fell to my knees," said the councilor. "I said, 'Don't tell me that.'"

Walker indicated his family is now "suffering and dying in a nightmare we don't understand," having lost "a great, great son, a loving husband."

"He had two grandchildren and a stepson," added Walker. "Thousands of people loved him. ... What are we gonna do tomorrow, the next day? How are we gonna handle this?"

Tricia Asselin, 53, was among the seven people slain at Just-In-Time Recreation in Lewiston. Although a part-time employee at the establishment, Asselin had the night off and was bowling with her sister Bobbi Nichols when the carnage began.

Nichols, who survived the massacre, told CNN, "We heard a loud noise and I wasn't sure what it was until I heard another shot and then I knew."

People began scrambling to escape the bowling alley amid the crackle of gunfire. In the chaos, Nichols said, "I couldn't see [Asselin] and everybody was running, and I got caught in people trampling."

Nichols indicated that after making it outside, "We just kept running and running and running. ... And it was dark out."

"I just ran as far as I could go until there was a fence and there were some trees and a bunch of us were hiding behind the trees wondering what was going on," said Nicholas.

Hours after police escorted the survivors out of the murky woods, Nichols said that "somebody came out and said that she called 911, and when she called 911 to save everybody, she lost her life because of it."

The New York Post reported that Asselin was a mother who worked three jobs.

"My sister's a hero," said Nichols. "She was a hero."

Asselin's brother DJ Johnson said, "If she there was an argument going on, she would be the one to calm everyone down. ... If somebody was having a bad day, she would be right on the phone to talk to you about it."

Upon learning Asselin had tried to call for help, Johnson said, "That was just her. She wasn't going to run. She was going to try and help."

Besides a tragic end, it appears many of the victims shared bravery in common.

Michael Deslauriers Sr. noted that his son, Michael Deslauriers II, was with "his dearest friend," Jason Walker, when they were "murdered last night at the bowling alley."

Deslauriers Sr. said that "they made sure their wives and several young children were under cover then they charged the shooter."

Also among the victims who have so far been identified:

  • 76-year-old retiree and well-loved volunteer bowling coach Bob Violette;
  • Peyton Brewer-Ross, a 40-year-old pipefitter and new father remembered for his good nature and sense of humor;
  • 44-year-old Bill Young and his 14-year-old son Aaron Young;
  • Bryan McFarlane, a dog-loving truck driver who had been participating in a deaf cornhole tournament at the bar;
  • 34-year-old Tommy Conrad, a manager at the bowling alley, who leaves behind a 9-year-old daughter;
  • Joshua Seal, a young father of four and an American Sign Language interpreter for the Pine Tree Society;
  • Ron Morin, remembered as "an upstanding man with a lot of joy in his heart," reported the Independent;
  • 42-year-old Arthur Strout, a father of five; and
  • Bill Brackett and Steve Vozzella, both of whom had been attending the deaf cornhole game.

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Maine massacre suspect may have escaped in a boat; US Coast Guard joins the hunt



The U.S. Coast Guard joined the hunt for the prime suspect in the Lewiston, Maine, massacre after his car was found near a boat launch on the Androscoggin River, roughly 10 miles away from where 18 people were fatally shot and 13 were left grievously wounded.

The Lisbon Police Department discovered the 40-year-old suspect's white Subaru Wednesday just before 10 p.m. at the Pejepscot Boat Launch in Lisbon.

The suspect is believed to own at least two means of traveling upriver to Merrymeeting Bay and thence to the Kennebec River: a 15-foot Bayliner boat, which is now unaccounted for, and a 2019 Sea-Doo personal watercraft, reported the Messenger.

As of Thursday evening, a Coast Guard vessel with a five-man crew was patrolling the Kennebec River, which could ultimately take the suspect to at least Moosehead Lake, some 170 miles away.

Chief Petty Officer Ryan Smith, the officer in charge of Station Boothbay Harbor, told the Messsenger the Coast Guard crew is searching the entire river for the suspect, who authorities noted is "armed and dangerous." However, the crew was focusing in particular on the northern shore of the waterway, closer to the Androscoggin River.

The Daily Mail reported that earlier Thursday, Maine State Police aircraft also scoured parts of the area in search of the suspect.

Rick Gadden, a longtime neighbor of the suspect, told the Daily Mail, "If he can do that to innocent people there is obviously a chance he can come get us. ... He knows this area like the back of his hand; if he doesn't want to be found he won't. He's a hunter."

Richard Goddard, familiar with the suspect's family, told the Messenger, "This is his stomping ground. He grew up here. He knows every ledge to hide behind, every thicket," referencing Bowdoin, one of the areas where police were searching.

The suspected shooter is an Army reservist with an active military ID who recently lost his job at a recycling center. Documents reportedly circulated by law enforcement indicate the suspect was committed to a mental asylum for two weeks this summer and had reported "hearing voices and threats to shoot up" a military base.

Robert Louden, a retired chief hostage negotiator for the New York Police Department, suggested to NBC News that "from that parking area where he dumped his car, there's four distinct possibilities: He killed himself. He got on a boat and went down that little river that’s there. He went into another car or motorcycle or something that was waiting for him. Or there's a hiking trail. He could be in the woods someplace."

The Maine State Police indicated that as of noontime Thursday, over 350 law enforcement personnel from all over the state were involved in the search for the suspect.

The FBI and the U.S. Border Patrol Tactical Unit are also attempting to locate the shooter, reported Fox News Digital.

Facing the prospect of an attempt on the part of the suspect to escape into Canada, authorities in the northern nation, which shares 18 official entry points with Maine, have issued an "Armed & Dangerous – Firearms lookout" alert, reported Newsweek.

Canadian police in the province of New Brunswick, which borders Maine, are also monitoring the situation. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police indicated they are "aware of the situation in Maine, and we are continuing to monitor it in collaboration with our law enforcement partners."

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Louisville bank shooter reportedly massacred innocents in an effort to justify more gun control in America — and Democrats were ready to oblige him



President Joe Biden, David Hogg, and other Democratic operatives blasted Republicans in the immediate aftermath of the Louisville bank massacre, in which five innocents were murdered and another eight grievously injured.

Biden, for instance, suggested just hours after the last shot was fired at the Old National Bank on April 10 that Republicans' refusal to support Democratic efforts to curtail Americans' Second Amendment rights was "unconscionable, it's reckless, and too many Americans are paying with their lives."

It now appears that the pronoun-providing Louisville shooter may have ultimately spilled blood in part to help Democrats spill ink on gun control legislation.

A neighbor of the shooter told the New York Post that the apparent gun-control activist's 13-page manifesto was discovered by his roommate Dallas Whelan. It is now in the possession of the Louisville Police Department.

The Daily Mail reported that the manifesto made three key points: "He wanted to kill himself, he wanted to prove how easy it was to buy a gun in Kentucky and he wanted to highlight a mental health crisis in America."

If accurate, then Democrats may have made use of the slaughter of Josh Barrick, Deana Eckert, Tommy Elliott, Juliana Farmer, and Jim Tutt Jr. as their killer intended.

TheBlaze previously reported that following the shooting, Biden said, "How many more Americans must die before Republicans in Congress will act to protect our communities? It's long past time that we require safe storage of firearms. Require background checks for all gun sales. Eliminate gun manufacturers' immunity from liability. We can and must do these things now."

"A strong majority of Americans want lawmakers to act on commonsense gun safety reforms. Instead, from Florida to North Carolina to the U.S. House of Representatives, we’ve watched Republican officials double down on dangerous bills that make our schools, places of worship, and communities less safe. It’s unconscionable, it’s reckless, and too many Americans are paying with their lives," added the president.

Gun-rights activist David Hogg intimated that U.S. Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), whose friend Tommy Elliott was slain in the massacre, was "complicit" because of his support of gun rights.

\u201c@SenRickScott Must be tough knowing you\u2019re complicit\u201d
— Rick Scott (@Rick Scott) 1681175059
Rep. Morgan McGarvey (D-Ky.) said in a statement, "Thoughts and prayers for those we lost, those who are injured, and their loved ones and families are appreciated, but today serves as a stark reminder that we need to address gun violence at the national level so no other family loses a son, a daughter, and a loved one."

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on April 11, "This is why we continue to call on Congress, uh, Republicans in Congress, to take action. This is not OK. ... We need to do more."

Spectrum News reported that Kentucky Senate Minority Leader Gerald Neal (D) also stressed that the massacre should prompt change, noting, "We must do all that we can to take effective steps to ensure a safer community."

Democrat state Rep. Keturah Herron rushed to Twitter to write, "This is happening around the country in a city daily. Today was our turn in Louisville, KY. As we hold our community tighter there must me outrage and anger. We live in a war zone and we shouldn’t have to."
The Louisville chapter of the NAACP and the Louisville Urban League called for gun control measures Thursday, reported the Courier Journal.
In a statement obtained by the Daily Mail, the mass murderer's family indicated they too reckon the shooting "is yet another indication that meaningful, common sense gun safety measures must be enacted."
Democratic strategist Max Burns of Third Degree Strategies spoke to the utility of the Louisville shooting in a CNN opinion piece, noting that in the wake of the Louisville massacre and the murder of Christians by a transgender extremist in Nashville, "the political armor that once protected firearms might finally be cracking."

The transgender extremist who murdered six Christians in Nashville on March 27 similarly penned a manifesto, but nothing yet has been revealed about its contents, despite mounting pressure on the FBI from Tennessee Republicans. While her motivations are presently more opaque than the Louisville shooter's, even if revealed, they may not ultimately matter to Democrats, who appear to have framed the anti-Christian violence as another opportunity to advance their agenda.

This apparent keenness to decontextualize and exploit was showcased Wednesday when the Biden White House once again ignored the families of the Nashville victims and instead invited to the White House the three Democratic Tennessee lawmakers who used the anti-Christian massacre as a springboard for their own gun-control activism.

The same three Democratic state representatives — Justin Jones of Nashville, Gloria Johnson of Knoxville, and Justin Pearson of Memphis — recently voted against a school safety bill that would harden security in schools and serve as a future check against the kind of attack waged by the transgender extremist because it would not impinge upon Americans' Second Amendment rights.

Body camera footage from Louisville shooting released | WNT youtu.be

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Former police officer allegedly massacred dozens of toddlers at Thailand day care facility, at least 37 dead: Report

Former police officer allegedly massacred dozens of toddlers at Thailand day care facility, at least 37 dead: Report



A former police officer has allegedly terrorized a day care center in Thailand, killing at least 37 people, including himself.

According to reports, former Sergeant Panya Kamrap, 34, entered the the Child Development Center in Nong Bua Lamphu province around noon, perhaps searching for his 2-year-old stepson, who was often placed in care there, but who was not there that day. However, rather than leaving, Kamrap immediately began attacking teachers and children, witnesses said.

"I suddenly heard the sound, just sounded like firecrackers. So I looked back [and] the two staffs just collapsed on the floor," recalled one unidentified employee.

"Then he pulled another gun from his waist," the person added. "…I didn’t expect he would also kill the kids."

But, according to reports, that's exactly what he did. Police say that he then shot and stabbed nearly two dozen napping children, most of them age 3 and younger.

Kamrap opened "fire while the kids were sleeping," claimed Maj. Gen. Jirapob Puridet of the Thai Central Investigation Bureau. Every child in that room except one died in the attack.

Witnesses claimed that Kamrap did not say anything before or during the ambush.

After he left the Child Development Center, police say he returned to his home, where he then murdered his wife and stepson before turning a gun on himself. In all, police estimate that 37 people have died in the attack, 24 of whom were children. One of the care workers at the facility who died was a woman who was eight months pregnant. Most of the deaths were the result of "stabbing wounds," police said. The suspect's wife and stepson have been included in the death toll, but it is unclear whether Kamrap has as well.

Kamrap was a former policeman who was dismissed from his duties last year under suspicion that he was selling narcotics. Kamrap had been charged with selling narcotics and appeared in court earlier Thursday morning. The purpose of the court hearing and what happened during it are both unclear.

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, who called the deadly incident "shocking," is expected to visit the area on Friday to express his condolences and to assist the devastated community. CNN has described the province, located about 335 miles northeast of Bangkok, as "a largely peaceful and quiet area" where mass murders are "rare."


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Biden won’t visit Waukesha victims’ families because it ‘requires a lot of assets,’ Psaki says

'Any President going to visit a community requires a lot of assets, requires taking their resources, and it’s not something that I have a trip previewed at this plan'