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NC Senate moves quickly to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of pistol permit repeal

RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina Senate voted Tuesday along party lines to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of gun rights legislation that includes a repeal of the state’s permit requirement for buying handguns.

Tribune News Service · Mar 28, 2023

Nashville shooter bought 7 guns before school attack; One of the officers who confronted suspect grew up in Chicago

Police say Audrey Hale bought weapons legally, hiding them from their parents. Hale did not target the victims but did target the school and planned the attack carefully.

Chicago Sun-Times · Mar 28, 2023

Sen. Josh Hawley calls Nashville shooting hate crime against Christians, calls for FBI investigation

A day after a gunman killed six people at a Christian elementary school in Nashville, Sen. Josh Hawley took to the Senate floor to denounce the shooting as a hate crime against Christians.

Tribune News Service · Mar 28, 2023

After school shooting, Tenn. gun laws likely to remain lax

A federal judge quietly cleared the way to drop the minimum age to 18 for Tennesseans to carry handguns in public without a permit the same day Nashville residents were reeling from a fatal grade school shooting that left six dead, including three children

The Independent UK · Mar 28, 2023

Highland Park massacre survivor responds to Nashville tragedy, ward races intensify and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is about an eight-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Chicago Sun-Times · Mar 28, 2023

Lauren Daigle postpones concert to host vigil after Nashville school shooting

Christian singer Lauren Daigle postponed an album preview concert she had set in Nashville, Tennessee, for Monday to instead host a communitywide prayer vigil hours after a private elementary school in the city became the latest site of a fatal mass shooting.

Los Angeles Times · Mar 28, 2023

Nashville shooter may have felt ‘resentment’ toward school, police chief says

Nashville shooter Audrey Hale may have felt “resentment” toward the school in Monday’s deadly rampage, the city’s police chief said Tuesday.

Tribune News Service · Mar 28, 2023

Heartbreaking photo of Nashville school class 20 minutes before mass shooter opened fire

Paediatric surgeon Britney Grayson had just given a talk to pupils at Covenant School in Nashville, US, on Monday morning about her work in Kenya. Twenty minutes later Audrey Hale opened fire

Daily Mirror · Mar 28, 2023

Police bodycams show ‘swift’ takedown of Nashville shooting suspect

Bodycam footage has revealed the "swift" action of police storming a Nashville Christian school and shooting dead an armed suspect.

The New Daily · Mar 28, 2023

Nashville shooter Audrey Hale appears in college vid talking about 'growing as an artist'

Less than a year after boasting about how Audrey Hale's college helped develop their 'creative talents' the vile murderer had gunned down six innocent people including three nine-year-old children

Daily Mirror · Mar 28, 2023