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Biden says ‘you couldn’t buy cannons’ under Second Amendment in swipe at guns after Texas school massacre

President Joe Biden said Monday that gun rights are not absolute, claiming that ordinary American citizens “couldn’t buy cannons” when the Second Amendment was drafted.

Tribune News Service · May 30, 2022

Lawsuits against police over Texas school shooting would be challenging, legal experts say

The feeling of helplessness that parents of Robb Elementary School students had as they waited outside the Texas school as last week’s massacre unfolded may hit them again as they start to weigh their legal options.

Tribune News Service · May 30, 2022

NRA board reelects LaPierre 54-1 despite scandal

The National Rifle Association’s board of directors reelected its longtime leader Wayne LaPierre in Houston on Monday, despite the group’s deteriorating finances, claims he misused its funds and a challenge from a prominent Texas Republican.

Tribune News Service · May 30, 2022

Gran of Texas school gunman 'may never talk again' after bullet shattered her teeth

Celia Martinez Gonzales, 66, from Texas, can only communicate by writing after she was shot in the face by her grandson Salvador Ramos in a deadly killing spree

Daily Mirror · May 30, 2022

Biden says pain ‘palpable’ in Uvalde as memorial services for shooting victims to begin

President returns to White House after visiting small south Texas city and says he will continue to push for gun control

The Guardian - US · May 30, 2022

Biden sees chance of 'rational' Republican approach on guns

President Joe Biden says there may some bipartisan support to tighten restrictions on the kind of high-powered weapons used by the gunman in the Texas school shooting

The Independent UK · May 30, 2022

Texas Republican candidates have spent $106.58 million more than Democrats

In Texas, state-level candidates spent $205.86 million between Jan. 1, 2021, and May 14, 2022. Democratic candidates spent $47.44 million and Republican candidates spent $154.02 million. 

Ballotpedia · May 30, 2022

Cities in Arizona, Texas and Florida lead population boom

The U.S. is spreading out, heading South and West and creating new boomtowns, tech hubs and rising power centers.

Axios · May 30, 2022

One family's photo album includes images of a vacation, a wedding anniversary and the lynching of a Black man in Texas

As a historian and director of the Lynching in Texas project, which has documented more than 600 racial terror lynchings, I receive regular emails from journalists, scholars and activists who want to discuss the history of racial violence.

The Conversation · May 30, 2022

O'Rourke bets shooting will shake up Texas governor's race

Democrat Beto O'Rourke briefly seized the presidential race spotlight in 2019 when he declared after a mass shooting his hometown of El Paso, Texas, that “Hell yes, we're gonna take your AR-15.”

The Independent UK · May 30, 2022