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Commentary: Shootings show that an armed society is nothing more than a fearful society

For decades, lies about gun violence have sustained policies that get many people killed. Tops Fresh Market in Buffalo, New York, and Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, now enter America’s list of mass shootings. It is a list of intense sorrow and shame. And it is a list we…

Chicago Tribune · May 26, 2022

How the NRA evolved from backing a 1934 ban on machine guns to blocking nearly all firearm restrictions today

The mass shootings at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket and an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, just 10 days apart, are stirring the now-familiar national debate over guns seen after the tragic 2012 and 2018 school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, and Parkland, Florida.

The Conversation · May 26, 2022

On 2nd anniversary of George Floyd's killing, Black Buffalo residents feel the weight

The shooting at a Tops grocery store, which authorities say was motivated by racist hate, brought into sharper focus the weight of being a target.

WEKU · May 25, 2022

US gun laws are getting looser, not stronger, despite more mass shootings

In recent weeks, a string of devastating shootings — at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, a church in Laguna Woods, California, and now an elementary school in little Uvalde, Texas — has renewed calls for tighter gun restrictions.

Los Angeles Times · May 25, 2022

Services set for 'hero' officer killed in supermarket attack

The security guard killed in the Buffalo supermarket shooting on May 14 will be laid to rest Wednesday, as the country grapples with another massacre at a Texas school that killed 19 children and two adults

The Independent UK · May 25, 2022

Replacement theory isn't new – 3 things to know about how this once-fringe conspiracy has become more mainstream

The recent grocery store mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, is placing a spotlight on white supremacy.

The Conversation · May 25, 2022

More guns is the NRA's only answer

Repeated massacres, even of tiny children, automatically evoke calls to put more guns in schools and on the streets

Salon · May 25, 2022

After Buffalo, Trump threatens civil war

As the Trump movement builds toward violent conquest, mainstream media keeps pretending it's all a game

Salon · May 25, 2022

White solidarity doesn’t last much longer than the flowers left as memorials to Black lives

Two years ago, George Floyd was murdered. I remember the outpouring of grief. But apparently ‘healing’ is synonymous with forgetting

The Guardian - US · May 25, 2022

Commentary: Mass shooters aren’t mentally ill people who suddenly snap. They decide to kill

In the aftermath of major mass shootings, politicians and pundits depict the killers as crazed monsters and blame mental illness as the fundamental cause. The same story has played out since the horrific massacre May 14 at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, where an 18-year-old allegedly motivated by racist…

Los Angeles Times · May 25, 2022