NEW: A 22-year-old former Army trainee who calls himself an "Incel" admitted in court that he planned a mass shooting at Ohio State University. Police found an AR-15 with a bump-stock and ghost gun pistol modified to fire fully automatically at his home. cincinnati.com/story/news/cri…
The suspect - who expressed a desire to emulate the UCSB gunman - conducted surveillance of Ohio university and did online research on sororities. His writings include threats to “slaughter” women “out of hatred, jealousy and revenge” and refer to death as the “great equalizer."
Ohio law requires visitors be allowed to open carry on all public campuses. In 2016, Gov @JohnKasich signed a law allowing guns on college campuses. Earlier this year, @GovMikeDeWine signed permitless carry, stripping background check and training requirements to concealed carry.
Ohio laws don't require background checks on unlicensed gun sales, including online and gun show sales. And the open carry of loaded long guns in public, including semiautomatic rifles, is completely unrestricted in Ohio: no background check, training, or permit required.
.@govmikedewine won't let your college-aged daughter end her pregnancy, but he's certainly done everything in his power to simplify her slaughter inside her sorority house. Please remember this abject "tough on crime" bullshit when you cast your vote on Nov. 8... #thisisnotok
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MAJOR WIN FOR GUN SAFETY: As political rhetoric aims to divide us on gun safety, we're seeing cities and states - blue and red alike - take action to ensure families understand how to securely store their firearms.
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Thanks to countless hours of organizing and educating by @MomsDemand volunteers, school districts across the US have sent secure storage info to millions of families. It's a huge step forward in the fight to keep kids safe from gun suicide, homicide and unintentional shootings.
As students returned to school, Texas @MomsDemand volunteers in McKinney successfully advocated to have our BeSMART guidance sent home in the district's latest newsletter.
A judge blocked the city of Philadelphia from enforcing its ban on firearms in recreation facilities after a gun lobbying group argued the state’s preemption law only allows gun regulations to be created at the state level, not by local jurisdictions. cnn.com/2022/10/04/us/…
Since 2019, 300 reported incidents of gun violence have occurred at Philadelphia recreation facilities, in addition to dozens of other incidents of violence with a deadly weapon. The Mayor’s Executive Order was intended to protect the safety of children, families and staff.
Over 40 states prohibit local governments from regulating guns - aka, preemption. The NRA's strategy has been to pass preemption laws state by state and prevent city officials from acting to stop gun violence when state lawmakers won't.
THIS WEEK I'll be in Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin to help @momsdemand volunteers and other gun sense champions running for office. Here's the info - hope to see you there! 🧵
ILLINOIS: Come support @momsdemand volunteer and gun sense champion Rep. Maura Hirschauer (@votemaura) in Springfield on Thursday, Oct. 6.
Dr. Oz is blaming school shootings on the legalization of recreational marijuana and COVID school closures, which he said made children “willing to play with guns … in ways that none of us would have ever accepted.” He provided no data and, of course, did not blame lax gun laws.
Pennsylvania US Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz once endorsed red flag laws and called for an end to the ban on CDC funding for gun violence research, but now says he supports gun violence against members of an “overly intrusive government.” #pasen
Dr Oz also celebrated an endorsement from the infamous anti-Semitic, racist, misogynist, gun extremist who once said George Floyd was a “thugpunk” who deserved to die.