President Joe Biden is now speaking on the recent mass shootings. He is expected to call on Congress to pass new gun legislation.

The carpet in Cross Hall is lined with memorial candles. Biden: Families of recent mass shooting victims "had one message for all of us: do something. Just do something."

The New York State Senate and Assembly have so far approved six of the 10 bills in Gov. Kathy Hochul's gun reform package.

They were introduced in response to the Buffalo mass shooting.

🧵 Among those six are bills that ...

1) will eventually require new semiautomatic pistols sold to be capable of microstamping
2) ban the sale of body armor vests to civilians
3) institute new recordkeeping requirements to prevent gun, ammunition sales to prohibited purchasers

A bill that would require new semiautomatic pistols in New York to be capable of microstamping passed the Assembly today.

If it passes the Senate and is signed, New York would be the second state behind California with such a requirement.

nysenate.gov/legislation/bi… This bill is among several in Gov. Kathy Hochul and Democratic leaderships' gun reform package. It is the first in the package to pass either chamber.

https://twitter.com/ByChipBrownlee/status/1531747536242888706?s=20&t=CtOAejhaTItwvacPT2ngMw

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has requested the Legislature convene special committees in response to the Uvalde shooting, to consider:

- School safety
- Mental health
- Social media
- Police training
- Firearm safety

This isn't a proclomation calling a special session. Proclamation* wow

Gov. Kathy Hochul and Democratic leadership in New York introduced a package of bills aimed at strengthening the state's gun laws.

The package would:
- require licenses (w/ min age 21) to purchase semiautomatic rifles
- ban the sale/purchase of body armor for civilians

1/7 - close a loophole that currently allows some large-capacity magazines to be legal

2/7

governor.ny.gov/news/governor-…

11 mass shootings since Uvalde.

Merced: 1 dead, 3 injured
Detroit: 3 inj
Taft: 1 dead, 7 inj
Chicago: 5 inj
Chattanooga: 6 inj
Malabar: 4 inj
Fresno: 1 dead, 3 inj
Colorado Springs: 1 dead, 3 inj
Stanwood: 4 dead, 1 inj
Anniston: 6 inj
Philadelphia: 4 inj

@GunDeaths In Philadelphia, four people were shot on their way to a prom party.

philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2022/05/26/wes…

People often forget there are other regulations that could potentially mitigate the effects of gun violence without touching the firearm itself.

In the absence of firearms regulations, you could regulate ammunition and magazines.

https://twitter.com/ByChipBrownlee/status/1530233043654410240

Congress or legislatures could require background checks on ammunition purchases.

They could track, limit, or place waiting periods on ammunition purchases.

They could place new taxes or increase existing taxes on ammunition.

They could require sellers to obtain a FFL.

Texas officials say the Uvalde, Texas, school shooter entered the school with more than 300 rounds of ammunition.

In total, he had 1,657 total rounds of ammunition. He had a total of SIXTY magazines. He brought 11 of those into the school, according to law enforcement.

At least some of those magazines were high-capacity 30-round magazines, according to prior reports.

My latest: The NYPD is tracking possible shooters in a secretive new database.

Civil liberties advocates worry the NYPD is repeating the mistakes it made with its gangs list — and that innocent people are being tracked without even knowing it.

thetrace.org/2022/05/nypd-g… I reported this story with @anngivenswrites at @Gothamist/@WNYC.

gothamist.com/news/nypd-grip…

DLive — a platform used by a number of far-right figures to live stream Capitol chaos — has banned several far-right figures in the last few days.

That list now includes Vincent James Foxx, a holocaust denier and propagandist for a now-defunct white supremacist group. You might've never heard of DLive before, but in addition to having little to no moderation before Jan. 6, DLive was monetizing extremism, allowing far-right figures to profit off its tipping mechanism, as @MeganSquire0 has pointed out.

https://twitter.com/MeganSquire0/status/1347247509698203649?s=20

Thread: The insurrection was seeded on social media platforms, then planned and broadcast on far-right sites.

thetrace.org/newsletter/eit… For days leading up to yesterday’s electoral college certification, posters used social media sites like Gab and Parler, encrypted messaging platforms like Telegram, and the pro-Trump forum The Donald to organize and share information.

"We’re headed right back to where we were on April 1, and I don’t think there’s any appetite among the general population nor of our political leaders to do much more about it,” said Dr. Michael Saag, an infectious disease expert at UAB.

alreporter.com/2020/05/26/wer… The Alabama Department of Public Health reports an increase of 646 COVID-19 cases Monday, by far the largest increase to date, based on their count.

Check the date. A paper published this in 2019. Wow. I took a dive into old issues of The Democrat-Reporter.

After a review of dozens of issues of the paper, it's clear the racist editorial brought to light yesterday was not a one-off event. It's common.

alreporter.com/2019/02/19/edi… via @ALReporter