Lakewood Church shooting: Spotlight on Texas gun laws after Houston megachurch attack
10 months, 1 week ago

Lakewood Church shooting: Spotlight on Texas gun laws after Houston megachurch attack

The Independent  

✕ Close Lakewood church shooter used rifle with ‘Palestine’ sticker, police say The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The spotlight is on Texas gun laws after a woman with a history of mental illness and a criminal record was able to legally purchase a gun and walk into Joel Osteen’s megachurch in Houston. In the days since, information has emerged about Moreno’s mental health and criminal history – raising questions around whether something could have been done to have prevented the shooting. Now all eyes are turning to Texas’ lax gun laws – particularly the state’s absence of red flag laws.

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How Texas church shooter bought rifle despite mental illness and criminal history is under scrutiny
10 months, 1 week ago

How Texas church shooter bought rifle despite mental illness and criminal history is under scrutiny

The Independent  

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A shooter opened fire in a Houston church. Gunfire has also scarred other Texas places of worship
10 months, 1 week ago

A shooter opened fire in a Houston church. Gunfire has also scarred other Texas places of worship

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — The weekend shooting at Joel Osteen’s megachurch in Houston is not the first time gunfire has caused panic and tragedy at a Texas house of worship. The shooting Sunday at Lakewood Church ended when two off-duty officers, who were working security, returned fire on a shooter who police say entered the building with an AR-style rifle and …

Figuring out Texas: From guns to immigration, here’s how one state’s challenges echo the country’s
1 year, 7 months ago

Figuring out Texas: From guns to immigration, here’s how one state’s challenges echo the country’s

Associated Press  

HOUSTON — Thirteen people dead in two mass shootings. He’s furious at how Republicans “bleed every vote they can out of West Texas” to overcome growing populations in the state’s heavily Democratic urban centers, from Houston to Dallas, Austin to San Antonio. Instead, the number of mass shootings is simply a matter of size: “We’re a huge state — millions …

Gun safety advocates express horror at mass shooting in Texas and Gov Abbott’s response
1 year, 7 months ago

Gun safety advocates express horror at mass shooting in Texas and Gov Abbott’s response

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Gun safety advocates have …

Making sense of a mass shooting in the middle of Texas gun country
2 years, 6 months ago

Making sense of a mass shooting in the middle of Texas gun country

LA Times  

Randall Methvin is a thoughtful man who talks with a Texas twang, still works as a ranch hand at age 68 and has felt an affinity for firearms since childhood, when his Depression-hardened father would take him out quail and dove hunting. “I don’t hardly ever shoot them anymore, but when I do, I just go to the gun range, …

Texas shooting: Another mass shooting, another US gun control debate
2 years, 6 months ago

Texas shooting: Another mass shooting, another US gun control debate

Firstpost  

It was the eighth mass shooting this year, according to the Everytown gun control group, and came 10 days after another 18-year-old murdered 10 African Americans at a supermarket in New York Washington: A mass shooting that left 18 schoolchildren dead in the deeply pro-gun state of Texas on Tuesday increased pressure on US politicians to take action over the …

Could Texas abortion ban strategy be double-edged sword?
3 years, 3 months ago

Could Texas abortion ban strategy be double-edged sword?

Associated Press  

SALT LAKE CITY — The unusual legal strategy used to ban most abortions in Texas is already increasingly being employed in Republican-led states to target pornography, LGBT rights and other hot-button cultural issues. When Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the Department of Justice would sue over the Texas law, he said it could become a model “for action in other …

Texas joins list of states dropping permit rules for guns
3 years, 6 months ago

Texas joins list of states dropping permit rules for guns

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas will now let people carry handguns without first getting a background check and training, becoming the latest and largest on a growing list of states to roll back permitting requirements for carrying guns in public. “In this increasingly dangerous world, people want to be able to protect themselves,” said NRA leader Wayne LaPierre, who attended the …

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