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Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden on Thursday called the 26-year-old who wrestled the gun away from a suspected mass shooter in California, telling him: "You are America." "I wanted to call and see how you're doing and thank you for taking such incredible action in the face of danger," Biden is heard telling Brandon Tsay on a recording of the call. Biden posted a video on Twitter of his chat with Tsay, who wrestled the firearm from a 72-year-old man at a ballroom in Alhambra during Lunar New Year celebrations -- after the man had opened fire at a dance hall in nearby Monterey Park, killin...
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Washington (AFP) - From the Texas school massacre to a Tulsa hospital shooting and many less-reported incidents, a recent spate of gun violence across America bears out a trend police departments have long sworn by: murders go up in warmer weather. The link has been written about for decades by criminologists, with more recent research drilling down on the precise relationship between temperature and crime rates. For those who have studied the question, there are common sense as well as potentially less obvious mechanisms at play. First, the more obvious: "It's hard to shoot somebody if there'...
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Washington (AFP) - The National Rifle Association is the central and fiercest promoter of gun rights in America, and is again holding its annual convention days after a mass school shooting. Just like the NRA's meeting after the 1999 Columbine attack, which defined an era of gun massacres in America's schools, the gathering opening Friday in Houston follows the killing of 19 children and two teachers in a Texas classroom. The NRA has been weakened by scandal and turmoil, but remains the main force dedicated to advocating for the owners of the tens of millions of weapons that are readily obtain...
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Uvalde (United States) (AFP) - Daniel Defense, the manufacturer of the assault rifle used in the Uvalde school shooting in Texas, said Thursday it will not attend a convention this week in the state of the powerful National Rifle Association gun lobby. "Daniel Defense is not attending the National Rifle Association ("NRA") meeting due to the horrifying tragedy in Uvalde, Texas where one of our products was criminally misused," the company told AFP. "We believe this week is not the appropriate time to be promoting our products in Texas at the NRA meeting," it said. The convention will be held i...
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Washington (AFP) - Firearms have surpassed motor vehicle crashes as the leading cause of death among American youngsters, with official data showing a strong rise in gun-related homicides such as the killing of 19 children in a Texas school rampage. Overall, 4,368 children and adolescents up to the age of 19 died from firearms in 2020, a rate of 5.4 per 100,000 a dashboard by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed. Homicides made up nearly two-thirds of the gun deaths. By comparison, there were 4,036 deaths linked to motor vehicles, the previous leading cause of death amon...
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Washington (AFP) - The world voiced revulsion Wednesday at the massacre of Texas schoolchildren, which for some raised new questions on whether the United States can legitimately promote itself as a global model. President Joe Biden, who has made championing democracy a key priority, appeared conscious of the damage to the US reputation in an impassioned plea for action late Tuesday moments after returning from Asia. "What struck me on that 17-hour flight, what struck me, was these kinds of mass shootings rarely happen anywhere else in the world," said Biden, who had mourned victims of another...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - A US man who allegedly shot and killed his four young children and their grandmother was being questioned by police on Monday. The four children, who were all under the age of 12, were declared dead at the scene in the small town of Lancaster, near Los Angeles. The children's grandmother, who was in her 50s, also died in the shooting on Sunday evening. All five victims had gunshot wounds to their upper bodies, law enforcement officers said. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's office said Germarcus David, 29, had been arrested on suspicion of the multiple murders, and was being...
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