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The Pope called for more gun control in the United States after the horrific mass shooting at an elementary school in Texas, and a Cardinal in Chicago agreed. Pope Francis spoke about the shooting from St. Peter's Square at the Vatican during his weekly general audience. "I am praying for the children and adults who were killed, and for their families. It is time to say enough to the indiscriminate trafficking of arms," Francis said Wednesday. "Let us all make a commitment, so that tragedies like this cannot happen again," he added. Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago,...

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A transgender woman was wrongly accused of being the teenage gunman who opened fire on a Texas elementary school. Photographs of 20-year-old Sam, of Georgia, whose last name has been omitted for her own safety, have been shared on social media after someone on 4chan, an anonymous online forum, claimed she was shooter responsive for Tuesday's school massacre. 'Here's the shooter's Reddit,' the user posted on 4chan along with a link to Sam's personal Reddit account shortly after Salvador Ramos, 18, opened fire on Robb Elementary School, killing 19 children and two teachers. Republican Rep. Paul Gosar, of Arizona, helped...

Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that American parents are lying to their children by telling them they will be safe from mass shootings at school. Swalwell said, “The public is with us, and parents want us on offense. Look at Republicans, they go on offense on wildly unpopular issues like a woman’s right to choose, and they don’t care about public sentiment. They lean in on that. Instead, we are always, always apologizing about, well, we’re not trying to infringe on the 2nd Amendment. We’re not saying gun control. Why don’t we just have guns disciplined...

President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he and first lady Jill Biden would travel to Uvalde, Texas, after a mass shooting at an elementary school. Biden said his trip to the Uvalde community would “let them know that we have a sense, just a sense of their pain and hopefully bring some little comfort to the community in shock, and grief, and in trauma.”

O n the second anniversary of George Floyd’s death in Minnesota, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to crack down on US Police. The Biden regime will review the use of force policies, restrict the flow of military surplus equipment and encourage limitations on no-knock warrants

We are the greatest nation in the world, and we are failing our children like no other. To read the description of America’s latest school shooter is to recognize an all-too-familiar profile: Young, male, angry. Notably disturbed, witnesses piecing together the clues — including online threats made openly, not on the dark web — only after the fact. An obsession with guns, violence and first-person shooter video games. An estrangement from at least one parent. Refusal to attend school. Anger towards girls and women. Antisocial. Has no sense of belonging to family, to school, to community, and thus retreats online,...

Barack Obama sent out a tweet on Wednesday urging people to take time from grieving the children killed in Uvalde to remember the anniversary of George Floyd’s death. The drug addict’s death in Minneapolis police custody, while resisting arrest, sparked a summer of deadly riots across the country. “As we grieve the children of Uvalde today, we should take time to recognize that two years have passed since the murder of George Floyd under the knee of a police officer. His killing stays with us all to this day, especially those who loved him,” Obama tweeted. The former president did...

The mother of the sick school shooter who shot dead 19 children and two teachers in Texas has claimed he 'wasn't a violent person'. Adriana Reyes said she was 'surprised' Salvador Ramos opened fire in a horrific killing spree at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde yesterday. She admitted her son was a loner who 'kept to himself and didn't have many friends' but shot down reports she had a toxic relationship with him. In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com she did not address claims she was a drug addict who saw the boy ditch her and go to live with...

They love to talk about the issue but don’t want to solve it. That’s typical DC antics for you. That’s the political class and it cuts both ways. There was a tragic shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas yesterday afternoon. Nineteen students were killed along with two teachers. Salvador Ramos, 18, who committed this evil act was killed by a Border Patrol agent. Uvalde is a small border city. RIGHT NOW, we don’t know much about Ramos. He had no criminal history or had a mental health adjudication citation which would have prevented him from buying his two...

Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order to reform policing just one day after a teenager fatally shot 21 people at a Texas elementary school. Biden politicized the tragic mass shooting and used it as an excuse to attack the Second Amendment. "The Second Amendment is not absolute. When it was passed, you couldn’t own a cannon…there’s always been limitations,” said Biden.

On Wednesday Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) hit the brakes on the idea of a quick gun control vote, making clear a vote on more gun restrictions will have to wait. Breitbart News pointed to a report the New York Times published Tuesday which said Schumer was moving quickly to “force” a vote on gun control in the Senate. The Times noted, “Within hours of the shooting in Uvalde, Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the majority leader, moved to clear the way to force votes in coming days on legislation that would strengthen background checks for...

The border city of Uvalde, Texas is mourning. Salvador Ramos, 18, shot and killed 19 fourth-grade students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School. They were all in one classroom. It’s a heinous crime. It’s a Sandy Hook-like situation. Ramos shot his grandmother before this rampage. The grandmother is said to have survived. We’re going to hear an earful about gun control, so-called assault weapons bans, and other anti-gun talking points from Democrats. And the result will always be the same—Americans will not torch their rights to appease a political class lusting for more power and control, especially after the...

K-12 schools must allow boys into girls’ private areas to obtain federal funds for lunches, breakfasts, and snacks, the Biden administration announced this month. A U.S. Department of Education spokesman told The Federalist the Biden administration’s press releases from several agencies announcing this policy will be followed by formal rulemaking in June. “It seems to be playing politics with feeding poor kids, which is really unfortunate,” John Elcesser, executive director of the Indiana Non-Public Education Association, said via phone amid weeks of attempting to sort out these new demands with government officials on behalf of private schools in his state....

Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order to reform policing just one day after a teenager fatally shot 21 people at a Texas elementary school. Biden also delivered remarks on the deadly Texas shooting. Then Biden began talking about how dangerous life is for black Americans. “So many black Americans wake up knowing they could lose their life in the course of just living their life — jogging, shopping, sleeping at home,” said Biden. Another divisive and grotesque speech by the ‘great unifer.’

In this Grabien video, watch Democrats such as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and the media openly embrace the replacement theory that they now deny exists.

In yet another tragic mass shooting, Salvador Ramos, 18, slaughtered 19 innocent children and two much-loved teachers at Robb Elementary school, in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday before being killed in a shoot out with a Border Patrol officer and local law enforcement. It is the second deadliest shooting in US history after the infamous Sandy Hook massacre in 2012 - which saw 26 people killed - and has once again left people asking how someone could commit such a heinous crime. As the country tries to make sense of the tragedy, stories about Ramos are beginning to emerge from those...

In the wake of a mass shooting at a Texas elementary school in Uvalde, MSNBC wheeled on anti-gun fanatic Michael Moore who called for repealing the Second Amendment. Moore asserted “We will not acknowledge that we are a violent people, to begin with. This country was birthed in violence with genocide of the native people at the barrel of a gun.” ... Moore then suggested “I think we need some really drastic action here,” before suggesting “a moratorium” on gun sales. Then came the real kicker as he asked “Who will say on this network or on any other network...

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” host and NBC News Chief Washington Correspondent and Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell argued that “there’s nothing in the Constitution at all about assault weapons.” And that law enforcement in the school shooting in Uvalde, TX couldn’t stop a shooter who was armed “with what appears to be something like an assault weapon.” After playing a clip of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) saying that armed law enforcement on school grounds is the most effective tool to keep students safe and that “inevitably, when there’s a murder of this kind, you see...

Former President Donald Trump will speak at the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) Annual Leadership Forum this week in the wake of the horrific tragedy at a Texas elementary school, previewing an “important address to America.” “America needs real solutions and real leadership in this moment, not politicians and partisanship,” Trump said in an update to his TruthSocial account Wednesday. “That’s why I will keep my longtime commitment to speak in Texas at the NRA Convention and deliver an important address to America. In the meantime, we all continue to pray for the victims, their families, and for our entire nation—we...