Several US schools to install pepper-spraying drones to respond to school shootings

The company said its goal is to “escalate the effects in waves of 3 or 4 drones, keeping the shooter occupied until he/she can be apprehended by authorized responders”….

 https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/jul/28/school-shootings-pepper-spray-drones

 

Trump’s pardons are costing shooting survivors millions

Most of that figure is from a single case. Last year, Trump pardoned HDR Global Trading Limited, the owner and operator of the crypto exchange BitMEX, which had been ordered to pay $100m in fines for flouting anti-money laundering laws. Trump issued the pardon, the first for a corporation, just hours before the payment was due. Because the pardon calls for the “remission of any and all fines, penalties, forfeitures, and restitution ordered by the Court”, that $100m will never make it to the Crime Victims Fund...

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/17/trump-pardons-cost-shooting-survivors-millions

 

Months after the ICE shootings in Minnesota, a federal probe remains elusive : NPR

"I would go out on a limb and say we're pretty confident that they're not investigating these agents for any possible crimes," says Rachel Moran, a professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law who studies police accountability. 

 Moran says a federal officer who kills a person would normally be subject to a joint investigation between state law enforcement and the federal government. What's happening instead, she says, is much more unusual. 

"They appear to be actively preventing the state from investigating," Moran says…

 https://www.npr.org/2026/04/10/nx-s1-5775847/alex-pretti-renee-good-ice-shootings-federal-investigations

US immigration agents linked to spike in shootings under Trump administration crackdown

Under Trump's crackdown, immigration officers have been connected to 14 shootings, according to data compiled by the Trace, a non-profit newsroom focused on gun violence in the US...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/07/trump-immigration-ice-shootings  

DEMOCRACY IN ACTION

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/B7ytMLo91hg

 

 

Dear Americans… we saved you a seat

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/9iI-vtifUVw

How the right spread ‘brutal and cruel’ misinformation after Minnesota lawmaker killings | Minnesota | The Guardian

Rightwing social media personality Mike Cernovich, with 1.5 million followers, escalated the lie by suggesting Walz ordered the assassination. He hasn't taken the post down and has continued to advance the claims, posting on Monday that "Democrats know they are now seen as the party of political violence so their propaganda agents are trying to shift the blame. It won't work." 

 Laura Loomer, the far-right conspiracy theorist and Trump whisperer, posted that "Walz's goons are now assassinating lawmakers who support legislation Walz opposes" and called the Democratic party "a terrorist organization". Loomer and others on the right also tried to tie Boelter to the "No Kings" protests against the Trump administration. Officials found rudimentary signs in the suspect's vehicle that said "No Kings", an indication he knew of the event, not that he would attend it as a protester...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/17/minnesota-lawmaker-killings-misinformation-rightwing 

 

Gun-related deaths of US children are rising at ‘alarming’ rate, study reveals

In 2021, 2,590 children died due to firearm injuries compared to 1,311 in 2011, according to the study published in the medical journal Pediatrics...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/05/children-deaths-guns-rising

One mass killing every 6.53 days: US shootings are on a record pace

Despite the death toll, there is little indication of federal policy changes, but some states have tried to impose more gun control…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/21/us-mass-shooting-2023-alabama-tennessee-california

‘Stand your ground’: the US laws linked to rising deaths and racist violence

An analysis last year found "stand your ground" laws were linked to an 8% to 11% increase in homicide rates, or roughly 700 additional deathseach year. Florida's "stand your ground" law has increased both justifiable and unlawful killings, with one study finding a 32% increase in firearm homicide rates; and another analysis showed that in 79% of cases, the assailant could have retreated to avoid confrontation. And research on "stand your ground" laws has found huge racial disparities, with white Americans much more likely to find success with self-defense claims, particularly when they kill Black people...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/18/stand-your-ground-laws-us-deaths-racist-violence 

Fewer Guns Equals Fewer Shootings | DeSantis Steals T****’s Best Lines

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR_RsLONzzs

Fatal police shootings are increasing, but fewer are being reported - Washington Post

Flawed FBI data has left thousands of deaths uncounted and complicates efforts to hold troubled police departments accountable…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2022/fatal-police-shootings-unreported/

Gun violence costs stretch beyond the loss of life, two new studies find : NPR

The $557 billion figure seems astonishing. But the group says it looks at myriad direct costs associated with gun violence. Researcher Burd-Sharps notes the figures include immediate costs of a shooting, such as the police response, investigations and ambulance services all the way to the long-term health care costs. The analysis also includes estimates for a victims' lost earnings, costs incurred by the criminal justice system, the price of mental health care and more…

https://www.npr.org/2022/07/21/1112214346/american-gun-violence-has-immense-costs-beyond-the-death-toll-new-studies-find

The Least That You Can Do - song on YouTube

As premiered at CSICON 2017, The Least That You Can Do is the latest from Geo. Finally, a song with a simple way to fix all of the world's problems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2HrIudXzh0

Trump-Backed Senate Candidate Says Gun Violence Is 'Black People, Frankly' | HuffPost Latest News

The eventual GOP nominee for Senate will face off against Sen. Mark Kelly (D) in a seat the Cook Political Report has rated as a tossup ― and one that could help determine control over the evenly split Senate…

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/blake-masters-guns-black-people_n_629d6a6ee4b016c4eefaddcb

More Gun Sales May Have Contributed to America's Murder Spike - The Atlantic

…What's most startling in these new data is the degree to which firearms purchased in 2020 featured in crimes committed in 2020…

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/gun-sales-murder-spike/621196/

Judge Says NYPD Illegally Withheld Footage in Police Shootings — ProPublica

…Trawick had been shot in his own apartment 112 seconds after officers arrived at his door. Trawick, 32, had struggled with his mental health and with drugs. He had called 911 after he locked himself out of his apartment. "Why are you in my home?" he had repeatedly asked the officers. 

A more experienced Black officer had tried to stop his younger white partner from using force against Trawick, who had been standing in his apartment about 7 feet away with a bread knife and stick. But the younger officer fired his Taser at Trawick anyway and then shot him after he ran toward the officers…

https://www.propublica.org/article/judge-says-nypd-illegally-withheld-footage-in-police-shootings

Five times as many police officers have died from COVID as from guns since pandemic began - Axios

"If this was cops getting shot on the streets of America today at this number, there would be outrage," said Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, per the NYT…

https://www.axios.com/5-times-as-many-police-officers-have-died-from-covid-as-from-guns-since-pandemic-began-afddf37d-d97a-4058-b731-6104754701a4.html

‘Staggering’: Biden breaks from agenda to grapple with bloodshed plaguing big cities - POLITICO

…On Tuesday, the Justice Department announced five strike forces that will target the flow of illegal firearms into places like New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. While Chicago, for example, has its own gun control measures in place, it has historically contended with the illegal trafficking of weapons from nearby Indiana, as well as southern states...

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/23/biden-crime-focus-big-cities-495609

One dead, several injured in series of random shootings in Phoenix area: police | TheHill

…Sheffert added the same suspect is believed to be responsible for each of the shootings...
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/559081-multiple-shootings-in-phoenix-area-police