The southern Californian city of 60,000, where about 65 percent of residents are of Asian descent, is consistently ranked as one of the best and most peaceful places to live in the United States, but the mass shooting has shaken residents’ faith in the safety of their community.
Because why deal with factual issues like #AcceleratingGlobalClimateCataclysm, #DeterioratingPublicSchools, #USGunInsanity, #SociopathicSupremeCourt, and #CivilRights when you can pursue some dick-head's fantasy of an issue.
Lawmakers request UFO select committee after whistleblower testimony
This incident had little to directly to do with #USGunInsanity except for the fact that GOPers "solutions" lame-assed alibis always "address" better mental health screening. Of course they provide no means of doing this WRT guns OR ANYTHING ELSE, and as this incident clearly illustrates (a) governments are not good at this for any level of threat, and (b) there are insufficient resources to address the issue, in any event.
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State law requires that the Minnesota Department of Health transfer civilly committed inmates from jail to a state-run facility within 48 hours, but the system is severely over capacity and its wait-list extends for months, forcing local officials to hold mentally ill defendants in jail or seek local alternatives.
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Billings had a documented history of mental illness prior to his April arrest, twice in recent years having been placed under civil commitments. The most recent order had expired in September 2020.
There was no way, Ralph Yarl thought, that the white man pointing the gun at him through the glass door would shoot him. But the Black teenager, who had gone to the wrong house in Kansas City looking for his younger brothers, was wrong a second time.
Yarl’s brothers were actually at a home a block away, and he said in an interview with “Good Morning America” anchor Robin Roberts that aired Tuesday that he hadn’t met the family of his brothers’ friends, “so maybe it was their house.”
https://apnews.com/article/ralph-yarl-kansas-city-wrong-door-b27aaabdb132fcb1544c97f7161f0027
https://apnews.com/article/utah-day-care-toddler-shot-3077b72fc9eeb8bcba229da34c3090af
#USGunInsanity is but a mere aspect of #NutsoAmerica!
A glimmer of sanity in a nation of #USGunInsanity.
GOPers, leaving no turn unstoned, are proposing an alternative, whose principal principle is issuing guns to sperm cells. They're hoping this will also end all demand for abortion not to mention sex, itself. /s
Davey, Davey Crock of It. <- #USGunInsanity
<https://news.yahoo.com/police-man-driving-around-memphis-011818767.html
A gunman who livestreamed himself driving around Memphis shooting at people, killing four and wounding three others in seemingly random attacks, was finally ar...>
https://news.yahoo.com/police-indiana-mall-gunman-fired-231744905.html
(notice how many of the posts tie their raison d'etre to a factor of 10^3)
https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-61424,00.html
https://apnews.com/article/police-new-zealand-islamic-state-group-2bbbbc9f3e4249fba2c519dda5e8f05f
Aaron Sorkin embedded two issues in this political love story:
If research had begun, even then, then on climate change, we might know better, today, on what to do. Already, by that time, the disteemeed Ronnie Raygun had already prevented government funded climate researchers from even mentioning climate change in their research.
Today, we know the situation is more dire than ever projected, and Exxon, and the Kochs still have the GOPers and some Democrats by the short and curlies.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/12/clean-fuel-blue-hydrogen-coal-study
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