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Legally blind #Florida man arrested when cane is confused for a #gun
source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/legally-blind-florida-man-arrested-cane-confused-gun-rcna56396
Two deputies will be suspended and a Florida #sheriff has apologized after a visually impaired man was arrested last month when his walking cane was mistaken for a gun, officials said.
'The Future the #GOP Wants for All of America': Texas #Gun Law Unleashes Deadly Mayhem
"Who could've predicted arming folks without a license would result in this type of chaos?" one columnist asked sardonically.
KENNY STANCIL
October 27, 2022
..."Texas' new law allowing people to carry handguns in public without a permit—a Republican achievement that many local officials say has already led to a spike in spontaneous shootings in highly populated parts of the state.
"It seems like now there's been a tipping point where just everybody is armed."
In one high-profile case earlier this year, Tony Earls "pulled out his handgun and opened fire, hoping to strike a man who had just robbed him and his wife at an A.T.M. in Houston," The New York Times reported Wednesday. "Instead, he struck Arlene Alvarez, a 9-year-old girl seated in a passing pickup, killing her."
A grand jury declined to indict Earls, agreeing with his lawyer that "everything about that situation, we believe and contend, was justified under Texas law."
As the Times noted, "The shooting was part of what many sheriffs, police leaders, and district attorneys in urban areas of Texas say has been an increase in people carrying weapons and in spur-of-the-moment gunfire in the year since the state began allowing most adults 21 or over to carry a handgun without a license."
"Far from an outlier, Texas, with its new law, joined what has been an expanding effort to remove nearly all restrictions on carrying handguns," the newspaper continued. "When Alabama's 'permitless carry' law goes into effect in January, half of the states in the nation, from Maine to Arizona, will not require a license to carry a handgun."
"But Texas is the most populous state to do away with handgun permit requirements," the Times pointed out. "Five of the nation's 15 biggest cities are in Texas, making the permitless approach to handguns a new fact of life in urban areas to an extent not seen in other states."
"In the border town of Eagle Pass, drunken arguments have flared into shootings," the newspaper reported. "In El Paso, revelers who legally bring their guns to parties have opened fire to stop fights. In and around Houston, prosecutors have received a growing stream of cases involving guns brandished or fired over parking spots, bad driving, loud music, and love triangles."...
Widespread misperceptions of long-term attitude change
source: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2107260119
Most voters would have vehemently rejected a Black presidential candidate in the 1970s; a few decades later they elected Barack #Obama twice. #Climate #change, denied and dismissed even 20 years ago, is finally accepted as a real and serious problem by most Americans. Belief in #God has gone from ubiquitous to uncommon. A deluge of mass shootings has sapped what used to be near-universal support for #gun rights. Meanwhile, Donald #Trump’s presidency reversed long-growing support for #immigration.
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