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Houston gets NRA weekend ready

The National Rifle Association  – America’s leading gun lobbyist group – will meet a few hours away in Houston on Friday! Ashton P Woods says they are not welcome in his hometown. “These people are coming into our community. The city of Houston needs to kick them out,” said Woods, an activist and founder of Black Lives Matter Houston. “We have to be just as tough about these things as they are.” Woods is helping organize one of several protests planned just outside the George R Brown Convention Center, where  NRA  members will browse through exhibits of firearms and gun paraphernalia and hear speeches from key Republican leaders.

Reports indicate that Texas shooter’s grandmother worked at Robb Elemnetary school

​This is developing.. Tony Plohetski of the  Austin American-Statesman  newspaper On MSNBC tonight: "I have learned one fact from law enforcement officials, and that is that the gunman's grandmother apparently worked at this elementary school, but that her employment stopped in May 2020. So, officials are trying to determine whether there is some connection there, or what exactly that connection is," he explained. "But you certainly know, and I know from covering mass shootings, and other major crimes like this. that sometimes the real meaning dies with the person," he noted. "And so, that very well maybe what happened here."

A Dallas area student arrested — was walking toward a school with a rifle

​ The following is a news release from the Richardson Police Department:   On May 25, 2022, at 10:55AM, the Richardson Police Department received a phone call from a business in the 1500 block of East Spring Valley Road reporting a male holding what appeared to be a rifle. The male was last seen walking towards Berkner High School, located at 1600 East Spring Valley Road. Within minutes of the call being dispatched, numerous police officers from various units within the Richardson Police Department responded to Berkner High School and initiated a search and investigation into this incident. Nearby schools were notified of the police activity. Based on the information provided and in collaboration with Richardson ISD, officers were able to identify the male suspect as a juvenile student of Berkner High School. The suspect was located inside Berkner High School, but no weapons were found. Further investigation led to the discovery of a vehicle used by the suspect in the parking lot o...

Who is Salvador Ramos? Information beginning to circulate about his background

​At this point, we are beginning to learn more about the 18-year-old high school student and fast food worker who stormed into Rob elementary school in Uvalde Texas. Latest numbers conclude that he may have killed upwards of 19 children into adults, however some others are still in the hospital and sadly the final tally is subject to change.

A DISGUSTING DAY IN AMERICA: MASS SHOOTING AT SCHOOL IN ULVADE, TEXAS

An 18-year-old gunman opened fire Tuesday at a Texas elementary school, killing at least 18 children and, officials said, and the gunman was dead. The death toll also included three adults, according to state Sen. Roland Gutierrez, who said he was briefed by state police on the fatalities. But it was not immediately clear whether that number included the assailant. Federal law enforcement officials said the death toll was expected to rise. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release investigative details. It is being reported that the shooter went into several classrooms.. Eve Mireles, a fourth grade teacher, was identified by her family as being the staff member shot dead. She had worked in education for 17 years. Governor Greg Abbott named Salvador Roma, a student at Uvalde High School, as the gunman who opened fire at Robb Elementary School on Tuesday morning. The name was later clarified to Salvador Ramos, who was born in North Dakota but lived ...

COLORADO GUNMAN REVEALED: Ahmad Alissa

Syrian-born gunman Ahmad Alissa, 21, was known to FBI and ranted about 'Islamophobes hacking his phone' before killing ten at Boulder grocery store with assault rifle he bought one week ago.. Ahmad Alissa of Arvada, Colorado opened fire at the King Soopers grocery store at 2.40pm. He killed two people in the parking lot before entering the store, where he killed another eight people. His motive is still not known; when he surrendered to police, he asked to speak to his mother. In Facebook posts over the last 18 months, he complained that he didn't have a girlfriend and hated Trump.. Alissa's brother also told The Daily Beast he was 'very anti-social' and has been 'paranoid' since high school.. He described him as mentally ill, said he'd been bullied in school and that it was not politically motivated.. His sister-in-law said she'd seen him playing with a gun recently but did not suspect him of violence The victims range in age from 20 to 65; amo...