‘None of This Makes Sense’: Senator Baffled by Uvalde Incident Commander Story

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Texas Democratic state Sen. Roland Gutierrez, whose district includes Uvalde, tore into law enforcement’s delayed response to the Uvalde school shooting and questioned whether Pete Arredondo, the chief of police for the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, was really the commanding officer at the time.

Taking note of how Arredondo apparently had not received a key briefing about 911 calls schoolchildren made while trapped in a classroom with the shooter and reports that Arredondo was not carrying his radio during the assault, Gutierrez questioned whether Arredondo was really the incident commander on duty.

“The failure is clearly happening with law enforcement at every level. A real concern with regard to him not having that communication is why in the world is anybody … suggesting that he’s the incident commander if he doesn’t have the necessary communications at the time,” Gutierrez said on CNN’s Erin Burnett Outfront on Friday.

“And so, if he indeed doesn’t have his radio … how in the world are the other law enforcement agencies suggesting that man is the incident commander? None of this makes sense to me. And with all of that, little children might have died that could have been saved,” he continued.

Gutierrez revealed Thursday that he had been told Arredondo was not briefed on the 911 calls from children. Arredondo has been widely reported as the incident commander at the scene, and officials have claimed he bears responsibility for law enforcement’s delayed breach of the classroom. At the time, he believed there was no active threat to schoolchildren and had officers wait for a key to enter the classroom, according to Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw. (Read more from “‘None of This Makes Sense’: Senator Baffled by Uvalde Incident Commander Story” HERE)

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Kuwait Summons Top US Diplomat Over Tweets Celebrating Pride Month

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Officials from Kuwait have summoned a diplomat over the U.S. Embassy’s decision to post tweets supporting Pride Month.

Kuwait’s Foreign Ministry summoned U.S. Charges d’Affaires James Holtsnider on Thursday to hand him a memorandum regarding a series of tweets “supporting homosexuality” and demanded that it not happen again. Kuwait is one of 69 countries where homosexuality is banned.

“All human beings should be treated with respect and dignity and should be able to live without fear no matter who they are or whom they love,” the embassy tweeted in reference to a May 17 statement by President Joe Biden, referring to the president as “a champion for the human rights of #LGBTQI persons.”

The ministry accused the embassy of violating international conventions that require diplomats to “respect the laws and regulations of the receiving state,” referencing the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961. It then ordered the U.S. Embassy to respect Kuwait’s laws and “not to publish such tweets,” according to the BBC. (Read more from “Kuwait Summons Top Us Diplomat Over Tweets Celebrating Pride Month” HERE)

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Man Barricades Himself in Hospital After Mass Stabbing Attack, Police Say

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Multiple victims are reportedly in critical condition at a Los Angeles area hospital after a man went on a stabbing spree before barricading himself inside.

“Reports of multiple people stabbed at Encino Hospital,” the Los Angeles Police Department said in a statement. “The suspect is believed to be contained in a room within the hospital. There is a large police presence.”

The stabbings were reported inside a building at Encino Hospital Medical Center on the 16000 block of Ventura Boulevard.

All the victims are medical staff—one doctor and two nurses—and are believed to be in critical condition, and have been transported to a trauma center.

“He’s not running around the hospital. It appears that he’s in an area,” LAPD Officer Drake Madison said, adding that police were “trying to talk him down.” (Read more from “Man Barricades Himself in Hospital After Mass Stabbing Attack, Police Say” HERE)

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Has Anyone Highlighted This Key Detail About the Texas Shooter’s Background Check?; Biden Triples Down on Gun Bans for Americans While Repeating a False Claim (VIDEO)

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By Townhall. . .Ramos was known to be trouble. He got into fights, slashed his own face, told friends he hoped to join the military so he could kill people and posted multiple rape and death threats on the app Yubo. One girl reported him, but online harassment reports are probably common which led to these complaints not receiving a second glance. Where the line to inform authorities becomes clearer was when he posted pictures of bags of dead cats. He also drove around town shooting people with a BB gun. Jim Geraghty noted that Texas courts have upheld the notion that a BB gun are deadly weapons. Assault charges could have been possible, preventing Ramos from buying his weapons. There were plenty of laws that could have stopped this kid, granted some need updating—but let’s talk about the background check.

What happened with this process? If Ramos put his grandparents’ address on the 4473 form with the ATF, he would have been denied. He should have been denied. His grandfather has a criminal record. He admitted that he cannot be around firearms because of this, adding that if he had known Ramos had guns, he would have to inform the police (via NY Daily News):

The grandfather of the Texas teen who killed 21 people in an elementary school Tuesday said he can’t be around guns and would have reported that his grandson had two of them had he known.

Rolando Reyes, whose wife was shot in the face by accused mass murder Salvador Ramos before the 18-year-old began his shooting spree at Robb Elementary School but is still alive, told ABC News he wants nothing to do with the kind of firearms his grandson purchased a couple weeks ago for his birthday.

The grandfather of the Texas teen who killed 21 people in an elementary school Tuesday said he can’t be around guns and would have reported that his grandson had two of them had he known.

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Biden Triples Down on Gun Bans for Americans While Repeating a False Claim

By Townhall. Speaking from the East Room of the White House Thursday night — shortly before jetting off to the beach in Delaware for the weekend — President Joe Biden tripled down on his calls for a ban on semi-automatic rifles and repeated the false claim a previous ban from 1994-2004 reduced mass shootings.

“We need to ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines. And if we can’t ban assault weapons, then we should raise the age to purchase them from 18 to 21, strengthen background checks, enact safe storage law and red flag laws. Repeal the immunity that protects gun manufacturers liability,” Biden said. “These are rational, commonsense measures. And here’s what it all means at all means this. We should reinstate the assault weapons ban, high capacity magazines that we passed in nineteen ninety four with bipartisan support in Congress and the support of law enforcement. Nine categories of semi-automatic weapons were included in that ban like AK 47, and AR-15s. And in the ten years it was law, mass shootings were down.”

A 2004 Department of Justice funded study from the University of Pennsylvania Center of Criminology concluded the ban cannot be credited with a decrease in violence carried out with firearms. The report is titled “An Updated Assessment of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban: Impacts on Gun Markets and Gun Violence, 1994-2003.” (Read more from “Biden Triples Down on Gun Bans for Americans While Repeating a False Claim” HERE)

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More Than Half of Republicans Believe U.S. Headed Towards Civil War

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A concerning percentage of Americans believe that the country is on a collision course with a civil war, according to a new poll. The survey also revealed there is an alarming number of Americans who would support carrying out political violence against government leaders.

The Tulchin Research group conducted a survey of 1,500 Americans in April, and the Southern Poverty Law Center published the distressing results on Wednesday.

When asked if “gender ideology has corrupted American culture,” there was a stark partisan divide – with 72% of Republicans saying it had damaged the culture versus only 34% of Democrats.

According to the SPLC poll, 44% of young male Democrats and 34% of young male Republicans would approve of assassinating “a politician who is harming our country or democracy.” The percentage plummets to 6% of older male Democrats and Republicans.

When it comes to “threatening a politician who is harming our country or democracy,” there are 46% of younger Republican men and 40% of younger Democratic men who approve. The poll defines “younger” as Americans under the age of 50. (Read more from “More Than Half of Republicans Believe U.S. Headed Towards Civil War” HERE)

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Gun Control Activist Wants to ‘Hold America Hostage’

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Dave Cullen, a guest on MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House,” called for protests to “hold America hostage” in order to pass gun control legislation Thursday.

The call came after guest host John Heilemann referenced an article published Tuesday in The Atlantic that called for students to refuse to go back to school in the fall and called for “an Emmett Till moment” that would “shock the system” to enact gun control.

“Take the summer – take the summer, plan this out,” Cullen, the author of “Parkland,” a book about survivors of the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who became advocates for gun control, said after Heilemann’s comments, “Do it right and essentially hold America hostage. Families, parents. And the workplaces and just walk out of school and make a demand.” (Read more from “Gun Control Activist Wants to ‘Hold America Hostage’” HERE)

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Tranny Treatments Disqualified From State Medicaid Coverage

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Already, Texas officials have authorized state investigations into parents who promote their children for transgender treatment, especially body mutilating surgeries. . .

A report at The Federalist documents that Medicaid officials in the state of Florida have found that those “experimental” and “mutilative” surgeries do not qualify for coverage.

The Federalist explained, “A new report out from Florida Medicaid finds that ‘puberty suppression, cross-sex hormones, and surgical procedures’ used to treat gender dysphoria ‘do not conform’ to generally accepted professional medical standards.”

And that is required for the treatments to be considered for coverage, the report said.

It follows word from Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo that rejected the injurious procedures. (Read more from “Tranny Treatments Disqualified From State Medicaid Coverage” HERE)

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Biden Calls for Sweeping Gun Control Agenda

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President Joe Biden invoked victims’ family members in imploring an evenly divided Senate to “do something” in response to a spate of mass shootings, saying schools had become like “killing fields” and that it was time to “meet the moment.”

The president said Thursday that the federal bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines should be reinstated, arguing that the expiration of these provisions led to an increase in mass shootings. The age at which certain weapons could be purchased should go up, he said, adding that immunity for gun manufacturers should also be lifted. Safe storage should be required, and background checks should be expanded, Biden continued.

“Enough,” Biden whispered. He said parents had to do “DNA swabs” to identify their children because the powerful weapons made their corpses unrecognizable and swatted away practical and constitutional objections to his proposals. “Don’t tell me raising the age won’t make a difference,” Biden said. “Enough.”

Biden opened by talking about the rows of crosses he and first lady Jill Biden saw on Memorial Day. He likened it to the crosses he saw commemorating the 19 schoolchildren and two teachers killed at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, last week. (Read more from “Biden Calls for Sweeping Gun Control Agenda” HERE)

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Trump Makes Endorsement in Arizona Senate Race

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Former President Donald Trump endorsed Senate candidate Blake Masters, an “America First” populist, in the upcoming Arizona Republican primary election.

“Despite having such an amazing business career and wonderful family, Blake has decided that he wants to make a difference for the people of our Country, and is therefore running for the United States Senate from the Great State of Arizona,” Trump wrote in a news release.

Masters, a venture capitalist, narrowly led the field of GOP primary candidates in Arizona earlier this year, according to a survey for Saving Arizona PAC in March, though recent polls have shown him behind or even with GOP primary rivals, including Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, and businessman Jim Lamon.

Trump praised Masters as a “great modern-day thinker” and lauded the candidate’s commitment to the former president’s priorities, including immigration, gun rights, and his unverified claims about fraudulent activity in the 2020 election. (Read more from “Trump Makes Endorsement in Arizona Senate Race” HERE)

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Ukraine Official Fired Over Handling of Russian Sexual Assault Claims

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A Ukrainian official has been relieved of her duties over her handling of reports detailing sexual assault allegations made against Russians in Ukraine.

On Tuesday, the Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, removed Lyudmila Denisova, the parliament’s commissioner for human rights, from her post, according to Ukrainska Pravda. No new appointment has been made to fill the role.

The move to dismiss Denisova came after outrage about the wording used in public reports about alleged sexual assaults committed by Russians, as well as the alleged dissemination in those reports of unverified information. Despite accusations from Ukraine, the Kremlin has repeatedly denied that Russian soldiers have committed war crimes or sexual assaults during the invasion.

Last week, Ukrainian media outlets and journalists signed an open letter in which they requested that reports concerning rape and sexual assault be “published with caution,” particularly when involving children, according to an English translation of the letter. (Read more from “Ukraine Official Fired Over Handling of Russian Sexual Assault Claims” HERE)

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