IATSE Diversity Committee Urges Congress & Joe Biden To Take “Decisive Action” In Wake Of Buffalo Mass Shooting

Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden on Sunday visited Robb Elementary School, the site of the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, last week that resulted in the deaths of 19 children and two adults. Mr. Biden and the first lady laid flowers at the front of the school, and Jill Biden touched the photograph of each student at a memorial set up in front of the school. Protesters who called for Texas Gov.

On the front page of the NY Times Sunday Review, a simple sentence repeats 15 times on a black background: “Authorities said the gunman was able to obtain the weapon legally.” Beneath each sentence is the body count and location of a mass shooting that has taken place in the past decade. America is still reeling from yet another mass shooting with 19 children and two adults dead in an elementary school massacre in Uvalde, Texas.

After nearly musician who was slated to perform at the National Rifle Association’s convention dropped out, the NRA has decided to cancel the concert. Country singer Jacob Bryant, who was the only musician to not publicly state he wasn’t going to perform, confirmed in a tweet that the show was officially canceled on Thursday, May 26. Besides Bryant, the concert was expected to feature performances from Don McLean, Lee Greenwood, Danielle Peck, Larry Gatlin, Larry Stewart, and T.

except harass and detain desperate parents begging them to do their jobs.In the wake of this horror, per usual Republicans are lockstep opposed to any new law that would actually deal with this problem, such as gun control measures, which of course puts them in opposition to the overwhelming majority of Americans. Instead, they’re proposing absurd, distractive faux solutions, for instance, the idea that schools should be turned into firetraps or virtual prisons. Other conservatives have literally proposed littering schools with booby traps.

BTS will meet Joe Biden in the White House next week to discuss anti-Asian hate crimes.The K-pop band have been invited to address the issue with the US President along with “Asian inclusion and representation”.According to a press release, the band will join Biden on Tuesday (May 31) to also talk about BTS’ “platform as youth ambassadors who spread a message of hope and positivity across the world.”It goes on to say: “President Biden has previously spoken about his commitment to combating the surge of anti-Asian hate crimes and signed into law the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act in May 2021 to provide law enforcement with resources to identify, investigate, and report hate crimes and ensure that hate crimes information is more accessible to AA and NHPI communities.”K-pop supergroup BTS is coming to the White House next week pic.twitter.com/muC8CJyOeQ— Betsy Klein (@betsy_klein) May 26, 2022BTS previously appeared at the United Nations in New York last September where they performed single ‘Permission To Dance’ after being named the UN’s Special Presidential Envoys for Future Generations and Culture. They also gave a speech at the assembly.Speaking at the event through a translator, RM said at the time: “It is an honour to be here today.

For the second time in less than two weeks, President Joe Biden will personally go to the site of a fatal mass shooting in America.

The Onion blanked its homepage with the same article it has posted in response to many other pass mass shootings, skewering the idea that such atrocities cannot be stopped.

The Onion made a bold statement on Wednesday, covering its homepage with its gut-wrenching article titled, “’No Way to Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Happens.”The article gets repurposed for each major mass shooting that occurs in the United States, with only the date, location and number of causalities changing each time – a striking and horrific statement about how often this tragedy occurs.“In the hours following a violent rampage in Texas in which a lone attacker killed at least 21 individuals and injured several others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded Tuesday that there was no way to prevent the massacre from taking place,” the latest version of the article begins, pointing to the tragedy that left at least 19 children dead.The article continues: “’This was a terrible tragedy, but sometimes these things just happen and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop them,’ said Idaho resident Kathy Miller, echoing sentiments expressed by tens of millions of individuals who reside in a nation where over half of the world’s deadliest mass shootings have occurred in the past 50 years and whose citizens are 20 times more likely to die of gun violence than those of other developed nations.”Versions of the same article appear 21 times on the homepage, each pointing to a different mass shooting in the United States. Below that, the homepage is further filled out by devastatingly satirical articles about the NRA.President Biden addressed the nation on Tuesday evening from the White House.

Taylor Swift has said that she is “filled with rage and grief” following a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas which left 19 young children and two adults dead.An 18-year-old gunman opened fire at Robb Elementary School, which teaches children aged seven to 10, yesterday (May 24). Texas Governor Greg Abbott confirmed that the suspect was later shot dead by responding law enforcement officials.In an address given at The White House last night, US President Joe Biden said he was “sick and tired” of responding to mass shootings and called for tougher gun control measures.“How many scores of little children who witnessed what happened – see their friends die, as if they’re in a battlefield, for God’s sake,” he said.

US President Joe Biden delivered an emotional call for new restrictions on firearms after a gunman killed at least 18 children and three adults at a Texas elementary school on Tuesday.

When Golden Warriors coach Steve Kerr appears before the press, it’s typically to talk about the NBA team he leads.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterCBS has pulled the Season 4 finale of “FBI” in light of the shooting at a Texas elementary school that saw over a dozen children murdered on Tuesday.The episode has been pulled due to the fact that the storyline concerned a school shooting. The official synopsis reads: “As the team investigates a deadly robbery that garnered a cache of automatic weapons for the killers, they discover one of the perps is a classmate of Jubal’s son, who is reluctant to cooperate with the case.”A repeat of “FBI” will air in the finale’s place. A new airdate for the finale has yet to be determined.Tuesday’s shooting took place at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX.

Twitter thread on the matter Friday, where he drew a correlation between suspected killer Payton Gendron’s attack that killed 10 people grocery shopping in a Black community and a dentist’s inability to fix his tooth. Collins said he “blamed the Jews” instead of insurance problems and carried out the massacre “because he thought he would finally get help for his tooth from the healthcare in prison.”It didn’t take long for Collins’ thread to elicit outrage and corrections from thousands of people on social media.

Destiny developer Bungie has shared that it will be doing more to “combat bigotry” within online communities such as its own, following a racially-motivated mass shooting on May 14 which claimed ten lives.Last night (May 17), Bungie shared a statement addressing the shooting and outlining how it plans to combat radicalisation in its own online space.“Far too often, these racist attacks begin within online communities that are used to recruit and radicalise individuals. It is time we begin to examine our practices and see what part we can play in preventing these tragedies,” explained the studio.“Bungie and the Black at Bungie inclusion club have worked together to respond to this tragedy.

John Legend has called for Fox News’ Tucker Carlson to be “de-platformed”, accusing the presenter of espousing a racist theory that the Buffalo mass shooting suspect allegedly posted online.Payton S. Gendron, 18, is accused of carrying out what authorities have said was a racially-motivated attack at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York on Saturday (May 14) that left 10 people dead and three injured.

including members of the Republican party. It suggests that liberal politicians, particularly in the Democratic party, are part of a plot to replace ‘real,’ by which they mean, white Americans with minorities and especially immigrants.

John Legend isn’t holding back his criticism of Tucker Carlson.