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☆ Tennessee lawmakers worked to loosen gun laws in the weeks before a shooter killed 3 adults and 3 children at Covenant school in Nashville
  + stars: | 2023-03-28 | by ( Nicole Gaudiano | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
In the weeks before the Covenant school shooting, Tennessee lawmakers tried to loosen gun laws. Legislation moving through committees would lower the minimum age for carrying guns from 21 to 18. Tennessee's gun laws are already lax, allowing open carry of loaded handguns without a permit. Nashville Mayor John Cooper, speaking on MSNBC Tuesday, said he hopes this is a moment in which the state can get back to "common sense" gun laws, particularly with regard to assault-style weapons. Tennessee's gun laws are already considered lax.
☆ Former Christian school student kills 3 children, 3 staff in Nashville shooting
  + stars: | 2023-03-28 | by ( Sandra Stojanovic | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +5 min
He said the Covenant School was singled out for attack but that the individual victims were targeted at random. [1/5] A still image from surveillance video shows what the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department describe as mass shooting suspect Audrey Elizabeth Hale, 28, entering The Covenant School carrying weapons in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. March 27, 2023. Also shot dead were staffers Mike Hill, 61, a school custodian, Cynthia Peak, 61, a substitute teacher, and Katherine Koonce, 60, listed on the Covenant website as "head of school." "We have to do more to stop gun violence," Biden said at the White House. Monday's violence in Nashville marked the 90th school shooting – defined as any incident in which a gun is discharged on school property – in the U.S. so far this year, according to the K-12 School Shooting Database, a website founded by researcher David Riedman.
☆ Footage shows police killing Nashville school shooter as investigators seek motive
  + stars: | 2023-03-28 | by ( Sandra Stojanovic | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +6 min
The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department began receiving calls about a shooter at 10:13 a.m., police spokesperson Don Aaron told reporters. Investigators were examining a "manifesto" written by the 28-year-old former student at the Covenant School, hoping to learn what motivated the latest U.S. mass shooting. Monday's violence marked the 90th school shooting – defined as any incident in which a gun is discharged on school property – in the United States this year, according to the K-12 School Shooting Database, a website founded by researcher David Riedman. He said the Covenant School was singled out for attack but that the individual victims were targeted at random. Also shot dead were Mike Hill, 61, a school custodian; Cynthia Peak, 61, a substitute teacher; and Katherine Koonce, 60, listed on the Covenant website as "head of school."
☆ Rep. Andy Ogles, who represents the Nashville district involved in deadly school shooting, posted a gun-toting family photo for Christmas
  + stars: | 2023-03-28 | by ( Nicole Gaudiano | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Rep. Andy Ogles represents the district where a school shooting happened in Nashville on Monday. In 2021, he posted a Christmas message with a photo of his family holding guns. "My family and I are devastated by the tragedy that took place at The Covenant School in Nashville this morning," he wrote. Dozens of Twitter users, however, responded to Ogles' statement by reposting the Christmas photo that he shared on Facebook in 2021. "This response is offensive given your Christmas family photo," wrote Tweets for Democracy.
☆ GOP congressman from Tennessee says 'we're not gonna fix' school shootings and explains that he home schools his daughter
  + stars: | 2023-03-28 | by ( Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee had few solutions to offer after Monday's mass shooting in Nashville, Tennessee. In response to a question about stopping mass shootings, he said "we're not gonna fix it." On Monday, a 28-year-old shooter reportedly used assault-style weapons to kill three 9-year-olds and three staff members at The Covenant School, a private Christian school in Nashville. Speaking to reporters on Monday, hours after the shooting, Burchett was asked, "What else should be done to protect people like your little girl?" While answering a separate question about how to quell school shootings, he also said "we're not gonna fix it."
☆ 'Lets go': Body camera video shows Nashville officers rushing school shooter
  + stars: | 2023-03-28 | by ( Daniel Trotta | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +4 min
"Let's go," Engelbert directed others, as police quickly closed in on the shooter who had killed three 9-year-old school children and three adults at the Covenant School. Their actions contrasted with those of police in Uvalde, Texas, who during a school shooting last May waited more than an hour before storming the assailant. [1/2] Metropolitan Nashville Police Department officers search for the mass shooting suspect in The Covenenant School, in a still image from body camera video in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. March 27, 2023. Engelbert's body camera video shows police converge on the shooter. In Collazo's body camera video, he runs through a hallway with other officers toward the gunfire.
☆ Some Republicans are suggesting that the Nashville shooter's reported trans identity played a role in causing the deadly incident
  + stars: | 2023-03-28 | by ( Bryan Metzger | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
The Nashville shooter identified as transgender, according a police statement Monday that was later walked back. Some Republicans, including JD Vance and Marjorie Taylor Greene, are suggesting the shooter's trans identity played a role. We aren't aware of the shooters intentions in terms of gender identity," a Metro Nashville Police Department spokesperson said. As details of the shooter's identity began to emerge, some prominent Republican elected officials zeroed in on Hale's reported transgender identity. "How much hormones like testosterone and medications for mental illness was the transgender Nashville school shooter taking?"
☆ Suspect Killed After Shooting at Nashville Christian School
  + stars: | 2023-03-27 | by ( Ben Chapman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Covenant School is a private, Christian school that enrolls about 200 students from prekindergarten to sixth grade . Police killed a suspect who opened fire at a private elementary school in Nashville, Tenn., on Monday morning, according to the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department. The Nashville Fire Department said first responders were treating multiple patients at the Covenant School at Covenant Presbyterian Church in the Green Hills neighborhood.
☆ Three children, 3 adults shot dead by ex-student at Tennessee Christian school
  + stars: | 2023-03-27 | by ( Kevin Wurm | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +6 min
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, March 27 (Reuters) - A heavily armed 28-year-old fatally shot three children and three adult staffers on Monday at a private Christian school the suspect once attended in Tennessee's capital city before police killed the assailant, authorities said. Drake said the school was singled out for attack but the individual victims were targeted at random. [1/6] Students from The Covenant School hold hands after getting off a bus to meet their parents at the reunification site following a mass shooting at the school in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., March 27, 2023. Reacting in Washington to the latest school shooting, U.S. President Joe Biden urged the U.S. Congress again to pass tougher gun reform legislation. Nashville Mayor John Cooper expressed sympathy for the victims and wrote on social media that his city "joined the dreaded, long list of communities to experience a school shooting."
☆ Three children, 2 adults killed in Nashville school shooting, suspect dead
  + stars: | 2023-03-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
March 27 (Reuters) - At least three children and two adults were killed in a shooting at a private Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee, on Monday morning. Police "engaged" the suspected attacker, leaving the suspect dead, local officials said. The shooting happened at The Covenant School, where the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department said in a statement that the suspect was dead but did not specify what led to the death. Three children were pronounced dead after arriving at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt with gunshot wounds, John Howser, a hospital spokesperson, said in a statement. The Covenant School, founded in 2001, is a ministry of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Nashville with about 200 students, according to the school's website.
☆ A Christian school that 'celebrates childhood' becomes killing scene in Nashville
  + stars: | 2023-03-27 | by ( Sharon Bernstein | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
[1/4] A child weeps while on the bus leaving The Covenant School, following a mass shooting at the school in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. March 27, 2023. Nicole Hester/USA Today Network via REUTERSMarch 27 (Reuters) - The 200 young children enrolled at The Covenant School, a private Christian elementary school in Nashville, start each day with chapel, and study the Bible twice a week. "The beauty of a PreSchool-6th school is in its simplicity and innocence," the introductory paragraph of the school's website reads. The carnage made a stark and horrible contrast to the images of everyday life on the school's website and Facebook page. The private elementary school is affiliated with Covenant Presbyterian Church, part of an evangelical movement that branched off from the more liberal Presbyterian Church in 1981.
☆ Congressman who represents the Nashville district involved in deadly school shooting posted a gun-toting family photo for Christmas in 2021
  + stars: | 2023-03-27 | by ( Nicole Gaudiano | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Rep. Andy Ogles represents the Nashville district where a school shooting happened on Monday. In 2021, he posted a Christmas message with a photo of his family holding guns. "My family and I are devastated by the tragedy that took place at The Covenant School in Nashville this morning," he wrote. Multiple Twitter users, however, responded to Ogles' statement with the Christmas photo of his family that he posted on Facebook in 2021. "This response is offensive given your Christmas family photo," wrote Tweets for Democracy.
☆ A school shooting victim's protesting parents were hauled out of Congress by Capitol police last week. Now another mass shooting has left 3 adults and 3 more children dead.
  + stars: | 2023-03-27 | by ( Chris Panella | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
A Parkland victim's parents were taken out of Congress last week, days before another mass shooting. Manuel and Patricia Oliver interrupted a House gun regulations committee hearing last Thursday. Now, just days later, another mass shooting has left three schoolchildren and three adults dead in Nashville, Tennessee. Manuel and Patricia Oliver, parents of 17-year-old Parkland, Florida, shooting victim Joaquin Oliver, attended a House committee hearing on gun regulations last Thursday, NBC reported. The mass shooting marks the 129th recorded this year, according to Brady, a non-profit working to prevent gun violence.
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