Four people were killed and at least nine others are wounded after a gunman opened fire at Old National Bank in downtown Louisville, Kentucky on Monday morning. The assailant, who appeared to be an employee at the bank, was fatally shot by police. Police received a call at 8.35am ET and officers arrived at the bank three minutes later, according to Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel, interim chief of the Louisville Metro Police Department. Officers "responded in a timely, quick fashion, and we stopped the threat so that no additional loss of life could be taken." The gunman was allegedly livestreaming the shooting, she said. |
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How has the move by Tennessee Republicans to silence Democrats backfired? |
In America, even the most stirring calls to action to prevent mass shootings have a way of quickly being forgotten or neutralised. No matter how many victims speak out, no matter how many legislators call for a new approach, no matter how awful the details of each new massacre at hand – little has been done in decades to change the way guns are accessed in the US, aside from Republican-led states making it easier to carry pistols without a permit. Even last year's landmark Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, hailed as the most important federal gun law in three decades, doesn't go as far as an assault weapons ban that expired in 2004, despite mass killings with assault rifles like the AR-15 continuing unabated. Within a few days or weeks, the national media packs up, conservative legislators stonewall new provisions, and the conversation moves to the next violent incident in the US, where more than one mass shooting occurs per day, according to the Gun Violence Archive. But things may be different after the Nashville shooting. In Tennessee, a group of Democratic lawmakers was expelled from their seats by Republicans for joining in with anti-gun violence protests taking place at the capitol, setting off a national scandal. The decision to remove representatives Justin Jones and Justin Pearson from their seats was widely condemned as an "unprecedented" abuse of power, with the state GOP wielding a punishment that's been reserved for legislators guilty of criminal offences like taking bribes and serially sexually harassing people. |
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– The number of police officers shot dead during a routine traffic stop in Cameron, Wisconsin, on Saturday afternoon. A suspect was taken to hospital and later died from their injuries, according to a statement by the Wisconsin Department of Justice. |
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"The issue with the venue is that Manhattan was like 87 per cent pro-Joe Biden in the last election. It's a real stronghold of liberalism, of activism, and that infects the whole process." | – Jim Trusty, an attorney for Donald Trump, complains that his arraignment was held in a New York borough supposedly highly hostile to his client, despite Mr Trump being born in nearby Queens and living most of his life in the Big Apple. |
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