Новости за 09.06.2022

Weeks after a pair of devastating massacres in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, roiled the nation and brought newfound attention to America’s ever-present gun violence crisis, members of Congress are still mulling how best to prevent mass shootings. How that mulling is going, and at what velocity, depends on where you are in the Capitol.

As the bipartisan House select committee investigating the violent attack on our Capitol on January 6, 2021, is set to hold its first public hearings on Thursday, I am looking for it to include a clear and consistent theme. Our democracy needs saving. To save it, we must not allow white supremacists to be the foot soldiers of any political leader, or this cancer will spread and violence will grow.

There are about 400 million guns in the United States, of which more than nine-tenths are owned by civilians. If you gathered up all those guns and passed one out to every man, woman, and child in the country, you would still have around 60 million guns left over, about half as many as are owned by all the world’s militaries combined. These guns killed around 45,000 people in the United States in 2020, the most fatalities of any year on record. And, the gun control advocacy group Everytown estimates... Читать дальше...

“Las Vegas is the fastest warming, fastest growing city in the country,” reads Amy Vilela’s campaign website, “and we’re rapidly running out of water. We need a Green New Deal now.” Vilela, a progressive challenging a centrist Democrat for Congress in an upcoming primary, has been emphasizing the vulnerability of her district to climate change.

Rick Caruso, who forced a runoff election with Democratic Congressman Karen Bass on Tuesday in Los Angeles’s mayoral primary, was actually a Republican until very recently. The billionaire outdoor mall magnate—his most famous professional accomplishment is the development of L.A.’s joyless and dystopian The Grove—spent much of his adult life as a member of the GOP and didn’t announce his conversion until shortly before entering the race for mayor: Aside from two brief periods, 2013–2016 and 2019–2022, Caruso had always been a Republican. Читать дальше...