DALLAS(TIP): Texas lawmakers have passed several measures protecting the rights of gun holders. From protecting licensed gun holders during natural disasters to raising the number of armed school marshals allowed on school campuses, Texas lawmakers have passed several measures protecting the rights of gun holders.
Those licensed to carry firearms will soon be able do so in places of worship, such as a synagogue or a church.
Legislators also created laws prohibiting residential or commercial property owners from restricting possession of firearms by residents or their guests.
NEW YORK(TIP): A 63-year-old Indian American realtor, Raj Kohli with two artificial knees is on a mission yet again and this time to create awareness about the rising incidents of gun violence in the United States by riding a bicycle from New York to Washington, DC.
Raj Kohli kick-started the bicycle ride on the Memorial Day, near the Trump Tower, in New York.
He said in a press release that, while more than $7 trillion has been spent by the United States on fighting wars on foreign soil, the country has failed to curb the violence unfolding within its border.
More than 35,000 American die each year due to gun violence and the country has not been able to stop it, he said.
The ride is sponsored by Jersey Bents.
He posted the first video about the ride at 9:00 p.m. on May 13, 2018. “I already have 133,000 views, on my Facebook page: RajRideForPeace,” he says. “People are interested in supporting my cause. Most people. Some, obviously, are not. It is a democracy. We can disagree, hopefully not disagreeably.” Kohli is asking people to do the following:
Boycott the NRA
Repeal the 2nd Amendment
Boycott Amazon and Walmart for one day, on May 28, Memorial Day, because they sell guns.
Boycott mutual funds and retirement funds that have gun-related stocks in their portfolio.
“The idea is to reduce gun violence in the US and around the world, by reducing available guns,” Kohli explains. “The more guns we have, the more people will die. It’s a numbers game!
“I did a Peace Ride from 1981-1983, and last year again I rode my bike for Peace, from Tokyo to Hiroshima, in July/August 2017. There are 49 videos on the same Facebook page, ‘RajRideForPeace,’ relating to my Japan Peace Ride. For the Japan ride, a German bicycle company sponsored my bicycle,” he says.
Kohli lost 115 pounds after weight loss surgery, and proudly sports two artificial knees.
SAN FRANCISCO (TIP): Four teenage students were shot in the shared parking lot of two San Francisco high schools on Oct 19, and one of the students is in critical condition, authorities said.
The shooting occurred as students were being let out of school for the day from the June Jordan School for Equity and City Arts and Technology High School, which share a campus, San Francisco Police Officer Carlos Manfredi said.
Three of the victims ran inside the school, and police initially ordered students to stay in place until police searched each room and determined it was not an active shooter situation. A fourth victim hurt in the shooting went to a hospital, Manfredi said.
“One female victim has life-threatening injuries to her upper torso,” he said
Four male suspects wearing dark hoodies and jeans were seen running away from the area, Manfredi said.
The shooters seemed to have targeted the female student, said Karwin Sui, a spokeswoman for the San Francisco Unified School District. (AP)
CHARLESTON (TIP): A 14-year-old South Carolina boy shot and killed his father then drove to an elementary school playground where he wounded two children and a teacher with a handgun before being tackled by a firefighter who held him for police, authorities said on Sept 28.
The suspect, whose name has not been released, was accused by police of fatally shooting his 47-year-old father, Jeffrey DeWitt Osborne, then driving a pickup truck about 3.2 km to Townville Elementary School where he crashed into a fence surrounding the playground.
After the teenager began shooting, volunteer firefighter Jamie Brock pinned him down while staff led children to safety inside the building, Anderson County emergency services director Taylor Jones told a news conference.
Police arrived within seven minutes of a teacher calling 911 to take the suspect into custody at the school in Anderson County, near the Georgia state line about 160 km northeast of Atlanta. The shooter never entered the building, said chief deputy Keith Smith. Authorities do not know the motivation of the shooting but ruled out race as both the shooter and victims were white. US schools have taken added security precautions since 2012 when a gunman shot and killed 20 children and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Brock, a 30-year veteran of the Townville Volunteer Fire Department, was hailed on social media as a hero and credited with preventing another school massacre.
An Indian-origin lawyer in military style clothing emblazoned with a swastika pointing to his Nazi sympathies went on an early morning shooting rampage on Monday, Sep 26, injuring nine persons in Houston, Texas.
The Houston Police Homicide Division has confirmed that the suspect has been identified as Nathan Desai, 46, and he was killed by police.
Nathan Desai
Desai, a Nazi sympathizer, went on a 20-minute shooting rampage that injured nine had 2,600 rounds of ammunition, a .45 semi-automatic handgun and a .45 semi-automatic Thompson carbine on him. Along with these, an edged weapon still in its sheath was also recovered by the police.
Citing sources, the ABC13’s Eyewitness News said Desai used his car to stockpile ammunition and a tree for cover when he was shooting, right outside his condominium complex on Law Street.
The police said they did not know why Desai went on the rampage hitting people at random.
Desai’s name was written with the ‘S’ capitalised in media reports in Houston, making it sound European, but his father was identified as Prakash Desai.
All of his victims survived but one person was critically wounded and five others were hospitalised, Houston Police acting chief Martha Montalvo said.
Montalvo described the shooter as a lawyer who was having problems at his law firm. When the police responded to the shooting, he shot at them and was killed when cops returned fire, she said.
The shooter’s father, 80-year-old Prakash Desai (Houston Chronicle said that Prakash Desai is a retired geologist) told Eyewitness News that Nathan had been troubled because his law practice was not doing very well and according to ABC 13, he had no active civil or criminal cases based on the Harris County court records. He had only two new criminal cases since 2013.
He didn’t believe his son was the shooter as the two were said to have had dinner only 12 hours before the shooting.
John Elmore, the property manager for The Oaks at West University, where Desai lived, said Desai’s behaviour had been erratic for the last two months. He seemed paranoid and thought someone was “out to get him”, Elmore said.
In February, he and his law partner Kenneth McDaniel of 12 years parted ways and neighbours believed he was doing law work out of his condo.
“We made a mutual decision, roughly in February, to simply no longer operate as a partnership for economic reasons,” said McDaniel. “I feel very sorry for him and for those people.”
Desai owned several guns to protect himself against his clients, some of whom were “funny people and criminally-minded people”, his father said.
The daily reported that the police found in his flat several military items that went back to the Civil War.
Police found a Thompson submachine gun in his Porsche and a 0.45 caliber handgun that he used against the police.
The Chronicle said that the police used a robot to examine his car and his flat for explosives.
After a shooting at the Cascade mall in Burlington in Washington, which killed Five people – a teenage girl, three women and a man – inside Macy’s department store on Friday; Arcan Cetin was arrested in his hometown Oak Harbor on Saturday, nearly 24 hours after the attack, 40 minutes’ drive away.
Police said in court papers that all five victims were shot within a minute and the rifle was left on a cosmetics counter before the gunman fled.
At a news conference, police said Cetin had been identified as a suspect after a car connected to him was seen on security camera footage at the shopping centre.
Lt Mike Hawley, of Island County sheriff’s department, said the car was later spotted in Oak Harbor. He said he had been on his way to the scene when he saw the suspect by the side of a road and arrested him.
Lt Hawley said the man “said nothing, he was zombie-like” and was not carrying a weapon.
Who is Arcan Cetin
ARCAN CETIN
Arcan Cetin was born in Turkey and is a legal US permanent resident, officials say.
Investigators say they are not ruling out any motives, including terrorism.
Cetin’s stepfather says he has a history of mental health issues.
According to the Associated Press, Cetin’s postings online included references to a serial killer and Adolf Hitler, as well as pictures of so-called Islamic State’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomenei.
Court documents filed by prosecutors allege that Cetin confessed to shooting all five victims with a rifle.
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