Tag: Mass Shootings

"It feels like a bazooka — and sounds like a cannon," the New York Daily News' Gersh Kuntzman said in an article published Tuesday. "The explosions — loud like a bomb — gave me a temporary case of PTSD. For at least an hour after firing the gun just a few times, I was anxious and irritable." (Bloomberg News/George Frey, File)

New York Daily News journalist: Firing an AR-15 gave me PTSD

Becket Adams · June 14, 2016 9:20 pm

National Security

Florida attorney general rejects Anderson Cooper’s ‘ridiculous’ question

Mariana Barillas · June 14, 2016 7:52 pm

The Amarillo Police Department said the suspect is apparently dead and that, —œhostages inside are safe.—£ (AP Photo/Ron Jenkins)

Gunman killed after hostage situation in Texas

Kelly Cohen · June 14, 2016 6:42 pm

Report: Disney told FBI Orlando shooter was casing park

Kelly Cohen · June 14, 2016 6:41 pm

No credible gun seller in America is selling these weapons for the specific purpose of murder. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli,file)

Tenn. lawmaker defends AR-15 giveaway

Kelly Cohen · June 14, 2016 5:14 pm

President Obama said that lone wolf or small-group attacks are "very hard to detect and very hard to prevent, but across our government, at every level … we are doing everything in our power to stop these kinds of attacks." (Screenshot)

Obama: Feds doing ‘everything in our power’ to stop terror attacks

Nicole Duran · June 14, 2016 4:34 pm

House GOP to vote on package of anti-terrorism legislation that lawmakers approved earlier this year. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

House to re-vote anti-terror bills after Orlando

Susan Ferrechio · June 14, 2016 4:15 pm

"According to several officials who are familiar with what she has told the FBI, she has said that she drove him at least once to the Pulse nightclub because he wanted to see it in advance, and that she was with him when he bought a holster and some ammunition," NBC's Pete Williams reported Tuesday of Noor Zahi Salman. (Image courtesy screenshot)

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Report: Orlando shooter’s wife tried to talk him out of attack

Kelly Cohen · June 14, 2016 4:00 pm

Army Reserve Capt. Antonio Davon Brown, 29, was a Florida native. He is among the 49 killed and 53 injured when a gunman stormed Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., on Sunday. (Screenshot: Florida A&M news site)

National Security

Army reservist among those killed at Orlando nightclub

David Wilkes · June 14, 2016 3:15 pm

"Nothing, nada, zip," Crowley said when describing what Republicans have done so far. "They would rather these events just continue to happen, I guess." (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)

National Security

Dem: GOP wants shootings to ‘continue to happen’

Pete Kasperowicz · June 14, 2016 3:12 pm

"I do not think a Muslim ban is in our country's interest," Ryan told reporters Tuesday. "I do not think it is a reflection of our country's principles, not just as a party but as a country." (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg, File)

National Security

Ryan rejects immigration ban: ‘Muslims are our partners’

Susan Ferrechio · June 14, 2016 2:59 pm

"He has not called us," Florida Gov. Rick Scott said on "Fox and Friends" Tuesday. "A staffer has called, but no, he has not called." (Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg, File)

National Security

Florida governor: Obama has not called me

Kelly Cohen · June 14, 2016 2:52 pm