Tag: Texas

This all starts with a USA Today tweet that read, "A look at the gun used in the Texas church shooting." (Screengrab)

Beltway Confidential

Chainsaw bayonets are real, guys

Becket Adams · November 9, 2017 12:16 am

People hug outside Connally Memorial Medical Center in Floresville, Texas, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2017. A man opened fire inside of the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, Sunday, killing more than 20 people. The medical center spokeswoman Megan Posey declined to say how many patients were being treated at the hospital, but said the number was less than a dozen. (William Luther/The San Antonio Express-News via AP)

Reports of shots fired in Texas town prompts hour-long search for gunman prior to Mike Pence visit

Diana Stancy Correll · November 8, 2017 11:31 pm

Scalise challenged Rep. Sam Johnson, R-Texas, to race around the Capitol building's famous rotunda in their motorized scooters on Wednesday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Steve Scalise races fellow congressman around Capitol in motor scooter: Watch

Mandy Mayfield · November 8, 2017 10:40 pm

USA Today later tweeted a clarification saying, "To clarify, the video shows both the shooter's modifications, as well as other possible modifications. The shooter did not use a chainsaw bayonet." (@USAToday/Twitter)

Twitter users mock USA Today for ‘chainsaw bayonet’ tweet

Victor I. Nava · November 8, 2017 10:27 pm

Under military law, there is no specific offense of "domestic violence" or "domestic abuse." (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP)

National Security

The loophole that may have given the Texas church gunman access to his arsenal

Jamie McIntyre · November 8, 2017 7:01 pm

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., speaks to reporters as she arrives at the Capitol in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate Democrats introduce major gun ban bill

Susan Ferrechio · November 8, 2017 6:21 pm

Sutherland Springs residents pray in front of some of the crosses placed in a field to honor those who were killed in Sunday's mass shooting at the town's First Baptist Church. (Louis DeLuca/The Dallas Morning News)

Repeated prayers have a better chance of working than repeated gun control proposals

Washington Examiner · November 8, 2017 5:01 am

The Senate Judiciary Committee will analyze federal regulations governing so-called "bump stocks," gun attachments which can be attached to semi-automatic weapons to speed up firing speed. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Senate Judiciary Committee will scrutinize bump stocks, background checks next week

Susan Ferrechio · November 8, 2017 12:40 am

"I am looking forward to spending more time in Texas, especially with my 12 grandkids who have all been born since I was first elected to Congress," he added. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Rep. Ted Poe will not seek re-election in 2018

Diana Stancy Correll · November 7, 2017 11:59 pm

National Security

Donald Trump Jr. spars with Sen. Jeff Flake on Twitter over gun legislation

Mandy Mayfield · November 7, 2017 10:33 pm

The Air Force lapse in the Devin P. Kelley case, which is now under review by the Pentagon's inspector general, made it possible for him to buy guns before his attack Sunday at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. (Markku Ulander/Lehtikuva via AP)

Pentagon has known of crime reporting lapses for 20 years

Associated Press · November 7, 2017 9:43 pm

While a massacre like this is undeniably tragic almost beyond comprehension, it's frustrating that progressives steer a narrative immediately following such events not based on facts, but a preconceived narrative. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Beltway Confidential

After Texas church shooting, liberal ideology blinds them to common sense and decency

Nicole Russell · November 7, 2017 9:40 pm