Kennesaw's gun law plainly states: "In order to provide for and protect the safety, security and general welfare of the city and its inhabitants, every head of household residing in city limits is required to maintain a firearm, together with ammunition."

Residents with mental or physical disabilities, felony convictions, or conflicting religious beliefs are exempt from the law.

CUMMING, Ga. — When Durwood Snead moved to Forsyth County, Georgia, in 1989, he was struck by the lack of diversity in the region, just 30 miles north of Atlanta.

“It was a pretty much completely white county,” said Snead, who is white and was a pastor at the time.

In 1912, Forsyth County was home to about 12,000 residents, including 1,098 Black people scattered throughout the county. But that September, an 18-year-old white woman named Mae Crow was brutally assaulted, bloodied and left unconscious in a wooded area. She eventually died from her injuries and three young Black men — the only Black people in that part of the county at the time — were accused of killing her, with little evidence other than a coerced confession from one of them.

One of the men, 24-year-old Rob Edwards, was arrested and jailed only to be dragged from his cell the following day by a mob of angry white residents. He was allegedly hitched to the back of a wagon with a noose around his neck, driven to the downtown square in Cumming and hung from a telephone pole as onlookers took turns riddling his lifeless body with bullets. Two Black teens, Ernest Knox, 16, and Oscar Daniel, 18, were also hanged after one-day trials.

The other Black residents of the county were threatened with death if they did not leave as night riders posted letters warning of the impending terror. Within three weeks, the Black population in Forsyth ceased to exist. Many were forced to leave everything they had worked hard to attain behind without anything in return.

The shooting Monday at Abundant Life Christian School in Wisconsin's capital, which killed a student and a teacher and wounded six others, has left the community reeling. The shooter, a 15-year-old girl, also died, apparently from a self-inflicted wound, police said.

The shooting at the K-12 school has captured particular attention nationwide, in part due to the young age of the children affected; Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes emphasized that the 911 call came from a second-grade teacher. It also stands out because few school shooters in the United States are female.

The teen is one of just nine female school shooters in the last 25 years, according to a database maintained by The Post. She is also among the younger recent shooters: Just over a month removed from her 15th birthday, she was about a year younger than the median age of school shooters. And the violence unfolded at a small K-12 school with a religious affiliation, an uncommon site for such incidents, researchers say.

The suspect, Natalie Rupnow, who police say killed herself during the rampage, was just 15 — but even more surprisingly, she was a girl. Mass shootings carried out by females are vanishingly rare.

The comment was telling: As Ms. Harris aims her message toward undecided and conservative voters, she wants to assure them that she understands how strongly many Americans feel about gun ownership.

Americans, of course, have disagreements about guns. The positive case for guns focuses on the ability for people to protect themselves and a long-held faith that an armed populace serves as a check against government tyranny. The negative side focuses on mass shootings and the fact that the United States has higher rates of gun violence than other wealthy countries. But these differences can feel exhausted after years of stalled debate.

Dozens of evidence-free posts I found suggesting both incidents were staged have racked up more than 30 million views on X. Some of these posts came from anti-Trump accounts that did not seem to have a track record of sharing theories like this, while a smaller share were posted by some of the former president’s supporters.

For Democrat Camille, "'Old Donald's" team orchestrated this to boost his chances of winning the election. Wild Mother - who already follows QAnon, the unfounded conspiracy theory which claims 'Old Donald' is involved in a secret war against an elite cabal of Satan-worshipping paedophiles - wants to believe "Old Donald's" own team staged the attack in order to frame his supposed enemies in the "Deep State".

To boos from the audience, Trump said he received a “very nice” call from Kamala Harris after the attempt on his life.

“A little while ago, I got a very nice call from Kamala. It was very nice... and we appreciate that, but we have to take back our country... We’re going to win, and we’re going to make America great again,” he said.

Harris on Tuesday gave a 45-minute interview to a panel of three members of the National Association of Black Journalists, the same group Trump controversially addressed earlier this summer.

‘They’ Really Are Trying to Kill 'Old Donald' and All of Us

'Old Donald' and his allies would have you believe that "they" are responsible for the attempts on the former president's life. That's correct... if "they" refers to men with easy access to weapons of war.

Man in custody after 'Old Donald' golf club incident was once convicted of possessing a machine gun

Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, was taken into custody after shots were fired at "Old Donald" International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday, three senior law enforcement sources said. In 2002, court records show, he was convicted of possessing a weapon of mass destruction — the machine gun.

In that case, a man named Ryan Routh, 36 at the time, allegedly led authorities on a vehicle chase before he holed up at a roofing company in Greensboro, North Carolina, according to an account at the time by the Greensboro News & Record.

While his motive for allegedly planning to target "Old Donald" has not been revealed, the suspect had said in the past on social media that he voted for the Republican in 2016 before souring on him.

US school shooting suspect, 14, quizzed about threats last year

Colt Gray, 14, denied to police in May 2023 he was behind internet posts that contained images of guns, warning of a school shooting.

The suspect opened fire on Wednesday at Apalachee High School in the city of Winder, killing two teachers and two pupils, investigators say. Eight students and one teacher were injured.

He was arrested on campus and will be prosecuted as an adult.

They should still be here.

US judge tosses machine gun possession case, calls ban unconstitutional

Aug 23 (Reuters) - A federal judge has dismissed charges against a Kansas man for possessing a machine gun, saying prosecutors failed to establish that a federal ban on owning such weapons is constitutional.

From NRA-endorsed to a gun-control advocate

As a congressman representing a rural swath of southern Minnesota, Walz had championed gun rights — earning an “A” rating from the National Rifle Association — and often proudly sported a camo hat featuring the affirmation “NRA ENDORSED.” But as he sought his party’s nomination in a state that had backed the Democratic presidential nominee since 1976, Walz was equivocal when asked about access to guns.

“He tried to find a middle ground, saying he was a strong advocate but also supported common-sense regulation,” said Rob Doar, senior vice president of the nonprofit Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus, a prominent gun rights group.

“It’s no surprise he turned away from the NRA as the NRA turned more and more extreme,” said John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun Safety. “Governor Walz has proven that he’s not afraid to stand up to the gun lobby to keep his constituents safe.”

In the days since Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris picked Walz as her running mate, gun rights groups have sought to remind voters of what they cast as the governor’s betrayal.

No more talk of miracles, please. It’s time to talk about guns.

I don’t agree with "Old Donald"’s brand of politics, but I am grateful that he survived such a brazen attack.

However, all this talk of miracles and the instinctive conclusion that the events on Saturday underscore "Old Donald"’s destiny should make us uncomfortable.

Wouldn’t an awesome and merciful God also show protective grace on the children in Uvalde, Tex., or Newtown, Conn.? What about the concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest festival in Las Vegas? Or, the 10 people killed at a grocery store in Buffalo or the 18 souls who were mowed down in a bowling alley in Maine? What about the others who were hurt on Saturday?

This list is gruesome, and it is far too long. And that takes me back to the knee-jerk reaction to attach symbolic power to an image that’s now a part of our national psyche. We need to take another message from this tragedy that goes beyond raised fists.

Americans bought 5.5 million guns to start 2024: These states sold the most

About a third of American's say they personally own a gun, Pew Research data shows. That statistic reflects the deep-rooted culture of gun ownership in the U.S. Another report found that in the first four months of 2024, nearly 5.5. million firearms were purchased in the country.

It may come as no surprise that Texas - the second most populated state in the nation - accounted for the largest share of firearms purchased by any state, nearly half a million or 9% of all guns sold through April 2024.

Democratic Congressman Jared Moskowitz of Florida praised "Old Donald" for being "right" in imposing a federal ban on bump stocks, a measure the U.S. Supreme Court struck down on Friday.

At least 9 people injured, including 2 children, in shooting at Michigan splash pad

Supreme Court gun ruling stuns Las Vegas shooting survivors

A gunman perched high in a Las Vegas hotel had opened fire on the festivities below. He killed 60 people and wounded over 400 more. He was able to carry out what is still the deadliest mass shooting in US history because of a mechanism he installed on his gun known as a bump stock.

"Walks like a duck, swims like a duck":

Even though the effect is the same, Thomas wrote that a "bump stock does not convert a semiautomatic rifle into a machinegun any more than a shooter with a lightning-fast trigger finger does.”

Sotomayor rejected the argument that a semiautomatic weapon that behaves just like a machine gun is not, practically speaking, the same thing.

"When I see a bird that walks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck," Sotomayor wrote.

Sandy Hook shooting survivors to graduate with mixed emotions without 20 of their classmates

Former college professor kills three on Las Vegas campus

The gunman, described as a white former college professor in his 60s, was killed in a shootout with police.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to freeze a lower court order that bars the government from regulating so-called ghost guns 'untraceable homemade weapons' as firearms under federal law.

She's a Republican gun owner. Now she's pleading with GOP lawmakers for change.

'We're not just voting. We're also running.' David Hogg launches young candidate PAC