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 Bill Clark/GettyThe pro-gun Republican congressman representing Uvalde, who has come under fire this week for dodging questions on gun control and for previously boasting about opposing gun legislation, claimed on Friday morning that he had received "new information" that school shooter Salvador Ramos was arrested four years ago for threatening to shoot up a school.
But that claim is false, authorities confirmed Friday.
"This wasn't hearsay. I got this late last night: ‘The shooter was arrested years ago, four years ago, for having this plan for basically saying, for saying, you know, when I'm a senior in 2022, I am going to shoot up a school,'" Rep. Tony Gonzales told Fox News. "Something fell between the cracks between then and now to allow this to happen. We need to shake out all the facts."
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 Pennsylvania Senate candidate Mehmet Oz released a video on Friday in which the celebrity doctor calls himself the "presumptive Republican" nominee on the same day counties can begin recounting ballots in the commonwealth's tight GOP primary.
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Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) have cut a huge infrastructure deal with Republicans and helped preserve the filibuster. Can that give them bipartisan progress on the thorniest of issues?
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 NewsmaxRight-wing cable channel Newsmax hosted a gun lobbyist on Thursday morning to not only rail against gun-safety measures in the wake of the horrific Uvalde school massacre, but to also specifically blame gun control for the mass shooting that left 19 children dead.
With Democrats, gun-safety advocates, and the vast majority of Americans now pushing for reform measures in the wake of this latest school shooting, conservatives have scrambled to come up with alternative solutions—no matter how bonkers—that never seem to include tightening gun laws. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and other Republicans, for instance, have actually floated door control to stop mass shootings.
Appearing Thursday morning on Newsmax's National Report, Gun Owners of America senior vice president Erich Pratt called it "absolutely disgusting" for President Joe Biden and other Democrats to be "pushing for gun control" and "raising money off dead children to advance their cause."
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