<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/question-if-joe-biden-were-your-dad-would-you-let-him-live-on-his-own/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">President Joe Biden</a>’s claim that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/second-amendment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AR-15s</a> fire bullets at a velocity that is five times higher than that of other guns is being shot down by people who know guns.
Biden repeated the claim Friday in a speech to the National Education Association teachers union, even though it has been repeatedly debunked. Several rifles and even some handguns fire bullets at a higher velocity than the 2,700-3,100 feet per second of AR-15s.
“The speed of the bullet is five times that that comes out of the muzzle of most weapons,” Biden said, describing the popular hunting rifle as a “weapon of war.”
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Biden Lies Again!
Biden Repeats False Claims about AR-15 Velocity in Support of a Ban – JONATHAN TURLEY <a href="https://t.co/elhCZYP1oZ">https://t.co/elhCZYP1oZ</a>
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Although some mass shooters, including the Uvalde and Buffalo killers from earlier this year, have used AR-15-style rifles, most murders are committed with handguns. Advocates of more restrictive gun control laws describe AR-15s and AK-47s as “assault rifles,” although there is no technical definition for the term.
Biden has often repeated the claim that AR-15s shoot bullets at higher velocities than other guns. Earlier this month, <a href="https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2022-09-02/biden-bungled-talking-point-ar15-muzzle-velocity-7193450.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post reported</a> that Biden had “bungled the statistic” after he made the same claim in late August.
“Biden was clearly wrong in his statement this week,” the Post wrote.
Biden has made other false claims about guns and the Second Amendment. In May of this year, he claimed that when the Second Amendment was enacted, it did not allow people to possess certain weapons.
“And I might add: The Second Amendment, from the day it was passed, limited the type of people who could own a gun and what type of weapon you could own,” he said. “You couldn’t buy a cannon.”
Historians pointed out that there was no truth to the claim.
AR-15s do fire bullets at high velocities, but nowhere near what Biden claimed, according to ballistics experts. When they exit the barrel, AR-15 bullets are traveling at about twice the speed of bullets fired from a typical handgun.
The White House is pushing hard for new gun control measures ahead of the midterm elections. Vice President Kamala Harris called for a ban on assault rifles.
“Do you know what an assault weapon is?” Harris said in May. “It was designed for a specific purpose, to kill a lot of human beings quickly. An assault weapon is a weapon of war, with no place, no place in a civil society.”
George Washington University law professor <a href="https://jonathanturley.org/2022/05/26/president-biden-repeats-false-claim-about-the-second-amendment/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jonathan Turley wrote on his blog</a> that banning one particular type of gun would be problematic for courts if it cannot be established that the particular gun is no more powerful than others.
“There are good-faith arguments for gun control, including arguments that the Second Amendment does not create an individual right to bear arms,” Turley wrote. “We should continue to have that worthy debate but we should follow the rule of the late Sen. Patrick Moynihan that &#8216;everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.&#8217;”

Second Amendment

Biden Repeats False Claim About AR-15 Bullet Velocity In Call For Ban

Biden Administration

Jonathan Turley

Mass Shooting

The 19-year-old Memphis man accused of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-memphis-police-arrest-suspect-allegedly-behind-string-of-shootings-in-city" target="_blank" rel="noopener">killing four and terrorizing the city</a> for hours Wednesday night as he drove around shooting people was let out of prison after serving less than a year for an attempted murder charge that was plea-bargained down to aggravated assault.
The Daily Wire is not naming the suspect or publishing his photo as part of a policy to deprive mass shooters of the attention they crave. But after police captured him in a stolen car, Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland said he should never have been on the loose.
“If [the suspect] served his full three-year sentence, he would still be in prison today and four of our fellow citizens would still be alive,” Strickland said.
Records show the suspect was freed on March 16 after serving just 11 months of his three-year sentence. A new law Strickland backed which went into effect in July may have kept the suspect locked up.
The bloody spree began just before 1 a.m. with the apparently random killing of a 24-year-old man in his driveway, said Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn Davis, who laid out a timeline at a post-arrest news conference late Wednesday. The rampage resumed around 4:30 p.m., when police learned a man had been shot dead in his car.
Just 90 minutes later, the suspect livestreamed himself storming an AutoZone store, where he shot and wounded a man. He then carjacked and killed a woman and drove around the city shooting two more people, including a woman who was killed.
City officials warned residents to stay inside as the horrifying ordeal unfolded. Police said there were at least eight crime scenes, which included all seven shootings and the carjacking of the vehicle the suspect eventually crashed, leading to his capture.
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Memphis mayor was receiving CRITICISM for pushing a law that would have put the Memphis shooter behind bars for his ENTIRE SENTENCE. 
Charged in 2020 for attempted murder (3 year sentence..wtf?) 
Released after 11 months. Again..WTF?!!! <a href="https://t.co/6Qg5Vd2Zda">https://t.co/6Qg5Vd2Zda</a>
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Strickland, a Democrat, took heat from left-wing activists earlier this year for backing a “truth in sentencing” bill that passed the Tennessee General Assembly. The law, <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/tennessee-truth-sentencing-law-takes-025222730.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">which took effect in July</a>, requires those convicted of certain felonies to serve 100% of their sentences with no chance of earning early release.
“I want the young person, if they have a gun, to think for a second before they pull that trigger,” <a href="https://www.actionnews5.com/2022/05/14/memphis-mayor-calls-out-critics-new-truth-sentencing-law/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Strickland told Action News</a> in May. “Because if there’s a swift, severe punishment, they are more likely to have second thoughts in doing it.”
The west Tennessee city has been rocked by violet crime in recent weeks. A pastor, Rev. Dr. Autura Eason-Williams,was <a href="https://mychristiandaily.com/memphis-pastor-shot-dead-in-driveway-by-teens/">killed in her driveway</a> during a carjacking in July; a well-known community activist was <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/arrest-warrant-issued-woman-accused-100615828.html">killed last month</a>; and the abduction and killing of beloved school teacher and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/body-of-memphis-kindergarten-teacher-heiress-to-billion-dollar-fortune-found-report">heiress Eliza Fletcher</a> last week made national news.
“This has been a painful week in our city,” Strickland said.

Memphis Man Livestreams Random Shootings

Memphis Maniac Who Live-Streamed Killing Spree Served Just 11 Months After Attempted Murder Arrest, Mayor Reveals

Suspect In Memphis Mass Shooting Should Not Have Been On The Street, Mayor Says

Crime

Memphis

Tennessee

Parents of children killed in the mass shooting at <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/sandy-hook" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sandy Hook Elementary School</a> in 2012 have asked a federal bankruptcy court Thursday to order Infowars host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/alex-jones" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alex Jones</a> to surrender control over his media company.
According to a <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/25/us/politics/alex-jones-lawsuits-bankruptcy.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> by The New York Times, Sandy Hook victims have accused Jones of funneling millions of dollars to himself and family members while claiming his pockets are empty.
“Alex Jones is not financially bankrupt; he is morally bankrupt, which is becoming more and more clear as we discover his plots to hide money and evade responsibility,” Kyle Farrar, a lawyer for the families, said, according to The New York Times. “He used lies to amass a fortune, and now he is using lies and fiction to shield his money.”
According to <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://ecf.txsb.uscourts.gov/doc1/178148499722?pdf_header=&amp;magic_num=90489165&amp;de_seq_num=363&amp;caseid=457706&amp;att_num=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filings</a> in the Houston bankruptcy court, nine Sandy Hook victims&#8217; families have urged a trustee to take control of Infowar&#8217;s parent company, Free Speech Systems, which owes $54 million to PQPR Holdings, which has ties to Jones and his parents.
The families&#8217; lawyers called the debt “a centerpiece of Jones&#8217;s plan to avoid compensating the Sandy Hook families.”
Holdings has “no services, has no employees and has no warehouse,” the Sandy Hook lawyers claimed, adding that “money that Free Speech Systems pays PQPR ends up in Alex Jones&#8217;s pockets.”
Jones allegedly transferred approximately $62 million from his company to several accounts linked to himself and family members when the Sandy Hook families filed the lawsuit against him in 2018.
R.J. Shannon, a lawyer for Jones, said the team would file a response “soon,” with no further comment, according to The New York Times.
Earlier this month, a Texas jury <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-jury-orders-alex-jones-to-pay-tens-of-millions-to-parents-of-sandy-hook-victim">ordered</a> Jones to pay $45.2 million in punitive damages to the parents of a 6-year-old child killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting.
The hefty charge comes on top of another $4.1 million compensatory charge that the jury <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-alex-jones-fined-4-1-million-in-sandy-hook-defamation-trial">directed</a> Jones to pay to Scarlett Lewis and Neil Heslin, the parents of 6-year-old Jesse, who was killed at Sandy Hook alongside 19 other children and six educators. The trial is the first of three over conspiratorial comments Jones allegedly made following the Sandy Hook tragedy, denying it had happened.
Jones will sit for two more trials next month, one more in Texas and another in Delaware, and face the families of more victims of the Sandy Hook massacre. The families allege that Jones defamed them in the aftermath of the tragedy.
During the trial, Jones testified that the media and his critics had never allowed him to take back his comments, despite his retractions and admissions that he was wrong.
Heslin said that “the negligence and recklessness of Alex Jones” had made his life a “living hell.”
Tim Pearce contributed to this report.

Social Media Hearing

Sandy Hook Families Demand Alex Jones Surrender Media Company Control, Accuse Him Of Funneling Assets

Alex Jones

Infowars

Sandy Hook

School Shooting

The Uvalde school board voted unanimously on Wednesday night to immediately fire police chief Pete Arredondo over the disastrous response to the shooting at Robb Elementary earlier this year that resulted in the deaths of 19 children.
The disgraced police chief refused to attend the meeting because he was scared for his safety.
The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District had already <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/uvalde-school-board-police-chief-pete-arredondos-firing/story?id=88692404">recommended</a> that Arredondo be fired.
“Chief Arredondo will not participate in his own illegal and unconstitutional public lynching and respectfully requests the Board immediately reinstate him, with all backpay and benefits and close the complaint as unfounded,” Arredondo&#8217;s attorney George Hyde, said in a statement.
The board deliberated for over an hour Wednesday evening before making its decision. Community members <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/24/us/uvalde-school-police-pete-arredondo/index.html">reportedly</a> reacted with applause when the board announced its decision to fire Arredondo.
Uvalde citizens have waited weeks for the decision after the first meeting to consider Arredondo&#8217;s firing was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/school-district-cancels-meeting-that-was-set-to-consider-uvalde-police-chiefs-firing">canceled</a> last month, just two days after the recommendation to fire the police chief was placed on the agenda.
Arredondo was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/uvalde-school-district-police-chief-placed-on-leave-as-investigation-into-shooting-continues">placed on leave</a> last month as criticism against him mounted when more details came out on the police response to the shooting in which a lone gunman killed 19 children and two teachers. Nearly 400 law enforcement officers responded to the scene of the shooting, but the shooter remained in the classroom for 77 minutes before officers breached the door and killed him.
Recently released <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-new-eerie-body-cam-footage-from-uvalde-shooting-released">footage</a> of the school’s hallway showed officers standing outside the classroom for over an hour while the shooter was still in the classroom with the victims, some of whom were still alive and calling 911 for help.
Body cam footage obtained by CNN also showed Arredondo attempting to negotiate with the shooter from down the hall, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-uvalde-police-chief-tried-to-negotiate-with-shooter">reported</a>.
“Let me know if there’s any kids there or anything!” Arredondo said on tape. “This can be peaceful!”
In early June, Arredondo <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2022/06/09/uvalde-chief-pete-arredondo-interview/">spoke</a> with the Texas Tribune, addressing some of the criticisms of his response and claiming officers acted appropriately.
“Not a single responding officer ever hesitated, even for a moment, to put themselves at risk to save the children,” Arredondo said. “We responded to the information that we had and had to adjust to whatever we faced. Our objective was to save as many lives as we could, and the extraction of the students from the classrooms by all that were involved saved over 500 of our Uvalde students and teachers before we gained access to the shooter and eliminated the threat.”
The UCISD police chief also told the Tribune that when he arrived on scene, he did not consider himself the commanding officer, even though his department was the first to arrive. Arredondo further claimed that no one told him that students in the classroom were calling 911 as the shooter continued his killing.
Zach Jewell contributed to this report.
This article was updated after publication to include additional information.

Mass Shooting At Elementary School In Uvalde, Texas Leaves At Least 21 Dead

Uvalde School Board Votes Unanimously To Fire Police Chief Pete Arredondo

Police

Texas

Uvalde

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/houston">Houston</a> Astros baseball club gave thousands of tickets and welcomed ten busses filled with 500 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/uvalde">Uvalde</a>, Texas, residents Sunday in the latest show of support for the community that lost 19 children and two elementary school teachers in May after a lone gunman carried out the third-deadliest mass school shooting in American history.
&#8220;We can all relate to the tough time they&#8217;ve been through, so this is just a little distraction and give a little something back, and that&#8217;s what the Astros are about,&#8221; Jim Crane, Astros owner, told MLB.com.
Sunday&#8217;s game follows a private brunch hosted by Crane last month for the affected families and city officials. Those who lost a loved one received an autographed Astros jersey customized with their loved one&#8217;s names on the back and a gift bag that included a $1,000 H-E-B gift card.
Crane and the team&#8217;s players and staff invited the grieving community to Minute Maid Park for Uvalde Strong Day. The gameday experience included a walk around the outfield track, a pregame ceremony, and a ceremonial first pitch.
Faith Mata, 21, lost her ten-year-old sister, Tess, during the horrific event at Robb Elementary School earlier this year — and she threw the first pitch before Sunday&#8217;s game against the Oakland Athletics.
Mata said her sister loved watching second baseman Jose Altuve play.
&#8220;Any time the Astros&#8217; games were on, she&#8217;d throw on her [Astros] T-shirt and just run into the living room and just cheer for them, even though she didn&#8217;t know what was going on,&#8221; Mata told <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.mlb.com/astros/news/astros-host-uvalde-victims-at-minute-maid-park" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MLB.com</a>. &#8220;She just loved Altuve.&#8221;
Jerry Mata, the father of Faith and Tess, said he couldn&#8217;t express his gratitude enough when the professional baseball asked to host the community.
&#8220;I can&#8217;t put it into words,&#8221; the father told MLB.com. &#8220;I wanted to pass out when [the Astros] asked.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s an honor, and I&#8217;m just like, stunned,&#8221; Mata added. &#8220;It feels good, and I know my daughter is up above and looking down with a smile and saying, &#8216;Go get &#8217;em, sister!'&#8221;
Jerry Cazares, who lost his 9-year-old daughter, Jacklyn, said while his family takes things one day at a time, the support brought a lot of emotions to his family, who were happy to attend the game.
&#8220;It&#8217;s something different,&#8221; Cazares told MLB.com. &#8220;For me, it&#8217;s just a little escape from being at home, and I&#8217;m glad we were invited, and we&#8217;re going to make the best of it.&#8221;
&#8220;My daughter would have been happy to be out here,&#8221; he added. &#8220;[That&#8217;s] where it hurts. Overall, we&#8217;re happy to be here.&#8221;
While the Astros played nine innings on Sunday, fans had the chance to purchase Uvalde Strong t-shirts, with all proceeds going to Uvalde Strong efforts, a 50/50 raffle awarding $10,000 with the rest of the funds raised going to Uvalde Strong initiatives.
Abraham Gonzales, who teaches physical education at Robb Elementary, said the trip would go a long way in helping Uvalde through the healing process that forever changed the community.
&#8220;It means a lot,&#8221; Gonzales told MLB.com. &#8220;The Astros have been so great to our community — we&#8217;re hurt, but it doesn&#8217;t get any better than this.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s kind of just what it means to them right now,&#8221; he added. That makes me really happy.&#8221;
Gonzales, who also formerly coached softball in Uvalde, gave Astros manager Dusty Baker a maroon and white Uvalde baseball cap.
&#8220;I had an extra cap from when I coached, so I thought before I left the house today, I said, &#8216;You know what, I&#8217;m going to present Dusty a cap,&#8217; and I actually told Dusty, I said, &#8216;Any time you need a rally cap, just rub on this, and you guys will get a for-sure hit,'&#8221; Gonzales told MLB.com.
Baker sported the cap before the game, saying the team not only showed up to play baseball for themselves and the fans but also to help aid the healing process for those impacted by the school shooting.
&#8220;This is what we&#8217;re here for,&#8221; Baker told MLB.com.
During the pre-ceremony before the Astros and Athletics faced each other on Sunday, Uvalde residents met with Crane, Altuve, the team&#8217;s third baseman Alex Bregman, and pitcher Lance McCullers Jr.
A young fan asked if the Astros could hit a home run in honor of the Uvalde community.
Within the first inning of Sunday&#8217;s game, Bregman knocked a two-run home run out of the park leading to a 6-3 victory against the A&#8217;s.

Oakland Athletics v Houston Astros

‘Uvalde Strong Day:’ Houston Astros Honor Thousands Of Grieving Community Members

Houston

Houston Astros

The 21-year-old charged with killing 7 and injuring 48 more during a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois, has pleaded not guilty.
The suspect, who is not being named per Daily Wire policy, previously told police that he fired more than 80 shots from a rooftop above the parade route. On Wednesday, however, the suspect pleaded not guilty, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/highland-park-shooting-suspect-robert-crimo-pleads?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=news_tab">reported</a>.
Last week, the suspect was indicted on 117 counts for the mass shooting, including 21 counts of first-degree murder – three counts per deceased victim – the outlet reported. The charges also include 48 counts of attempted murder and another 48 accounts of aggravated battery with a firearm – one count of each for every person injured in the attack.
Forty-seven people were named as victims in the filing charges (even though there are more victims), the judge said at the suspect’s Wednesday arraignment. Around two dozen family members and friends of the victims appeared in court at the time.
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-highland-park-mass-shooting-suspect-confesses-to-firing-more-than-80-shots-at-parade-attendees-prosecutors-say">reported</a>, Assistant State’s Attorney Ben Dillon told a judge at the Lake County Courthouse in early July that the suspect made “a voluntary statement confessing to his actions.”
Dillon further told the judge that the suspect confessed to finding a position on a rooftop along the parade route and “looked down his sights and opened fire.” Dillon added that police discovered 83 shell casings on that rooftop.
Defense attorney Scott Greenfield explained to The Daily Wire why someone who confessed in this matter would still plead not guilty.
“The defendant is always told to plead ‘not guilty’ at arraignment in order to allow his lawyer to engage in discovery, motion practice and plea negotiations,” Greenfield said. “It’s entirely normal and reflects nothing about ‘innocence’ per se, but allows the lawyer room to do his job of zealously representing the defendant, no matter how overwhelming the evidence of guilty.”
Five people died at the scene, while two more died after being taken to a hospital. Dozens more were hit during the attack.
The suspect was concerned that police would recognize him following the shooting, so he dressed in women’s clothing and makeup to cover his tattoos and avoid detection. He climbed down a fire escape and disappeared into the crowd, leaving the rifle he used on the rooftop. Police were able to identify him from surveillance cameras, however.
The suspect then went to his mother’s house and drove her car to Madison, Wisconsin, in a <a href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/crime/2022/07/05/suspected-highland-park-parade-gunman-traveled-madison-wisconsin-afterward-robert-crimo/7815967001/">possible</a> attempt to throw off authorities. The suspect left his phone, which was being tracked by police, in Madison, and then drove back to Chicago where he was arrested.
While the suspect had no criminal record, he had been on the police’s radar due to two calls from family members in 2019. The first call came in response to a suicide attempt, and the second came from a family member who said the suspect threatened to “kill everybody.” That family member also told police at the time that the suspect had a large collection of knives. Police removed 16 knives, one dagger, and one sword from the suspect’s home before filing a “clear and present danger report” with the Illinois State Police, the Chicago Sun-Times <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/7/6/23196101/highland-park-mass-shooting-suspect-robert-crimo-iii-ordered-held-without-bond">reported</a>.
Despite this determination, the suspect was able to purchase the firearms used in the Independence Day attack because his father co-signed his Firearm Owners Identification (FOID) card, something all gun owners in Illinois must have, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/officials-reveal-how-highland-park-shooter-was-able-to-buy-guns-despite-threatening-to-kill-everyone">reported</a>. At the time the card was issued, the suspect was just 19, even though the minimum age in Illinois to purchase a firearm is 21.

Aftermath of Highland Park parade shooting

Highland Park Shooting Suspect — Who Confessed To Firing More Than 80 Rounds — Pleads Not Guilty

Highland Park Shooting Suspect - Who Confessed To Firing More Than 80 Rounds - Pleads Not Guilty

Highland Park

Illinois

The defamation trial against Infowars founder Alex Jones took a big turn on Wednesday when the attorneys representing the parents of a Sandy Hook victim said that that Jones’ attorney accidentally sent them the conspiracy theorist’s text messages.
Mark Bankston, who is representing the parents of a Sandy Hook victim who are suing Jones over his claims the shooting was a hoax, revealed the information during the trial, which is happening now.
&#8220;Twelve days ago, your attorneys messed up and sent me a digital copy of every text,&#8221; Bankston reportedly said, according to NBC News senior reporter Ben Collins. “You know what perjury is?”
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Wow. Sandy Hook parents&#8217; lawyer is revealing that Alex Jones&#8217; lawyers sent him the contents of Jones&#8217; phone BY MISTAKE.
&#8220;12 days ago, your attorneys messed up and sent me a digital copy of every text&#8221; Jones has sent for years.
&#8220;You know what perjury is?&#8221; the lawyer asks.
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Collins, who is watching the trial, followed up his tweet by saying that Bankston was “now asking Jones about the times he has emailed about Sandy Hook over the last several years, despite testifying under oath he couldn&#8217;t find any emails about Sandy Hook. There are apparently a lot of them.”
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Sandy Hook parents&#8217; lawyer is now asking Jones about the times he has emailed about Sandy Hook over the last several years, despite testifying under oath he couldn&#8217;t find any emails about Sandy Hook. There are apparently a lot of them. One is on a screen right now.
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) <a href="https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1554864549127503872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 3, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In another tweet, Collins said the judge in the case began instructing jurors “on the entire contents of Alex Jones’ phone.”
&#8220;What we do know is that it was not properly turned over when it should have been,&#8221; the judge said, according to Collins.
Not only did the texts apparently confirm Jones had discussed Sandy Hook despite earlier testimony, they also revealed that, for at least a couple days in 2018, Jones’ website Infowars earned up to $800,000, a number Jones said was the result of a good week during the Conservative Political Action Convention.
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These texts and emails are FINALLY revealing financials behind Infowars.
Some days in 2018, InfoWars was making $800,000 a day.
&#8220;Well after your deplatforming, your numbers keep getting better,&#8221; Sandy Hook parents&#8217; lawyer says.
If they keep that up, that&#8217;s ~$300 mill. a year.
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Jones is being sued by Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis, whose 6-year-old son Jesse Lewis was one of 20 children killed during a mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 14, 2012. Jones spoke in his defense on Tuesday, explaining he never intended to cause them harm when he falsely claimed the shooting was a hoax.
&#8220;I question every big event,&#8221; Jones said on the stand, <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/alex-jones-testifies-in-own-defense-at-sandy-hook-defamation-trial-221940211.html">according to Yahoo News</a>.
At the time, Jones claimed the mass shooting was staged and called the parents of the slain children “crisis actors” allegedly hired by the “deep state.”
Earlier on Tuesday, Heslin and Lewis testified against Jones.
&#8220;Jesse was real,&#8221; Lewis reportedly said. &#8220;I am a real mom.&#8221;
Jones said on the stand that he believes “Scarlett Lewis is real” and that “her son died.” Jones also admitted on the stand that the massacre was “100% real,” CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alex-jones-trial-testimony-sandy-hook-massacre-100-percent-real/">reported</a>.
As Yahoo noted, Jones has been hosting his popular conspiracy program throughout the trial, and said on Tuesday – while Heslin was testifying in court – that the grieving father “acts like somebody on the spectrum” and “is being manipulated by some very bad people.&#8221;
Jones testified later that day as the only witness in his defense. After the jury was released, Judge Maya Guerra Gamble scolded Jones for “abusing my tolerance and making asides to the jury.”
&#8220;This is not your show,&#8221; Gamble told Jones, according to Yahoo. &#8220;You&#8217;re under oath. That means things must actually be true when you say them.&#8221;
&#8220;I believed them to be true,&#8221; Jones responded.
&#8220;You believe everything is true,&#8221; Gamble said.

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For decades, the gun control movement has attempted to undermine the power of peaceful individuals carrying firearms in public. And in recent years, anti-gun politicians and activists have pushed for new and expanded gun-free zones across the United States.
But a powerful reality has emerged. Gun-free zones do not make people safer — in fact, they leave people vulnerable. In Indiana earlier this month, a so-called gun free zone was made safer by a young man carrying a firearm in violation of that policy.
On July 17, 22-year-old <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/indiana-mall-shooting-elisjsha-dicken-neutralized-gunman-15-seconds/">Elisjsha Dicken stopped a would-be mass shooter in his tracks</a> when Dicken drew his concealed carry handgun and shot the would-be mass shooter eight times. Dicken heard the shooter open fire, ran towards the shooting, engaged, and ended the threat — all within 15 seconds.
Sadly, before that, the shooter <a href="https://www.wrtv.com/news/local-news/crime/watch-live-officials-provide-update-on-greenwood-mall-mass-shooting">fired upwards of 24 rounds and killed three people</a>. But while that loss of life cannot be forgotten or minimized, Dicken&#8217;s actions show the true power of peaceful individuals who carry firearms to protect themselves and their communities.
There is no law enforcement agency in the country that could respond to a shooting within 15 seconds. Without Elisjsha&#8217;s quick thinking and brilliant shooting (eight hits with 10 rounds from 40 yards), the depraved individual who took as many innocent lives as possible could have taken several more, more families would be grieving, and we would be having a very different conversation. Most likely, we would be having the same conversation that we have nearly every time a public shooter targets a gun-free zone knowing that there is little to no chance anyone will be armed to stop them.
This isn&#8217;t a secret: mass shooters overwhelmingly target gun-free zones. According to a study by the Crime Prevention Research Center, <a href="https://crimeresearch.org/2018/06/more-misleading-information-from-bloombergs-everytown-for-gun-safety-on-guns-analysis-of-recent-mass-shootings/">94% of mass public shootings</a> — shootings in “public places” in which four or more victims were killed and did not result from “gang or drug violence,” per the FBI’s traditional definition — since 1950 through June 2019 occurred in areas where individuals were legally prevented from carrying firearms. We&#8217;ve even seen <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/memo-to-gun-control-advocates-even-elliot-rodger-believed-guns-would-have-deterred-him">statements</a> from these shooters (which I will not reprint here) explaining their intentional selection of areas with minimal security.
And yet, supporters of gun control have continued to push for gun-free zones — like the one Dicken was in — across the country, putting more and more people at risk. While Indiana <a href="https://www.in.gov/isp/files/Permitless-Carry-Website-Messaging.pdf">recently passed a free carry law</a>, allowing the vast majority of peaceful residents to carry a firearm in public without specific government permission, the Greenwood Park Mall is under a <a href="https://fox59.com/news/greenwood-park-mall-had-policy-against-weapons-ahead-of-sunday-shooting/">privately-mandated gun free policy</a>, which the would-be mass shooter either clearly ignored or even intentionally targeted. But luckily, it&#8217;s also a gun-free policy that Elisjsha ignored. And because of Elisjsha, a lot more people were able to go home to their loved ones.
Let&#8217;s be clear: our government has no authority to prevent peaceful people from carrying firearms to protect themselves in the vast majority of public places. And if a private entity is going to prohibit people from protecting themselves and others on the entity’s property, then that entity must bear some level of responsibility for the result of its policy. Especially when that policy is clearly not enforced and offers no actual protection to customers.
The simple reality is that gun-free zones don&#8217;t work. Even worse, gun-free zones are targets for depraved criminals. And no amount of virtue signaling will protect the people who are subjected to them. It’s time for anti-gun politicians and activists to take responsibility for their actions. Their policies get people killed by leaving them defenseless. But people like Dicken — heroes who carry firearms to protect others — save lives. And we desperately need to empower as many people like Dicken to do just that across the country.
Cody J. Wisniewski (<a href="https://twitter.com/TheWizardofLawz">@TheWizardofLawz</a>) is a Senior Attorney for Constitutional Litigation with <a href="https://www.firearmspolicy.org/">Firearms Policy Coalition</a>. His work has appeared in the Washington Times, the Washington Examiner, National Review, The Daily Wire, and more. He primarily focuses on Second Amendment issues but is happy so long as he is reminding the government of its enumerated powers and constitutional limitations.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Armed, Peaceful Citizens Can Stop Mass Shootings. One Just Did In Indiana.

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A Republican representative from Seymour, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/indiana">Indiana</a>, has created a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/gofundme">GoFundMe</a> account for 22-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-we-know-about-the-heroic-22-year-old-man-who-stopped-a-mass-shooting-in-indiana">Elisjsha Dicken</a>, the young man who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/good-guy-with-a-gun-mass-shooter-shot-in-indiana-mall-by-armed-civilian">stopped a mass shooting</a> at a mall earlier this month. 
Dicken was at a mall with his girlfriend in Greenwood when a shooter opened fire on unsuspecting shoppers. The armed civilian reacted within 15 seconds of the attacker&#8217;s first shot, using his 9-millimeter Glock handgun to fire off at least ten rounds and kill the shooter.
&#8220;On July 17, a shooter opened fire with a rifle at the food court at Greenwood Mall in Greenwood, Indiana,&#8221; Rep. Jim Lucas posted to the <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/elis-legal-fund?utm_campaign">GoFundMe account</a>. &#8220;Tragically, [three] innocent people were killed, but countless other lives were saved because of the heroism of Eli Dicken&#8217;s incredible bravery by acting without hesitation to engage the shooter. Eli neutralized the threat, ending the deadly force situation.&#8221;
Dicken has retained legal counsel, Lucas noted. &#8220;I ask for your contribution to help with Eli&#8217;s legal and financial challenges that lay ahead of him,&#8221; the Republican said. &#8220;EVERY PENNY of your donation goes to Eli to be used for his legal defense, counseling, potential time off of work or whatever financial challenges he may be faced with.&#8221;
The account, which has been <a href="https://www.therepublic.com/2022/07/20/lucas-sets-up-gofundme-online-fundraiser-for-greenwood-mall-good-samaritan/">confirmed</a> by The Republic, has already raised more than $62,000 for Dicken. Lucas has donated $500 himself.
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INDIANAPOLIS, IN—“A Good Guy With A Gun”
Elisjsha Dicken, 22 years old, has been cited as the hero who saved lives when he used his concealed carry weapon to stop a mass shooter firing into a crowded food court, in Greenwood Park Mall on Sunday. <a href="https://t.co/xVnzRH8kXQ">pic.twitter.com/xVnzRH8kXQ</a>
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Indiana attorney Guy Relford is representing the 22-year-old. Relford has called his client “a true American hero who saved countless lives during a horrific event that could have been so much worse if not for Eli’s courage, preparedness and willingness to protect others,” Newsweek <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/elisjsha-dicken-good-samaritan-stopped-indiana-mall-shooter-1725801">reported</a>.
The attorney made it clear no “substantive comments” will be made until the investigation is closed, out of respect for the victims.
“Because we want to respect the on-going criminal investigation by the Greenwood Police Department and take time to honor the three innocent lives lost, we won’t be making any substantive comments on Sunday’s events until after the authorities’ investigation is closed,” Relford said, asking the media for privacy.
Greenwood Police Chief Jim Ison, too, expressed his gratitude for Dicken.
“I will say his actions were nothing short of heroic,” the chief <a href="https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2022/07/18/elisjsha-dicken-identified-as-man-who-killed-greenwood-park-mall-suspsect/65375869007/">said</a>.
“He engaged the gunman from quite a distance with a handgun, was very proficient in that, very tactically sound, and as he moved to close in on the suspect he was also motioning for people to exit behind him,” Ison explained.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-we-know-about-the-heroic-22-year-old-man-who-stopped-a-mass-shooting-in-indiana">What We Know About The Heroic 22-Year-Old Man Who Stopped A Mass Shooting In Indiana</a>

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&#8220;The View&#8221; co-host Sunny Hostin last week downplayed the heroic efforts of a 22-year-old man with a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/guns">gun</a> who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/good-guy-with-a-gun-mass-shooter-shot-in-indiana-mall-by-armed-civilian">stopped a mass shooting</a> at an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/indiana">Indiana</a> mall earlier this month, saving countless lives.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-we-know-about-the-heroic-22-year-old-man-who-stopped-a-mass-shooting-in-indiana">Elisjsha Dicken</a> was at the mall with his girlfriend when he noticed a man firing at civilians. Reports say he reacted within 15 seconds of the attacker&#8217;s first shot, using his 9-millimeter Glock handgun to fire off at least ten rounds and kill the shooter.
Hostin described Dicken&#8217;s actions as &#8220;lucky&#8221; and noted that he had a gun at the mall in the first place, even though the shopping center has a no-gun policy.
“With that &#8216;Good Samaritan&#8217; thing &#8212; listen, I was trained when I was at the Justice Department in firearms,&#8221; Hostin told the audience, NewsBusters <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2022/07/19/view-attacks-legal-gun-carrier-who-ended-indiana-mass">reported</a>. &#8220;And I was trained in defensive firearm training. It’s very hard to hit a moving target. It’s hard for people that are trained to hit a moving target. It is very lucky that that Good Samaritan hit that moving target in that way.&#8221;
&#8220;And he had a gun permit, but he wasn&#8217;t supposed to be in the mall with a gun,&#8221; the co-host complained. &#8220;So he broke the law even though he was a Good Samaritan.&#8221;
The hero who stopped the mass shooting did not need a permit per an Indiana law that took effect on July 1, just days before Dicken&#8217;s lifesaving action. But, according to his lawyer, Dicken did indeed have <a href="https://www.facebook.com/relfordlaw/posts/pfbid0bD7e7hnt3C2zsUweunY3LBy5nuPLTp7qUifyedkfviiqqAX5VGLJYsfr8fcPLzCbl">permit</a> for the gun.
Moreover, Dicken&#8217;s attorney Guy Relford has disputed Hostin&#8217;s claim that the Greenwood Park Mall&#8217;s no-gun policy creates legal challenges for his client.
&#8220;It certainly has no effect whatsoever on his ability to use force to defend himself or to defend the other people in the mall,&#8221; Relford said, IndyStar <a href="https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2022/07/18/elisjsha-dicken-identified-as-man-who-killed-greenwood-park-mall-suspsect/65375869007/">reported</a>. “He checks all those boxes as perfectly as he possibly could.&#8221;
The attorney explained that if Dicken carried the gun into the mall and was asked to leave for doing so but did not leave, he could be charged with trespassing. Of course, that never happened, and the mall has already <a href="https://fox59.com/news/good-samaritan-praised-for-actions-in-greenwood-park-mall-shooting/">praised</a> Dicken.
Greenwood Police Chief Jim Ison, too, seems to disagree with Hostin.
“I will say his actions were nothing short of heroic,” the chief <a href="https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2022/07/18/elisjsha-dicken-identified-as-man-who-killed-greenwood-park-mall-suspsect/65375869007/">said</a> of Dicken.
&#8220;He engaged the gunman from quite a distance with a handgun, was very proficient in that, very tactically sound, and as he moved to close in on the suspect he was also motioning for people to exit behind him,” Ison explained.
This post has been updated with additional information 
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-we-know-about-the-heroic-22-year-old-man-who-stopped-a-mass-shooting-in-indiana">What We Know About The Heroic 22-Year-Old Man Who Stopped A Mass Shooting In Indiana</a>

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Climate activist and former Democratic Vice President Al Gore on Sunday said &#8220;climate deniers&#8221; were comparable to the police officers who failed to act during the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
Appearing as a guest on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press,&#8221; Gore assailed Republicans and tactics like the Senate filibuster for preventing Democrats from passing legislation to tackle global warming. Gore compared &#8220;climate deniers&#8221; in Congress to police officers who were equipped and trained to deal with mass shooters, but failed to stop the tragedy at Robb Elementary School in <a href="https://static.texastribune.org/media/files/d005cf551ad52eea13d8753ede93320c/Uvalde%20Robb%20Shooting%20Report%20-%20Texas%20House%20Committee.pdf?_ga=2.216812497.696777951.1658086082-733005564.1658086082">Uvalde</a>.
&#8220;You know, the climate deniers are really in some ways similar to all of those, almost 400 law enforcement officers in Uvalde, Texas, who were waiting outside an unlocked door while the children were being massacred,&#8221; Gore told host Chuck Todd.
&#8220;They heard the screams. They heard the gunshots and nobody has stepped forward,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;God bless those families that suffered so much. And law enforcement officials tell us that’s not typical of what law enforcement usually does.&#8221;
&#8220;And confronted with this global emergency, what we’re doing with our inaction in failing to walk through the door and stop the killing is not typical of what we are capable of as human beings. We do have the solutions. And I think these extreme events that are getting steadily worse and more severe are really beginning to change minds. We have to have unity as a nation to come together and stop making this a political football. It shouldn’t be a partisan issue.&#8221;
Gore then blasted the filibuster for preventing Congress from taking action, again comparing climate change to the Uvalde shooting.
&#8220;The same reason it is seemingly impossible for the Congress to pass legislation banning these weapons of war, these assault rifles that are being used to murder children in classrooms and create hundreds of mass casualty events already this year and that’s getting worse, the same reason we can’t pass legislation to, for example, to reinstate the ban on assault weapons is the same reason that we can’t pass climate legislation: we have the minority government,&#8221; said Gore.
&#8220;We have the filibuster still, which ought to be eliminated,&#8221; he added. &#8220;We have big money playing much too large a role in our politics, lobbyists for the fossil fuel industry, and they’re still running all of these advertisements trying to convince people that &#8216;it’s not that bad&#8217; or &#8216;they’ve got this, don’t worry about it.&#8217; We have got to rise to this challenge.&#8221;
&#8220;We, the people, have to solve this, and we have to instruct those who are in positions of leadership to start doing the right thing. Our survival as a species may depend upon it.&#8221;

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Al Gore Compares ‘Climate Deniers’ To Police In Uvalde, Attacks Senate Filibuster For Blocking Action On Climate Change

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/uvalde">Uvalde</a> Consolidated Independent School District (UCISD) canceled a school board <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/uvalde-school-board-will-consider-recommendation-to-fire-embattled-police-chief">meeting</a> that was set to consider firing UCISD Police Chief Pete Arredondo just two days after the recommendation to fire Arredondo was placed on the agenda.
District Superintendent Hal Harrell recommended the police chief’s firing following law enforcement failures during the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in late May. According to an agenda released earlier this week, the school board was set to discuss Harrell&#8217;s recommendation in a special meeting Saturday, but CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/22/us/uvalde-arredondo-board-meeting-canceled/index.html">reported</a> Friday that the meeting has been canceled and will be moved to an undetermined date.
“In conformity with due process requirements, and at the request of his attorney, the meeting to consider the termination of Chief Arredondo will be held at a later date which has yet to be determined,” the UCISD wrote in a statement.
The embattled police chief will be on administrative unpaid leave until the meeting is finally held, the district added, according to CNN.
Arredondo was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/uvalde-school-district-police-chief-placed-on-leave-as-investigation-into-shooting-continues">placed on leave</a> last month as criticism against him mounted when more details came out on the police response to the shooting in which a lone gunman killed 19 children and two teachers. Nearly 400 law enforcement officers responded to the scene of the shooting, but the shooter remained in the classroom for 77 minutes before officers breached the door and killed him.
Recently released <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-new-eerie-body-cam-footage-from-uvalde-shooting-released">footage</a> of the school’s hallway showed officers standing outside the classroom for over an hour while the shooter was still in the classroom with the victims, some of whom were still alive and calling 911 for help.
Body cam footage obtained by CNN also showed Arredondo attempting to negotiate with the shooter from down the hall, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-uvalde-police-chief-tried-to-negotiate-with-shooter">reported</a>.
“Let me know if there’s any kids there or anything!” Arredondo said on tape. “This can be peaceful!”
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JUST IN: Exclusive body cam video from the law enforcement response to the Uvalde, TX school shooting. <a href="https://twitter.com/ShimonPro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ShimonPro</a> obtained the video from the city&#39;s Mayor. It shows just how chaotic the situation was: <a href="https://t.co/VppNuJ1d7b">pic.twitter.com/VppNuJ1d7b</a>
&mdash; Ryan Nobles (@ryanobles) <a href="https://twitter.com/ryanobles/status/1548799795590053888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In early June, Arredondo <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2022/06/09/uvalde-chief-pete-arredondo-interview/">spoke</a> with the Texas Tribune, addressing some of the criticisms of his response and claiming officers acted appropriately.
“Not a single responding officer ever hesitated, even for a moment, to put themselves at risk to save the children,” Arredondo said. “We responded to the information that we had and had to adjust to whatever we faced. Our objective was to save as many lives as we could, and the extraction of the students from the classrooms by all that were involved saved over 500 of our Uvalde students and teachers before we gained access to the shooter and eliminated the threat.”
The UCISD police chief also told the Tribune that when he arrived on scene, he did not consider himself the commanding officer, even though his department was the first to arrive on scene. Arredondo further explained that no one told him that students in the classroom were calling 911 as the shooter continued his killing.

School District Cancels Meeting That Was Set To Consider Uvalde Police Chief’s Firing

School District Cancels Meeting That Was Set To Consider Uvalde Police Chief's Firing

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