- Blue-state Republicans slump without Trump as foil (Politico) – Some of the nation’s most popular governors have been knocked off their pedestals.
- Judge detains former Special Forces soldier charged with assaulting police during Capitol siege (Politico) – Federal District Court Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui said Jeffrey McKellop appears to be “a danger to the community.”
- New shootings plunge Biden, Congress into gun control debate (The Hill) – President Biden on Tuesday urged Congress to enact meaningful gun reforms after the second mass shooting in under a week.
- Boulder Shooting Survivors Describe ‘Listening to Him Kill Everyone You Know’ (New York Times) – A deadly shooting at a Boulder supermarket left 10 people dead and a state full of grief and fury that it had happened again.
- Across States, a Checkerboard of Gun Laws Reflects Partisan Tilt (New York Times) – The political divide on gun policy between red and blue states is another example of the way national issues are defining local politics.
- ‘Nothing can fill the void ’: Boulder reels from mass shooting as suspect is charged (Washington Post) – “I promise you we will hold him accountable,” said Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty.
- Suspect in Boulder shooting had previously alarmed classmates with violent outbursts (Washington Post) – In November 2017, his senior year in high school, the man accused of killing 10 people in a Boulder grocery store this week stood up in class and assaulted an unsuspecting student, pummeling him in the head and face for an alleged ethnic slur.
- Shootings never stopped during the pandemic: 2020 was the deadliest gun violence year in decades (Washington Post) – In 2020, gun violence killed nearly 20,000 Americans, according to data from the Gun Violence Archive, more than any other year in at least two decades. An additional 24,000 people died by suicide with a gun.
