Plus: No Excuse for Reserving DC Memorial Day Concert for Elites Only
June 3 2022
Happy Friday from Washington, where President Biden last night responded to recent mass murders with a new call to impose more restrictions on gun ownership Lawmakers should approach one idea, red flag laws, with caution, Amy Swearer writes. On the podcast, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., argues that Republicans offer a hopeful vision to Americans besieged by bad news. Plus: a law professor returns from exile for questioning racial politics, and the unwashed are barred from a Memorial Day concert. On this date in 1965, about 120 miles above Earth, Maj. Edward H. White II steps out of the Gemini 4 capsule and becomes the first American astronaut to walk in space.
“People are talking a lot about inflation, crime; they're talking about the open border, drugs on the streets; they're frustrated with Afghanistan, with the Chinese Communist Party,” says Blackburn.
Lynne Marie Kohm, a professor of family law at Regent University School of Law, compiled a list of five “common denominators for all of these boys” who turn violent.
