Overview
- Two students were killed and nine wounded in Saturday’s campus shooting in Providence, and officials said a person of interest in their 30s was taken into custody early Sunday as the investigation continues.
- On CNN, Sen. Chris Murphy said the president has pursued a yearlong effort that makes violence more likely, citing restored access to firearms for some people and cuts to mental-health and community anti-violence grants.
- Murphy argued that states with stronger gun laws have substantially lower gun violence and that rates fell nationally after the 2022 Bipartisan Safer Communities Act.
- The Justice Department proposal he referenced, published in July, would revive case-by-case relief from federal firearm prohibitions after assessing whether an applicant poses a public-safety risk, not a blanket restoration.
- White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson rejected Murphy’s accusations as false, and CNN host Dana Bash pressed Murphy by calling his assertion that the president is making violence more likely “a pretty big statement.”