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President Doesn't Seem To Have His Mind Made Up About Violent Media's Link To Gun Violence
President Trump on Thursday began the next leg of a listening tour he promised after last month鈥檚 school shooting in Parkland, Fla., eliciting heated opinions at the White House from critics of violent video games and from game makers who reject any connection to mass shootings, but offering no concrete views of his own. In broaching the subject after a mass school shooting, Mr. Trump was traveling a path well worn by his predecessors going back for decades. But his approach was all his own. (Rogers, 3/8)
In a newly released recording from the day of a deadly Florida school shooting, the parents of a 17-year-old girl tell a 911 dispatcher their daughter is texting from a classroom where the door鈥檚 glass was shot out. Later, the student texts that police have arrived. After getting the rest of the message, the mother raises her voice, 鈥淭hree shot in her room. Oh my God. Oh my God.鈥 As a gun-control bill sits on the governor鈥檚 desk, the Broward County Sheriff鈥檚 Office released 12 minutes of radio transmissions from its deputies and a neighboring police agency highlighting the chaos during the Feb. 14 attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. That material also included 10 of the 81 recordings of frantic calls by students and parents to a 911 center. (Farrington and Fineout, 3/9)