HOWEY: Political responses after Indiana’s massacre
In the biennial budget deal announced by Gov. Holcomb, Speaker Huston and Sen. Bray on Tuesday, $100 million in additional mental health funding was included.
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The FedEx facility in Indianapolis where eight people were killed in a mass shooting April 15, 2021.
Author: Brian Howey
Updated: 3:34 PM EDT April 22, 2021
INDIANAPOLIS — For most of us waking up last Friday morning, the news that eight Hoosiers had been killed in a massacre at a FedEx facility wasn’t so much a surprise, as a “shock” that it had finally happened here.
There had been 54 mass shooting events since March in the United States, and, according to Gun Violence Archive, 147 such lethal “incidents” in 2021 alone. As this article was being written Tuesday afternoon, an “active shooter” situation was underway in West Hempstead, N.Y.