‘Red flag’ gun laws under spotlight in N.J., U.S. after Buffalo shootings

Buffalo shooting op-ed

A police officer lifts the tape cordoning off the scene of a shooting at a supermarket, in Buffalo, N.Y., Sunday, May 15, 2022. A white 18-year-old wearing military gear and livestreaming with a helmet camera opened fire with a rifle at a supermarket in Buffalo, killing and wounding people in what authorities described as “racially motivated violent extremism.” (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP

When the 18-year-old man accused of gunning down 10 Black shoppers and employees at a Buffalo supermarket was a senior in high school, a school survey asked him what he planned to do after he graduated.

“Murder-suicide,” Payton Gendron wrote, according to the Associated Press.

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