Jarboe called the weekend violence a tragedy and asked the public to let the legal process play out.“At some point we’ve got to really look at how we as a community are dealing with our troubled youth,” he said.

Northwestern Michigan College, on whose campus Vanderwall was later found and arrested, was briefly placed on lockdown.

He noted that other constitutional amendments, such as the First, Fourth, Ninth, and Tenth Amendments, also used similar terminology and several focused on protecting individuals from infringement by the government. Silberman reasoned that nearly all of the Bill of Rights—save for the Tenth Amendment—protect against government infringement of individual rights. Thus, the Second Amendment also protects against governmental intrusion against an individual right to keep and bear arms.

a collective right of the states to arm the militia; (2) a limited individual right to bear arms but only as a member of the state militia; or (3) a free-standing individual right to keep and bear arms.

Common to all six plaintiffs was a genuine belief that they should have the ability to own a firearm to defend themselves. However, the District of Columbia filed a motion to dismiss the complaint, arguing that the Second Amendment simply did not protect an individual right to keep and bear arms. Instead, the District argued that the Second Amendment was written for fear that the federal government might disarm state militias.

A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

“My heart is breaking for the parents whose children have been injured or killed,” she wrote on social media.

Legislative Democrats and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer are pushing for

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer called gun violence a “uniquely American problem” that makes children afraid to go to school and makes adults feel unsafe when worshiping publicly or going to the grocery store.

“We have a choice. We can continue to debate the reasons behind gun violence in America or we can act,” he said in a statement. “I have no understanding left for those in a position to effect change who are unwilling to act.”

universal background checks, safe storage laws and “red flag” laws allowing a person’s gun to be taken away temporarily if they are deemed a danger to themselves or others as a top priority now that they control the legislative majority.

which in addition to background checks include safe storage  and “red flag” laws

In all, three MSU students were killed and five were critically injured in the mass shooting. Forbush was the first of the injured students to be discharged from Sparrow Hospital. Since then, two others have been discharged.

All eight Democrats voted yes while the five Republicans voted no.