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The Kentucky Kroger shooting suspect now faces three hate-crime charges and three firearms charges, courtesy of a federal grand jury in Louisville, the Associated Press reports.
U.S. Attorney Russell Coleman said Gregory Bush is charged with...
by Jessica Sutherland
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on Thu Nov 15, 2018 at 05:37 PM PST
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Bodycams, dash cams, cell phone cameras—they’re the tools we use to hold police accountable these days. But too often, the footage shows violence already inflicted upon citizens, and it’s far too late to help the victims. Not so with the case of Grace...
by Jessica Sutherland
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on Wed Nov 14, 2018 at 06:19 PM PST
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Seven months after shooting at a teenager seeking directions to school, a former Detroit firefighter was sentenced to a minimum of four years in prison on Tuesday. Jeffrey Zeigler, of Rochester Hills, Michigan, was convicted in October for his...
by Jessica Sutherland
72 comments
on Tue Nov 13, 2018 at 12:34 PM PST
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Jemel Roberson, a 26-year-old security guard at a bar in Robbins, Illinois, reportedly stopped a drunk patron who opened fire in the establishment. A police officer from nearby Midlothian, upon arriving at Manny's Blue Room Lounge in response to...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Tue Nov 13, 2018 at 11:49 AM PST
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One of the most indefensible stances of the NRA—in a sea of indefensible stances—is that medical professionals and government public health experts cannot use taxpayer money to research gun violence in our country. After a few hundred American deaths...
by Walter Einenkel
176 comments
on Tue Nov 13, 2018 at 08:27 AM PST
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Haven’t Americans promised to, do unto others as we hope they will do unto us, love thy neighbor as thyself, elevate tired and poor to Land of the Free opportunities, instead of duping devout, eviscerating electorate, and violating campaign finance...
by The Reasonable Voice
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on Mon Nov 12, 2018 at 08:32 AM PST
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As I milled about my house doing mundane morning chores I was considering gun control, Republicans, and abortion. I was thinking about how sad it is that so many Americans, even school children, have survived mass shooting; we are growing a substantial...
by pumbles
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on Sun Nov 11, 2018 at 10:47 AM PST
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Another day, another racist gets caught being racist and faces significant consequences. Today we head to Bellaire, Texas, home to nearly 17,000 folks, most of whom happen to be white. The Houston suburb made headlines in 2009 when police officers shot...
by Jessica Sutherland
147 comments
on Sat Nov 10, 2018 at 05:10 PM PST
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FAnother mass shooting, another mass effort to “understand” the (usually) white male behind the massacre. This week’s violence takes us to Thousand Oaks in Ventura County, California. Often hailed as one of the most desirable places to live, this...
by Jessica Sutherland
72 comments
on Fri Nov 09, 2018 at 03:52 PM PST
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi promises action on gun violence, in the midst of a particularly horrifying few weeks of mass shootings. "The American people deserve real action to end the daily epidemic of gun violence that is stealing the lives of...
by Joan McCarter
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on Fri Nov 09, 2018 at 11:37 AM PST
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I had another sense of deja vu while listening and reading about the mass killing at the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, California, where, on November 9, ex-marine Ian David Long killed twelve people including Ventura County Sheriff’s...
by stonehenge
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on Fri Nov 09, 2018 at 08:05 AM PST
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It is little more than a week now since everything changed for our America’s Jewish people. The worst anti-semitic hate crime in our country’s history occurred Saturday before last. A gunman massacred eleven people who were worshiping in the Tree of...
by Sara R
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on Wed Nov 07, 2018 at 04:06 PM PST
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The students, turned survivors, turned activists of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, are some of the most amazing and hard-working young people in this country. In between their work on today’s #WalkoutToVote initiative and...
by Jessica Sutherland
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on Tue Nov 06, 2018 at 08:27 AM PST
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Before Scott Beierle, 40, opened fire with a handgun in a Tallahesse yoga studio, murdering two, injuring five, and allegedly killing himself with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, he had an active presence spouting misogyny and racism online, as...
by Marissa Higgins
58 comments
on Sun Nov 04, 2018 at 09:29 AM PST
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From CNN:
Police tape surrounds the Tree of Life synagogue. On Friday, Pittsburgh's Jews worshiped there anyway
The last burial occurred today in Squirrel Hill for Rose Mallinger, 97, at Rodef Shalom.
Rabbi Myers said that "an angel" had...
by remembrance
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on Sat Nov 03, 2018 at 05:30 PM PDT
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Scott Paul Beierle, 40, allegedly opened fire in a Tallahassee yoga studio Friday evening, killing two people and injuring five others. Beierle was dead when officers arrived at the scene, seemingly of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Chief of Police...
by Marissa Higgins
110 comments
on Sat Nov 03, 2018 at 10:46 AM PDT
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A Parkland, Florida parent—who tragically lost his son in a mass school shooting this year—is turning art into a way to raise voter awareness about the urgent need for sensible gun laws.
Manuel Oliver, the father of Joaquin “Guac," who was one of...
by First Amendment
29 comments
on Sat Nov 03, 2018 at 06:19 AM PDT
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After the shooting in the church in Charleston, South Carolina, I wanted to post an article about gun control, but I was too angry to write coherently until several days passed. Then when I was finally able to use my anger wisely, I wrote advocating...
by Stephen Dreyfus
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on Thu Nov 01, 2018 at 10:16 AM PDT
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A high school in Matthews, North Carolina, resumed classes on Monday just hours after one student shot and killed another on campus ― a disturbing indication of just how common gun violence has become in the...
by lishaoyun
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on Mon Oct 29, 2018 at 12:44 PM PDT
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This will be brief, but I haven’t seen it mentioned at all here. One student is dead after being shot this morning at Butler High School in Matthews, NC, a Charlotte suburb.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Superintendent Clayton Wilcox said one...
by SteelerGrrl
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on Mon Oct 29, 2018 at 12:41 PM PDT
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