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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
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
on Wed Nov 14, 2018 at 06:19 PM PST
with 387 Recommends
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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
on Tue Nov 13, 2018 at 12:34 PM PST
with 150 Recommends
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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
on Tue Nov 13, 2018 at 11:49 AM PST
with 19 Recommends
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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
on Tue Nov 13, 2018 at 08:27 AM PST
with 412 Recommends
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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
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
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
on Sat Nov 10, 2018 at 05:10 PM PST
with 226 Recommends
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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
on Fri Nov 09, 2018 at 03:52 PM PST
with 147 Recommends
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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
on Fri Nov 09, 2018 at 11:37 AM PST
with 78 Recommends
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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
on Fri Nov 09, 2018 at 08:05 AM PST
with 9 Recommends
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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
on Wed Nov 07, 2018 at 04:06 PM PST
with 28 Recommends
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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
on Tue Nov 06, 2018 at 08:27 AM PST
with 52 Recommends
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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
on Sun Nov 04, 2018 at 09:29 AM PST
with 113 Recommends
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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
on Sat Nov 03, 2018 at 05:30 PM PDT
with 23 Recommends
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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
on Sat Nov 03, 2018 at 10:46 AM PDT
with 158 Recommends
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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
on Sat Nov 03, 2018 at 06:19 AM PDT
with 167 Recommends
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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
on Thu Nov 01, 2018 at 10:16 AM PDT
with 57 Recommends
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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
on Mon Oct 29, 2018 at 12:44 PM PDT
with 22 Recommends
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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
on Mon Oct 29, 2018 at 12:41 PM PDT
with 19 Recommends
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