UPDATE: Police Find No Evidence Of Gunshots At Target Headquarters
Police are swarming Target Headquarters in Minneapolis this morning after receiving reports of shots fired at the retailer's campus.The call first came in at 11:10 a.m. central time but no active...
View ArticleThe Morality Of Making Guns On A 3D Printer
By now you've probably heard about Defense Distributed, a Texas organization that aims to distribute files for making firearms on professional-grade 3D printers.The group also intends to scale these...
View ArticleGun Shoppers Joined Other Black Friday Shoppers In Record Numbers
For the second consecutive year, prospective gun buyers joined Black Friday shoppers in record numbers as firearms dealers swamped the FBI with required buyer background check requests.The FBI fielded...
View ArticleHow US Weapons Are Fueling Mexican Gang Violence
MEXICO CITY, Mexico — After a drugs gang murdered his son last year, the poet Javier Sicilia decided the best way to help staunch the flow of American guns fueling the horrific violence wracking his...
View ArticleThis US Marine Is Chained To Bed In A Mexican Prison Over A Simple...
U.S. Marine Infantryman Jon Hammar survived Fallujah and Afghanistan only to find himself in chains, strapped to a bed in solitary confinement in a Mexican prison.All over an innocent Aug. 13 trip to...
View ArticleAre We Stupid? How Long Are We Going To Allow Gun Violence To Go On?
Editor's note: We first published this post in August, after a series of shootings. Today, 27 people – and 14 children – died in another one. How long are we going to let this go on?So there's been...
View ArticleHere's A Timeline Of Mass Murders In The US This Year
At least 28 people are reported dead after an elementary school shooting rampage. Get the latest update on this breaking story here >The tragedy, the worst since the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007,...
View ArticleNewtown May Be One Of The Deadliest School Shootings The World Has Ever Seen
Early fatality figures coming out of Newtown dwarf those from Columbine and almost all other school shootings.Based on the horrifying number of deaths currently being reported — possibly between 27 and...
View ArticleThis Is A Bushmaster Model .223, One Of The Guns The Sandy Hook Shooter...
The Bushmaster .223 rifle is one model AR-15 semi-automatic rifle with a legacy that looks to be growing if CNN reports are correct.The Cable News Network reports (as of Friday at 4:00 p.m. EDT) that...
View ArticleHow Japan Virtually Eliminated Shooting Deaths
Editor's note: In light of yesterday's tragic elementary school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, we are re-publishing a contributed article from July 23, 2012. Follow our full coverage of the school...
View ArticleColorado Man Tells Us Why He Owns An Assault Rifle
Editor's note: This story originally ran on July 25, 2012, after this summer's shootings in Aurora, Colorado. We are republishing it in the wake of yesterday's tragedy.It's for sport.Frank Taylor, a...
View ArticleRUPERT MURDOCH: 'When Will Politicians Find Courage To Ban Automatic Weapons?'
News Corp. chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch called for an automatic weapons ban Friday night, hours after the deadly school shooting in Newtown, Conn. left 26 dead, including 20 children.Fully automatic...
View ArticleNew Details About Sandy Hook Shooting Suspect Adam Lanza
New details are emerging about the troubling circumstances surrounding Adam Lanza, who allegedly shot and killed his mother Nancy at their home in Newtown, Conn. Friday morning before going to Sandy...
View ArticleDIANNE FEINSTEIN: l'm Ready To Introduce An Assault Weapons Ban Bill On The...
U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said Sunday that she will introduce an assault weapons ban bill on the first day that the new Congress begins this January."I'm going to introduce in the Senate, and...
View ArticleWhy Are Americans So Obsessed With Guns?
Every day, 80 Americans are shot to death. The terrible slaughter at Sandy Hook is not as unusual as it should be.The massacre of innocents at a primary school in Newtown, Connecticut, on Friday was...
View ArticleMIKE BLOOMBERG: The Power Of The NRA 'Is Vastly Overrated'
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economyNew York City Michael Bloomberg called for strong legislation to crack down on gun control Sunday, dismissing the power of the...
View ArticleLIEBERMAN: We Need A 'National Commission On Mass Violence'
Responding to the massacre in his home state that left 26 people — including 20 children — last week, retiring Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) said Sunday that the country needs a national commission to find...
View ArticleHere's Joe Scarborough's Stirring Soliloquy On Gun Control
MSNBC anchor Joe Scarborough opened "Morning Joe" today with a moving, 10-minute monologue in which he urged lawmakers to push for stricter measures on gun control, saying they can "no longer be...
View ArticleBlame Narcissistic Culture For The Rise Of Mass Shootings
There is one question that the pious critics of America's so-called gun culture cannot answer. If mass school shootings like that in Connecticut really are a product of the apparently mad Second...
View ArticleHere's What Barack Obama Can Actually Do About Gun Control
In the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary school murders — the seventeenth mass shooting of 2012 — there is renewed public pressure on Washington to address gun violence in an effort to prevent similar...
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