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div.fin_story_menu Story Photos Photos » ROSEBURG, Ore. – A man who rushed to try and stop the shooter on the Umpqua Community College campus Thursday is now recovering at the hospital. Army veteran Chris Mintz, 30, was shot 7 times when he tried to stop the gunman in Thursday’s mass shooting….
No amount of murder seems likely to result in gun control any time soon. So let’s do what we can to stop the lunacy—by reserving the limelight for the vet who rushed Thursday’s shooter. Think of Chris Mintz, who was shot while rushing a killer on his son’s sixth birthday. Forget the zero and remember…
Autoplay Show Thumbnails Show Captions Last SlideNext Slide Delta State University history professor Ethan A. Schmidt(Photo: Delta State University) 2:59 p.m. update: Lamb’s Facebook page says he received his doctorate this year, and he tells people that it may have “dropped off the face of the earth for the past 18 months or so.” Meanwhile…
John Howard, who served as prime minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007, is no one’s idea of a lefty. He was one of George W. Bush’s closest allies, enthusiastically backing the Iraq intervention, and took a hard line domestically against increased immigration and union organizing (pdf). But one of Howard’s other lasting legacies is Australia’s gun…
One person is dead and three more are injured after a gunman opened fire in a Prospect-Lefferts Gardens hookah lounge early this morning. According to police, the shooting occurred at Buda Lounge on Flatbush Avenue just before 3 a.m. One 27-year-old man, who was shot in the head and torso, was pronounced dead at Kings…
Per an alert sent to students by school administrators, Savannah State University in Georgia is on lockdown while campus police investigate a shooting near the student union. One man has been taken to the hospital, CBS 46 reports. “The SSU campus is on lockdown following a shooting incident this evening at or near the Student…
Soon after the on-air shootings of two Virginia journalists, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and other Democratic politicians called on Congress to take up gun control. “We have got to do something about gun violence in America — and I will take it on,” Clinton told reporters in Iowa. “There are many people who face it…
George Zimmerman, the killer of Trayvon Martin who was last seen hawking paintings of the Confederate battle flag that praised the Second Amendment, took to Twitter in the wake of yesterday’s shootings of Alison Parker and Adam Ward to condemn the “Black [piece of shit]” who murdered them and the “Ignorant Baboon” in the White…
This is what we will tell you about the two young TV journalists for Virginia station WDBJ who were shot to death on Wednesday, on air. Reporter Alison Parker had just turned 24, and had celebrated her birthday with her colleague and boyfriend, Chris Hurst. Cameraman Adam Ward, 27, was engaged to the station’s morning producer, Melissa…
While we know guns had nothing to do with the tragedy today that took the lives of Virginia TV station WDBJ reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward, in addition to the suicide of the shooter, a disgruntled former employee of the station, we thought we’d mention some other recent deaths in which guns had…