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Alison Parker and Adam Ward – WDBJ Alison Parker and Adam Ward – WDBJ MONEAT, Virginia – A reporter and photographer from a local news station in Roanoke were shot and killed during a live news interview on Wednesday morning. The shooting occurred at Smith Mountain Lake in Moneta, Virginia. WDBJ confirmed the deaths of…
Justice Republicans Say You Should Be Able To Carry Guns Everywhere. This Proves They Don’t Mean It. by Scott Keyes Aug 25, 2015 8:00am “Get rid of gun free zones,” Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump tweeted after a gunman massacred five in Chattanooga last month. “Gun-free zones an easy target for killers” an opinion…
A sign posted outside a Regal theater warns patrons of the chain’s bag search policy.(Photo: WBIR) You already submit your bags for a security check at airports, sports arenas, amusement parks and museums. Now, in the wake of recent theater shootings, you may have to get checked before entering your local multiplex. Regal Entertainment Group, the nation’s…
Related Editor’s note: This post has been updated. A 49-year-old police trainee killed an unarmed teen burglary suspect who drove an SUV into the showroom of an Arlington car dealership early Friday. Officer Brad Miller shot 19-year-old Christian Taylor about 1 a.m. after officers responded to a burglar alarm at Classic Buick GMC near Interstate…
Continue reading the main story Video Jury Reads Holmes Verdict James Holmes was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in a Colorado courtroom Friday. The jury was unable to reach the unanimous verdict required for the death penalty. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS on Publish Date August 7, 2015. Photo by Pool…
ANTIOCH, Tenn. (Sinclair Broadcast Group) — A 29-year-old man, identified by police as Vicente David Montano, was carrying a pellet gun and a hatchet in a Tennessee movie theater Wednesday afternoon before police shot and killed him, police said. New information and photos by police show the weapons the man carried into the theater. One…
In a study commissioned by the National Gun Victims Action Council, the group found that people without firearms training performed poorly in simulated scenarios, like a carjacking, an armed robbery and a suspected larceny. (National Gun Victims Action Council) In the wake of the Sandy Hook school shooting, the National Rifle Association proposed putting more guns…
From Columbine to Charleston, here’s a look at some of the most notable U.S. mass shootings. (Alice Li/The Washington Post) The headlines all start to sound the same after awhile. Seven people shot inside Louisville nightclub. Four men shot in Suffolk early Sunday morning. Two dead, two hospitalized in Brice Street shooting. The shootings happen so often, the…
If the online footprint of the Lafayette shooter identified by police as John Russell Houser, who killed two and injured nine others during a Thursday night showing of Amy Schumer’s Trainwreck before then killing himself, is any indication, Obama has really outdone himself in the false flag department this time. What did Houser hate? Pretty much…
Photo Outside the Grand Theater in Lafayette, La., where a man fired on people at a screening of “Trainwreck.” The gunman was one of the dead. Credit Lee Celano/Reuters LAFAYETTE, La. — Three people were killed and seven were injured when a man opened fire in a movie theater here on Thursday night, officials said….