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A gunman in Lafayette, Louisiana, who has been identified as a 58-year-old white man, killed three, including himself, and injured at least seven others during a shooting at a movie theater Thursday night. The shooter, whose name has not been disclosed, opened fire at a 7 p.m. screening of Trainwreck. Louisiana State Police spokesman Sgt. Brian…
When one writer suggested that guns can be regulated without anyone’s rights being infringed, he lost his job. Dick Metcalf told his story this morning to a skeptical crowd. Lisa Roe/Flickr We noticed that you have an AD BLOCKER ENABLED Please consider disabling it for our site, or supporting our work in one of these…
/.article-header__top Economists on the left and right alike embrace the theory behind the levy the city council president wants to implement. But the political realities are where things get sticky. /.article-header__hgroup /.article-meta /.l__article-header Gun violence doesn’t just harm individual victims — shootings also strain public coffers when the government is on the hook for medical…
Alleged Charleston gunman Dylann Roof wrote that he was never the same after discovering a website with “pages upon pages of these brutal black on white murders.” The pages that left Roof in disbelief were the product of a white-nationalist group subsidized by American taxpayers. The Council of Conservative Citizens Inc. is listed by the Internal Revenue…
On Thursday morning’s “Fox & Friends,” hosts Steve Doocy, Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Brian Kilmeade demonstrated a fairly impressive feat for a five-minute segment, denying that racism is a widespread problem in the U.S. then swiftly arguing that it isn’t their fault they didn’t know Dylann Storm Roof, the Charleston shooter, was a white supremacist. Hasselbeck…
No one questions the legality of the permits, but some officials worry about public safety. Cedar County (Iowa) Sheriff Warren Wethington has been teaching his daughter, Bethany, to use firearms. A brain tumor left Bethany, 18, partially blind, but he believes that once she becomes of legal age to purchase firearms, she should not be…
Now that Dylann Roof is in custody and has been charged with nine counts of murder, the question is: how will he plead? The speculation in days following in the massacre is that Roof will plead like fellow mass shooter James Holmes did and claim not guilty by reason of insanity. That scenario seems much…
The manifesto of mass murderer Dylann Storm Roof, the 21-year-old South Carolina man who attacked Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church last week and killed nine African-American congregants, has been discovered online by Twitter users Emma Quangel and Henry Krinkle. The manifesto, found on a website titled “Last Rhodesian,” contained both a rambling text file describing Roof’s ideology…
Dylann Storm Roof is a domestic terrorist. He is a 21-year-old White supremacist. He has made it as clear as possible that he hates Black people. He went into Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, one of our nation’s oldest Black churches, in Charleston, South Carolina, armed with a loaded gun and said to the congregants:…
We have only begun to graze the tip of the iceberg when it comes to obscene, disgusting wingnut reactions to the Charleston mass murder that ended the lives of 9 black churchgoers, aged from 26 to 87, on Wednesday night. So we guess it’s time for NRA people to start saying words, and surprise, they are…