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A former friend who had reconnected with the man accused of a shooting massacre inside a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, said Dylann Storm Roof had become an avowed racist. Joey Meek reconnected with Roof a few weeks ago and said that while they got drunk together on vodka, Roof began complaining that…
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South Carolina Gun Violence South Carolina’s rates of gun crime are some of the worst in the nation. • South Carolina is the seventh-deadliest state for gun homicide: There were 5 gun murders for every 100,000 people in the state in 2010, 39 percent higher than the national average of 3.6 gun murders per 100,000…
Bravo Jon for keeping it real. @Kwam_E ▶ Jon Stewart on Charleston South Carolina Shooting. Daily Show 6/18/2015 – YouTube.
Updated June 18, 2015 1:08 p.m. ET CHARLESTON, S.C.—Dylann Roof—the white man suspected of killing nine people at a historic black church in an alleged hate crime here on Wednesday night—is in custody, authorities said. Mr. Roof was arrested during a traffic stop in Shelby, N.C. shortly after 11 a.m. local time Thursday following a…
President Obama spoke briefly about the church shooting in Charleston that left nine dead, in what the Department of Justice and other authorities are investigating as a hate crime. There’s no official word from the feds on what kind of hate crime, so per Fox News and other rightwing “news” outlets, it’s likely the alleged…
That was fast! It only took a few hours for Fox to toss up an editorial explaining that the best explanation of why six women and three men were shot to death in their church Wednesday night is that nobody in the church was packing heat like they should have been. Professional gunhumper and FoxNews.com columnist…
Joe Stack had simply had enough. Every time this fifty-three-year-old independent engineer and software consultant from Austin, Texas, had set aside any money at all for retirement, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) seemed to change the tax laws or whittled away at his earnings with new restrictions. A change in the income-tax regulations in 1986…
Photo Charleston police released a photograph taken from surveillance footage of the man who is believed to be the gunman. Credit Charleston Police Department, via Reuters CHARLESTON, S.C. — An intense manhunt was underway on Thursday for a white gunman who opened fire on Wednesday night at a historic black church in this city’s downtown,…
The Department of Justice will continue to do everything in its power to help the city of Chicago combat gun violence. These new agents are a sign of the federal government’s ongoing commitment to helping local leaders ensure Chicago’s streets are safe. – U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder In July 2014, seven agents from the…