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The mass murder of nine people on a community college campus in Roseburg, Oregon last week was the 45th school shooting in 2015. And to illustrate how often stories of gun violence cycle through news broadcasts, Daily Show correspondent Jessica Williams revealed to new host Trevor Noah that she “pre-tapes” discussion of “these terrible, unending stories.” “I’m sick…
Police received a report of that a man with a gun had threatened another student, Officer Leeloni Palmiero said. No shots or injuries were immediately reported. The school, in a tweet posted shortly before 11 a.m. ET, said the college’s main campus was on lockdown because of “police activity.” “Police activity on campus. Main campus…
Stephen Colbert is exasperated with America’s unwillingness to do anything about itsvery unique gun problem. Breaking the comedic tone on his show on Friday, Colbert echoed what’s now a common theme in the discussion about guns: Why doesn’t anything change? Commenting specifically on the Umpqua Community College shooting in Oregon, Colbert said: In the face of the…
Elizabeth Warren at the Washington Ideas Forum: “They can try to move women back to 1955…they’re gonna be in real trouble over it.”Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Elizabeth Warren has been a reliable proponent of both reproductive justice and incredulous zingers. In August, the Massachusetts senator expressed concern over the mental health of her cohorts…
In the hours between the shooting spree at Umpqua Community College and the moment news networks were able to name Chris Harper Mercer as the alleged gunman, crowds on social media clamored for a name to fill the informational void. 4chan gave them two, both of whom turned out to be alive, and neither of…
“Stuff happens” was the dumbest and most unfortunate thing Jeb! Bush said Friday in reaction to the mass shooting at an Oregon community college one day earlier, but his fumbling attempt to clean up that mess was nearly as rife with dumbitude and non-fortune. http://gawker.com/jeb-bush-deliv… After challenging a reporter to tell him “what I said…
If death rays are outlawed, then only lawless Martians will have death rays My Right to Keep & Bear a Death Ray Look, I’m glad you support my right to bear small arms. That’s awfully swell of you. But the Bill of Rights puts no such weaselly little adjectives in front of “arms,” OK? It’s…
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has said at least nine of its staff have been killed in an overnight bombing of a hospital in the embattled Afghan city of Kunduz. The attack early on Saturday also wounded 37 people, including 19 MSF staff, the medical charity told Al Jazeera. Officials of MSF later told Reuters…
Over the course of the day we’ve had a handful of readers write in to ask or demand that we not report the name of the shooter, Chris Harper Mercer, in the Oregon school massacre. As the massacres continue, an increasing number of people think that we should expunge the names of the offenders both…
Jeb Bush’s growing list of unfortunate comments 10/02/15 04:43 PM EDT A day after a massacre on a U.S. college campus, Jeb Bush said “stuff happens” but that it should not lead to tighter gun restrictions. This isn’t the first time the 2016 contender, who has been struggling to connect with voters, has conveyed his…