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How The Las Vegas Killer Used Facebook To Exploit Gun Law Loopholes. By Igor Volsky "How The Las Vegas Killer Used Facebook To Exploit Gun Law Loopholes" CREDIT: Shutterstock Jerad Miller, one of the killers responsible for gunning down two police officers and a pedestrian in Las Vegas, Nevada on Sunday, tried to purchase weapons on Facebook one month before the deadly rampage.

How The Las Vegas Killer Used Facebook To Exploit Gun Law Loopholes

In a post dated May 8, Miller asks, “Need rifle. Can anyone help?” CREDIT: Facebook Screenshot. Georgia Governor Signs Bill Allowing Guns In Bars, Churches, Libraries And Schools. By Ian Millhiser "Georgia Governor Signs Bill Allowing Guns In Bars, Churches, Libraries And Schools" CREDIT: Shutterstock Georgia Gov.

Georgia Governor Signs Bill Allowing Guns In Bars, Churches, Libraries And Schools

Gun Control and Gun Rights Cartoons. CNN Decides Not To Count 80 Percent Of School Shootings. By Nicole Flatow "CNN Decides Not To Count 80 Percent Of School Shootings" A memorial for the victims of the elementary school massacre at Sandy Hook.

CNN Decides Not To Count 80 Percent Of School Shootings

Epidemiology of violence: Public health approaches can stop shootings. Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images Gary Slutkin is a professor of epidemiology and public health at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Epidemiology of violence: Public health approaches can stop shootings.

He is the founder and executive director of CURE Violence. Two shocking street killings by children inspired him apply the tools of epidemiology to violence—and discover how to immunize against it. Madhumita Venkataramanan: You began your career working on infectious diseases. What was your focus? What strategies were most successful for stopping the spread of disease?

I Loved The Pretty Dots On This Map ... But Upon Further Inspection, I Felt Sick To My Stomach. 8-year-old Follows Tenn. Lawmaker Until He Drops Bill Linking Welfare to School Grades. Man Convicted Of Domestic Violence Can't Possess A Gun, Supreme Court Rules. By Nicole Flatow "Man Convicted Of Domestic Violence Can’t Possess A Gun, Supreme Court Rules" CREDIT: Shutterstock When it comes to “domestic violence,” even pushing or grabbing can be sufficient to bar federal gun possession, the U.S.

Man Convicted Of Domestic Violence Can't Possess A Gun, Supreme Court Rules

Supreme Court concluded in a unanimous ruling issued Wednesday morning. The ruling could have significant implications in interpreting which state domestic violence laws bar gun possession. Because of this relationship between gun ownership and intimate violence, federal law bars those convicted of a misdemeanor domestic violence offense from possessing a gun. The Supreme Court disagreed with Castleman Wednesday, holding that the crime of “intentionally or knowingly” causing bodily injury to the mother of his child was a crime that involved “physical force,” and that Castleman was therefore barred from possessing a gun. This country witnesses more than a million acts of domestic violence, and hundreds of deaths from domestic violence, each year.

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Atentado en Boston. Look: 40 Pictures Of How Gun Freaks Celebrated ‘Gun Appreciation Day’ Saturday was “Gun Appreciation Day,” officially sponsored by a “broad coalition” of gun freaks, including a white nationalist hate group and CNN’s Erick Erickson’s RedState, and “celebrated” by thousands across America, who honored not the Second Amendment, not their fellow citizens, not the 20 massacred six and seven year olds from Sandy Hook, but their beloved guns.

Look: 40 Pictures Of How Gun Freaks Celebrated ‘Gun Appreciation Day’

The School Shootings You Didn’t Hear About—One Every Two Weeks Since Newtown. Persistent hard work on Capitol Hill and a new push from the White House are moving the shuttering of Guantanamo a lot closer to reality. Are we closer to closing Guantanamo? It’s beginning to look that way. Earlier this week the Republican-led House and the Democratic-led Senate reached a compromise as part of an annual defense policy bill that would make it easier to transfer detainees from Guantanamo to foreign countries willing to take them.

And while many in the press interpreted the news as evidence that Gitmo was here to stay, the bipartisan deal was actually a watershed moment in the long saga. La impresión de armas en 3D pone en jaque la frágil seguridad en EE.UU. Jeremy Hutchinson-Arkansas: GOP lawmaker who wants to arm teachers accidently shot a cop playing one during a training drill. Photo by Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images Jeremy Hutchinson, a Republican state senator in Arkansas, is one voice in an NRA-led chorus of them who want to see armed teachers in his state's classrooms.

Jeremy Hutchinson-Arkansas: GOP lawmaker who wants to arm teachers accidently shot a cop playing one during a training drill.

Only days after the tragic shooting in Newtown, Hutchinson proposed deputizing teachers who wanted to carry guns at work. And just yesterday, he continued to advocate for an Arkansas school district to be allowed to move forward with a plan to arm about 20 teachers, administrators and other staff this fall. Apparently, nothing will change his mind, as this are-you-sure-there-isn't-a-lesson-in-there anecdote uncovered by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette suggests (emphasis mine): Sen. After the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, Hutchinson became interested in arming school personnel, he said.

The experience gave Hutchinson some pause, but he still supports giving schools the authority to decide how best to secure their campuses. Armas, videos, violencia. One Nation Under The Gun: Thousands Of Gun Deaths Since Newtown. One Month On the morning of his murder, Feb. 11, Devin Aryal, 9, dressed to the ticking of his race car clock.

One Nation Under The Gun: Thousands Of Gun Deaths Since Newtown

His collection of stuffed animals, won from those arcade claw games, stared back at him from their perch on his top bunk. Devin felt he had outgrown the cutesy animal prints that had adorned the walls of his Oakdale, Minn., bedroom. He was in fourth grade now, after all. Without telling anyone, he had yanked the prints off his walls one by one. The night before, Devin had watched the Disney channel and played with his pirate gear and a couple of toy dinosaurs on his mother’s bed. "The morning was usual," recalled Melissa Aryal, Devin’s mother. On the seven-minute ride in their minivan, Aryal, 39, kept the radio off so she could talk with Devin. Senator Told Shooting Victim's Mother He Supported Background Checks, Then Voted Against Them.

By Ian Millhiser "Senator Told Shooting Victim’s Mother He Supported Background Checks, Then Voted Against Them" Shortly before the a crucial Senate vote to expand background checks in gun transactions, Sen.

Senator Told Shooting Victim's Mother He Supported Background Checks, Then Voted Against Them

"EE.UU. no tiene moral para prohibir que Venezuela venda armas" Una campaña con niños armados retrata la absurda legislación de armas de EE.UU. De este modo, la asociación Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America (que podría traducirse por 'madres que demandan acción por el sentido común sobre las armas en América’) pretende mostrar lo ridículas que resultan algunas normativas en la actualidad y la falta de regulación de armas en EE.UU.

Una campaña con niños armados retrata la absurda legislación de armas de EE.UU.

En uno de los anuncios de la campaña aparecen dos niñas. Una de ellas sostiene en sus manos un rifle, mientras que la otra sujeta un libro de 'Caperucita Roja'. En esa misma imagen se lee una frase que invita a la reflexión: “Una de estas niñas sostiene algo prohibido en América para protegerlas. The Undeniable Problem With Guns In One Quick Chart. NRA Ad Stuns Conservative Pundits Into Speechlessness Followed By Really Articulate Rage.