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[Link] Virginia Walmart manager opened fire in break room before killing six, witness says
Read: 23/11/2022 www.abc.net.au
Officers in Virginia responded to the mass shooting at the supermarket on Sam's Circle on Tuesday shortly after 10pm local time, Chesapeake Police spokesman Leo Kosinski said in a briefing. There was no clear motive for the shooting, which also left four people in the hospital.
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[Link] Far-right InfoWars website files for bankruptcy protection
Read: 18/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
Facing multiple defamation lawsuits, the far-right website InfoWars on Sunday voluntarily filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in federal court in Texas.
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[Link] Gun Owners in San Jose Outraged They’ll Have to Buy Insurance, Like Drivers
Read: 27/1/2022 www.vice.com
Owning a gun in the city of San Jose will soon have a lot in common with owning a car. In two landslide votes Tuesday night, the San Jose City Council approved a first-of-its-kind law that mandates gun owners buy and maintain liability insurance and pay an annual feee.
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[Link] Republican Tweets Grossest Christmas Card of All Time
Read: 6/12/2021 www.vice.com
On Saturday, the Kentucky Republican tweeted a photo of himself and his family all holding firearms with the message, “Merry Christmas! ps. Santa, please bring ammo.”
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[Link] Parents of Michigan Shooting Suspect Are On Suicide Watch
Read: 6/12/2021 www.vice.com
James and Jennifer Crumbley pleaded not guilty Saturday to four counts of involuntary manslaughter, which they were charged with in connection with their son’s alleged mass shooting at Oxford High School.
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[Link] Alleged Michigan School Shooter Made Gun Video, Had Parents Called Into School
Read: 2/12/2021 www.vice.com
Ethan Crumbley, who has since been charged as an adult with murder, attempted murder, and terrorism causing death, used a 9mm Sig Sauer handgun belonging to his father and shot 10 students and one teacher during his rampage at the school on Tuesday, according to authorities. .
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[Link] TikTok Says Being Victim of Mass Shooting ‘Could Result in You Getting Hurt’
Read: 2/12/2021 www.vice.com
One student inside the school took their phone out and filmed the scene inside the classroom, where students were locked in. The gunman was outside, asking to be let in and pretending to be a sheriff. The students did not fall for it.
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[Link] Michigan Shooting Suspect’s Parents Could Be Charged for Not Locking Up Gun
Read: 2/12/2021 www.vice.com
The father of the 15-year-old charged in Tuesday’s horrific school shooting in Michigan bought the gun suspected in the killings just four days prior. Now, he and the child’s mother might be charged as well, the county’s top prosecutor said Wednesday.
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[Link] US teen shoots and kills three fellow students, wounds six
Read: 1/12/2021 www.abc.net.au
Police said they did not know what the teenager's motives were for the attack at Oxford High School, about 50 kilometres north of Detroit. Officers responded at about 12:55pm to emergency calls about a shooter at the school. A teacher is among those wounded.
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[Link] Arizona students seek Kyle Rittenhouse removal from online nursing classes
Read: 29/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
A small but vocal alliance of left-leaning students at Arizona State University (ASU) is demanding Kyle Rittenhouse be removed from online classes, despite the teen’s acquittal this month on charges of murdering two men and injuring another during protests for racial justice in Wisconsin last year
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[Link] Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers Were Justified Because Break-Ins ‘Scared’ Them, Defense Says
Read: 22/11/2021 www.vice.com
Travis McMichael had every reason to fear a 25-year-old Black man running through his neighborhood and was justified in attempting to make a “citizen’s arrest” that led to the deadly shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, an attorney for the defense said in one final appeal to jurors.
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[Link] NRA Shell Companies Funneled Up to $35 Million to GOP Candidates, Lawsuit Says
Read: 7/11/2021 www.vice.com
The nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center and Giffords, the gun safety advocacy group started by former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband Sen. Mark Kelly, filed the federal lawsuit on Tuesday in D.C.
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[Link] Lawyers for Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers Really Want to Stay Away From Race
Read: 6/11/2021 www.vice.com
During opening statements in the murder trial against Ahmaud Arbery's killers, defense attorneys avoided mentioning race almost entirely.
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[Link] How the 'Craigslist of Guns' Helps Arm Cartels in Mexico
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
Investigators traced guns found in the border city of Reynosa back to Americans who used the website Armslist.
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[Link] Parkland school shooter pleads guilty to 17 counts of murder
Read: 23/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Nikolas Cruz has pleaded guilty to murdering 17 people during a rampage at his former high school in Parkland, Florida, leaving a jury to decide whether he will be executed for one of the nation's deadliest school shootings.
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[Link] A Proud ‘Lady Trump’ Is Running For Nevada Governor
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Fiore is perhaps best known for her hardline gun rights advocacy. In December 2015, Fiore posted a family Christmas photo to Facebook showing her entire family holding guns—including her five-year-old grandson.
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[Link] US supreme court convenes for pivotal term – with its credibility on the line
Read: 5/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Eight justices of the US supreme court donned their black robes and returned to their austere, column-lined courtroom on Monday at the start of a new judicial term that has the potential to radically transform fundamental aspects of American life, from accessing abortion to carrying guns outside the
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[Link] The NRA Is Bankrupt But It Still Owns America’s Gun Agency
Read: 23/9/2021 www.thedailybeast.com
The NRA declared bankruptcy; its longtime chief executive, Wayne LaPierre, has been disgraced, setting the gun rights group back on its heels.
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[Link] Missouri couple who pointed guns at protesters may have law licenses revoked
Read: 22/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
Mark and Patricia McCloskey, a Missouri couple who became famous for pointing guns at protesters marching for racial justice last summer, could have their law licenses revoked.
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[Link] FBI Bankrolled Publisher of Occult Neo-Nazi Books, Feds Claim
Read: 26/8/2021 www.vice.com
The publishing house is Martinet Press, fine purveyors of Atomwaffen Division-approved books such as Iron Gates and Liber 333. The former is a book about a Satanic cult roaming a post-apocalyptic America, which opens with a scene of a child being murdered.
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[Link] How Smugglers Flood Mexico With Cheap U.S. Guns
Read: 6/8/2021 www.vice.com
U.S. gun laws are easily exploited by traffickers and cartels in Mexico, who have caused devastation in their wake. The following is an adapted excerpt from Ioan Grillo’s latest book, Blood Gun Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartels.
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[Link] FedEx says no plan to change cell phone policy in work areas
Read: 18/4/2021 www.commercialappeal.com
FedEx Corp. does not plan to change its cell phone policy following the mass shooting Thursday near Indianapolis. The Memphis-based carrier restricts employees from carrying cell phones in some work areas.
[Link] ‘An international embarrassment’: Biden announces gun violence plan
Read: 9/4/2021 www.smh.com.au
Washington: Joe Biden has announced a series of policies aimed at curbing gun violence in the US, a phenomenon the President described as an “epidemic” and “international embarrassment“.
[Link] A Michigan woman asked county officials to denounce the Proud Boys. One commissioner flashed a rifle instead.
Read: 24/1/2021 www.washingtonpost.com
Keli MacIntosh intended to speak before the Grand Traverse County Board of Commissioners this week with a straightforward demand: Would the board openly denounce the Proud Boys after the Jan. 6 riots on the U.S. Capitol?