Last year’s bloodiest Chicago weekend saw 82 shot and 14 killed in one weekend. Those are the kinds of numbers that give the city its Chiraq nickname and the victims tend to be black. That’s something they have in common with the victims of the latest mass shootings. But they don’t get the same kind
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President Obama floated the idea of greater gun control during a White House statement Thursday in the wake of the mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church in Charleston. Police say Dylann Storm Roof, 21, entered the historical black church Wednesday night and opened fire, killing nine people. “Now’s the time for mourning and for
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaMuP2qLy04 Case Name: San Francisco CR1 3:30 PM Tuesday 6/16 Case Number: N/A Case Panel: N/A Hearing Location: San Francisco CA Hearing Date: 06/16/2015 http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/media/view_video.php?pk_vid=0000007833
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What if the Nazis could not disarm the Jews of Europe, a Scholar writes. Halbrook_macro_final_3_29 http://www.stephenhalbrook.com/law_review_articles/Halbrook_macro_final_3_29.pdf
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There was a time when it wasn’t considered so remarkable for a president to keep guns around. But it surprised novelist Brad Meltzer, when he was researching a book recently, to discover that Ronald Reagan carried often during his stint in the White House. Meltzer was impressed enough to write a piece on this discovery
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A Rasmussen poll released on June 12 shows that only one out of five Americans want to live in a place where they can’t be armed. According to Rasmussen, “68 percent” of Americans “prefer living in a neighborhood where they have the option of owning a gun.” Only “22 percent” desire to live “in a
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In California, a state with some of the strictest gun laws in the country, Sacramento County has become an oasis for gun owners wanting to carry their weapons in public. Thousands of residents have been issued concealed carry permits by the sheriff, Scott Jones, since he took office four years ago. During his campaign, Jones
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A Detroit woman was able to fight off five home invaders in a shootout early Tuesday morning. The woman, who has a concealed carry permit, took the robbers by surprise after they burst in her bedroom window,WDIV reports. “I was able to get to my gun. They didn’t know I had it. By that time, it
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Last week, the two authors of a study the FBI released on September 24, 2014, admitted they “got it wrong” when they “reported mass shootings were on the rise” in America. Outlets like The New York Times and the Associated Press had seized on the study by Texas State University’s J. Pete Blair and M. Hunter Martaindale as
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Long-time readers who have supported my work deserve an explanation, so here’s an update for those of you who have been wondering what’s going on with Gun Rights Examiner. Sorry it’s so long — there are many pieces to consider. I’ve been writing for them since 2008, and never had a column pulled before. Now
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