Almost 25 years ago, on April 20, 1999, American students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold attacked Columbine High School. They killed 15 people and injured 24 more. Their crimes have become a symbol of the type of violence that can be unleashed by disturbed teenagers who are discontent with life. …
Read More »Comedian slams Hollywood over mass shootings
Popular HBO comedian Bill Maher skewered Hollywood liberals for allegedly glorifying gun violence, and especially revenge in their films, then acting shocked when real-life imitators crop up. He partially blamed the violence-saturated movies being marketed to young men for the high levels of gun violence in the US, during his …
Read More »Shootings in Mexico-US border town leave at least 18 dead as mass crossings & crime spike force Texas to launch security crackdown
Unidentified gunmen riding in sport-utility vehicles shot people in various neighborhoods of Reynosa, just a stone’s throw from McAllen, Texas, on Saturday afternoon, Tamaulipas state law enforcement officials said. Identities of the victims haven’t been released, and police are investigating the motive. State, National Guard and army security forces were …
Read More »Stolen US Army pistol linked to 4 New York shootings, but military didn’t even know it was missing – media
AP revealed the worrying news on Tuesday after an investigation into at least 1,900 US military weapons that had been “lost or stolen” in the past decade – with some ending up on the streets. Though it’s not clear when exactly the 9mm Beretta M9 was stolen, it was used …
Read More »Reports of shootings & multiple deaths at school in capital of Tatarstan as Russian media claims one attacker still in building
An unnamed official told reporters that “nine people have been killed, including eight children and a teacher. 10 people have been injured, and four of them hospitalized.” Footage has begun emerging of children being treated for injuries in the grounds outside School No. 175 in the central Russian city, with …
Read More »The latest mass shootings in the US prove we must have an uncomfortable conversation about mental health – or more of us will die
The human mind can be a very scary place. In the public health sector, it’s hard to think of an area that has a worse stigma than mental illness. My belief, given what I’ve seen statistically and through personal experience, is that Americans have a cultural phobia about taking it …
Read More »Wayne Dupree: Biden’s new assault on gun ownership won’t solve mass shootings, but it’s not about that – it’s about disarming us
Fresh from solving all the nation’s problems with coronavirus (if only), Joe Biden has turned his sights on enacting new gun controls. Never one to miss an opportunity, he’s using the recent shootings in Colorado, which killed 10 people including a law enforcement officer, and Atlanta, which left eight dead, …
Read More »At least 7 killed in string of shootings at THREE different spas across metro Atlanta, Georgia
Police responded to reports of a shooting at Young’s Asian Massage near Acworth, Georgia – a suburb of Atlanta – on Tuesday, finding five suffering from gunshot wounds when they arrived, Cherokee County Sheriff’s spokesperson Howard Baker told CNN. Two were pronounced dead at the scene, while a third victim …
Read More »Swedish capital sees 79% spike in shootings as govt laments ‘high levels’ of violence in the Scandinavian country
Interior Minister Mikael Damberg disclosed on Monday that 47 people were killed and 117 injured in 366 shooting incidents in 2020, marking a 10 percent increase in gun violence when compared to statistics from 2019. Damberg noted that in nearly half of the shootings registered last year, someone was injured …
Read More »In Libya pass mass shootings
45 people were sentenced to death. 15 Aug Libyan court sentenced to death 45 people over the shooting of demonstrators during the protests of 2011 in Tripoli. The convicts were found guilty in the fact that they opened fire on protesters against Muammar Gaddafi, which was held in the capital …
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