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Category Archives: News
Friday Morning Miscellany: Gun Edition
Obama’s Gun Pulpit: The New Yorker offers perspective for the President’s Wednesday speech January 19 is Gun Appreciation Day Could ”smart guns” prevent the next Newtown? Spring City, Utah, Wants Everybody to be Armed Newtown School Districts Rejects NRA Plan to Arm Teachers — and they’re not pleased with the … Continue reading
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Friday Morning Miscellany: No-Gun Edition
The Art of the Pickpocket (with video) Burglar Forgets Mask, Puts Bucket Over His Head Instead: Watch the video here Father Hires Video Game Assassin to Kill Son’s Character Basking Ridge, New Jersey Explains Why Permits For Mosques Should Be Handled Differently From Permits For Churches (though their argument might … Continue reading
Posted in Current Criminal Justice Headline News, Don't Be a Victim, Lighter Side, Media-Articles, News, Weird World Of Crime
Tagged assassination, fraud, insanity defense, JFK, law, mosques, Muslims, Newtown, NRA, pickpockets, Sandy Hook elementary School, stupid criminals, video games, Warren Commission Report
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Should psychiatrists (and other mental health professionals) be required to report to the government (without exception) any patients with homicidal or suicidal impulses?
This is a provision of New York State’s sweeping new gun law, passed in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings (and of course inspired as well by other high-profile shootings, such as last year’s attack at the Aurora, Colorado movie theatre, and the 2011 shooting of Congresswoman … Continue reading
Updates: James Holmes’s Insanity Defense (and Another Lawsuit), the Duke University Lacrosse Players Falsely Accused of Rape, Newtown Fraudster Indicted, and James Yeager Apologizes (kind of)
The widow of one of James Holmes’s (alleged) victims is suing Holmes’s former psychiatrist (New link, to replace Yahoo’s dead one) Why James Holmes’s Insanity Defense Might Actually Succeed: analysis from The Atlantic The three former Duke University lacrosse players who were accused of rape in 2006 will ask the … Continue reading
Indiana Legislator Introduces Bill Ordering School Children to Recite the Lord’s Prayer, Adding ”We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ First Amendment!”
Okay, just kidding about that last part. Mostly. Dennis Kruse, a Republican state senator in Indiana (and chair of the senate’s education committee) is introducing a bill that would the recitation of the Lord’s Prayer in all public schools “[i]n order that each student recognize the importance of spiritual development … Continue reading
Posted in Current Criminal Justice Headline News, News, Polls
Tagged First Amendment, polls, religion
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CEO of Firearms and Tactical Training School Loses Gun Permit After Releasing a Video Threatening to Kill Anybody Who Comes For His Guns
This is the video posted by James Yeager, the CEO of Tactical Response, a Tennessee firearms and tactical training school. Neither Yeager nor his school is certified by the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security. The video is Not Even Remotely Safe For Work. This was the Tennessee Department … Continue reading
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Tagged concealed carry permits, guns, polls, videos
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”I am a gunman. My target is inside of the building. I’m going in the building. You stop me.”
It’s no great surprise that we’re seeing a run on these stories post-Newtown… Just this morning, we began discussing a Wisconsin teenager arrested after filming a fake shooting spree with his high school a a backdrop. Last week, it was Virginia’s Christopher Johnson walking into an elementary school carrying a … Continue reading
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Tagged polls, terroristic threats
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High Schooler Arrested for ”Violent” YouTube Video
A Forrest County, Wisconsin high school student who filmed scenes of students pretending to be shot in front of his school, and posted it on YouTube, was arrested and his house searched for weapons. No weapons were found, there was no evidence that he’d planned any actual attack, and the … Continue reading
U.S. Supreme Court Won’t Hear Appeal on Banning Guns in Churches
The U.S. Supreme Court has decided, without explanation, not to hear GeorgiaCarry.org’s appeal of the appeals court’s decision. More October 11, 2011: Earlier this month, the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit heard arguments on a challenge to a Georgia law banning firearms in houses of worship. … Continue reading
Monday Morning Miscellany: The New Yorker’s new post-Newtown cover, sex in Italy, a hitman for a hitman, debtor’s prisons 2013-style, and your next counterfeit DVD
New Yorker’s “Back to School” cover from this past September, and how it was re-drawn for this week’s post-Newtown issue: interesting and sad. Italian Couple: ”We shouldn’t have been arrested for indecent exposure for having sex outside, because everybody else was inside watching the World Cup” Michigan Man Convicted of … Continue reading
