A 39-year-old shooting instructor accidentally shot by one of his 9-year-old students on Monday has died.
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Why do the parents think it’s a good idea to teach a 9 year old how to fire an Uzi?
Now this poor 9 year old girl has to live with the fact that she accidentally killed this man for the rest of her life.
Shirin-Banou Barghi created this series of graphics dedicated to those killed by police officers. – Click through for more – Source: goodmenproject.com
A 60-year-old rabbi was shot to death while walking to synagogue in Miami. CNN affiliate WFOR reports.
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Boycott any store that sells toy guns that look like real guns.
Police are killing people who are playing with toy guns.
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“Racism is not dead in this nation. Shame on any of us for trying to bury the inherent and blatant racism of the United States and its people, it has always been part of our makeup and it has come roaring back in its full and awful glory in the past decade…”
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A Michigan man accused of gunning down Renisha McBride took the stand in his own defense Monday.
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Trigger happy United States.
Police arrested a 54-year-old man after witnesses said they saw him displaying an AR-15 at Sky Harbor.
Source: www.azcentral.com
If he was Black or Brown and brought an assault weapon out in public what would happen?
Remember what happened ten seconds after seeing 13 year old Andy Lopez carrying a toy gun that looked like an assault rifle?
Andy was shot 7 times within 26 seconds. The eight bullet missed.
We have all seen the headlines, “Fla. Mom gets 20 years for warning shot”. We have all heard some of the stories trying to tie this long sentence to race. What most don’t know is the history behind what happened.
I’m not talking about what happened to Ms. Alexander but the history behind the sentencing. What most fail to realize is that it wasn’t the crime she was found guilty of, it wasn’t her race and it had nothing to do with a warning shot. It has everything to do with a law.
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If you’re wondering why the U.S. has a mas-incarceration issue, here is part of the reason.
#MandatoryMinimums
It’s strange that we employee experienced judges and then don’t allow them to have discretion on how to implement penalties.
Moments before 13-year-old Andy Lopez was fatally shot by a Sonoma County sheriff’s deputy who mistook his replica AK-47 pellet gun for a real rifle, a man in a truck drove by the boy and felt a surge of worry.
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