YouTube Copycat High School Shootings - the New Social Statement?

MATTI Juhani Saari has one thing in common with Pekka Eric Auvinen, Jokela High School shooter, and the Virginia Tech murderer:  they were all ardent admirers of the Columbine shooters, misfits Klebold and...

Day of mourning for Finland shooting victims

One day after a horrific shooting in a school in Finland, the prime minister has said he wants to push for stricter gun laws as the victims are beginning to be identified.Today is also a day of mourning for Finland,...

Kauhajoki Killer Rang Friend: "I Have Just Killed 10 People!"

A MAN calling himself "Rauno" has claimed in an interview with a Finnish Magazine 7 päivää (7 Days) that he was a close friend of Matti Saari, 18, and that the deranged misfit had RUNG HIM ON HIS MOBILE CELL PHONE after the killings to say, "I have jsut killed ten people"...

Coroner seeks ban on gun used in Dawson shooting

Coroner Jacques Ramsay released his findings Thursday on the 2006 Dawson College shooting in Montreal. The coroner's report calls for a ban on semi-automatic weapons like the one used by gunman Kimveer Gill. "In his report, Ramsey called on the government to ban the...

Firearms Auction a Gold Mine for Gun Collectors

Anti-gun activists are far-outnumbered in Missouri by law-abiding, gun owners, and I suspect many of those gun owners will head toward the St. Charles (Mo.) Convention Center Sept. 6 to bid on items in a collection...

10 Year old boy Arrested For Defending Self... With Pea Shooter

You can watch a news coverage of this here.In my opinion, this is a story of what goes around comes back around. No I am not quoting from Justin Timberlake's song, but the bullies had it coming when they constantly...

4-year-old shot herself at Sam's Club with Grandmothers Gun

Columbia -A local TV station is reporting that a 4 year old child removed a gun from her grandmothers purse and shot herself at the Sam's Club.  The child was found in critical condition and is now...

Police kill man in standoff over FEMA trailer

A man was killed in New Orleans today after a 10-hour standoff with police. His neighbours said he suffered from mental illness for most of his life, but that it got much worse since Hurricane Katrina." Eric Minshew,...

Armed Former Wal-Mart Worker Arrested in Texas Store

What do you call 'going postal' when it's at a Wal-Mart? Going retail?"Austin — A former Wal-Mart employee was arrested in the crowded store where he once worked, armed with a 9 mm handgun and an "unreasonable amount of ammunition" that police believe he intended to use,...

Police say man in wheelchair robbed bank

" PALO ALTO, Calif. - Palo Alto police are looking for a bank robber who favors a decidedly slow-speed getaway vehicle — an electric wheelchair. Police said a man in his 60s with gray hair and a beard held up the Wachovia Bank branch at the Stanford...

Court seems ready to affirm right to own gun in D.C.

The new conservative-dominated Supreme Court has made some decisions in small cases so far exhibiting its new ideological tilt, but this will be the first big decision showing the court's swing on a hot-button issue....

8 Wounded in Los Angeles Shooting

This is the second major gun incident in L.A. in a week.  It's not yet clear what motivated the shooting." LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A gunman fired into a crowd of children and adults at a South Los Angeles bus stop just after schools let out Wednesday, wounding eight,...

6 Dead in N. Illinois U. Hall Shooting

The gunman who killed five students at Northern Illinois University on Thursday has been named as Stephen Kazmierczak.The former student also injured 15 people before taking his own life. The Associated Press is...

Toronto mayor calls for handgun ban

I agree with the mayor.  Guns just don't suit Canadians--and they're dangerous."TORONTO - Toronto Mayor David Miller on Monday called for a total ban on handgun ownership after the fatal shooting this weekend of...

Vancouver wants longer sentences for gun crime

But when public opinion is as strong as it is, guns are an easy issue for politicans to rally around (the family, with a pocket full of shells).  The best policy isn't necessarily the best politics.Results of...

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