mass shootings
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Uber Driver Charged With Killing Six People While On Duty Pleads Guilty
The man who was charged with shooting eight people, killing six, while on duty as an Uber driver in 2016 pleaded guilty to murder in a Michigan court this morning. The 47-year-old shooter, Jason Brian Dalton, reportedly told police he saw a “devil figure” in the Uber app that forced him to commit the killings.…
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Hey, Maybe Don’t Make The YouTube Shooting About YouTube Ad Revenue
Authorities have identified the suspect in the mass shooting at YouTube’s headquarters, which ended in four injuries and the death of the shooter, as YouTuber Nasim Aghdam, who made videos about topics ranging from animal rights and veganism to bodybuilding. Police have not named any motive in the attack, but Aghdam has now been widely…
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Doctors Want You To Know How Much Damage Rifle Bullets Really Do
After the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14 resulted in at least 17 deaths and 14 injuries, the pro-gun rights crowd trotted out a number of frustratingly familiar arguments. One of them, per Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, was that it would be impossible to effectively regulate firearms like…
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Man Arrested For Instagram Post Of AR-15 Captioned ‘Thinking About Finally Going Back To School’
Police in Texarkana, Texas arrested 24-year-old Ricky Jared Rankin for allegedly posting a photo of an AR-15 – that model of semi-automatic rifle that keeps on being used in mass slaughters across the US – to Instagram accompanied by the caption, “I’m thinking about finally going back to school,” KTBS reported.