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NY Mayor Adams disputes his own memoir over schoolyard gun incident — "What book is this?"
Mayor Eric Adams confronts controversy over his memoir, claiming a schoolyard gun story is fictitious and blaming an uncredited co-author for the mix-up.
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Alec Baldwin Pleads Not Guilty to ‘Rust’ Manslaughter Charge
Alec Baldwin has entered a not guilty plea to manslaughter charges that carry a maximum sentence of 18 months.
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Mexico is suing US gun-makers for arming its gangs − and a US court could award billions in damages
Mexico claims that US firearm manufacturers are fueling illegal cross-border gun trafficking and violent crime abroad.
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School Obama's Daughters Attend Has 11 Armed Guards
Some interesting news has broken in the wake of the latest push for gun control by President Obama and Senate Democrats: Obama sends his kids to a school where armed guards are used as a matter of fact.
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World's Largest Firearms Supplier Sells 3.5 Years Worth Of AR-15 Magazines In 3 Days
Gun and ammunition sales continue to soar in the days following the tragic shooting in Newtown, Conn., that left six adults and 20 children dead.
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Walmart Sells Assault Weapons But Bans Music With Swear Words
Why? Because some people find swear words "objectionable."
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Pro-Gun Advocates Trying To Deport Piers Morgan
Piers Morgan's outspokenness about gun control has brought about a petition seeking to deport him from the United States. The petition, which has been submitted on a White House website, has received over 12,000 signatures.
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Obama promises gun control early next year
President Barack Obama vowed to press for tighter gun laws early next year, as he sought to turn national outrage over the Connecticut school massacre into action to ban assault weapons and ensure better background checks on gun buyers.
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Should Teachers Carry Guns? The N.R.A. After Newtown
The N.R.A.’s Wayne LaPierre said that the only way to stop massacres like the one at Sandy Hook was with more guns. This is where gun advocacy ends: not with a right to bear arms, but with an insistence that the rest of us have an obligation to do so.
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Nas Sued for $10 Million Over Kidnapping Ordeal
The concert promoter who says he was taken hostage at gunpoint and held for ransom -- all because Nas was a no-show for a gig -- is now suing the rapper…
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How Many People Have Been Killed by Guns Since Newtown?
Since the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, we at Slate have been wondering how many people are dying from guns in America every day.
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When I hear the NRA blame video games...
Hypocritical bunch they are.
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The Single Best Anti-Gun-Death Policy? Ending the Drug War
Universal gun confiscation is impossible, and even aggressive gun control might not dramatically reduce gun-related deaths. But ending our ridiculous and expensive war on drugs could.
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NRA calls for armed police officer in every school
The nation's largest gun-rights lobby called Friday for armed police officers to be posted in every American school to stop the next killer "waiting in the wings."
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NRA Blames Violent Movies And Video Games For Gun Deaths
In its first public statement after the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, the National Rifle Association today blamed “blood-soaked films” and video games as a large part of the problem of gun violence in America.
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How Many People Have Been Killed by Guns Since Newtown?
Since the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14, we at Slate have been wondering how many people are dying from guns in America every day. That information is surprisingly hard to come by.
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New York City Suicide Rate Will Likely Top Murder Rate For 2012.
The New York City murder rate is on pace to reach its lowest point in 52 years.
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Have Armed Citizens Ever Brought Down a Mass Shooter?
Yes, but it’s rare. Often it’s not clear whether brave actions on the part of armed civilians prevented further death. In 1997, assistant principal Joel Myrick used a handgun to stop fleeing school shooter Luke Woodham.
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Why Spree Killers Kill Themselves
Why are some mass shooters more likely to kill themselves? If we go beyond the armchair psychology and diagnostic labels in the coverage of this horrific tragedy, the data from past rampage shootings may partially reveal some motivations.
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LA offers groceries for guns in annual buyback
Long lines of cars and people formed Wednesday to take advantage of a guns-for-groceries exchange program that was moved up in the wake of the Connecticut school shooting.
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