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NRA rejects gun controls, blames violent video games and movies
National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre defiantly blamed violent video games and movies, the media, gun-free zones in schools and other factors during the organization’s first public statement following the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn. last week.
NBC News reports:
LaPierre, who was interrupted by Code Pink protesters twice during a statement (during which he refused to answer questions), said that the students in Newtown might have been better protected had officials at Sandy Hook Elementary been armed. He said that putting a police officer in every single school in America might make schools safer.
“The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun,” he said, asking Congress to immediately appropriate the money to put a police officer in every single school in the country.
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A former barge worker has admitted his role in a foiled plot to abduct, extort and electrocute a wealthy man in a scheme investigators say borrowed elements from a television show and sought to blame the killing on the intended victim’s cat.
Read: NZHerarld
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Two bodies found in areas hit hardest by Hurricane Sandy suggest that wreckage from the storm has created inviting spots for killers to dump bodies.
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Easily The Scariest Mug Shot Of An Accused Murderer You Will See Today
Bronx woman admits stuffing her dead roommate in suitcase - but says she did nothing wrong
“It’s like a bad Samsonite commercial,” a law-enforcement source said.
The Dougherty Gang—Ryan, Dylan, and sister Lee—were captured after an eight-day manhunt. Definitely related.
(via thedailyfeed)
WASHINGTON (KABC) — The Secret Service apprehended a man who climbed over the White House fence Tuesday evening. A service spokesman said the man, who was not immediately identified, was taken into custody just steps from the gate by agents who guard the White House complex around the clock.
Continue reading… abc7.com
A Revenge Plot So Intricate, the Prosecutors Were Pawns
Soon after Seemona Sumasar started dating Jerry Ramrattan, she had an inkling that something might be wrong.
He said he was a police detective, but never seemed to go to work. He seemed obsessed with “C.S.I.,” “Law & Order” and other television police dramas. About a year after he moved into her house in Queens, their relationship soured. One day, he cornered her, taped her mouth and raped her, she said. Mr. Ramrattan was arrested. But he soon took his revenge, the authorities said. Drawing on his knowledge of police procedure, gleaned from his time as an informer for law enforcement, he accomplished what prosecutors in New York called one of the most elaborate framing plots that they had ever seen. Continue reading… NYTimes This story is surreal. There must to be Dateline NBC, a docu-drama and a documentary (hopefully a Frontline), all in the works for this. Simply astonishing.
Early Wednesday morning at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis, the Jeopardy host chased down a burglar on foot and assisted in her arrest, injuring himself in the process, according to the Bay Citizen.
At approximately 2:30am, 56-year-old Lucinda Moyers broke into Trebek’s hotel room and stole cash and a bracelet his mother had given him, stashing it near the ice machine. The 71-year-old star then pursued her on foot, snapping his Achilles tendon in the process, according to ABC7. (Surely while shouting, “don’t mess with Trebek!”)
The Michigan madman who massacred seven people before offing himself “went out hunting people down,” police said Friday. Ex-con Rodrick Dantzler’s victims included his 12-year-old daughter, a 10-year-old child, two ex-girlfriends, and three other people, Grand Rapids Police Chief Kevin Belk said. Continue reading… NYDailynews
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