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There have been at least 60 mass shootings in the last 30 years—and most of the killers got their guns legally.
Mother Jones breaks down the numbers
- Of the 137 guns possessed by the killers, more than three quarters were obtained legally.
- The average age of the killers was 35. Only one of them was a woman.
- In the sixty mass shootings, forty two of the killers were white males.
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Britain is to allow one of its intelligence agencies to monitor all phone calls, texts, emails and online activities in the country to help tackle crime and militant attacks, the Interior Ministry said on Sunday.
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Trayvon Martin was a 17-year-old kid walking home from a convenience store with an Arizona Iced Tea and a pack of Skittles last month in Orlando. He’d gotten the snacks for his little brother during a break in the NBA All-Star Game. Martin’s grandparents lived in the gated community he was walking through, but that didn’t stop George Zimmerman, the 28-year-old neighborhood watch captain, from tailing Martin in his car and calling the police to tell them a “suspicious person” was in the area. That also didn’t stop Zimmerman from confronting Martin before the police arrived and then shooting the teenager with his 9-mm handgun. By the time police got there, Martin was dead, and Zimmerman was telling everyone he’d acted in self-defense.
It’s now been weeks since a black kid got killed for doing nothing more than trying to get home to see his family, and police have yet to charge or arrest Zimmerman with a single crime.
Yesterday, hundreds of miles from Orlando, New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said the best way he knows of to clean up gun violence in New York is by stopping and frisking random men of color on the street, essentially treating them all like they’re suspicious, dangerous, the kind of people who can be menacing with only a pack of Skittles in their pocket.
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Takeout story: Behind bulletproof glass and out on a bike for a chinese restaurant in Mott Haven
You go to that drawer full of menus with dragons or pandas or bamboo on them, and the random Chinese characters, and the obligatory promise of fast and free delivery. And in 25 minutes or so a Chinese man on a bike will come to your door and you’ll maybe drop him a xie xie with your tip and he’ll give you a bye bye and he’s gone. End of story.
But there’s a different version of that story that goes on in many parts of this city. And that version is about money, class, race, and education. And in that version people are robbed, assaulted and killed, and people live in fear, constantly on guard and under threat over Chinese food.
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![reuters:
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrives at the Supreme Court in London February 1, 2012.
Assange was detained in Britain in December 2010 on a European arrest warrant issued by a Swedish prosecutor after two female former WikiLeaks volunteers accused him of sexual assault. [REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth]
Read more: Julian Assange appeals extradition to UK’s top court](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lypxwcgr781qmaoalo1_1280.jpg "http://soupsoup.tumblr.com/post/16865131783/reuters-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange")
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrives at the Supreme Court in London February 1, 2012.
Assange was detained in Britain in December 2010 on a European arrest warrant issued by a Swedish prosecutor after two female former WikiLeaks volunteers accused him of sexual assault. [REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth]
Read more: Julian Assange appeals extradition to UK’s top court
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As the teen began to walk away, Diaz told him, “Hey, wait a minute. You forgot something. If you’re going to be robbing people for the rest of the night, you might as well take my coat to keep you warm.”
The would-be robber looked at his would-be victim, “like what’s going on here?” Diaz says. “He asked me, ‘Why are you doing this?’”
Diaz replied: “If you’re willing to risk your freedom for a few dollars, then I guess you must really need the money. I mean, all I wanted to do was get dinner and if you really want to join me … hey, you’re more than welcome.
Julio Diaz, in a 2008 story about taking his would-be-mugger to dinner.
This entire story was copied and pasted in its entirety to Tumblr, and reblogged over 60,000 times. I’m posting it again, with just a teaser, to properly attribute it back to NPR, where it originated. Please, don’t copy and paste whole articles to Tumblr! -
A useful rape analogy
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Ten dead, 50 injured in weekend violence
WTF NYC???
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Among the most deliberate and abhorrent mass violations of privacy committed in recent memory did not come as a result of technology, social services, databases, hackers, thieves, leakers, or governments. It was an act of a news organization, News Corp., which hacked into the phones of a reported 4,000 people, including not just celebrities but dead children and the families of the victims of terrorism and war.
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Cops look into David Prosser ‘chokehold’ charge
Justice Ann Walsh Bradley told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that Prosser, a conservative who narrowly won re-election in April during a campaign widely viewed as a referendum on the governor, put his hands on her neck, the paper reported Sunday night.
Bradley, a liberal justice, told the paper: “The facts are that I was demanding that he get out of my office and he put his hands around my neck in anger in a chokehold.”
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