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Chicago

6-Month-Old Chicago Baby Shot 5 Times In Alleged Gang-Related Attack Against Father

Chicago gun and gang violence has killed another innocent child. Six-month-old Jonylah Watkins was shot five times during a Monday afternoon attack in the South Side neighborhood of Woodlawn. She died Tuesday morning at Comer Children’s Hospital. Jonylah’s father, Jonathan Watkins, was wounded during the shoot-out and is in serious but stable condition, recovering at Northwestern Memorial Hospital…

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Geographical Persuasion: Black, Feminine & Armed

I never had a desire to own a gun. I was born and raised in the inner sanctum of Baltimore, where possessing a gun always came with a negative connotation. Guns belonged to the hooded, pants-sagging, Timberland-wearing drug dealers who occupied the front stoops of corner stores that I passed on my way to school…

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Guns For Greatness Buyback Program Will Use Concert Tickets & Mentorships As Incentives

Hip-hop mogul, Michael Williams, has managed the careers of artists such as OutKast and Cee-lo Green, but he’s now looking to make a difference by taking guns off New York City Streets. Williams has pitched the city’s first private-sector gun buyback program to Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly. The Guns For Greatness Buyback Program will…

California

Another School Shooting: California Teen Shoots Classmate

The saga continues. Another school schooling took place yesterday at a high school in Kern County, CA. According to CNN, a 16-year-old student entered a science classroom during first period at Taft High School with a 12-gauge shotgun. He fired a round to the upper body of a fellow student and tried to shoot a…

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What Would You Do? Mother Defends Twins Girls Against Burglar, Shoots Him 5 Times

What would you do if you found yourself home alone with your young children and you spotted an intruder coming through your window. That scenario played out in real-time during a home invasion in Loganville, GA last Friday. A 37-year-old mother of 9-year-old twins found herself in this precarious situation after a man, identified as…

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Guns Kill People, Not Single Parenting

James Holmes, Jared Lee Loughner, Eric Harris, and Dylan Klebold have a few things in common. Besides being the people behind some of the most infamous shooting massacres in the United States, they are all from suburban households with two parents. Maybe Mitt Romney forgot about these vicious individuals during the last presidential debate. Or…

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In the Aftermath of the Aurora Massacre, Should We Consider Stricter Gun Laws?

As more details pour out from Aurora, Colorado, following the mass shooting during a midnight screening of “The Dark Knight Rises,” many are asking if incidents like these will finally persuade lawmakers to take on the gun lobby and institute stronger weapons laws. Early Friday morning, Colorado police allege 24-year-old James Holmes burst into an…