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Tech NewsWoman Who Fatally Shot Boyfriend in YouTube Stunt Gone Wrong Gets 90 Days in Jail
Under a plea agreement, a YouTuber who shot her boyfriend in the chest during a filmed stunt last June will serve 90 days in jail. Monalisa Perez, 20, killed her boyfriend, Pedro Ruiz III, 22, in their home in Halstad, Minnesota. After the couple set up two cameras to film the stunt, Ruiz held an … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsWhite House Starts Process to Classify Bump Stocks as Machine Guns
President Donald Trump’s administration said on Saturday it’s taken the first official steps to ban bump stocks, accessories that enable semi-automatic rifles to fire at rates approaching fully automatic ones, the Associated Press reported. According to the AP report, the new regulations proposed by the Justice Department would classify the hardware as a machine gun, … Continued
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io9GamesThe White House Is Very Concerned About These Sick Video Game Kills
On Thursday, President Donald Trump met with video game developers as well as people with the scientifically unfounded belief that violent video games—not necessarily the country’s rampant supply of easily accessible actual firearms—are responsible for mass shootings throughout the US. And let me tell you, folks, the president is extremely worried about all these wicked … Continued
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ScienceHealth
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 14th 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 … Continued
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ScienceHealth
There’s a Tiny Dip in Gun Injuries When Gun Owners Head to Annual NRA Convention
Gun advocates often argue that guns are only dangerous to the public when wielded by amateurs, criminals, and the mentally ill. But a study this week in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that people are a little bit safer from guns when tens of thousands of experienced gun owners pack up for the … Continued
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Tech News
Dick’s Sporting Goods Will Stop Selling Assault Rifles, Limit All Gun Sales to People Over 21
Dick’s Sporting Goods, one of the largest retailers in America, will stop selling assault rifles like the AR-15, the weapon that was used in the Parkland massacre that killed 17 people. The company has also announced that it will limit gun sales entirely to people at least 21 years old. “We looked at what happened … Continued
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Tech News
Parkland Shooting Survivor’s Dad Admits Editing CNN Emails Before He Sent Them to Fox News
Glenn Haab, the father of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School junior and mass shooting survivor Colton Haab, has admitted that he altered words in an email sent by a CNN producer, ultimately producing the illusion the news network had demanded his son only ask their pre-written questions at a televised forum on guns last week. … Continued
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Tech NewsSocial Media
Facebook Pulls Oculus Rift Shooter Bullet Train From CPAC Amid Gun Violence Controversy
Facebook has pulled a demo of Oculus Rift’s VR shooter “Bullet Train” from the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland amid concerns over gun violence, Variety reported Saturday morning. It doesn’t appear to have been Bullet Train’s violent content that prompted the withdrawal per se, but rather that CPAC draws lots of gun rights advocates … Continued
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Tech News
Photographer Catches Trump’s Notes on How to Appear Sympathetic to Mass Shooting Survivors
As President Donald Trump met with survivors and others impacted by the spate of mass school shootings across the US at the White House on Wednesday, he held a cue card with notes on how to appear empathetic while proposing solutions like tightening the federal background check system, raising the age of firearms purchases, having … Continued
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Tech News
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 country—to Instagram accompanied by the caption, “I’m thinking about finally going back to school,” KTBS reported. According to KTBS, the post almost immediately resulted … Continued
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ScienceHealth
Florida State House Declares Porn Is a Health Risk, Assault Weapons Totally Fine Though
Legislators in Florida—where a gunman authorities later identified as Nikolas Cruz opened fire on the grounds of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Broward County, Florida, killing at least 17 last week—have apparently decided that the threat they need to focus on right now is pornography. Per the Sun Sentinel, as surviving students from the … Continued
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Tech News
NRA Goes Quiet on Twitter, Just Like After Previous Mass Shootings [Updating]
The National Rifle Association (NRA) hasn’t tweeted since the afternoon of February 14th, the day that 17 people were killed and 15 were injured in a mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida. And it’s kind of strange, because typically the NRA loves to tweet. The gun rights organization, which has adopted a … Continued
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Tech NewsFox News Host Describes the AR-15 Rifle as ‘So Safe’ While Reporting on America’s Latest School Shooting
Fox News host Laura Ingraham spent her show last night talking about the horrific shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida that left 17 people dead. But she devoted six full minutes of her program to just how “safe” the AR-15 assault rifle is. Seriously. Ingraham, complete with an Ash Wednesday cross on her … Continued
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Tech News
That ‘Loaded Grenade Launcher’ Found in a Goodwill Bin Is Actually an Airsoft Toy
On Thursday, news outlets around the country reported what seemed like an “only in Florida” story: Goodwill workers in the state found a grenade launcher in a donation shipment, complete with a live grenade. More skepticism was warranted, however, as keen-eyed readers (and authorities themselves) later determined the device is nothing more than a big … Continued
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Tech NewsBleak New Game Trains Teachers How to Survive School Shootings
The essence of virtual reality’s appeal is immersing yourself in a role you normally wouldn’t or couldn’t in real life. Close your eyes and suddenly you’re a viking or a detective dressed as a bat. But, in our somber reality, teachers across the country may soon find themselves forced into virtual roles they never chose … Continued
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io9Television
There’s Never Going to Be a ‘Right Time’ for The Punisher TV Series
Netflix and Marvel made the right decision a few weeks ago when the companies decided to cancel The Punisher panel at New York Comic Con in the wake of the October 1 shooting in Las Vegas that left 58 people dead and 489 others wounded. The timing would have been beyond offensive, which raises the … Continued
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Tech NewsSploidSlo-mo Footage of a Giant Knife Splitting a Projectile in Mid-Air
Can you really split a bullet with a sword? The Slow Mo Guys tested the logistics of such a feat, but using a safer approach that involved a giant super-sharp knife and a pellet gun firing tiny projectiles to minimize any undesired results—like one of them getting hit, or their incredibly expensive slo-mo camera getting … Continued
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Tech NewsIt’s Becoming Frightfully Easy to Make Untraceable Guns at Home
Have a look at the gun above. It’s an M1911 pistol, the standard issue sidearm for the United States Armed Forces for nearly a century. The semi-automatic weapon can hold up to 11 rounds and fire as fast as one can pull the trigger. And that specific gun above, it was made with a machine … Continued
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io9Television
The Punisher Doesn’t Belong in Netflix’s Part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Today, Netflix finally dropped the first full-length trailer for its upcoming Punisher series and though it was rather light on plot details, it presented a very clear idea of what kind of show we’re in for: one presenting Marvel’s most dangerous vigilante at his most vicious and deadly, but without Netflix’s other Marvel heroes to … Continued
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Tech NewsNew Video Shows Man Shooting Gun Near Crowd of Counter Protesters in Charlottesville
New video has surfaced that shows a man drawing a gun and opening fire at counter protesters during the neo-Nazi protest in Charlottesville on August 12th. The man was reportedly taken into custody this morning, but many are asking why police didn’t do anything at the time. Just eight people were arrested at the notorious … Continued
By Matt Novak