18 Terms You Need To Know If You Want To Be Part Of The Gun Control Debate
In light of recent calls for stricter gun control, an inevitability following the grisly acts of a troubled gunman in Connecticut, knowing a glossary of important weapons terms is integral to...
View ArticleThis Chart Proves There Is Something Profoundly Wrong With How The US Handles...
The United States has the highest gun ownership rates in the world and the second highest rate of gun deaths among industrialized nations. That's not a coincidence. Looking at developed nations, the...
View ArticleSmith & Wesson's New Presentation Shows Amazing Investment Growth Opportunity...
Following Friday's horrific Connecticut elementary school shooting, the debate over control has come to the forefront of Washington politics.California Senator Dianne Feinstein said that she intended...
View Article49 States Let You Walk Around With A Gun, But That Could Change Soon
The Supreme Court could soon hear a new gun control debate — this one focusing on the right to be armed in public. The case: a federal appeals court's decision to strike down Illinois' ban on carrying...
View ArticleHow Ryan Lanza Reacted When TV Networks Incorrectly Named Him The Sandy Hook...
Friday morning began like any other work day for Ryan Lanza.The 24-year-old Hoboken resident commuted into Ernst & Young's Times Square office. He has reportedly been a senior tax employee there...
View ArticleMicrosoft And Motorola Don't Want You To Know How Much Their Patents Cost
Microsoft Corp and Google Inc's Motorola Mobility unit have requested a federal judge in Seattle to keep secret from the public various details from their recent trial concerning the value of...
View ArticleTea Party Group Says George Zimmerman Would Have Stopped The Sandy Hook Gunman
Had the man accused of killing an unarmed teenager been at Sandy Hook Elementary School, no children would have died, according to a tea party spinoff group.In a statement emailed to members yesterday...
View Article7 Shocking Ways States Have Loosened Their Gun Laws
Friday’s deadly rampage at a Connecticut elementary school marked the 13th mass shooting in the United States this year.Among the 11 deadliest shootings in U.S. history, more than half took place in...
View ArticleSAC Capital Alum Anthony Chiasson Was Just Found Guilty Of Insider Trading
This just in from the Bloomberg, Anthony Chiasson, founder of defunct hedge fund Level Global, and Todd Newman, a former portfolio manager at Diamondback Capital, have been found guilty of insider...
View Article'Bowling For Columbine' Still Has Some Frightening Lessons For Our Country
In 2002, Michael Moore released "Bowling for Columbine," a documentary in which he tried to wrap his head around why there's so much gun violence in the U.S. compared to Canada and many countries in...
View ArticleAdam Lanza Could Not Feel Physical Pain
Adam Lanza, the 20-year-old who opened fire on a Connecticut elementary school last Friday, could literally not feel physical pain, Adam Geller of the AP reports. Â In an interview with the news wire,...
View ArticleMore Americans Support 'Stricter Gun Control Laws' Now Than At Any Point In...
More than half of Americans support generally stricter gun control laws in the wake of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., a new poll from ABC/The Washington Post finds. It...
View ArticleMan Who Had A Ridiculous Excuse For Defacing A Rothko Masterpiece Gets 2...
A Polish man was jailed for two years in Britain on Thursday for defacing a mural by US artist Mark Rothko at London's Tate Modern gallery.Wlodzimierz Umaniec, 26, on October 7 scrawled his name on...
View ArticleIn Case You Were Wondering Why So Many People Get Shot To Death In America...
Barry Ritholtz of the Big Picture posted the following chart, which measures a group of countries on guns-per-capita and homicides-by-guns.The vertical axis is guns per 100 people.The horizontal axis...
View ArticleDon't Believe The Hype About Britain Quitting Illegal Drugs
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it" summed up the response from the Home Office, and later David Cameron, to the publication of the home affairs select committee's year-long inquiry into drug policy last...
View ArticleMass Shooter Adam Lanza 'Spent Hours Playing Call Of Duty'
The Connecticut school massacre gunman Adam Lanza spent hours playing violent video games such as Call Of Duty in a windowless bunker, according to an interview with a plumber who worked at the family...
View ArticleSandy Hook Gunman 'Suddenly Cut His Dad Off' Nearly Two Years Before The...
A new report by NBC's Today Show reveals the Sandy Hook Elementary School gunman completely cut off ties with his dad before Friday's fatal shooting."Adam had cut off communication with his dad, even...
View ArticleOne Of America's Most Powerful Judges Defends His Love Of Playboy
The man heads up one of the most powerful courts in the country, but he still had to defend himself to law students when he admitted to reading Playboy.Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge Alex...
View ArticleLawyers Are Still Charging Top Dollar Even Though The Industry Is Struggling
In addition to pulling in some whopping figures this year, some lawyers are charging slightly more than they did last year.The National Law Journal sampled 55 firms for its annual billing survey and...
View ArticlePolice Say Connecticut School Shooter Destroyed His Hard Drive Before Attack
While we may never know the motivation for an elementary school massacre that left 27 dead, police are now saying they believe the attack was planned.Before Adam Lanza killed his mother and opened fire...
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