mass murders

An American woman who planned a mass shooting has been sentenced in a Canadian court to life in prison. Lindsay Kantha Souvannarath, 26, of Geneva, Illinois, was arrested in 2015 at the Halifax airport. Along with two Canadians, she plotted a mass shooting on Valentine's Day at a mall in the ...

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There are always two elements necessary to pull off the mass murders we've witnessed in America and around the world: hatred and a weapon. ... Average Americans are not equipped to address the mental health problems that may result in mass murder, so we need to advocate for increased funding for ...

AUTISM research pioneer Hans Asperger 'actively assisted' in the murder of disabled children by the Nazis, a new report claims. The Austrian paediatrician — who gave his name to Asperger syndrome, a form of high-functioning autism — is said to have been 'complicit' in the regime's euthanasia ...

The families of those five victims will now be able to see this case move forward. Since last seeing Peacock in court, he has gained a new attorney on his case. Former attorney Burt Baker resigned from the case after taking a different job. Baker withdrew from the case in October. According to court ...

Accused mass murderer Jeffrey Peacock is expected to be in court soon. This comes after a year of not many updates in the case. Peacock is accused of fatally shooting five people in May of 2016 at a Colquitt County home on Rossman Dairy Road. Police also said he killed three dogs and set fire to the ...

Assault weapons like this are mind-boggling in their lethality and their potential for committing mass murder. They have no legitimate use in a moral ... This would stop, or at least inhibit, mass murders, especially when combined with sensible gun ownership regulations. Nobody, except killers and gun ...

German prosecutors have charged a 94-year-old former SS guard at the Auschwitz death camp as an accessory to murder. Prosecutors in Stuttgart said the unidentified suspect, a German national born in Serbia, was charged as a juvenile because he was 19 at the time of the alleged offences. They say he ...

KAGOSHIMA – Police found two more bodies Sunday after a man was arrested Saturday following the murders of three people in Kagoshima Prefecture. The suspect, 38-year-old Tomohiro Iwakura, has said he killed all five people, according to police. The two bodies are believed to be those of his ...

The United States is an advanced industrial society. Yet we have the highest murder rate and the most frequent mass murders among this group of nations. Our normal response is shock followed by noise about gun control and mental illness. Then it is another day, unlike the ongoing conversation about ...

29, 2017, spent hours searching online for videos and references to mass murders in the weeks before he gunned down the worshippers, it was revealed Friday at a court hearing. Alexandre Bissonnette, 28, also entered online search terms for mass murderer Dylann Roof 201 times between Jan.

Officially, more than 4,200 people have been killed by police in the Philippines during anti-drug operations, which began in July 2016. Human rights groups count as many as 12,000 deaths—many of them at the hands of the Philippine National Police or unknown gunmen, who often have connections with ...

Fontaine says Jones and InfoWars compounded the defamation by calling the mass murders a “false flag” event orchestrated by the government as a pretext to create resentment of conservatives and gun owners. As a result, even though mainstream news showed the Florida shooter to be Nikolas Cruz, ...

“When Efrain Rios Montt, the former Guatemalan dictator, held power in the early 1980s, thousands of civilians were shot, tortured and 'disappeared' in the most violent episode of the Central American nation's history,” The Independent reported in 2003. Montt at the time was making another bid for power ...

... Florida, is unimaginable — except to parents, siblings, other family members, and friends who have lost a loved one in a previous senseless mass murder in the United States. The key to reducing the odds that these mass murders will occur again in our schools and other public places is for Democrats in ...

President Trump expressed support Tuesday for the mother of a police officer killed in a fatal car crash involving an illegal immigrant, telling her "we're with you" after she said there was a quiet mass-murder happening in the U.S.. "This is actually a mass murder happening in the United States by illegal ...

The mass murder at a Parkland, Florida, high school precipitated a national outcry for more gun restrictions lead by many of the teenage survivors of the massacre. Defenders of the Second Amendment have pointed out that many of the provisions being proposed would not have stopped the Parkland ...

The news media has assigned much blame for the recent school shooting in Parkland, Fla., including inadequate gun laws, parents, the local sheriff's department, the FBI, and mental health. They all share some of the blame, but I think mental health is a significant factor. There was an interesting article in ...

It doesn't matter how many violent video games someone play. They cannot go out and easily commit mass murder if they do not have a gun designed to commit mass murder. It does not matter how many violent movies someone sees. They cannot easily go out and commit mass murder if they do not have ...

We commend the UN Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights for recognising that “[t]he ethnic cleansing of Rohingya from Myanmar continues”. The violent eradication of the ethnic minority is ongoing despite a wall of denial by the Myanmar government as its seeks to evade international punishment ...

Wall Street started the financial crisis, and Congress was right to enact Dodd-Frank in 2010 to reign in the “too big to fail” banks. Credit unions in Maine, like Maine State Credit Union, where I serve as the CEO, had nothing to do with the Great Recession and continued making loans to our members.

The horrific shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and the resultant media coverage have caused all of us here at TheBlaze to re-examine how we cover these tragic events. We want to make sure that we are not in any way contributing to the incentive someone might ...

High school students demonstrate at the entrance to Florida Gov. Rick Scott's office and deliver boxes of petitions for more gun control on Feb. 21. (Gerald Herbert / Associated Press). To the editor: In the 1990s, public school educators did not think or need to say, "We are not warriors, we are teachers.

If there's one clear point that's emerged from the Parkland shooting, it's that change in gun-control policy is not going to come from Washington politicians. Exhibit A: even as he was being absolutely flayed by teenagers during a town-hall debate on Wednesday night, Senator Marco Rubio, whose ...

Both the perfunctory offerings of "thoughts and prayers" and the childish jokes that follow them trivialize mass murder. They're distractions from any sensible political and social dialogue and they needlessly expend the energy of both the people who spread these memes and those who read them. Everyone ...

EVERETT, Wash. — Joshua O'Connor, 18, was charged Friday with attempted murder, robbery, and possession of an explosive device in what prosecutors said was a plan, outlined in his journal, to commit “mass murder of as many students as possible” at Aces High School in Everett. He is being held in ...

Accused mass murderer Jeffrey Peacock is expected to be in court soon. This comes after a year of not many updates in the case. Peacock is accused of fatally shooting five people in May of 2016 at a Colquitt County home on Rossman Dairy Road. Police also said he killed three dogs and set fire to the ...

AUM once hosted Holocaust Remembrance programs for several years and showed films that were enough to upset just about everyone who watched them. Rabbi Barry Leff didn't have any films to show at the Alabama State Capitol on Tuesday, but he did almost as much with words. How else to describe ...