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Counter slogan. " Guns don't kill people, people kill people " (and variations such as " guns don't kill people, people do" and " guns don't kill, people do ") is a slogan popularized by the National Rifle Association of America (NRA) and other gun advocates. [1] [2] [3] The slogan and connected understanding dates back to at least the 1910s ...
St. Louis gun-toting incident. On June 28, 2020, during the George Floyd protests in St. Louis, Missouri, Patricia and Mark McCloskey pointed firearms and yelled at protesters marching through the private neighborhood they co-owned. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Some protesters yelled back.
Killing of Tamir Rice. / 41.479083; -81.752365. On November 22, 2014, Tamir E. Rice, a twelve year old African-American boy, was killed in Cleveland, Ohio, by Timothy Loehmann, a 26-year-old white patrolman with the Cleveland Division of Police (CDP). Rice was carrying a replica toy gun; Loehmann shot him almost immediately upon arriving on the ...
Stephen Craig Paddock [5] (April 9, 1953 – October 1, 2017) [6] was an American mass murderer who perpetrated the 2017 Las Vegas shooting.Paddock opened fire into a crowd of about 22,000 concertgoers attending a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip, killing 60 people [a] and injuring approximately 867 (at least 413 of whom were wounded by gunfire).
Kyle Howard Rittenhouse (born January 3, 2003) is an American man who gained national attention at age 17 for shooting three men in Kenosha, Wisconsin—two fatally—in August 2020, amid protests following the police shooting of Jacob Blake. Rittenhouse had traveled to Kenosha during the unrest, and joined a group of armed people who said they ...
The side grip is a technique for shooting a handgun in which the weapon is rotated about ninety degrees and held horizontally instead of vertically (as is normally done). Shooting a gun in this way has no practical benefit under most circumstances and makes proper aiming very difficult, but the style has become somewhat popular in hip hop ...
None [ 2] On March 29, 2021, Adam Toledo, a 13-year-old Latino American boy, was shot and killed by Chicago Police Department (CPD) officer Eric Stillman in the Little Village neighborhood on the West Side of Chicago at 2:38am local time. [ 3][ 4][ 5] On April 10, during a proffer reading in court for criminal charges filed against the adult ...
The University of Texas tower shooting was an act of mass murder which occurred on August 1, 1966, at the University of Texas at Austin. The perpetrator, 25-year-old Marine veteran Charles Whitman, indiscriminately fired at members of the public both within the Main Building tower and from the tower's observation deck.