open carry
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Michigan Issues Ban on Open Carry at Polling Location, Because Obviously
Since an alarmingly large number of white folks have clearly lost the ability to act right, Michigan’s Secretary of State announced that people will not be able to openly carry guns at polling stations. CBS News reports that on Friday, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said that openly carried guns will not be allowed “in…
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A Live Look at ‘America’s Most Livable City’
According to the Economist Intelligence Unit, the organization that produces the annual Global Livability Index, Pittsburgh is America’s second most livable city. (Honolulu is first.) This is a status that Pittsburgh is proud of, bragging about and displaying it the way a parent might share their kid’s report card in a text thread. If I…
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Masked, Armed White Man Walks Into Mich. Police Department, Somehow Doesn’t Get Shot
What happens to you when you roll into a police station, fully armed, with body armor and wearing a mask over your face? Apparently not what you would expect, because a white Michigan man somehow escaped unscathed (and is even out on bail) after doing exactly that over in Dearborn … all because of an…
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Charlotte, NC, Police Say Keith Lamont Scott Had a Gun, but Was That Enough to Detain Him?
Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C., police insist that 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott was carrying a gun and not complying with officers’ orders when he was shot Tuesday afternoon, but why did police initiate contact with him in the first place? According to the police statement, officers were at the Village at College Downs apartment complex to serve an…
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Let's Wait Until The Facts Are Out Before We Rush To Conclusions About Tyree King's Death
13-year-old Tyree King was shot and killed by police officers in Columbus, Ohio last night. Naturally, whenever something like this happens, there’s a rush on social media to vilify, assign blame, and create hashtags. But we have to keep level heads and refrain from hysterics. Because we weren’t there, and we don’t know who’s really…
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2 Ohio Brothers With BB Guns Arrested in Park, Ordered to Write Tamir Rice Essays
The situation is eerily, scarily familiar. Two young brothers from Parma, Ohio, were playing in a park with a pair of BB guns when police were called to the scene. According to the Washington Post, the orange tips that normally distinguish the toys from a real gun had been removed. A 911 caller reported the…