Thank goodness for the “good guy with a gun.” So goes the narrative pushed by Second Amendment absolutists who cite reports that an armed civilian confronted the shooter at a Texas church massacre on Sunday. But research shows this scenario is a fantasy with a low success rate. CBC | World News
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Amnesty’s director in Turkey is one of 11 human rights activists charged with communicating with suspects linked to Kurdish and left-wing militants, as well as the movement led by a U.S.-based Muslim cleric accused of orchestrating last year’s coup attempt. CBC | World News
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Would a Nazi by any other name genocide more sweetly? The terms “Nazi” and “White Supremacist” are being bandied about quite a bit lately. An irony I’ve found in a lot of the news coverage is that some of the groups being branded “White supremacist hate groups” seem to be fairly inclusive for Neo-Nazis. In May, Willamette Weekly reported that ...
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