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Sandy Hook Shooter's Mother Collected Guns In Preparation For Economic Collapse

The mother of the gunman who killed 20 children and seven adults in America’s worst school massacre, was a gun-proud “survivalist” preparing for economic collapse, it has emerged.Nancy Lanza, whose gun...

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Senate Torture Report Could Hurt Case Against Alleged 9/11 Plotters

The Senate Intelligence Committee released a report Thursday concluding that 'torture,' or 'enhanced interrogation,' is a flawed method that yields little actionable information.The 6,000 page report,...

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REPORT: Details Of Turkey's Proposed Endgame Plan In Syria Revealed

Turkey has made a new proposal to Russia for an orderly peaceful transition in war-ravaged Syria in the post-regime era, a Turkish newspaper reported on Monday.The proposal calls for President Bashar...

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The UN Atomic Agency Expects An Iran Deal That 'Will Take Years' To Put In Place

The UN atomic agency, after a year of false starts, finally expects to sign a long-elusive deal with Iran on January 16, but that will be the easy part, experts say.Implementing the accord will be a...

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'Did We Just Kill A Kid?' — The Six Words That Ended A US Drone Pilot's Career

The New Mexico desert gets blistering hot, but inside the small windowless container where Brandon Bryant worked as a drone operator in the U.S. Air Force it stays a cool 63 degrees all year...

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Iranian Oil Revenues Have Been Halved By International Sanctions

Iran is losing half of its oil revenues because of international sanctions imposed over its disputed nuclear programme, Economy Minister Shamseddin Hosseini said in remarks quoted by media on...

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Kim Jong-Un's Wife Appears 'Heavily Pregnant' On State TV

In October there was speculation that the wife of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un had become pregnant after she disappeared from public view for six weeks.Ri Sol-ju's latest appearance on state TV...

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It's Time We Saw The Idea That Everyone Should Carry An Assault Weapon For...

No sooner had the bullets stopped flying at Sandy Hook last week than those who favor unlimited access to military-grade assault weapons began advancing one of their favorite theories:If only folks at...

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Nassim Taleb's Super-Simple Argument For Banning Semi-Automatic Weapons

From Nassim Taleb's Facebook:I cannot possibly buy the argument that people need weapons in case the government fails them and democracy breaks down. If the narrative were true, someone over the past 5...

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Why Syria's Chemical Weapons Are So Terrifying [INFOGRAPHIC]

The U.S. has said it would intervene if Syrian President Bashar al-Assad uses chemical weapons in the country's ongoing conflict.Craig Whitlock and Carol Morello of The Washington Post report U.S....

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It's Incredible How Much Guns Have Advanced Since The Second Amendment

Last week's Connecticut shooting has once again focused the national spotlight on assault weapons and their place in America.Everyone has heard of these guns. They've been available to the U.S. public...

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Nine Young Afghan Girls Killed By A Taliban Bomb

Nine young girls were killed in eastern Afghanistan on Monday when they stumbled across a buried Taliban bomb as they collected firewood, according to local officials.The blast happened in the eastern...

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Here's What Barack Obama Can Actually Do About Gun Control

In the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary school murders — the seventeenth mass shooting of 2012 — there is renewed public pressure on Washington to address gun violence in an effort to prevent similar...

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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...

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This 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...

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Smith & 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...

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Veteran Journalist Says The Media Is Totally Misreporting What's Happening In...

Veteran war correspondent Patrick Cockburn of The Independent has been in Damascus for 10 days and says he is "struck by the fact that the situation in areas of Syria I have visited is wholly different...

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A Newly-Discovered Computer Virus Is Wiping Data From Iranian Hard Drives

Iranian computers are being targeted by a new malicious virus that clears large portions of hard drives, according to Iran’s Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT). Cybersecurity researchers don't...

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Russian Military Experts Say The US Patriot Missiles On The Syrian Border Are...

Russia is categorically opposed to the Turkey’s installation of Patriot anti-aircraft missiles along its border with Syria.Most have assumed that the Moscow's opposition was driven by its friendship...

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The Relationship Between A Battlefield Bomb-Tech And His Dog Is Unlike...

Army Specialist John Nolan’s heart pounded as he stared into the wadi in central Afghanistan. He wasn’t sure what lay beneath the loose, granular dirt.Was there a 500-pound bomb buried beneath him? If...

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