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By April 19, 2013

Catchy title, huh? Well… We don’t really think it’s a good idea to explain how to do that to anyone – not because we think that withholding information is the way to go, we just don’t think that it’s a good idea. Actually, it’s pretty much the worst idea ever. Time, however, thought differently when they saw fit to explain, in their “Crime” section, how you can set up your own “To Catch a Predator” sting in 5 easy steps. Apparently, the article was based on one guy, who in one instance had the enormous good luck to actually make ...

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By April 8, 2013

School shootings will hardly disappear from the agenda any time soon, and that’s a good thing. The phenomenon is especially prevalent in the US, where the history of armed attacks on and in schools stretches back to 1764, when 4 native Americans entered a school house near Greencastle, killing the school master and 9 or 10 students. In the 2000′s, the number of schools in the US have been right around 137,000 and the number of school shootings has not gone down. Most notable, perhaps, are the shootings at Bath, MI (45 killed), the Virginia Tech massacre (33 killed), Sandy ...

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By March 30, 2013

The latest news from the DHS and TSA is that they’re “relaxing” their restrictions on certain items, namely such things as small blades. Surprisingly, the TSA has taken some flak about this, and Pistole, amongst others, have been seen defending the position in the media and “on the hill”, as they saying goes. So what do we think about it? TSA plays catch-up. Again. The TSA likes to take credit for stuff. It’s just the way their hive mind works. As usual, they make sure that we understand that this is something that has been carefully considered and analyzed by ...

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By February 14, 2013

So. “Blade runner” has managed to run into some trouble, since he managed to actually murder his own girlfriend with a 9mm handgun he kept in his apartment. According to the BBC (and others), the athlete may have thought that the girlfriend was a burglar, and simply pulled the trigger first, without asking any questions. Which is generally thought to be a bad idea. BBC: South African Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has been arrested over the fatal shooting of his girlfriend at his home in Pretoria, local media say. Police said a 26-year-old man, who they have not named, was ...

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By February 13, 2013

Sounds like a joke, doesn’t it? Except that very last part, it certainly was. From Cleveland.com: A November car chase ended in a “full blown-out” firefight, with glass and bullets flying, according to Cleveland police officers who described for investigators the chaotic scene at the end of the deadly 25-minute pursuit. The only problem in this scenario, is that the police officers were not “firefighting” armed and dangerous suspects – they were essentially shooting at each other across a middle school playground, and at the run-down Malibu with a penchant for backfiring that was stopped in between them. Soon after ...

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