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Convenience store clerk turns the tables on armed robber (VIDEO)

A convenience store clerk in Ohio fought back against an armed robber and was able to disarm him late Saturday night. Sandusky native 34-year-old Marc Alvarez was working at Convenience Food Mart when a masked robber armed with a gun burst through the front door just after 11 o’clock. Alvarez attacked the crook, got his […]

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Transforming guns to music: A mechanized orchestra of decommissioned weapons (VIDEO + 16 PICTURES)

It looks like RoboCop, the Terminator, and the Decepticons had a convention, swapped some parts around, and came up with this mechanized musical monsterpiece. In reality, artist Pedro Reyes has transformed a variety of weapons into a fully mechanical orchestra. Having been turned from instruments of death to just, instruments, the collection of eight musical pieces […]

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Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons: Blame the people pulling the trigger, not the guns

The “reliance on flawed public opinion surveys, misstatements about the current background check system, and use of emotional, inflammatory rhetoric belie the claim that the case for gun control is supported by ‘evidence-based medicine,’” when, in fact, she claims it does not.

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Brazilian officer miraculously escapes death when his gun jams after being disarmed by a thug (VIDEO)

An off-duty police officer nearly lost his life during a heated struggle after a robber disarmed him of his weapon. The officer and 32-year-old Santos Aguilar walked into the Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus church in Rio de Janeiro. Moments later, the officer pulled his gun on Santos, who was accused of being the […]

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EDITORIAL: What happens when a government disarms its citizens (VIDEO)

"I’ve heard gun control advocates ask blithely, “Why would our government ever want to hurt its own people?”...To that I say it isn’t self-evident because it never has been, and I don’t listen to sheep because they never studied history."

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