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30Nov

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Health

Many More Voters With Guns

More than half of American voters say that they or someone in their household owns a gun, according to a poll by NBC News. That’s the highest level since its polls began asking in 1999. After progressives drove up firearm ownership with policies that are soft on violent crime, they can’t figure out why their gun-control ideas fail to pass. The share of voters with a firearm in the household is 52%, up from 46% in 2019 and 42% in 2013. A partisan split is evident. Gun households now include 66% of Republicans, 45% of independents, and 41% of Democrats. This is no surprise, in part because rural areas tilt right, and that’s where hunting is a family event and bears might be prowling the woods.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8...

29Nov

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Entertainment

The Dead Children We Must See

Here in the United States, we have our own procession of dead children, but they’re almost all unseen. The victims of mass shootings in schools leave behind a spectral trail. We do not see their deaths; we do not see the agony of a parent holding their child’s lifeless body. Instead, we see the surrounding context—surveillance footage of the shooter stalking through the hallways of a school, the smiling school photos of the murdered child, the brave parents speaking in shaky voices at a press conference, the faces of law-enforcement officers providing nighttime updates on the death toll. These scenes have become so familiar that they feel like studio sets for a television show we watch over and over again. In the first act, we see the aerial shots of the school. Then we are on the grounds...

The Secret Deal That Put a Real Rifle Into ‘Call of Duty’

16Oct

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The Secret Deal That Put a Real Rifle Into ‘Call of Duty’

A top U.S. gun maker signed a previously undisclosed deal to put one of its rifles in the popular videogame franchise Call of Duty as part of a marketing plan to reach young customers, according to internal emails and company records.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8

28Sep

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How the AR-15 Became an American Brand

Last summer, when the release of the video for “Try That in a Small Town,” a single by the country-music star Jason Aldean, generated a small storm of controversy, it was mentioned, often as an aside, that Aldean had been onstage on October 1, 2017, at the Route 91 Harvest Festival, in Las Vegas. That night, as Aldean performed a song called “When She Says Baby,” a man named Stephen Paddock began firing from the thirty-second floor of Mandalay Bay, a nearby resort and casino, into the crowd below. In the span of about ten minutes, Paddock shot more than a thousand bullets, killing fifty-eight people and wounding more than four hundred others before killing himself. In video recorded as the first bursts of gunfire sounded, Aldean stops singing, then flees the stage.It was a coincidence tha...

Two women and man shot, wounded on Brooklyn street

10Sep

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Health

Two women and man shot, wounded on Brooklyn street

Two young women and a man were shot and wounded on a Brooklyn street early Sunday, police said.The victims, all 19, were standing near Nostrand Ave. and Fulton St. in Bedford-Stuyvesant when the gunman opened fire about 5:20 a.m., cops said.One of the women was hit in the left buttock, the other in her lower torso, cops said. The man was struck in his right knee. Cops found 12 shell casings at the scene.Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Daily NewsA gunman shot and wounded two young women and a young man on a Brooklyn street early Sunday. (Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Daily News)Medics took all three victims to Kings County Hospital in stable condition. None of them are cooperating with investigators, police sources said.Police have made no arrests.