Category: North America

Houston police said the gunman in the shootings that wounded nine, one critically, had two weapons and more than 2,500 rounds of live ammunition and was shooting at random before he was shot and killed by police. Police are not naming the suspect before the medical examiner makes a positive identification and next of kin […]

While serving as a Marine during the Battle of Peleliu in 1944 in the Pacific, Howell’s unit came under fire and he was struck by shrapnel in the buttocks.

Ardit Ferizi, also known as “Th3Dir3ctorY,” was charged at the Eastern District of Virginia court by US District Judge Leonie Brinkema last week, according to the US Department of Justice (DoJ). The 20-year-old, a citizen of Kosovo, was charged with providing support the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), as well as accessing […]

Update 10:30 EST: The shooter was a lawyer and police are investigating if problems at his law firm led to the shooting. During a press conference, Houston Police Chief Martha Montalvo stated that 9 people were injured in the shooting. Montalvo says nine people were wounded, three were treated and released from a hospital. One is […]

It seems red flags are repeatedly being missed in regards to the radical Islamic terrorists here in the US. Looking into the past of Ahmad Rahami, the latest radical Islamic terrorist to carry out a terrorist attack on US soil, he began traveling to Quetta, Pakistan and Afghanistan multiple times over the past several of years. After […]

Update 9:22 AM 9/24/16: It appears that four people died when the shooting first began and a 5th victim that was critically wounded died of his injuries at the hospital. Police are still searching for the shooter. Sadly the male and 5th victim who was taken to Harborview has passed away #CascadeMallShooting — Sgt. Mark […]

It seems that the city of San Diego, California, has found a good use for an historic building in the heart of the city.  As opposed to letting the building sit vacant and unused, until someone decides to buy and develop it, the city utilized federal, state, and local funds to restore the designated historic […]

Our air traffic control system successfully monitors thousands of aircraft per day. Yet, no such system for monitoring drones exists, yet. And UAVs are not required to report their location, as aircraft does. Even so, drones are quickly becoming ubiquitous in our society, making it less likely for us to know if the flier has ill intentions, until it’s too late. A group of no-goodniks could easily fly an explosive-laden drone, or half a dozen of them, into an office building, a park, city square, or even a stadium full of spectators.

In a 2:08 a.m. call to 911 from the Pulse nightclub, a man whispered that he was hiding “in a back room” and wasn’t injured. The dispatcher told the man to stay where he was if he felt safe and tried to get off the phone. “No,” the caller said. “He’s gonna kill us.” The […]

The morning after North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory declared a state of emergency and National Guard and state troopers moved in to help quell violent protests that roiled the city for a second consecutive night, there was still widespread anger and uncertainty over the fatal police shooting that unleashed the unrest. Thursday morning, as Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts spoke […]

Government informants revealed to authorities that, in one case, a Gulf Cartel commander known as El Puma ordered that rifles and vests which had been used in a kidnapping and murder be placed in a box and buried in a property belonging to the Beltran family. The Beltran group had De La Cruz get rid of the weapons, which he did by taking them to a local gun store to be sold off.

Since 1994, 70 million additional firearms entered private ownership in the United States, the report says. During that same span, the percentage of American gun owners fell from 25 to 22 percent — further exemplifying the conclusion that more guns are going into fewer hands.

Another observation the survey makes is that a higher percentage of women, and a lower rate of men, own at least one firearm today than they did at the time of the last substantial gun study in 1994. For women, that percentage rose from 9 to 12 percent. For men, it dropped from 42 to 32 percent.
Recent statistics show that about 100,000 Americans are injured every year by a firearm — and 30,000 are killed. Of the 30,000 killed, about 20,000 are suicides.