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A Brief History Of Gun Control Legislation in America

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Even though the Second Amendment is a supposedly "inalienable" right, our interpretation of it has changed over the years.In the United States of America, there is no government-sanctioned definition of a mass shooting — the crime that has polarized the already contentious debate over firearms regulations like nothing else in the history of gun control in America. In lieu of a formal definition, some agencies adopt the FBI’s standard for mass murder: an event where an individual takes the lives of “four or more people in a single incident (not including himself), typically in a single location. Read More...

Arizona Desert Snowfall Takes Internet By Storm With Gorgeous Pictures

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A layer of crisp, powdery snow makes everything just a little more magical — especially when it's in a desert. @Filosofomorfo/Twitter @Cassyarch/Twitter @agouldphoto/Instagram @GCConservancy/Eric Grimm/Twitter @MohaveDesertLT/Twitter @JustSayinPage/Twitter @AlmaRosaAsesora/Twitter @ArizonaIllustrated/Twitter @dunnerightaz/Twitter @canyonguides/Twitter @MohaveDesertLT/Twitter @helicoptersean/Instagram @SirlinJohn/Twitter @_Millhorn/Twitter @Kevinrimcoski/Instagram @1NativeSoilNerd/Twitter @sarai_AZ/Twitter @aemerybrown/Twitter @dunnerightaz/Twitter @miller2275/Twitter @rodelmore/Twitter Like this gallery? Share it: 21 Pictures Of An Arizona Desert Snowstorm As A Winter Wonderland View Gallery Something fairly unusual happened in the Southwestern Sonoran Desert as the year 2018 gave way to 2019: there was a substantial desert snowstorm. Read More...

Aum Shinrikyo, The Doomsday Cult That Gassed The Tokyo Subway

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Aum Shinrikyo was founded in 1980s Japan as a yoga and meditation group, but before long, leader Shoko Asahara pushed the group toward chemical weapons manufacturing and terrorist attacks.Wojtek Laski/Getty ImagesShoko Asahara, leader of the cult group Aum Shinrikyo, during a visit to Moscow on February 17, 1994. In 1984, Chizuo Matsumoto founded the Japanese group Aum Shinrikyo as a simple yoga class. The group’s practices drew upon Matsumoto’s idiosyncratic views on Buddhism and Hinduism while incorporating Christian philosophies and the writings of Nostradamus. Read More...

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