A father and son accused of a mass shooting at Australia’s Bondi Beach “acted alone” and were not part of a wider terrorist cell, police have said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/30/asia-pacific/crime-legal/bondi-beach-shooting-act-alone/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #australia #terrorism #massshootings #guns
Families of Bondi Beach shooting victims have urged Australia’s prime minister to launch a royal commission — an independent public inquiry — into the “rapid rise of antisemitism” in the country. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/29/world/crime-legal/bondi-families-antisemitism-probe/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #australia #bondibeach #massshootings #massmurder #guns #anthonyalbanese
The Australian state of New South Wales — where the Bondi Beach shooting took place — is introducing what it calls the “toughest firearm reforms in the country.” https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/22/asia-pacific/crime-legal/australian-state-gun-laws/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #australia #guns #massshootings #massmurder #bondibeach #anthonyalbanese #gunlaws
Australia's gun laws are riddled with loopholes and workarounds, experts say. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/17/asia-pacific/crime-legal/australia-gun-laws-loopholes/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #australia #guns #massshootings
A deadly shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach shattered a symbol of safety and coexistence, highlighting Australia’s rising antisemitism and broader social polarization. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/12/17/world/bondi-attack-sweeps-australia-into-violent-world/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #australia #terrorism #shootings #sydney #guns
A father and son were driven by "Islamic State ideology" when they fired on Bondi Beach in one of Australia's deadliest mass shootings, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Tuesday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/16/asia-pacific/bondi-shooting-islamic-state/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #australia #guns #massshootings
Australia will consider toughening gun laws after a father and his son killed 15 people in the nation’s deadliest terror attack. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/15/asia-pacific/crime-legal/australia-shooting-gun-laws/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #australia #shootings #terrorism #guns #anthonyalbanese
A man has been taken into custody at a Rhode Island hotel and held as a “person of interest” in the Brown University shooting that left two students dead and nine wounded, authorities said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/15/world/crime-legal/brown-university-shooting-detain/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #us #rhodeisland #massshootings #schoolshootings #universities #guns #brownuniversity
Only "5% of mass shootings are motivated primarily by #mentalIllness". Of course, "the lifetime prevalence of any psychiatric disorder among adults in [the U.S.] right now is about 40 to 45%, so a lot of people who perpetrate mass murder will have some sort of diagnos[is]."
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A gunman killed two people and wounded nine others on Saturday at Brown University, plunging the eastern U.S. campus into lockdown as hundreds of police hunted the suspect. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/14/world/crime-legal/gunman-kills-two-at-brown-university/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #brownuniversity #murder #crime #massmurder #massshootings #guns
A ranking gang member has pleaded not guilty to the charge of fatally shooting the head of the Gyoza no Osho restaurant chain in Kyoto in 2013. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/26/japan/crime-legal/yakuza-shooting-plea/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #yakuza #guns
The mother of Tetsuya Yamagami, on trial in connection with the 2022 killing of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, told a court she wants to keep her faith in the Unification Church, a controversial religious group. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/19/japan/crime-legal/yamagami-trial-mother/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #shinzoabe #tetsuyayamagami #shinzoabeassassination #guns
The mother of Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, who is charged with the 2022 murder of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Nara, apologized for the crime committed by her second son as she appeared in court as a defense witness. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/14/japan/crime-legal/mother-abe-shooter-apology/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #nara #shinzoabe #shinzoabeassassination #tetsuyayamagami #guns #japanesecourts
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NEW: How a Gap in Tennessee’s Probation System Leaves Domestic Violence Victims in Danger
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Probation officers pause in-person visits and home searches for offenders facing an arrest warrant. That reduced supervision can last for months — in one case it was over a year. Six mothers died during this gap, WPLN and ProPublica found.
https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-domestic-violence-guns-probation
#news #guns #criminaljustice #crime #government #tennessee #domesticviolence
NEW: How a Gap in Tennessee’s Probation System Leaves Domestic Violence Victims in Danger
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Probation officers pause in-person visits and home searches for offenders facing an arrest warrant. That reduced supervision can last for months — in one case it was over a year. Six mothers died during this gap, WPLN and ProPublica found.
https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-domestic-violence-guns-probation
#news #guns #criminaljustice #crime #government #tennessee #domesticviolence
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"the thousands slaughtered in mass shootings because of the GOP’s ghoulish fidelity to a twisted interpretation of the Second Amendment, the Venezuelan fishermen blown out of their boats, and the many people sure to die as a consequence of the Epstein Shutdown, Trump and the MAGA Republicans already have a body count approaching seven figures."
#Trump #Republicans #shutdown #Epstein #Venezuela #guns #MassShootings #party #MaraLago #EconomicElites
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Remind me to never go knocking on doors in Indiana.
The Guardian: Indiana woman who was at wrong home address to clean fatally shot by resident
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/07/indiana-woman-shot-dead-wrong-property
Remind me to never go knocking on doors in Indiana.
The Guardian: Indiana woman who was at wrong home address to clean fatally shot by resident
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/07/indiana-woman-shot-dead-wrong-property
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More #election results
In #Maine, voters rejected a ballot measure that would have added #voting restrictions, & approved a measure that enables families to try to get a troubled relative’s #guns taken away.
In #Pennsylvania, voters granted new 10-year terms to 3 #Democratic justices on the state’s supreme court.
In #Detroit, #Michigan, #Democrat Mary Sheffield became the city’s first #female #mayor & the first new mayor in a dozen years.