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How the NRA Evolved from Backing a 1934 Ban on Machine Guns to Blocking Nearly all Firearm Restrictions Today

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By Robert Spitzer The Conversation The mass shootings at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket and an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, just 10 days apart, are stirring the now-familiar national debate over guns […]

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The Constitutional Right We Have Bargained Away

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By Carissa Byrne Hessick The Atlantic The Bill of Rights exists to protect individuals. It protects the right to free speech, the right to due process, the right to counsel, and […]

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After Crafting American Criminal Justice, Christians Keep Changing the Rules

28 July 2021by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Chris Hutton The News Station In the 1640s, New England had a peculiar problem: “Something close to a bestiality panic,” historian John Murrin wrote. Teenagers were whipped, and at least […]

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U.S. Army has Hidden or Downplayed Loss of Firearms for Years

24 June 2021by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Kristin M. Hall, James Laporta & Justin Pritchard Associated Press The U.S. Army has hidden or downplayed the extent to which its firearms disappear, significantly understating losses and thefts […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, NATIONAL SECURITY

Where Surveillance Cameras Work but the Justice System Doesn’t

21 January 2021by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Madeleine Wattenbarger Rest of Worlds On the evening of October 9, 2013, 50-year-old elementary school teacher Laura Ramírez was run over by a car and killed on Avenida Dr. […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, LAW

Murderous Manila

24 January 2017by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By James Fenton The New York Review of Books One night in December, I was standing in heavy rain, under an umbrella, in a dark Manila alleyway, outside a house […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, LAW

Addressing Armed Violence: A Look at Small Island Developing States

22 July 2016by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Shmuel Levin The Diplomat The Caribbean and the Pacific each offer a unique and contrasting perspective toward addressing armed violence. Despite sharing similar challenges as Small Island Developing States […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, LAW, NATIONAL SECURITY

Do Tasers Interfere With Your Ability to Understand Miranda Warnings?

10 February 2016by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Nathan Collins Pacific Standard When you’re arrested by police and they read you your Miranda rights, you have two main options: You can keep quiet and demand a lawyer, […]

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Should Cops Get to Review the Video Before They Report?

27 August 2015by TheThresh.com 1 Comment

By Kathy Pezdek The Marshall Project The scenario is all too familiar. A police officer with a dash-cam or body camera stops an individual, the situation escalates, the individual is […]

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Battling America’s Other PTSD Crisis

10 March 2015by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Tina Rosenberg Yahoo! The fight that started Keith Davis on a path to a new life began when he was buying marijuana. It was early afternoon on Aug. 8. […]

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