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WELD COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4) – Inspired by the movie “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri,” Lindasue Smollen of Boulder put up her own billboard messages after passage of the “Red Flag Bill.” “Sheriff Reams up there decided he will not enforce it, and he has decided on his own it’s unconstitutional,” Smollen told CBS4’s Rick Sallinger. The six billboards read in part, “More Americans have died of gun violence since 1970… than in all wars in American history.” “It’s really about education. This is not political. This is not a democratic issue, it’s not a republican issue, it’s a human rights...

Media bias: Wikipedia has repeatedly removed reliably sourced information about how hunting endangered animals, when done properly, makes their populations get bigger Wikipedia has repeatedly removed the following reliably sourced information from its Trophy hunting article. (The deletion history can be seen here, here, here, and here.)In 2015, a Texas hunter who had won an auction paid $350,000 for legal permission to kill an endangered black rhinoceros in Namibia. The Washington Post wrote the following about the particular animal that was chosen for this kill: “The bull, Knowlton said, was a problem in his own herd. The animal was too old...

Critics applaud rejection of state senator's bill to have gun safety taught in high schools. GLENDALE — A pro-arms organization applauded Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's veto of what it called a biased bill written by state Sen. Jack Scott (D-Glendale) aimed at teaching teens about gun violence and prevention. The bill, rejected by Schwarzenegger on July 20, would have required public high school health education teachers to instruct students about the dangers of guns. But the bill would have allowed for anti-gun propaganda to be taught under the guise of safety since it was written without state guidelines preventing anti-gun bias,...

NEWARK, N.J. -- The piece is a Beretta 9-millimeter, model 92FS. It rests -- Italian, gray, unloaded -- in the right palm of Michael Recce, although the professor is such an un-gun guy he can't remember what the weapon is. It's a gun; enough said. Affixed to either side of its handle are 16 raised, dime-size sensors. Recce's team has done the test thousands of times now, either in its lab in Newark or at an Army facility elsewhere in the state: A hand picks up the weapon. An index finger starts to pull the trigger. The sensors start working...

<p>A Pinellas deputy removes a .50-caliber rifle from the Seminole townhouse of Dr. Robert Goldstein on Thursday.</p> <p>SEMINOLE -- Picking through a pile of firearms and explosives in a Seminole townhouse, Pinellas sheriff's deputies and federal agents found dozens of legal weapons, several suspected bombs and one rifle that has raised hackles from Washington to California.</p> <p>The .50-caliber rifle, like the one discovered late Thursday at the home of Pinellas podiatrist Robert Goldstein, is one of the most-discussed legal weapons on the market today.</p>

Report Finds Gun Safety Programs Fail To Protect Kids BY HELEN RUMBELOW, THE WASHINGTON POST Friday, July 19, 2002 Gun safety programs aimed at young people do not work and have done little to reduce the 20,000 children killed or injured by guns in the United States every year, a foundation report says. Children's curiosity and teenagers' love of risks makes them extremely resistant to efforts to persuade them not to handle guns, such as the National Rifle Association's Eddie Eagle campaigns as well as programs by gun control advocates, it found. In some cases these programs may have increased...

<p>In an unusual move for children's television, a character in Saturday's episode of WB's animated series "Static Shock" will shoot one of his classmates.</p> <p>The episode, scheduled to air May 4 at 7:30 a.m., involves a shy boy who, after being endlessly harassed by a bully, steals his father's loaded handgun and brings it to an after-school center. The gun accidentally discharges, injuring a classmate while other students look on in shock.</p>