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Today in America:
Argument over Sandy Hook shooting ends in gunfire:
[A] patron at the All Cuts Barber Shop in Wentzville, Mo. remarked Tuesday that he wanted to kill the suspect, Adam Lanza — who is already dead. Somehow, inexplicably, 57-year-old Lester Davis was offended and took the comment as a threat, asking, "You want to murder me?"
Police say Davis then went to his car, got a pistol and fired three shots at the unnamed customer. Fortunately no one was injured.
Man Arrested at Sandy Hook Elementary in Virginia:
A man was arrested at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Strasburg, Va., Wednesday, according to the Shenandoah County Sheriff’s Office.
The 33-year-old walked into the school with a 4-foot long two-by-four labeled “High Powered Rifle” about 11:40 a.m., the sheriff’s office said.
He was met by school staff, then detained by a sheriff’s school resource officer. He was arrested and taken into custody without incident.
Boy finds gun in movie theater during 'Hobbit' field trip:
A group of seventh-grade students on a field trip to see The Hobbit found a loaded gun in a movie theater Wednesday morning. [...]
Tillamook police Chief Terry Wright said officers took possession of the gun. It was a small caliber, fully loaded, semi-automatic pistol with one round in the chamber. The safety was off.
Meanwhile,
in the Senate:
In the wake of the Newtown shootings, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller introduced a bill Tuesday that would have the National Academy of Sciences examine any link between violent video games and media, and violent acts by children, industry sources say.
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2007—Due process at Guantánamo:
There was an important development on Tuesday at Guantánamo. A ruling by the judge in Salim Hamdan’s military commission appears to require entirely new hearings for any prisoners who claim to be POWs. Hamdan had appealed for a POW status hearing under Article 5 of the Third Geneva Convention. The ruling by Navy Captain Keith Allred went strongly in his favor.
Allred rejects the Congressional view that Combatant Status Review Tribunals had been adequate to determine POW status. That view was asserted forcefully by Sen. Lindsay Graham in 2006 during hearings for the Military Commissions Act. Allred, however, concludes that CSRTs concerned themselves with whether the prisoners were "enemy combatants" and therefore weren’t competent to determine whether the men were prisoners of war.
The military commissions are defective by design and should not be permitted to stand in for civil trials, but at least one prisoner has been assigned a judge who is willing to face up to the plain flaws in the legal "system" that the Bush administration slapped together.
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