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A Virginia teen has been suspended from school and is facing possible expulsion after he fired an airsoft gun outside his own house.

President Obama, speaking Sunday at a memorial service honoring those killed last week at the Washington Navy Yard, spoke out against gun violence: “Sometimes I fear there is a creeping resignation…that this is somehow the new normal,” he said. “We cannot accept this.”

Mark Kessler, the Pennsylvania police chief who recently filmed a video in which he said, "Fuck all you libtards!" while wearing a shirt that read, "Liberals take it in the ass," is reportedly on the chopping block in his small town of Gilberton. The AP reports that Gilberton officials "intend" to can Kessler, a gun enthusiast who once shot himself in the hand while off-duty in a bar. Kessler, who was also accused of improperly using a state program to get discount tires for his car and badmouthing other officials, said this decision is "no surprise."

The U.S. is recovering from yet another mass shooting, and the debate over gun control seems no closer to a satisfying resolution. But what if a stand-up comic already figured it out?

In a move that surely won’t upset anyone, Starbucks has issued a “respectful request” that customers refrain from bringing guns into their stores. How will they enforce their new request? By continuing to serve anyone with a gun, without asking them to leave or to put away their weapon.

The Atlantic Wire's Philip Bump concludes that if mass shootings in America continue at the pace they've been on since 2009, "there could be 14 more before [President Obama] leaves office."

Police in Indiana say a Michigan City man accidentally shot and killed a child in his care while playing a dangerous "gun game" with the boy.

The Seattle Police Department just released a set of documents better describing Aaron Alexis' "malicious mischief" arrest mentioned in the post below. "Mischief" sounds like what you did on Halloween in high school. What Aaron Alexis was arrested for in 2004 is quite a bit different:

In Colorado's first-ever recall election, two state senators who supported stricter gun control laws were voted out of office on Tuesday. Senate President John Morse and Sen. Angela Giro were replaced by two Republicans, shrinking the Democratic majority in the state's senate to one seat.

An attempt to show his wife that a gun brought into their home by a friend wasn't loaded went terribly awry for one Vermont man who ended up shooting his wife in the legs.

After jumping out of a closet where she had been hiding in order to startle her friend, high school track star Premila Lal, 18, was shot and killed Friday night by 21-year-old Nerrek Daniel Galley in Longmont, Colorado.

Iowa is giving gun permits to people who are legally or completely blind that will let these residents acquire guns and carry these firearms in public. Officials from Polk Country report that at least three people who can't legally drive and weren't able to read the application forms have been given permits to carry firearms.

One week ago, Shemane Nugent was arrested at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport after TSA agents found a .38-caliber handgun in her carry-on bag. Her lawyer justified his client's lapsed judgment as an “honest mistake” to the Dallas Morning News, explaining that the 51-year-old, who has a concealed-carry license, woke up early for her flight and “completely forgot or never knew the weapon was in her bag.” The firearm was loaded.

A one-year-old was shot in the head and killed Sunday night after a gunman allegedly attempted to shoot the toddler's father.

Richard Schmidt, a white supremacist living in Ohio, was found last December with 18 guns, 40,000 rounds of ammunition, and a list of prominent black and Jewish leaders in the Detroit area. When federal agents busted into his apartment, they were amazed by what they came across— they thought they were cracking down on his knock-off sports jersey racket.

Good news if you're George Zimmerman or even if you're just generally looking for guns and unfavorable press coverage — rifles that belonged to Saddam Hussein and Adolf Hilter are available online for purchase, right now.

The great state of Missouri (state animal: the mule) is poised to pass a bill that would make it illegal for federal agents to enforce federal gun laws, in Missouri. Really? What, are all of Missouri's Democratic representatives just craven idiots?

A Republican state senator from Arkansas who is leading a legislative committee on the subject of giving guns to school teachers accidentally shot a teacher during an "active shooter" drill earlier this year, the local paper of record has uncovered.

An eight-year-old shot and killed his elderly caregiver after playing Grand Theft Auto, according to police in Slaughter, Louisiana. The child shot the elderly woman in the head in a mobile home while she was watching television.