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WATCH: MSNBC host goes berserk when ex-Cheney aide says it's too soon to talk about guns

After a years-long pattern of mass shootings followed by conservatives who always say that it's too soon after the tragedy to talk about gun control, MSNBC Alex Witt finally hit her breaking point on Saturday.

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WTF? NBC's Chuck Todd airs 'color-blind' segment with all-black shooters to address Charleston massacre

Following the tragic deaths of nine black church-goers in Charleston at the hands of an alleged white supremacist, NBC host Chuck Todd featured a segment with only black murders who were regretful of using guns.

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Fox host and Huckabee attack Obama over gun control comments -- then call for more civility and less rhetoric

Repeating an often heard suggestion following every mass shooting in the United States, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee complained that President Barack Obama was "grandstanding" when he called for more gun control after the Charleston church shooting, saying instead more guns is the solution.

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Dylann Roof passed on shooting up College of Charleston because it would have been too hard: friends

Friends of the white gunman who shot and killed nine black people inside an historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina said he first talked about attacking a college campus, the Washington Post and NBC News reported on Friday.

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Rick Santorum thinks white Charleston shooter chose victims at black church 'indiscriminately'

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum asserted on Thursday that a massacre at a historically black church in South Carolina was part of a larger "assault on our religious liberty" in the United States.

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New record? Fox takes under a minute to slam Obama's church shooting remarks for making guns 'political'

Hosts and pundits on Fox News took less than a minute after President Barack Obama addressed the murders of nine members of a historically black church in South Carolina to complain that he had politicized the incident by calling for less gun violence.

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Pro-gun pastor tells Fox: 'Hate crime' means shooter is prejudiced against 'biblical views' -- not race

Conservative pastor E.W. Jackson, a former Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in Virginia, told Fox News on Thursday that all clergy should be armed because a white South Carolina shooter attacked a historically black South Carolina church for it's "biblical views," not because of racism.

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N.J. cop ran ex-wife off the road, shot her with a child in car as another officer watched: witness

Witnesses in Asbury Park, New Jersey said on Tuesday that they saw an off-duty officer shoot his estranged wife while at least one other officer looked on and did nothing.

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Men's rights fanatics defend Iowa mall shooter fired for sexual harassment: It's 'hard to blame him'

Several members of the men's rights movement have offered qualified support for a former Iowa mall security guard who shot and killed a 20-year-old woman Friday night after he was reportedly fired because the woman complained that he was sexually harassing her.

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San Francisco child accidentally dials 911, cops show up and shoot family dog six times

A San Francisco family is considering taking legal action after a police officer killed their dog while responding to an accidental 911 call.

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Iowa open-carry nut gunned down mall worker who filed sexual harassment complaints against him

An Iowa mall cop -- with a Facebook account loaded with open-carry and right-wing memes and photos of multiple weapons -- is under arrest for shooting and killing a fellow mall worker because she filed sexual harassment complaints against him.

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Dallas shooter was a conspiracy theorist who threatened to shoot up schools and churches: reports

The man who launched an early morning attack on the Dallas Police headquarters has a history with law authorities, causing a lockdown  in 2013 after threatening to kill his family and shoot up schools and churches near Paris, Texas.

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'He wasn't bothering nobody': Witnesses say Miami cops shot homeless man in front of 50 kids

The Miami Police Department confirmed that an officer shot a homeless man on Thursday -- but witnesses insisted that the man never posed a threat.

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