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  • Ground Truth

    12/22/2016 11:47:10 AM PST · by Pontiac · 21 replies
    TampaBay Times ^ | 12/22/16 | Ben Montogmery
    For more than a century, boys were sent to the Florida School for Boys reformatory in the north Florida town of Marianna. Many were beaten brutally and bear the physical and psychological scars to this day. Many boys, though, never came home. They died, some under mysterious circumstances. They were buried in unmarked graves and they were forgotten. Several years ago, a young anthropology professor from the University of South Florida decided she would try to answer the many questions about what happened to these boys and, if she could, return their remains to their families. To get to the...
  • FBI's Crime Report Bad News for Anti-Gunners

    09/22/2008 5:52:52 AM PDT · by SoothSayerONETIME · 16 replies · 541+ views
    NRA ILA ^ | September 19, 2008 | NRA ILA
    This week, the FBI released its crime report for 2007 and, once again, gun control supporters are taking it on the chin. It's not just that the nation's violent crime rate decreased slightly between 2006 and 2007. It's that every year since 2002 it has been lower than anytime since 1974, leading the Justice Department to say that violent crime is "near a 30-year low." Since 1991, violent crime has dropped 38 percent. Murder is now at a 40-year low, lower than anytime since 1966 every year from 1999 to the present, and down 43 percent since 1991. "More guns...