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On July 30, 2024, the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) published a paper showing massive errors in the FBI Active Shooter Reports from 2014 through 2023. In that time, I have personally been following the issue throughout. The first viral post I wrote about the subject of armed civilians stopping mass murders was published on December 15, 2012. It had 16 incidents documented from October 1997 to 11 December 2012. All of these incidents occurred before the FBI started collecting data on “active shooter” incidents.The CPRC paper, with a solid institution and organization behind it, does a better job than...

A second wave of infections is seen as a dangerous possibility in China after five new coronavirus cases were reported on Saturday, including three that were locally transmitted, a report said. No new COVID-19 deaths have been reported in China in more than a month, although some have been announced retroactively after further tests were performed, and 82 people remain in treatment while another 450 are under isolation and monitoring as suspected cases or after testing positive for the virus without showing symptoms. China has reported a total of 4,634 deaths among 82,954 cases since the virus was first detected...

Mark Guethle, the new chairman of the Kane County Democratic Party, said he voted for a Republican in the 2000 primary election because his union told him to. Guethle's Kane County voting history indicates he took a Republican ballot in the 2000 primary election. Now the union's political organizer, Guethle said Painters Union District Council No. 30 strongly supported Sunny Abello, who was challenging State Sen. Chris Lauzen, R-Aurora, in the primary."It wasn't the first time," Guethle said of voting in a Republican primary on the directive of his union."When the union director sends you a letter, you read it...