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All 80 Similes on Lil Wayne's I Am Not a Human Being II

Lil Wayne has just released his 10th studio album, I Am Not a Human Being II. It's been 18 years since his first album, True Story, as one half of The B.G.'z. In that time, he's been a lesser-known member of an embattled Southern hip-hop group, a scrawny kid, a mixtape hero, the greatest rapper aliv ... More >>

Jared Loughner Was Always "Pissed at the Pigs," According to Newly Released Documents

Thousands of pages of records have been released from Pima County Sheriff's Department's investigation of Jared Loughner's 2011 shooting that killed six people and injured 13, including former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, perhaps giving more insight into Loughner's life.Interviews with Loughner ... More >>

NRA's Wayne LaPierre and Neo-Nazi Agree on Sandy Hook Solution: More Guns

It's dang encouraging to learn that the National Rifle Association's top propagandist Wayne LaPierre is practically on the same page as Maricopa, Arizona neo-Nazi Harry Hughes regarding what the nation should do in response to the massacre of the innocents in Newtown, Connecticut. More guns! As I ... More >>

The Curious Death of Sergeant Sean Drenth

Your Gonzo Guide to the Republican National Convention

Russell Pearce Blames Victims for Dark Knight Massacre

See also: Russell Pearce's Racism "Discovered" by Arizona's Media See also: Russell Pearce's Mexican-Bashing E-mails Slammed By Randy Parraz, Others Recalled, disgraced ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce's heart, or what little there is of it, goes out to the victims of the Dark Knight Rises ... More >>

Pop Gun

Karl "Jack" Frost Says Jogger in Bike Lane Shoved Him, and That He's Ex-Cop With CCW Permit and No Felony Record

Karl "Jack" Frost admits he tried to make a citizen's arrest of a man who was jogging in a bike lane, but that Gilbert police got most of the story wrong.Frost, 47, says the main notion he wants to dispel is that he was in illegal possession of a .40-caliber Glock because of a supposed previous felo ... More >>

Antony James Wheeler: Domestic Violence Veteran/Alleged Panty Thief

Antony James Wheeler's Facebook pageAntony Wheeler: "head bouncer"/alleged panty thief.​An alleged panty thief is off the streets -- but only after allegedly assaulting his ex-step-daughter, sexually abusing his ex-wife and, of course, stealing her panties.Antony James Wheeler, the "head bouncer a ... More >>

New York City Proves Obvious in Arizona: Any Criminal Can Score a Gat at a Gun Show

Now if you could only buy nuclear weapons this way...Tucson killer Jared Lee Loughner didn't get his gun through a gigantoid flea-market-type gun show, where any criminal can buy a Glock and some extended mags, cash and carry.Actually, Loughner copped his gat from a licensed gun dealer. He passed th ... More >>

Sergeant Sean Drenth's City-Issued Gun Sold to Widow by Phoenix for $1

The City of Phoenix sold slain Sergeant Sean Drenth's gun to his wife for $1. ​The widow of slain Phoenix police Sergeant Sean Drenth has purchased her husband's department-issued gun from the city of Phoenix, according to minute entries from the Phoenix City Council's December 8 meeting.The ... More >>

Branded: Can Tucson Ever Live It Down?

Saving Ears, Not People: Seven Cases in Which Mass Shooters, Including Jared Loughner, Used Ear Protection

  ​Jared Lee Loughner is just one of many mass shooters in recent history who worried more about damaging his hearing than slaughtering innocent people. Video surveillance footage reportedly shows that Tucson shooter Jared Lee Loughner had inserted ear plugs before opening fire with hi ... More >>

Police Security Needed When Members of Congress Meet Public, Say 60 Percent of Americans

Image: www.phoenix.gov/police​ About 60 percent of Americans believe police presence should be mandatory when members of Congress hold Town Hall-type events, a new poll shows. The poll, commissioned by The Hill, a Washington D.C. newspaper, also found that 91 percent of Americ ... More >>

Jared Lee Loughner Uber Alles? Let's Face It, Gun Nuts Are Just Selfish

Extremist gun nuts refuse to compromise on the firearm restrictions: Jared Lee Loughner might as well be their poster boy My colleague Ray Stern has responded to my reply to his recent pro-gun editorial. In it, Ray wonders what I meant at one point in my rebuttal, which is entitled, "Ment ... More >>

Jared Loughner Carried Knife -- in Addition to Gun and Plenty of Ammo -- During Attack

Jared Loughner​It seems that even if Jared Loughner didn't own a gun, his murderous plan to attack Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords would have been carried out anyway.The Pima County Sheriff's Office says, in addition to the semi-automatic Glock handgun Loughner used to shoot 19 people, kill ... More >>

Jared Loughner Reportedly Posed in G-String -- Glock in Hand -- in Photos Taken Day Before Shooting

This is NOT Jared Loughner -- but the suspect in Saturday's shooting rampage was wearing a number similar to this hours before the shooting occurred.​Just when we thought the tragic story of Jared Loughner couldn't possibly get any more bizarre, it's now being reported that he took photos of himse ... More >>

Arizona's Lax Gun Laws Helped Make Tucson's Jared Lee Loughner Possible

Video: Shooting a Glock 19 With a 31-Round Magazine

Quick quiz: The perfect number of bullets in the magazine of a handgun is -- A) Zero. Bullets and handguns shouldn't be sold to anyone but cops. B). Ten. That's the maximum in California, and was the maximum under the expired federal assault rifle ban. C). 16. This is roughly a normal magazine ... More >>

Five Reasons Why a Mental Health Evaluation Should NOT be a Prerequisite For Buying a Gun

​ Forget background checks for a moment. Maybe, in reaction to Saturday's mass shooting in Tucson, a whole new take on the problem is needed when it comes to potentially dangerous, mentally ill people buying guns. Maybe a complete mental health evaluation should be conducted on people who wan ... More >>

Pete King, GOP Congressman, Gets Push-Back From Speaker Boehner on Gun Control Bill

Image: Fox News Channel's Happening NowPeter King, a Republican Congressman from New York, is being stymied by the House Speaker in his quest to pass a gun control measure​ A Republican congressman's idea to ban weapons within 1,000 feet of federal officials fell flat with House Speaker John B ... More >>

Mental Health Check for Gun Buys? Talk About a Straw Man...

YahooMovies If he only had a brain, he could pass that non-existent mental health evaluation and buy a Glock... In the wake of the Tucson massacre, there have been, as you might expect, a number of folks who have suggested that maybe Arizona, and the nation, would benefit from stricter gun le ... More >>

Jan Brewer's Response to Jared Loughner? Slash Services from an Already Beleaguered Mental-Health System

Ten Rampages by Mentally Ill People Who Bought Guns That Can Teach Lawmakers What to do Next

Seung Hui Cho slipped through a loophole in Virginia law when he bought his gun. Lawmakers in that state fixed the problem​ The deadly mass shooting in Tucson on Saturday was by no means the first to raise questions about how mentally ill people bought firearms. In some cases, state or federa ... More >>

Peter King, GOP Rep From NY, Wants Guns Kept at Least 1,000 Feet From Government Officials

  Representative Peter King, R-NY​Saturday's mass shooting in Tucson has prompted another idea for gun-control legislation: Representative Peter King, a Republican from New York, says he plans to introduce legislation that would prohibit people from bringing guns within 1,00 ... More >>

Gun Sales Surge in Arizona Following Tucson's Mass Shooting

​ Gun sales in Arizona are surging in the aftermath of Saturday's mass shooting in Tucson. The Bloomberg news site is reporting that one-day gun sales in Arizona jumped 60 percent yesterday over the same day last year, and that Glocks like the one used by maniac Jared Loughner are in high dema ... More >>

Jared Loughner Web Site Started to Memorialize Tragedy; No Ads Accepted, Site Says

Image: www.jaredloughner.comSomeone bought the "jaredloughner.com" domain name on Saturday -- the same day as the shooting​ It's never too soon for a domain-name buy, apparently. With Jared Loughner's Glock still cooling, someone bought the URL www.jaredloughner.com on Saturday and began uploa ... More >>

High-Capacity Magazines (a.k.a. "Clips") for Firearms Targeted by Gun-Control Advocates Following Giffords Tragedy

Image: www.kyimports.com High-capacity, 31-round magazines for semi-automatic firearms are getting targeted by gun-control advocates after Saturday's shooting​ Large-capacity magazines for firearms are becoming a focus for gun-control advocates following Saturday's shooting of Congress ... More >>

Pinalcchio: Renowned Forensics Experts Say a Pinal County Deputy's High-Profile Tale About Getting Shot After Encountering Drug Smugglers Doesn't Add Up

Lawyered Up: A Crime-Scene Report Shows a Pinal County Sheriff's Deputy Who Claimed to be Shot by Mexican Drug Smugglers Didn't Cooperate Fully With a State Police Probe

Kick-Ass: Meet a Gang of Superheroes in the YouTube Age

Nativist Roy Warden Storms the Arizona Supreme Court, Kinda-Sorta

Roy Warden addresses the troops, all six of 'em...I confess, I'm drawn to the deep and abiding weirdness of the nativist movement for the same reason I watch televangelists, bird-dog neo-Nazis, and listen to on-air wackjobs like Michael Savage or Glenn Beck. Freaks are fascinating, let's be honest. ... More >>

Tour de farce: the corporate-sponsored tours we don’t want to buy tickets to

Jodie Foster, Superhero

Our Brave leading lady takes back the night

Strange Fruit Project

The Healing
(Om)

Heatstroke

Catch Me If You Can
(Wildin Records)

I Pod, You Pod

Welcome to the days of wearing your pretensions -- all of them -- on your hip

Write or Wrong

Our quarterly roundup of music books lets us get lost with Chet Baker, nasty with Bill Monroe and saved by Al Green, while Ted Nugent teaches us that happiness really is a warm gun

Flashes

From the week of October 19, 2000

Hollow Points

State requirements for a concealed weapons permit are hit or miss

Paperback Writer

Trashman pours his beer-fueled soul into a saga of Guns n' Mooks

Per Verse

Loco Motive

Jesse Madril's kin are convinced his murder was gang-related, but Guadalupe authorities and the sheriff's office would rather not deal with it

Crackdown

After years of neglect, a Maryvale neighborhood and the Phoenix police evict the West Side City Crips

Knight Watchman

Security guard Shaun is armed and ready for trouble at a Van Buren Circle K

Clip Joint

Playing with guns at Crossroads of the West

Night In The City

In the hear of Phoenix lies a suberranean sone where day fades into night nearly without notice, where the city doesn't shut down with the sunset, and where, for some, the day begins with the night. Welcome to the night watch.

Father Cube

Ice Cube re-stakes his position as a rap icon on the Family Values tour

Cowboys and Indians

Scottsdale PD officers charge onto the reservation, spark grand jury investigation

A KILLER CONVENTION

THE IMAGE-CONSCIOUS NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION ALLOWED NO NOISY FIREFIGHTS DURING ITS ANNUAL MEETING. EVERYONE WAS USING SILENCERS.