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Should there be stricter gun laws in the United States? Since the Sandy Hook school shootings that left 27 people dead, Americans are changing their minds. Give us your opinion in the survey below. President Obama said, “In the coming weeks, I will use whatever power this office holds to engage my fellow citizens — from law enforcement to mental health professionals — in an effort to prevent more tragedies like this.” He spoke at a Newtown, Connecticut vigil. The killer …

Twenty primary school children and seven adults were murdered on Dec. 14 in a rampage shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Conn. Another rampage shooting took place the previous Tuesday in a Clackamas, Ore. shopping mall. The gunman shot three people, two of them fatally, before turning his gun on himself. The number of guns in the United States is growing, and the death toll continues to rise.      

The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday threw out an Illinois law banning concealed handguns, which had been the nation’s only blanket law against concealed carry. Lawmakers will have 180 days to rewrite the law to replace one that judges decided in a 2-1 ruling was in violation of the Second Amendment to the Constitution. In Moore v. Madigan, the court said, “The Supreme Court has decided that the amendment confers a right to bear arms for self-defense, which …

If you don’t lock up your guns – or at least keep them unloaded – when you have guests, you could be sued when something goes wrong. One Vermont family is finding out just how horribly wrong things can go: They are being sued for wrongful death in the wake of an accidental shooting between two house guests, which left one of them dead. The suit alleges that the family was negligent, because the weapon involved in the incident was …

LEGAL NEWS OF THE WEIRD — Darren Hieber, 33, became the most recent person to choose drastic means to reconcile with an ex. Twice Hieber, of Onawa, Iowa, arranged to have himself shot in order to win his ex-wife’s sympathy. The first hit man shot Hieber in the leg, but the wife still ignored him, and a second job was arranged in March, with two different shooters, but that failed, also. Adding to his frustration, Hieber was sentenced to 10 …