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Tragedy struck the other day as a 5 year old boy shot his sister with his youth .22 rifle he got as a gift from his parents.  Long story short, his mother left the kids unattended for 3 minutes, and the 5 year old grabbed the .22 that still had a shell in it and fatally wounded his sister.  How terrible.  Right off the bat, multiple gun safety rules were broken, and this could have easily been avoided.  Nevertheless, it's a terrible tragedy and I can't imagine the pain that family is going through.  

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Courage Center Duluth's Shoot for Fun is coming up on April 27th, and I will be participating in the B105 team.  Now, I've shot quite a bit of clay pigeons, but never on a league.  I've always been a pretty good shot, but I was self taught... So I thought maybe I'd watch a video on how to properly do it.   Here's lesson 1:

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Investigators in the Sandy Hook shootings have revealed that Adam Lanza, the kid who entered the school and began his shooting spree was found with ear plugs in his ears. One can speculate but there are more questions than answers. Here is was is bothering authorities.

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Drivers who travel past the intersection of 4th Street and 21st Avenue East in Duluth during the winter months have grown accustomed to seeing snow sculptures in the yard of Harry Welty, who lives right on the corner of the two intersecting streets. In the 25 years Welty has been carving snow statues in his yard, none have been quite as meaningful as the one currently on display.

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What usually is a rather quiet neighborhood heard some gun shots last evening, causing a panicked scene near 24th Street North and John Avenue.  Multiple police cars responded to the 911 call around 5 pm Thursday night.

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Three people are dead and four others injured today after a mass shooting at a spa in Brookfield, Wis., a suburb of Milwaukee. The man police suspect in the shooting has also been found dead, according to a county dispatcher in Wisconsin.

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We now know more about the shooting that took place yesterday afternoon at a Minneapolis Workplace.  Sadly, the number of deaths has risen to 5 people including the gunman.  The incident happened at Accent Signage Systems inc.

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This is a breaking story, but there are reports out of Minneapolis of an early Thursday evening workplace shooting that has left two people dead and at least four people injured, several critically.

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Although details are sketchy at the moment, several news outlets are reporting that a gunman has shot multiple people near the Empire State Building in Manhattan this morning.

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Clouds gathered above the Aurora cinema after Sunday night’s vigil for the victims in the tragic ‘Dark Knight Rises‘ shooting, believed to be shaped like an angel. Crystal Fuller snapped a photo of clouds and wrote on Facebook:

“I took this picture last night after I left the vigil…Looks like an Angel in the clouds above Century 16. Touching!”

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America has been a nation of heavy hearts since a gunman opened fire on a movie theater during a midnight showing of ‘The Dark Night Rises.’ In light of the unspeakable tragedy, Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw had an emotional stopover in Denver when they played the Sports Authority Field on Saturday night (July 21).

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Gun control has always been a major issue of debate in America — right up alongside the more recently heated topics of abortion, same-sex marriage and health care — but the tragic shooting of 71 people during a Colorado theater’s showing of ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ has given this controversy a brand new spotlight.

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