Crime and Punishment

http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/apps/cvp/3.0/swf/cnn_embed_2x_container.swf?site=cnn&profile=desktop&context=embedwww&videoId=us/2013/04/20/bts-wolf-watertown-police-chief.cnn&contentId=us/2013/04/20/bts-wolf-watertown-police-chief.cnn Responding to rumors that the cops opened fire on Dzhokhar Tsarnaev without ballistic provocation, Watertown Police Chief Edward Deveau told CNN's Wolf Blitzer that the Boston bomber was shooting at his troops when they...

Eagle-eyed TTAG reader Dirk Diggler spotted this in a foxnews.com report on one of the Boston bombers. "Tamerlan  previously studied at Bunker Hill Community College for three semesters — fall 2006, spring 2007 and fall...

http://www.wivb.com/video_player/swf/EndPlayVideoPlayer_v1_4_FP10_2.swf?v=101712_0 "Four people have been arrested in connection with a Town of Carroll home invasion and double homicide," wivb.com reports. "Authorities say husband and wife 66-year-old Gordon Skinner and 59-year-old Joyce Skinner both died during...

More good news after the Senate shot down gun ban bills that would have infringed on Americans' Constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms. Of course, that's not the way washingtonpost.com spun the...

As Chris Matthews furiously Googles to see if -- somehow -- the Boston Chechnyan bombing suspects were members of a nascent Tea Party cell in Grozny, we're getting conflicting information as to how long...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhF-GIBuSec&list=UU72UssJ1DNQcakZXm-B2-zw&index=2 "Police killed one suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing during a shootout and were engaged in a house-to-house search for a second man on Friday in the Boston suburb of Watertown after a bloody...

Yesterday every single gun control amendment failed in the Senate, which prompted a Presidential hissy fit. Today, the Senate is slated to continue debating the remaining amendments and the actual gun control bill itself....

  "An automatic M-16 rifle is missing from one of the Philadelphia Police Department's main gun-storage units and Commissioner Charles Ramsey has called in federal authorities to investigate," philly.com reports. "Obviously, this is very, very serious," Ramsey...

Dianne Feinstein's Assault Weapons Ban bill wasn't on the approved list of gun control proposals that were passed out of a Senate committee, mainly because there was no chance in hell of it getting...

Click here to watch C-Span's live coverage of the Senate debate and on S649 and amendments to same. There's bloody shirt waving aplenty and lots of "we need to do something"s. No mention of...

  "A pressure cooker stuffed with gunpowder and shrapnel caused at least one of the blasts at the Boston Marathon that killed three people and injured 176 others in the worst attack on U.S. soil...

TTAG reader Pascal read an op-ed in today's Boston Herald about the Boston Marathon bombing. He forwarded an excerpt to us followed by a simple question: Don’t walk the streets of Boston? Stay in your hotel rooms?...