Crime and Punishment

In an interview with the Associated Press, Cambridge Police Commissioner Robert Haas revealed that neither Tamerlan Tsarnaev nor his brother Dzhokhar had permission to carry firearms. (Dzokhar being under 21 and all.) Meanwhile, the...

  Yesterday's shooting at a Denver pot festival had a few heads shaking. People who reject the idea that decriminalizing or legalizing small amounts of marijuana for recreational use is good idea were not pleased....

There's only one source for this story at the moment: mirror.co.uk. It's a big, if downmarket, UK tabloid that's not entirely incredible on matters of fact. With that caveat in mind: "The FBI was...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6GK1ojiRB4 "Gunfire erupted at a Denver pot celebration Saturday, injuring two people and scattering a crowd of thousands at a downtown park after they had just marked the first 4/20 counterculture holiday since the state...

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...