Girl 'Mercilessly Slaughtered' On Family Trip.. Dad Poses As Gunman To Test School Security

January 14, 2013 Subscribe · Forward 8-Year-Old Girl 'Mercilessly Slaughtered' On Family Trip KINGSTON, Jamaica -- A British schoolgirl visiting relatives in a rural village in northern Jamaica was fatally shot when a lone gunman opened fire on a group of family members as they gathered at a roadside shop, officials said Sunday. Imani Green, 8, of Balham in south London, was standing inside a clapboard grocery store and bar with Jamaican relatives Friday evening when a gunman wearing a hoodie shot the child in the head and shoulder before also shooting and wounding three adult members of her family. Continue reading... Police Search For Former Teacher Who Raped Underage Boy Dad Poses As Gunman To Test School Security Presented by Ethan Fedida Convict Shoots Atlanta Officer In The Face: Cops Richard Wayne Landers, Missing Boy Found As Adult, Says Grandparents 'Were In The Right' San Diego Movie Theater Shooting: Cop Shoots, Injures Armed Man Imani Green, British Girl, Shot In Jamaica While Visiting Family Imani Green, British Girl, Shot In Jamaica While Visiting Family Ronald Miller Poses As Gunman To Test His Child's School Security, Gets Arrested In Texas: Cops Ronald Miller Poses As Gunman To Test His Child's School Security, Gets Arrested In Texas: Cops Imani Green, British Girl, Shot In Jamaica While Visiting Family Robert Jarell Neal Accused Of Stabbing Deaf Man After Confusing Sign Language With Gang Signs (VIDEO) JOSH SUGARMANN Newtown-Based Gun Industry Trade Association Begins Celebration of Guns This Week in Vegas While America continues to grieve over the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School and begins looking for answers, for Newtown-based National Shooting Sports Foundation, the gun industry's multi-million dollar trade association, it's back to business as usual. Continue reading... DAVID W. JAMIESON Is American 'Acceptance of Violence' on the Rise? In national surveys conducted every presidential election year since 1992, we've been monitoring the evolution of a value called "Acceptance of Violence." We have measured this value by asking four questions, each designed to gauge a different facet of respondents' views on violence. Continue reading... ROBERT CREAMER Why the NRA Is Becoming the 'Great Oz' It is of course true that in politics the perception of power translates into the reality of power. The problem is that once it becomes clear that you're all hat and no cattle, the myth of power rapidly collapses into a pile of dust. That is exactly what is happening to the NRA. Continue reading... From around the web btrp JEFFREY A. LIEBERMAN, M.D. Diagnosing and Preventing the Unfathomable Following a public act of unspeakable horror, like the shootings in Connecticut or Aurora, mental health professionals are asked to explain why or how a person could hurt others so profoundly. And then we are asked how to identify such people and prevent these violent acts. Continue reading... LAWRENCE LESSIG Prosecutor as Bully The billions of snippets of sadness and bewilderment spinning across the Net confirm who this amazing boy Aaron Swartz was to all of us. It angers me that he did what he did. But if we're going to learn from this, we can't let slide what brought him here. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here Unsubscribe here.