In today's Tweet Beat, everyone has a Halloween hangover, the shooting at LAX has put a damper on the style of many celebs and Kristen Chenoweth is probably really mad she didn't get her hair cut a day or two earlier. Read… 11/01/13 7:30pm 11/01/13 7:30pm

George Zimmerman, the gun waving lunatic who killed BUT DID NOT MURDER unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin, is in the middle of a messy divorce. The latest allegation brought by his estranged wife is that once when he was mad at her, he nailed a bullseye riddled with bullet holes to her parents' house. "Yep, sounds about… Read… 10/31/13 2:10pm 10/31/13 2:10pm

10 minutes away from a Santa Monica fundraising lunch attended by President Obama, a gunman killed four and wounded three (one in critical condition) with a semiautomatic rifle before being shot and killed by police at the Santa Monica College Library yesterday. Read… 6/08/13 3:15pm 6/08/13 3:15pm

Zombie Industries, the shooting target manufacturer who produced "the Alexa," a bleeding female mannequin, has discontinued the line. They plan to relaunch a version that looks more like a zombie and less like the ex-wives of gun-toting crazy people. Discuss… 5/11/13 3:00pm 5/11/13 3:00pm

On Friday, the Orlando Sentinel reported a new development in the case of Trayvon Martin: Martin's parents have settled a wrongful death claim that is believed to be worth more than $1 million against their Sanford subdivision where Trayvon was shot and killed by self-annointed sheriff of suburbia, George Zimmerman. Read… 4/07/13 1:00pm 4/07/13 1:00pm

If you're looking for a good, cathartic cry this morning, look no further than SNL's cold opening, which featured the New York Children's Chorus singing "Silent Night" in memory o the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting victims. Discuss… 12/16/12 11:00am 12/16/12 11:00am

Dawn Hochsprung, 47, the principal of Sandy Hook Elementary, was apparently one of the faculty members to immediately run toward the sounds of gunfire (along with school psychologist Mary Sherlach, who was also killed). This morning, two colleagues who had worked with her before she took the post in Newtown, Mark… Read… 12/15/12 3:00pm 12/15/12 3:00pm

Now, I'm not a science expert here, and I'm not a gun expert, either, but it seems slightly "off" to have a gun club sponsor an event with proceeds that benefit notorious pinkwasher Susan G. Komen For the Cure® during Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I mean, guns kill lots of people, much like breast cancer, so guns and… Read… 10/05/12 6:15pm 10/05/12 6:15pm

Hey, here's a thing that I hope my neighbors aren't doing! Moved by Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan's proud proclamation that his 10-year-old daughter has her very own pony gun, Twitter's most prolific conservative shriekers are showing their support by posting pictures of their own young female children shooting … Read… 9/26/12 3:30pm 9/26/12 3:30pm

It could be terrorism, but we don't yet know. It could be someone who has a beef with Sikhs. It's too early to talk about gun control. These statements ran in a continuous loop through my head yesterday, even when I wasn't watching coverage of the mass shooting at an active gurdwara in a suburb of Milwaukee. Throughout … Read… 8/06/12 4:40pm 8/06/12 4:40pm

A terrifying attack has shaken Portland, Texas, a quiet community outside of Corpus Christi with a low crime rate. They hadn't had a murder there in two years, but that all changed on Saturday, when two teenage girls were found in a park after having been shot in the head. Mary Christine Chapa, 18, was still alive and… Read… 6/25/12 11:55pm 6/25/12 11:55pm

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has granted permission for Caroline Monet, the pregnant girlfriend of a French paratrooper killed by Mohamed Merah, to marry her boyfriend posthumously, authority that the president can wield in certain cases of especial poignancy. Read… 3/24/12 12:00pm 3/24/12 12:00pm

After unregistered gun-toting neighborhood watcher George Zimmerman shot unarmed black 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, the shooter claimed self-defense, that Martin instigated the violent encounter. But as more details from the case emerge, Zimmerman's claim seems increasingly flimsy. Now, it seems that this isn't the… Read… 3/22/12 12:15pm 3/22/12 12:15pm

You know how every time a Republican politician says or does something mindblowingly stupid or offensive, we shake our heads and think it can't possibly get any worse? Well, of course, we're always wrong. GOP legislators seem to have a supernatural ability to constantly come up with new and shittier things to say.… Read… 2/23/12 9:45pm 2/23/12 9:45pm

Here's a very sad story with an even sadder ending. Earlier this week, Darlene Gilkey, a 59-year-old woman with terminal cancer, watched as her husband, Paul Gilkey, fatally shot her son and her two sisters in front of her while she lay in a hospital bed in her living room. Apparently, there had been a dispute over… Read… 1/16/12 12:15am 1/16/12 12:15am

Reporters have finally managed to locate a man who may be the only American that doesn't find Gabrielle Giffords' recovery inspirational. In fact, he's disgusted by Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly and says, "Every time I see them on TV, it makes me want to vomit." George Morris knows firsthand what the couple have… Read… 1/11/12 10:00am 1/11/12 10:00am

One year after a bullet went straight through her head, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords led the crowd in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance at a candlelight vigil in Tucson. Giffords' recovery has inspired people across the country, but her presence at numerous memorial events today was particularly meaningful for those still… Read… 1/08/12 10:11pm 1/08/12 10:11pm

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is still undergoing physical and speech therapy in Houston, but on Sunday she'll return to Arizona to participate in events marking the one year anniversary of the shooting that left her wounded and six people dead. Giffords' husband, Mark Kelly, plans to speak during a vigil at the University… Discuss… 1/05/12 10:40am 1/05/12 10:40am

For Sarah McKinley of Blanchard, Oklahoma the past few weeks have been unbelievably harrowing. First, the 18-year-old's husband died of lung cancer on Christmas. Then on New Year's eve two men tried to break in her house while she was home alone with her infant son. One of the men made it through her front door, and… Read… 1/04/12 11:53pm 1/04/12 11:53pm

Women are apparently turning to target-shooting in increasing numbers. And some say they find the experience calming. Read… 12/27/11 2:50pm 12/27/11 2:50pm

Dana Zemack has been making stick figure comics since she was 12. This week, she made one just for us. Read… 12/23/11 6:15pm 12/23/11 6:15pm