Just this morning, DHS took violent offenders off the streets with arrests for assault, DUI, and felony stalking.
—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
Instead of a sense of outrage leading to a search for a better solution for repeat violent offenders, her death generated calls for collective retribution and vigilante justice.
Our research suggests that the vast majority of Republican voters want to close loopholes that allow criminals and dangerous people to get their hands on guns.
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Gabby Giffords,
Time,
11 Sep. 2025
The days of letting dangerous criminals terrorize American citizens are over.
They’re typically retired, sitting on pensions and 401(k)s, and may be naive to the techniques favored by con artists and reprobates who run riot on the internet.
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Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
9 Sep. 2025
But Jaron had a new acquaintance—Nortal, an old reprobate who ran the town dump.
Because the traits that make someone a hero in a story can easily lend themselves to being painted as a villain, too.
—
Harmeet Kaur,
CNN Money,
13 Sep. 2025
Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin play estranged old friends who reconnect at the funeral of a mutual friend, only to realize that their friend's dead husband was really the villain in all their lives.
These surreal, blood-red dioramas depict the gruesome punishments awaiting sinners in the Chinese Buddhist afterlife.
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Iona Brannon,
Travel + Leisure,
14 Sep. 2025
An unlicensed casino grows up to be a Baptist college, one that doesn’t shy away from its sordid past, as Christ himself never shied away from a sinner.
—
Matthew Adams,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
26 Aug. 2025
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