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“So, Heidi,” began the email to Heidi Yewman from Michele Kort, her editor at Ms. Magazine. “I wanted to let you know that, in the comments to the gun-nut post below, someone put your address out there. I’ve been super careful NOT to approve any comments that mentioned where you might live.”

Yewman, a freelance writer, had written a three-part blog post for Ms. about buying a gun and carrying it everywhere she went. Yewman was clearly on the gun control side of the debate, and it’s fair to say that her posts were intended to show that it was far too easy for just about anybody to carry a gun just about anywhere. But, Kort went on to say, the comments Ms. Magazine had received were almost entirely from pro-gun advocates, and she and the small staff at Ms. were overwhelmed. Instead of leading to a high-minded debate about guns, her blog post had instead attracted insults and vituperation, and a clearly stated desire for “payback.” Other gun blogs had picked up Yewman’s post to mock it or insult it, with many commenters suggesting that the police in her hometown be called about what she was doing. Inevitably, somebody discovered—and posted—Yewman’s address.

What was Kort’s solution to this dilemma? Incredibly, it was to kill the rest of Yewman’s series. “I don’t think I should post the next two installments of this—they’ll only fire up the troops again, and we’re just not equipped to handle this on our blog,” Kort wrote. When I reached out to Kort, suggesting that Ms. had allowed itself to be censored by Second Amendment absolutists, she would not respond on the record. Suffice it to say that Ms. disagrees with this assessment. But I don’t see how you could view it in any other way. Ms. published something the N.R.A.-types didn’t like; they responded by bullying Ms. online, and Ms. folded.

N.R.A. 1, Ms. Magazine, 0. Here is today’s report.

—Joe Nocera

A 12-year-old boy who was accidentally shot by his brother in their Geneva, Ind., home Monday night has died. The victim was shot once in the head by his 16-year-old brother, who was moving a .22 caliber rifle when it discharged. The prosecutor will determine if any charges will be filed, but the sheriff’s department says that most likely won’t happen.

—WHAS11.com

A 17-year-old boy is dead after a possibly gang-related shooting in Wilmington, N.C., early Thursday. After hearing 10 shots ring out, a neighbor opened his front door and saw the body of Jeffrey Henry, 17, face down in his front yard between some trash cans. Police found a second man with a bullet in his leg hiding in a nearby backyard.

—WWAY3

Anne Christine McGuirt, 58, was shot to death by her son in The Woodlands, Tex., Thursday afternoon. The girlfriend of Stuart J. McGuirt, 37, ran into a nearby business and said she had watched him kill his mother. Deputies found Anne McGuirt’s body in a downstairs room. Stuart McGuirt was taken into custody and will be charged with murder.

—Houston Chronicle

Addarren Ross, an 18-year-old rapper who went by the name Lil Snupe, was shot and killed in Winnfield, La., early Thursday. Officers responded to calls of a shooting at the Maplewood Apartments, where they found Ross shot twice in the torso. Police are searching for a person of interest. The rapper had been signed by Meek Mill’s Dreamchasers imprint late last year.

—MTV News

Two men are dead after what appears to be a murder-suicide in Peacham, Vt. 50-year-old Mark Peabody, a former elementary school principal, left his house to meet his wife’s ex-husband, 59-year-old John Jackson, in the driveway. Peabody was shot and killed, and Jackson went inside the house and shot and killed himself. A bomb squad investigated a suspicious package found inside Jackson’s vehicle.

—WCAX.xom

Daniel Raber, 53, was hospitalized after his 76-year-old father-in-law shot him in the stomach during an argument in Billings, Mont., Wednesday evening. No arrests have been made because police were still looking into who the instigator was and whether the shooting was in self-defense.

—Billings Gazette

Anthony Jerard Jones, 29, was killed and a 32-year-old woman was injured during a drug deal in Baton Rouge, La., early Thursday. 29-year-old Jermaine Ruffen is suspected of shooting the victims, with whom he was engaged in an illegal drug transaction, and fleeing. The handgun Ruffen threw away as he fled the scene was a stolen New Orleans Police Department service weapon.

—Nola.com

Two adults and a teenager were shot in a car near the Clay Wade Bailey Bridge in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, Wednesday night. One vehicle pulled up next to another and fired multiple shots, injuring Dequinn Little and Darion Jackson, both 23, along with a 15-year-old boy. The victims say the incident resulted from an ongoing dispute.

—Fox19

A man was shot in the leg during a firefight at an Augusta, Ga., mobile home park Thursday afternoon. Two men got into an argument in the street, and as they began to fight a woman walked out of the home and started shooting. One of the men then pulled a gun of his own and began firing. A bullet hit the victim in the leg. It’s the second shooting in the area in two weeks.

—WRDW-TV

A man was injured and another was arrested after a shooting near a Riverview, Fla., convenience store early Thursday. George Nelson Jr., 51, and Michael Sheppard Jr., 40, were arguing over a woman when Nelson pulled out a .38-caliber revolver and shot Sheppard through the windshield of his car. Nelson faces attempted murder and aggravated battery charges.

—Tampa Bay Times

An 18-year-old man was injured in a robbery and shooting in Fairfax County, Va., Wednesday night. The incident began when a 17-year-old boy was approached by four acquaintances, who demanded that he turn over his cell phone. The group then confronted another 17-year-old boy, who pulled out a handgun and started shooting. A bullet hit the victim, who was waiting in a nearby vehicle. The shooter was arrested.

—WTOP

A 17-year-old boy and a 21-year-old man were injured in a double shooting in Hopewell, Va., Wednesday night. Police said they found a large amount of narcotics and a firearm at the scene.

—CBS6

A gunman opened fire on three people standing in front of a Stockton, Calif., home Thursday afternoon. The shooter stood outside his car and opened fire, hitting a man and a woman.

—CBS Sacramento

According to Slate’s gun-death tracker, an estimated 5,207 people have died as a result of gun violence in America since the Newtown massacre on December 14, 2012.