RATIONAL RESISTANCE
January 16, 2013
Today President Obama announced an ambitious plan, at least by 2013 standards, to curb America’s gun violence. Obama presented a legislative plan as well as immediate action in the form of 23 executive orders.
January 5, 2013
Nearly 500 people have been murdered by a gun in the United States of America since the horrible mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. Those are the victims. The children and teachers at Sandy Hook Elementary School are the victims. — Gun advocates are not the victims. Card-carrying NRA members are not the victims. People who talk tough but need a gun to be tough are not the victims. People who justify the need for violent assault weapons for protection or sport are not the victims. — So yeah, gun advocates, you can spare me your righteous indignation.
December 22, 2012
I know many gun owners and gun enthusiasts think liberals like myself are simply naive. — That we lack experience with guns. — That we lack the proper knowledge to talk about guns. — That we are silly to think we can change America’s obsession with guns. — But it is these same gun advocates who hold the naive belief that the “bad guys” will always have access to guns so we need to arm the “good guys.”
December 21, 2012
Today was the day of the highly anticipated National Rifle Association (NRA) press conference in response to the Sandy Hook school shooting in Newtown, CT. The NRA went silent for days after last Friday’s mass shooting, finally issuing a statement this past Tuesday that read:
December 19, 2012
It seems we Americans only take notice to gun violence when a sufficient number of fellow Americans are gunned down in one place. And if that location is not the inner-city, then we pay even closer attention. And if the victims are children, well, that’s what it takes to even start a conversation in this country. That’s what it takes to start talking about proposing new gun safety legislation.
December 16, 2012
In the style of Bill Maher’s “New Rules” —
December 15, 2012
Captain Mark Kelly, husband of Gabrielle Giffords, posted a Facebook response to the Sandy Hook school shooting:
December 14, 2012
I’m at a point on the “gun issue” where I honestly don’t care what gun owners have to say — that is, if you insist on defending material ownership rights above all else, including calls for a national conversation on gun control. Most people calling for tougher gun laws are not in favor of a prohibition on firearms. I’m included in that group. We know prohibition doesn’t work.
December 14, 2012
They say it’s too soon to talk gun control. The deaths of 20 innocent children says otherwise.
December 14, 2012
It is another day in America, and that means another violent mass shooting event — this time at an elementary school in Connecticut. Reports are sketchy at this point, but NBC News is reporting 26 dead including 18 children, but these numbers are likely to change.