December 16, 2012
Pro-Gun Conservatives: Blame Liberal Hollywood
In the style of Bill Maher’s “New Rules” —
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December 15, 2012
Captain Mark Kelly’s Response To Sandy Hook School Shooting
Captain Mark Kelly, husband of Gabrielle Giffords, posted a Facebook response to the Sandy Hook school shooting:
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December 14, 2012
Fact of the Day: On The Whole, Guns More Likely To Harm Than Protect
Today’s Fact of the Day comes from the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence:
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December 14, 2012
More Thoughts On Gun Control After The Sandy Hook School Shooting
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.
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December 14, 2012
Why You Shouldn’t Listen To The NRA, Reason Number 1214
They say it’s too soon to talk gun control. The deaths of 20 innocent children says otherwise.
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December 14, 2012
School Shooting: Another Day Of Mass Gun Violence
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.
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August 6, 2012
Pat Robertson offers “atheists hate God” as cause of Sikh temple mass shooting
Does Pat Robertson have a “wheel of causation” that he spins every time there’s a tragedy? This time the wheel landed on “atheists,” which probably happens quite often and with divine intervention no less.
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August 6, 2012
Jay Carney: President Obama supports assault weapons ban
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said on Monday that President Obama supports renewing the assault weapons ban but “there has been reluctance by Congress to pass that renewal.” I’d say it’s a bit more severe than “reluctance.” I would characterize it more along the lines of: congress has sold out to the gun lobby. Or maybe: The NRA is holding congress and the country hostage. But I guess those two characterizations might be a bit too extreme for the White House, even if I think some in the White House might agree.
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July 21, 2012
Movie theater shooting: Why can’t we have tougher gun control laws?
No matter what the National Rifle Association (NRA) and it’s supporters say, it is not off limits to talk about tougher gun control laws. It’s not disrespectful to the victims to have an adult conversation about restricting the sales of assault weapons and extended clips, things that are not needed to protect yourself or your family.
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July 21, 2012
Aurora, Colorado movie theater shooting: America is NOT shocked
Every time one of these mass-shooting, mass-murder events happens in the United States we see headlines like “Americans in shock,” and descriptive words like horror and terror, but do you see a problem here? Did you notice that I started this article by saying “every time,” which indicates this is not a rare event. The fact is, while overall crime statistics are at 20 (even 30) year lows in many categories (including murder) we still have mass-shooting events occurring with regular frequency. Each one of us has essentially come to expect that these mass-shooting events are going to happen regularly. So is there anything shocking about it?
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