There’s a disturbing tendency among gun advocates to see security issue as having a very simple solution- MORE GUNS!! It’s as black and white as you can imagine- more guns equals more safety and security. The idea that the only thing that will stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with [...]
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(more at What Would Jack Do?) Hmm…a herd of armed, lunatic gun nuts marching on our nation’s capitol on July 4th; anyone else see a potential problem? Hey, what could go wrong? It’s just a few thousand brave American patriots freedoming their way to Washington…while talking about armed revolution and “2nd Amendment remedies.” Never mind that NOBODY…and I do mean NOBODY…is [...]
….The fact of the matter is that the Founding Fathers made a HUGE mistake in saddling us with the 2nd Amendment…. In the late 18th century, the 2nd Amendment made sense. Calling 911 wasn’t an option, and the average American faced very real and imminent threats of the sort we don’t [...] Some moron is coming to NYC to give away shotguns. The man behind an effort to put free shotguns in the hands of homeowners says he’ll dole them out in the Big Apple by the end of the year — and the lawmen may not be able to stop him.“We’re coming — and we’re going [...] To say that Kelly Ayotte has had a very, very bad couple of weeks would be an understatement. It wasn’t bad enough that she voted against a universal background check bill favored by 91% of Americans and then tried to defend herself at a town hall meeting in New Hampshire. First she said that she [...] I understand that gun control, like many issues we face today, doesn’t lend itself to an easily arrived at, universally agreed upon solution. Good people can, and do, disagree…and crazy, unhinged people can, and do cling to their guns with a devotion they wouldn’t expend on their children. You’d think that somewhere in the middle [...] Witnesses to them that died, The blood avengers at his side, The Furies’ troop forever stands. Aeschylus was more right than he knew. I’ll leave it to Gabby Giffords to explain what this post is about: SENATORS say they fear the N.R.A. and the gun lobby. But I think that [...] assholes h/t Cliff Schecter (Also foisted upon an unsuspecting public at What Would Jack Do?) This idea of background checks is very concerning given the fact that the United States military has been increasingly showing hostility toward evangelicals and Catholics as being somehow threats to national security and people that need to be watched. Well, what does that have [...] …I wish I was an ignorant Republican, Inc-er. I did my taxes last night. It was not pretty. I had an instructor for Tax Accounting when I was Actorino212, and he once said something really profound. Which is to say it would mean nothing to a Teabagger. He said, “Never regret having a large tax [...] (karoli at C&L) – Rachel Maddow broke the news on her show last night. (Happy belated birthday, too, Rachel!) Connecticut legislators have agreed on a framework for a comprehensive gun safety package. In this interview with Connecticut Senator Williams, he reveals that the agreement is bipartisan, even though Democrats had the votes to pass legislation [...] IT’S UNANIMOUS McClatchy Washington Bureau 3/30 WASHINGTON — California Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s effort to ban assault-style weapons fizzled Tuesday, as Majority Leader Harry Reid did not include the measure in a larger package of legislation to address gun violence. Fascinating, isn’t it. We just had a slaughter, one of many, in Connecticut, that called [...] What the hell is Harry Reid thinking? Reid insisted yesterday that all of these measures deserved a vote — but that including some of them in the main legislative package brought to the Senate floor would sink the entire effort. The main bill that Reid will introduce will have to get at least 60 votes [...] |
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