Here we are again. Leonard Zhukovsky / Shutterstock.com One of my friends who’s mid-transition wrote a Facebook post a few days ago about how it was harder for her to get on hormone therapy than it would be to get a gun. It’s infuriating and exasperating and mind-boggling, but we seem to have more respect […]
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Watch the Powerful End to Democrats’ Filibuster for Gun Control
Nearly 15 hours after he first took the floor, Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy delivered his most powerful lines of the day. Standing next to a poster-sized photo of Dylan Hockley, a 6-year-old boy killed at Sandy Hook, Murphy described how police had found the boy wrapped in the arms of the aide who helped him […]
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US Senate Democrats are Filibustering Until Congress Does Something About Gun Control
The filibuster was launched by Democratic Senator Chris Murphy. He’s from Connecticut, where the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School occurred. CSPAN Politico: Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) launched a talking filibuster on the Senate floor — which was quickly joined by fellow Democrats — in an effort to pressure Republicans to accept legislation […]
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Must Watch: Samantha Bee on the Orlando Massacre, Gun Control, and Terrible Selfies
On last night’s Full Frontal, host Samantha Bee let loose with a brilliant, barn-burning rant on the Orlando Massacre, the idiocy of not criminalizing automatic weapons, Florida’s governor and other legislators who do NOTHING (but pray, which isn’t really helping, guys), and a strong indicator that someone might be a mass murderer: terrible selfies. WATCH.
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The Orlando Shooting Proves Everyone Was Right About Everything
Here we are again. a katz / Shutterstock.com We’re all processing Orlando in our own ways, and nobody’s feelings can be deemed more or less legitimate than anyone else’s. I woke up this morning to an endless scroll of Facebook posts about vigils all over the country. Some posts were serious, some less so. Someone […]
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Mother of Man Missing in Orlando: “Please, Can We Do Something with the Assault Weapons so That We Can Stop This”
In the crushing ABC interview below, the mother of a man who was inside Pulse Orlando during this morning’s mass shooting describes waiting to hear whether her son is OK. Christine Leinonen says she heard from a friend of her son, Christopher Leinonen, that Christopher’s boyfriend “had multiple gunshots and was being taken by the […]
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Watch President Obama Explain How Hard It Is to Keep Guns Away from Suspected Terrorists in America
On June 1 on PBS, President Obama named a major obstacle in keeping guns away from suspected terrorists in this country: “The National Rifle Association.” PBS The Hill: The FBI confirmed on Sunday it had interviewed the suspect in the Orlando, Fla., nightclub attack three times before the shooting took place early Sunday morning. The […]
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Twenty-Three People Shot by American Toddlers So Far This Year
This is disturbing. Iva Barmina/Shutterstock Washington Post: Last year, a Washington Post analysis found that toddlers were finding guns and shooting people at a rate of about one a week. This year, that pace has accelerated. There have been at least 23 toddler-involved shootings since Jan. 1, compared with 18 over the same period last […]
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New Column: Ask a Militia Patriot Occupying a Federal Bird Sanctuary
Dear Militia Patriot Occupying a Federal Bird Sanctuary: We are ardent “birders,” and during our last visit to Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, my husband swears he saw a preponderance of great blue herons… but I insist what he actually saw were greater sandhill cranes. Who is right?—Margaret Fenster, Duluth, Georgia DEAR MARGARET: The federal […]
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Gun-Toting Family Sends Their Annual Christmas Card
Here’s an unfortunate Christmas card that was sent out one day before the brutal San Bernardino shootings… According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the card comes courtesy of Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore, who posted the card on her Facebook page. Unshockingly, Fiore is a card-carrying member of pro-gun groups including the NRA, the Front Sight […]
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Across the Twitterverse: #GunControl
“It’s On Us, Too: An Easy Guide To Contacting Your Elected Representatives About Gun Contr…” by @nsilverberg https://t.co/POG1ZiKmkz— Immortan Joe Hill (@joe_hill) October 2, 2015 Why conservatives mistrust even the most modest efforts at gun control http://t.co/ToZR6LDGyB pic.twitter.com/xAJbfl98JI— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) October 2, 2015 A majority of Americans now support gun control. But look how […]
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Cops: Two Victims in Shooting at North Portland Alternative High School
The Portland Police Bureau just sent word its starting up a “shooting investigation” at North Portland’s Rosemary Anderson High School—with at least two victims reported according to preliminary information. The bureau’s statement doesn’t say whether the victims are injured or slain. The shooting also doesn’t appear to fit the profile of a mass shooting. The […]