Before an hour ago, I couldn’t have named one good thing to come out of Alabama off the top of my head, except maybe Helen Keller. But good news! Now I have one more thing: Last week, Judge Myron H. Thompson, a federal judge in that state, ruled that a new law requiring abortion doctors […]
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Executive Director of Gun Owners of America to a Congresswoman: “You should do your job in constant trepidation”
I have always thought that a big reason why the NRA and gun lobbyists are so powerful is because people are actually scared of them in a very direct and primal way. They are, precisely, “gun nuts.” These are the types who want to walk into Starbucks with automatic rifles. The types who want us […]
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Mercenaries: Yay! They’re Stealing Men’s Jobs!
NOTE: The following trailer for the crazy action flick Mercenaries—another schlocky film from Asylum, the makers of Sharknado—does absolutely nothing to forward the movement of women’s rights. That being said, it’s really fun to see actresses stealing jobs from geriatric male stiffs like Arnold, Sly, and Bruce. From the Mercenaries press release: A diplomatic official […]
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I Shot a Gun For The First Time and It Was Pretty Fun I Guess
I’d never touched a gun before. I’m not opposed to touching them, I just don’t hang out in the kinds of places where people shoot things. I think the only time I’d even seen a gun close up was when I was a young punk hustling a poker game run by members from a motorcycle […]
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How’s Georgia’s New Open-Carry Law Working Out?
Well, this happened on the first day, but at least nobody got shot: A man carrying a holstered firearm entered the store to make a purchase. Another customer, also with a holstered firearm, approached him and demanded to see his identification and firearms license, according to the Valdosta Police Department report. The police came and […]
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CNN Says It’s Not Officially a School Shooting If You Have a Reason to Shoot Someone
Nicole Flatlow at ThinkProgress: In a news report published Thursday, CNN amends its prior reporting that there were 74 school shootings since the Newtown Massacre — a number calculated by gun violence prevention group Everytown for Gun Safety — and concludes that there have instead been just 15. “CNN determined that 15 of the incidents […]
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Pat Robertson to Kids: Don’t Call the Cops If Father Threatens Mom With a Gun
Raw Story: “Whenever my parents fight, my dad threatens my mom with his gun,” a viewer told [Televangelist Pat Robertson] in an email. “Fortunately, this now means nothing to my mom, and she never goes nuts about it; she is very calm.” “But as a child, I get nervous and worried when this happens,” the […]
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President Obama on the Recent Shootings
He was asked about them yesterday, and according to the White House Press Pool reports he said this. (It’s worth reading in full.) I have to say that people often ask me, you know, how’s it been being president and, you know, what are my—you know, what am I proudest of and what are my […]
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More Tweets of the Day
I understand guns are fun to some people, but if my XBox was routinely used to kill children, I’d be okay without my XBox.— Ian Karmel (@IanKarmel) June 10, 2014 Have other countries started calling us the “School Shooting States of America” yet?!— Baron Vaughn (@barvonblaq) June 10, 2014 But if there were no guns, […]
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Tweets of the Day
“No. Not yesterday’s mass shooting. Today’s mass shooting. No, not THAT one from today. The other one.”— Jen Kirkman (@JenKirkman) June 10, 2014 Asshole tweet of the day… The only person dead in Oregon is the shooter. Hardly qualifies as a “mass shooting”. #p2 #tcot #tlot— Nathan Hale (@NH92276) June 10, 2014 The shooter is […]
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Reynolds High: (At Least) the 74th School Shooting Since Sandy Hook
Details are slowly emerging in the aftermath of this morning’s shooting at Reynolds High School in Troutdale—in that we’ve learned, so far, that one student was shot and killed and that the shooter also is dead. As for whether anyone else was injured or whether the shooter also was a student? Officially unknown. But here’s […]
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The NRA Apologizes to Gun Nuts for Calling Them “Downright Weird”
Remember that story from Monday about the NRA asking gun nuts to not bring their assault rifles and other assorted large guns into public places? Remember when they called that action “downright weird?” Yeah, well, Talking Points Memo says the NRA apologized to the gun nuts yesterday for calling them weird: In an interview on […]