You’ve probably already seen this video of gun nuts being thrown out of Chili’s for carrying assault rifles: Now, Mark Follman at Mother Jones reports on a statement from the NRA that accuses those activists of irresponsible behavior. Here’s the important bit: Recently, demonstrators have been showing up in various public places, including coffee shops […]
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Sandy Hook Father on the Terrible Club UCSB Families Joined Last Week
Time Magazine: Last week in Santa Barbara, six more families joined that terrible club. I don’t personally know Richard Martinez, but when he said in an interview “you never think it can happen to you,” I hung my head and cried. Mark Barden’s 7-year-old son was killed by Adam Lanza at Sandy Hook Elementary School […]
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A Different Kind of Law to Prevent Gun Violence
Out of the rampage near UCSB comes this: Just days after a 22-year-old killed six college students and himself near the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara, state lawmakers are championing legislation that would permit law enforcement officials and private individuals to seek a restraining order from a judge that would keep people […]
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National Review “Eulogizes” Maya Angelou with Snark and Pro-Gun Blather
The headline alone shows a shocking lack of respect… R.I.P., Maya Angelou, Proud Gun Owner and User …but you should absolutely not click through unless you want to see a bunch of conservative assholes malign Angelou’s memory in particular, and poetry in general. This is the kind of garbage that turns people off from Republican […]
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Joe the Plumber Returns With: Guns Are More Important Than the Dead UCSB Kids
TPM: In an open letter published Tuesday on the website Barbwire, [Joe the Plumber] went out of his way to explain to the victims’ parents that the deaths won’t undermine his “Constitutional rights.” “I am sorry you lost your child. I myself have a son and daughter and the one thing I never want to […]
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If Elected, Jodi Ernst Will Shoot Obamacare in the Face
Remember Jodi Ernst, the pig-castratin’ Republican senatorial candidate from Iowa? She’s back, with another doozy of an ad: Again, this is an insanely effective ad for a Republican primary. Ernst has gone full Palin—which makes sense, since Palin has gone full Ernst—and she’s definitely a Republican to watch as the June 3rd Iowa primary draws […]
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I Don’t Have a Gun Or a Vagina
But if I owned a gun and a vagina and I needed to conceal my gun for some reason… I would unload the gun before I stuck it in my vagina: During the booking process, a female corrections officer reportedly detected an “unknown item in (Archer’s) crotch.” That jailer and a female patrol officer then […]
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Three-Year-Old Girl Second Amendments Two-Year-Old Brother
Fox 13: A 2-year-old boy injured when his older sister reportedly shot him by accident Friday died of his injuries while in a hospital, and officials are urging people to review the way they store their guns and ammunition. Police officials stated Saturday morning that crews responded Friday at 6:40 p.m. to 3616 W. 2200 […]
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Stand Your Ground Laws Prevent Gun Deaths in Upside-Down World
Numbers don’t lie, but people sure do: “Wait, why’s it mislea-OH SWEET JESUS” RT @kfury: The most misleading chart I have ever seen http://t.co/D70Wezl5cz pic.twitter.com/65cFvhljGc— Phil Mann (@philmann) April 15, 2014 See, if you make the goal the MOST people killed, then Stand Your Ground laws absolutely work! (The story that published this Reuters chart […]
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Murrysville School Knife Attack: “The dead take no selfies.”
A must-read piece at The Daily Beast by Michael Daly: The dead take no selfies. So there might well never have been the remarkable selfie that 16-year-old Nate Scimio took after his heroism at Franklin Regional High School if he had faced a gun rather than two knives on Wednesday morning…. As of the end […]
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Conan O’Brien: Texas Deputy!
In his eternal pursuit of “small town justice,” Conan O’Brien spends his week in Dallas, Texas auditioning for the sheriff of Johnson County to be an actual deputy. Weirdly, things don’t go quite as planned in another of Conan’s hilarious remotes—the best in late night TV! (Seriously, giving him a gun is a terrible idea!) […]
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Meanwhile, In Georgia, Guns are Coming to Bars
The governor of Georgia is about to sign a “pro-gun” law that’s so extreme even a majority of Georgians oppose it: The bill allows people with a weapons permit to carry loaded guns into bars, as long as they do not consume alcohol — although the bill does not say how that caveat would be […]