State by state data has long shown a strong correlation between rates of gun ownership and rates of suicide, but whether there is a causal relationship, well, that has been harder to discern. A variety of factors influence suicide rates, including poverty, population density, and crime. For example, I’d probably kill myself were I forced […]
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Guns (and Videocameras) Make Us Safer
Three things to learn from this video: 1) Guns always end up in the hands of people who don’t know how to use them. This fact is as reliable as gravity. 2) If you’re going to use a videocamera, learn how to operate it first. 3) When you’re naming your YouTube videos, watch out for […]
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Gun Owners Live in Fear
Heidi Yewman fulfilled the bare minimum requirements for gun ownership in America. She didn’t take any training or safety classes, because she wasn’t legally required to take them. Then she walked around with that gun for a month and wrote about her experiences. I grant you that this is a very gimmicky concept for an […]
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What Goes Up Must Come Down
What better way to celebrate our nation’s birth than through the exercise of our 2nd Amendment rights? A 7-year-old boy was seriously wounded Thursday at a Fourth of July celebration in Virginia after someone evidently fired a gun in the air. Police said that the boy was walking with his father near Swift Creek Reservoir […]
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Walking Dead Zombie Arrested in Obama Ricin Case
A woman has been arrested in connection with the letters containing Ricin that were mailed to President Obama and NYC Mayor Bloomberg on Wednesday, May 29—aaaaaand you’ve probably seen her on TV! Shannon Rogers Guess Richardson of New Boston, Texas, originally called the Federal Bureau of Investigation claiming that her husband had sent the letters, […]
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Nope, the City’s Embarrassing $2.3 Million Payout Can’t be Explained by Color Blindness
It should be easy to tell fatal shotgun rounds from the “less-lethal” (though still incredibly painful) beanbag rounds cops use to incapacitate arrestees. The “live” round shells are bright red. The beanbags’ shells are described as a “milky white.” But as Portland City Council this morning OKd a hefty settlement to a young man mistakenly […]
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Man Ejected from Disney World After Leaving Hollow-Point-Bullet-Loaded Gun on Dinosaur Ride
Oops… A Walt Disney World park guest found a loaded gun in the seat of a ride at the Animal Kingdom that had fallen out of a man’s back pocket on Sunday. A grandmother handed a Cobra .380-caliber semiautomatic pistol about noon to a park attendant, who immediately contacted security and the Orange County Sheriff’s […]
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Gay Man Shot Dead Near Stonewall Inn
It happened on Friday night in New York, and now the police are calling it an apparent hate crime: The police say that Elliot Morales, 33, trailed and taunted two men, yelling antigay slurs and asking one of them, “You want to die tonight?” The police say it was the other man, Mark Carson, 32, […]
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That’s How Come They Got to be Managers at a Movie Theater in Missouri
This one has been getting run over by the Information Superhighway for a day or two now, but I could not let the tasty schadenfreude disappear into the ether. In an effort to promote Iron Man 3, which clearly does not need additional promotion, managers at Goodrich Capital 8 Theatres in Jefferson City, invited actors […]
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Letterman’s “Stooge of the Night” Is My New Favorite Thing
I saw David Letterman’s “Stooge of the Night” segment for the first time last night. (Apologies if I’m late to the party on this; according to NewsBusters—”Exposing & Combating Liberal Media Bias”—he’s been at it for a while.) It’s remarkable, and it reminds me why I’ve always liked Letterman so much. It’s also ballsy and […]
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More Advice for Kids From the NRA
Think Progress: The National Rifle Association (NRA)’s overtures to children have come under fire after its annual conference last week, which advertised weapons for children and advocated storing firearms in kids’ rooms just on the heels of the fatal shooting of a two year old by her five year old brother. A ThinkProgress review of […]
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Mother of the Year
Watch for mom pointing a gun at her son’s head. Guns never accidentally discharge, right? (Via Sullivan.)