If you’re on the NRA’s enemies list, you’re probably a good person. [Retired Price is Right game show host Bob] Barker is among 494 people, organizations and companies on an NRA list of those holding positions it finds hostile. The roster, posted on the website of the largest U.S. pro-gun group, also includes poet Maya […]
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Nightclub Fires Don’t Kill People, People Kill People
At least 233 people have died in a fire that swept through a nightclub in Santa Maria, a university town in southern Brazil. Many of the victims succumbed to the toxic fumes, or were crushed to death in the crowd’s panicked efforts to escape. The fire reportedly started when a band set off fireworks. It’s […]
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News Flash: NRA Members Think Government Is Coming to Seize Their Guns
The National Rifle Association just blasted reporters with the results of a recent survey of its members, touting a popular sentiment to deny guns to the mentally ill. Now, if you ask me, all members of NRA must be mentally ill. But as a friend of mine argued, “That’s not fair to mentally ill people.” […]
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“Gun advocates want to create a society governed by fear.”
Paul Waldman, at the American Prospect, reacts and expands on Josh Marshall’s post about the rights of non-gun owners. It’s required reading: As I’ve written before, the goal of many gun advocates, particularly those who promote concealed carry, is that we make it so as many people as possible take as many guns as possible […]
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Portland Gun Store Owners Report Spike in Sales
It’s tricky to bet on the stock market, but there’s one business whose sales are easy to predict: Guns. In recent history, sales of guns tend to spike amid political discussion of gun control and after high-profile shootings. I called around to Portland gun dealers yesterday to see whether the national trend was holding true […]
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NRA Now “Very Supportive” of Tighter Background Checks
See, this is how the political game is played. President Barack Obama proposes more sweeping gun control regulations, and the NRA ends up giving ground on the notion of closing the “gun show loophole”: The president of the National Rifle Association (NRA) on Thursday said that the organization was “generally supportive” of strong background checks […]
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Obama’s Gun Control Plan
Here’s the announcement: Among the initiatives outlined in Mr. Obama’s plan include universal background checks for gun sales, the reinstatement and strengthening of the assault weapons ban, capping ammunition magazines to a 10-round limit, banning armor-piercing ammunition, providing schools with resource officers and school counselors, putting more police officers on the streets, creating serious punishments […]
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NRA Hits a New Low
This was mentioned in GMN, but I didn’t think new lows were a possibility for the NRA. I was wrong: David Frum: Even if [armed guards in schools] were a good idea, the NRA’s sneering references to the president’s family are beyond the pale. As the makers of the NRA ad should know, and probably […]
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You Need Guns to Overthrow a Government?
Via Sullivan, a great point: T]he country ranked last on the [Small Arms Survey] — with only 0.1 guns per 100 people — is Tunisia, which as you’ll recall was still able to overthrow a longtime dictator in 2011. With only 3.5 guns per 100 people, the Egyptian population that overthrew Hosni Mubarak was hardly […]
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Is That a Pistol In Your Pocket…
…or are you just happy to see—OW, FUCK! CHRIST! THAT IS A PISTOL IN YOUR POCKET! Kansas officials are reviewing the events surrounding a man’s accidental shooting of his wife last week at the Longbranch Steakhouse in Lenexa. Police said the two were sitting across from each other in a booth about 8:15 p.m. Jan. […]