guns
The decline of toy guns seems like it would be an absolute positive. The decline of toy guns so cops don't mistake them for real and shoot kids means it.
Stand Your Ground laws are horrible by themselves. But the idea that these laws are meant to allow citizens to defend themselves is laughable. The laws' real meaning is to.
This is a great exchange about self-defense and the civil rights movement. Despite all the talk about nonviolence, these were people who faced violence everyday and defended themselves from that.
Turns out if you handle anti-government freaks with kids gloves and let them act violent with no consequences, they just turn up the violence: Neighbors of the couple who ambushed.
I'm sure this story about an Oklahoma gun range that wants a liquor license doesn't reinforce what the world thinks about Americans: From movie theaters to bowling alleys to golf.
Sadly today, as you have probably heard, a high school kid went ballistic with a knife in a Pennsylvania high school. Gun nuts are joyous--guns don't kill people, people kill.
In the wake of the George Zimmerman acquittal, Lisa Wade discussed some data which contrasted justifiable homicide rates in stand-your-ground states to those without. Not terribly shocking, "In SYG states, 13.6%.
Don't seem to be making much of a difference. In the year since Newton, CT, the states have been busy with gun legislation. On balance, they've relaxed restrictions, rather than.