How the deuce am I not on the NRA enemies list? What the heck does a C-list blogger have to do to get on this list, use common metaphors that right-wingers pretend call for the assassination of the NRA wacko Wayne LaPierre in order to stoke mock outrage and distract attention from the fact that […]
Tag: guns
Back to my favorite topic. As everyone should know by this point, there’s absolutely no logical or historical basis for the idea that people have the right to walk around fully armed without any
President Obama is proposing quite an expansive set of gun control legislation. It’s very impressive and it’ll be interesting to see whether it can past. In a sense, this will be atest of
1. Montpelier, Ohio decides to arm their school custodians. “Sitting back and doing nothing and hoping it doesn’t happen to you is just not good policy anymore. There is a need for schools to beef up their security measures,” Supertendent Jamie Grime told the Toledo Blade today. Really hard to see what could go wrong […]
The NRA argues that if only the good guys all had guns, they would shoot the bad guys and magically we wouldn’t have any gun violence. Or something strange like that. Never mind that time last y
“when Adam Lanza started shooting his way into Sandy Hook Elementary School last Friday, he’d been confronted by qualified armed security?” asked Wayne LaPierre earlier today? We donR
At what point do we start holding the National Rifle Association morally responsible for all these shootings? At what point do we get over our idiotic national love of guns and start acting like grownups in this country? Talk about your gun rights all you want. People also have a right not be shot in […]
The University of Colorado caved to the gun lobby and created gun-friendly dorms. At the present, there are floors that are gun-friendly. A dorm for the armed is opening in 2014. But the school is dis
The gun industry’s response to the call for stricter gun laws after mass murder after mass murder (see today among others) is outrageous and awful. Lawmakers are proposing, among other things, t
How long until “humorous” politicians pointing loaded guns at journalists leads to actual assassinations of journalists? A state lawmaker known for championing the rights of gun-owners pointed a loaded firearm at the chest of a reporter during a recent interview at the Capitol. Republican Sen. Lori Klein was showing off her raspberry-pink handgun when she […]
Reading CJ Chivers’ The Gun, which is more of a history of automatic firearms than of the AK-47 itself. He mentions this advertisement, which is just 95 kinds of awesome. The idea of fighting of