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VIDEO: "NRA leadership are the ONLY ones against gun background checks. Which...
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Yesterday I posted "Contrary to rhetoric, gun-free zones are not the problem." Oh, and gun retailers support background...
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Tough noogies, gun fondlers
Think Progress brings more good news from my home state. A California appeals court upheld our law banning possession of a semi-automatic assault rifle. According to them, the state law is...
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Freedom to shoot people trumps our freedom to go about our business
Today's Los Angeles Times letter to the editor, because our voices matter: Re "Union urges armed TSA agents," Nov. 5 Rather than confronting the real problem — the easy availability and ubiquitous...
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"Such is glamour in the age of lunatics with guns."
NOTE TO READERS: We are trying our very best to ease back into posting, which will likely be spotty for a few days as we regain our composure following Paddy's untimely death. We are still reeling,...
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Another school shooting, another study on gun access and risk of homicide,...
An all too familiar news flash showed up in my inbox today: One dead, one arrested in shooting at Purdue University: A lone gunman walked into a basement classroom at Purdue University Tuesday, shot...
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Missouri: We Don't Need No Stinking Badges! Are these people for real?
Share/BookmarkI had to read this twice before I realized I was not reading 'The Onion'. Missouri Senate Committee Votes To Jail Federal Agents Who Enforce Gun Laws Nope: it's for real. From the...
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"Suppose an undercover officer 'looks like' a robber and I shoot him...My bad."
Can a "good guy with a gun" shoot a "bad guy with a gun" with 100% accuracy? The answer is obvious, as is pointed out in today's Los Angeles Times letters to the editor... because our voices matter:...
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Cliff Notes: "Gun insanity, my friends, this is where Florida really and...
My dear friend and mentor, Cliff Schecter, has a new post up; Cliff has given me permission to share his work with you, so I’ll give you the latest edition of what I call Cliff Notes. He skewers...
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"Only people who would never use a gun should have a gun."
Today Georgia Governor Nathan Deal signed one of the most extreme gun bills in the nation into law. Ironically, this unprecedented legislation is called the "Safe Carry Protection Act," also known as...
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Cliff Notes: NRA's "9 acres of weaponry that could wipe out a continent....
Mass Shooting/Killing incidents since President Barack Obama took office in January 2009 through the time The Atlantic published it on Sept 16, 2013. My dear friend and mentor, Cliff Schecter, has a...
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"Joe the Plumber": "Your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights."
"Joe the Plumber" (Sam Wurzelbacher, the not-plumber), wrote the following in response to the grieving parents of the kids slaughtered in Santa Barbara by a gun-toting, knife-wielding murderer who...
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Second Amendment "cited as holy writ on a par with scripture." #NotOneMore
Facebook page link Richard Martinez was on "The Last Word" discussing the Second Amendment -ing of his son Christopher in the Isla Vista massacre. He ended with a comment about how gun zealots will...
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Mass murder 101 #NotOneMore
This thoughtful commentary about gun violence, mass murder, and possible reasons for the uptick in gun massacres comes to us by way of an email exchange I had with my dear friend and mentor, the...
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Good guy without a gun stops bad guy with a gun... again.
Sorry to break it to you, NRA, but this is becoming nearly as commonplace as your gun lobby-sponsored mass shootings are: At Seattle Pacific University, a good guy without a gun stopped a bad guy with...
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Cliff Notes: "This is a disease, one that the NRA’s leadership is helping to...
My dear friend and mentor, Cliff Schecter, has a new post up; Cliff has given me permission to share his work with you, so I’ll give you the latest edition of what I call Cliff Notes. Here are a few...
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Student killed. Just "another week in the United States of the NRA."
Photo via CNN While I was on air with Nicole Sandler today, this terrible news broke: Student killed, shooter also dead, at Oregon high school. Shortly after that, I received a press release from Moms...
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"Gun advocates think they know how any scenario involving guns will play out....
In one of the following letters, the author refers to "gun advocates." I prefer the terms gun fondlers, gun zealots, and gun fetishists, but what do I know, right? She makes a great point, as do the...
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Universal background check supporters boycott Hallmark
Dear Hallmark: Universal background checks for gun sales could have prevented mass killings. Massacres can also be cut short when a shooter runs out of bullets and has to reload. That's why there's a...
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"I was a person": Time to reform our broken mental health system.
Please take a minute to read this very heartfelt, very important post written by one of our longtime readers. Our mental health system is indeed broken. Ilene is doing everything she can to help...
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