Tag Archives: Guns

Just When You Thought We Couldn’t Get Crazier: Number Of US Babies Being Named After Guns & Other Weapons On The Increase

Posted on September 14, 2015 by markt

  www.pinterest.com Baby Pistol, Browning, Wesson, Kimber, Beretta - they’re all there. By Jess Safenberg The Independent (8/81/15) Parents appear to be arming their newborn babies with intimidating names in a tough-guy take on giving them the best start in … Continue reading →

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Looking Past A Shooting At American Gun Culture

Posted on September 2, 2015 by markt

By Tom Ashcroft On Point Radio (8/31/15) Lessons from the live-on-TV Virginia shootings.  We’ll look at the way forward with the New York Times’ Nick Kristof and other top thinkers. Outside of war zones and struggling nations, nobody comes close to … Continue reading →

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Walmart’s Plan To Stop Selling AR-15 Assault Rifles Has A Major Flaw

Posted on September 2, 2015 by markt

Expect to see Walmart cash-in. By Alexander C. Kaufman The Huffington Post (8/26/15) Walmart confirmed Wednesday that it plans to stop selling the sort of military-style weapons used in deadly shootings in Aurora, Colorado, and Newtown, Connecticut, among other places in recent years. Gun … Continue reading →

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Stop Looking For A Single Reason Men Commit Public Shootings

Posted on August 30, 2015 by markt

The scary truth behind American gun violence? It’s on all of us. By Emma Gray The Huffington Post (8/27/15) Shock. Horror. Debate. Exasperation. Ignore. Repeat. This is the cycle we go through each and every time a public, violent tragedy strikes. … Continue reading →

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American Exceptionalism And The ‘exceptionally American’ Problem Of Mass Shootings

Posted on August 28, 2015 by markt

By Sarah Kaplan The Washington Post (8/27/15) On Sunday, criminal justice professor Adam Lankford stood in front of a crowd of sociologists to explain how American culture contributes to the all-too-frequent American mass shootings. It’s not just that we have a … Continue reading →

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American Death Cult — Another Mass Shooting, And We’re Again Told: Don’t Politicize, Pray … And Duck

Posted on July 26, 2015 by markt

www.pinterest.com We have decided that beyond a counterweight of death with death, all else is hopeless.  By Jeb Lund The Guardian (7/25/15) Following last night’s shooting [7/24] in a Lafayette, Louisiana, movie theater, Governor Bobby Jindal told people: “What we can … Continue reading →

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Bonehead Brigade: Civilian ‘Guard’ Accidentially Fires Gun While Showing Off Fire Arm ‘Protecting’ Military Recruiting Center In Ohio

Posted on July 25, 2015 by markt

“You know something was going to happen.” By Ed Mazza The Huffington Post (7/24/15) Volunteer civilian “guards” have been kicked off the grounds outside a military recruiting center in Lancaster, Ohio, after one of them accidentally fired his weapon. No one … Continue reading →

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Bobby Jindal, Does Louisiana ‘Love Us Some Guns’ Now?

Posted on July 25, 2015 by markt

Jindal treats guns not as weapons but political props.  (Editor’s Note: The predictable Back-to-the-Future display of conservative crocodile tears and empty, maudlin calls for prayer is the only thing conservatives ever offer the victims of America’s gun insanity. It is, … Continue reading →

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Tao Te Ching — 29

Posted on July 24, 2015 by markt

Disarmament Sculpture (Twisted Revolver) by Luke Redmond.   Trying to govern the world with force I see this not succeeding the world is a spiritual thing it can’t be forced to force it is to harm it to control it … Continue reading →

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This Is What The Average Gun Owner Looks Like In America

Posted on July 6, 2015 by markt

By Anna Almendral The Huffington Post (7/2/15) After a shooting in Charleston, South Carolina claimed nine lives, President Barack Obama called for the nation to come to terms with the fact that no other advanced country in the world suffers mass shootings as frequently as the … Continue reading →

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Guns And The Godly

Posted on July 5, 2015 by markt

By Lawrence Wittner The Huffington Post (7/2/15) Where do American Christians stand on guns and gun-related violence? Christianity is a religion that professes love and peace. Admittedly, the Christian Bible’s frequent depiction of Christ (“The Prince of Peace”) as rejecting violence … Continue reading →

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Ongoing Murder Of Innocents Is Perfectly Fine With American Leaders: Gun Control Measures Dormant In Congress After Charleston Shooting

Posted on June 22, 2015 by markt

www.businessinsider.com “Congress has failed to act because it’s filled with too many lapdogs for the gun lobby,” — Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. (Editor’s Note: The blood of Charleston, and Aurora and Newton and … Continue reading →

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Gun Homicides And Gun Ownership Listed By Country

Posted on June 22, 2015 by markt

Where are the world’s guns - and which countries have the highest rates of firearms murders?  By Simon Rogers The Guardian (7/22/12) The Aurora shooting has re-lit the arguments over gun control in the US. How does the US really compare on firearms? … Continue reading →

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Dept. Of Much Needed Humor — New Law Determines Bullets No Longer Responsibility Of Owner Once Fired From Gun

Posted on June 22, 2015 by markt

The Onion (6/10/15) PHOENIX—In an attempt to clarify the rights and obligations of those possessing firearms, the Arizona State Legislature approved a new law Wednesday declaring that a gun owner ceases to be responsible for a bullet once it has … Continue reading →

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While They Want Live Guns In Your Child’s School, NRA Bans Firing Pins At Annual Convention

Posted on April 12, 2015 by markt

New York Time, Editorial (4/10/15)   Seventy-thousand people are expected to attend the National Rifle Association’s convention opening on Friday [4/10] in Tennessee, but they won’t be allowed to carry firearms in one of the main convention venues. This may run counter … Continue reading →

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