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It’s Groundhog Day in gun-crazy USA. Another school shooting. Another teenage boy with a military-style rifle. And another round of “thoughts and prayers” from politicians who could actually do something about this madness but won’t. This time, it’s a 14-year-old in Georgia, whose resume now includes the murder of four innocent people at Apalachee High… Read more.
Rep. Bowman confronts Rep. Massie over gun violence Washington is buzzing over how Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) confronted Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) in Congress over gun control. Here is how The Washington Post is reporting on it today: Standing in the hallway, Bowman accused Republicans of being ‘cowards’ and said voters should force them ‘to… Read more.
Unsurprisingly, Republicans are blaming this school shooting in Uvalde Texas not just on mental illness but on everything else except the most obvious culprit: guns. Beto O’Rourke, the former Democratic presidential white knight and current Democratic gubernatorial candidate, threw this into righteous relief on Wednesday. He crashed a press conference Texas Republicans were holding, and… Read more.
Yesterday a mass shooter opened fire in a classroom at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. He killed 19 children and 2 teachers. This comes just 10 days after a mass shooter opened fire at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York. He killed 10 Blacks and injured 3. But here is why this shooting… Read more.
Just last week, a (typical) white gunman allegedly sought to exorcise his demonic sexual impulses by shooting up three massage parlors in Atlanta, killing eight, including 6 Asian women. This week a (bogeyman) Muslim allegedly sought to avenge his schoolyard bullying by shooting up a supermarket in Boulder, killing 10, including a police officer. Here… Read more.
I think background checks are important. I don’t want to put guns into the hands of mentally unstable people, or people with rage or hate, sick people. (The Washington Post, August 7, 2019) This, coming from a mentally unstable person who has his hands on nuclear weapons. Not to mention his hypocrisy, which invariably rears… Read more.
20 people were killed and at least 26 were injured in a shooting Saturday at a shopping center in El Paso, Texas. … Hours later in Dayton, Ohio, a gunman opened fire on people in a popular downtown area. Nine people were killed and 16 additional people were injured. (CNN, August 4, 2019) Please forgive… Read more.
Wayne LaPierre is the long-reigning CEO of The National Rifle Association (NRA). He is primarily responsible for duping Americans into believing that the NRA does more to protect American liberty than the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines. In fact, to listen to LaPierre, you’d think the most sacred of all Constitutional rights is the… Read more.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand on Thursday announced a national ban on all military-style semiautomatic weapons, all high-capacity ammunition magazines and all parts that allow weapons to be modified [the way the Las Vegas shooting did to carry out his massacre]. … Ms. Ardern is expected to encounter little resistance to the weapons… Read more.
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