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Eager to convince and assured of its purpose, the advocacy documentary Under the Gun tackles America’s persistent gun violence crisis with – word choice intended – an arsenal of information about why even modest fixes have been slow in coming… There’s a villain, of course: the National Rifle Association post-1977, when it shifted from being… Read more.
This, notwithstanding Obama’s teary-eyed declarations about gun control. Read more.
Pursuant to the new normal, another “lone wolf” opened fire on a military recruitment center in Chattanooga on Thursday, killing four marines and one midshipman. The gunfire came in rapid bursts, too many shots to count, a witness said… Within hours, a picture began to emerge of the shooting suspect, a 24-year-old Kuwaiti-born electrical engineering… Read more.
A 9-year-old girl at a shooting range outside Las Vegas accidentally killed an instructor on Monday morning when she lost control of the Uzi he was showing her how to use… In a similar incident in 2008, 8-year-old Christopher Bizilj shot himself to death with an Uzi at a Massachusetts gun show organized by a… Read more.
Affirmative Action Weren’t the past 40 years of affirmative action intended to rectify the lingering consequences of slavery and Jim Crow? Never mind that white women and wealthy Blacks were the ones who benefited most…. Enough already! (“Senate Apologizes for Slavery; Blacks Say, ‘Show Us the Money (Reparations),” The iPINIONS Journal, June 19, 2009) This… Read more.
I don’t know why the media always reward these psychopaths by giving them the fame they covet; that is, by plastering their pathetic mugs all over television and reporting pop psychology about why and how they did their dastardly deeds. You’d think that – given the record of these psychotic and vainglorious episodes since Columbine –… Read more.
Hopes could not have been higher for passage of the Senate’s gun-control bill last week after Democrat Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Republican Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania struck a compromise on background checks. After all, Manchin and Toomey are de facto poster boys for the NRA – the gun-lobbying group most members of congress… Read more.
The response in each case plays out like a macabre version of Groundhog Day – complete with swat teams showing up brandishing their big guns (oblivious to the obvious irony) long after all of the killing is done; politicians mouthing patently hollow words about gun control; and reporters emulating the Bill Murray character by repeating the… Read more.
