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• Meet Aaron Alexis - Washington Navy Yard Shooter

  

  Huffington Post Aaron Alexis has been identified by police as the dead Washington Navy Yard shooter, NBC News reports. Alexis, 34, originally of Fort Worth,... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2013 DEBATE

• Reports Of Gun-Control’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

  The Left Call Over on The Atlantic, Molly Ball has announced “The Death of Gun Control.” She says that any serious efforts on gun control ended when the Senate... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2013 DEBATE

• The Golden Ring Of Freedom

  Opposing Views Although the NRA has insisted that it does not receive much money from the gun industry, a new report suggests that those claims are not accurate. Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2013 DEBATE

• Injury at Police Gun Range in Oklahoma - Second One This Year

  Local news reports Today at the Edmond Police Department firing range there was an accidental discharge of a gun. The accident resulted in a minor injury to... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2013 DEBATE

• New York's Finest Does It Again - Bystanders Wounded Instead of the Bad Guy Who...

  The Washington Post Police say two bystanders were wounded during a police shooting on a crowded street in midtown Manhattan. It happened just before 10 p.m. Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2013 DEBATE

• Michigan Concealed Carry Permit Holder Leaves Gun and Ammo in Shopping Cart

  Local news reports A 58-year-old Macomb Township man accidentally left a handgun and ammunition in a shopping cart at a local Kroger store that was later... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2013 DEBATE

• On CNN's Crossfire, Van Jones Exposes Conservative Media's Cherry-Picking On Guns

  Media Matters CNN host Van Jones chastised contributor Will Cain for "cherry-picking [legislative] districts" to paint stronger gun laws as wildly unpopular,... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2013 DEBATE

• Black Gun Owners Slam Funny Or Die’s ‘Black NRA’ Parody

  

  Town Hall In case you missed it, last week Funny or Die produced a video in which comedian Sarah Silverman, among others, facetiously advocated for a black NRA. Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2013 DEBATE

• Classic Repost: IGNORANCE IS GREG!

  Greg Camp Sez: 1. You give us a link to statuatory interpretation, but fail to recognize that we're talking about the constitutional interpretation: Well,... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2013 DEBATE

• Slogans v. Facts

  

  Just remember that propaganda uses meaningless slogans to short circuit the intellect: Unfortunately, the facts seem to have an "anti-gun" bias as we find that ... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2013 DEBATE

• So You've Found an Obscure Law and You Think It Proves Your Point???

  In this case, The Northwest Ordinance of 1787, the complete text of this document can be found here. The proper name of this is An Ordinance for the Government... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2013 DEBATE

• Maybe It's the Guns...

  It was that gun loon heaven, Switzerland, that led the drive to ban absinthe after Jean Lanfray killed his family. Maurice Zolotow, in a 1971 article, provides... Read more

  Posted on 15 September 2013 DEBATE

• The National Guard Being a Creature of Federal Law.

  But it's not me who came up with this--it's actually in the Constitution.Article I, Section 8, clause 16 not only gives congress the power to arm the militia,... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2013 DEBATE

• It Costs Too Much to Reduce Something by 100%

  

  It seems a lot of "pro-gunners" are clueless that the goal is not to eliminate gun violence, but to significantly reduce it.Yes, other countries may still have... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2013 DEBATE

• Problem, No Problem

  The sad thing about the US is when twenty toddlers are pureed with a firearm that instead of wanting to eliminate that weapon from society, that everybody... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2013 DEBATE

• Militias, Tyrants and Ancient History

  I thought I would repost and elaborate on a comment I made: A well-regulated militia was seen as a bullwark against the establishment of a standing army (large... Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2013 DEBATE

• Nothing I Haven't Been Saying for a While

  Jeffrey Toobin at Frontliine: The overwhelming consensus was that the Second Amendment gave state militias a right to obtain and bear arms, but it did it not... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2013 DEBATE

• From the "Armed Civilians Make Great Tragets Department"

  And the open carry bunch want to complain about being sussed by the cops: we have this story: Edmonds Chief of Police Al Compaan says at around 7:30 a.m. Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2013 DEBATE

• Taxpayers Shoulder Bulk Of Gun Violence Costs, Study Finds

  

  Huffington Post Hospitals in the U.S. spent $630 million in 2010 treating the victims of gun violence -- everything from minor gunshot wounds to injuries that... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2013 DEBATE

• The Other Gun Lobbying Outfit - NSSF

  The Atlantic Every year from 1998 through 2010, the NRA spent at least ten times more than the NSSF on direct lobbying. Today those numbers are converging—the... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2013 DEBATE