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• The Wayne La Pierre Speech on the Connecticut Shooting

  A couple quick lies: 1. "out of respect for the families and until the facts are known the NRA has remained silent." I told you why they remained silent. Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2012 DEBATE

• Four Dead in Pennsylvania Shooting

  Local Fox News reports A man fatally shot a woman decorating for a children's Christmas party at a tiny church hall and killed two men elsewhere in a rural... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2012 DEBATE

• About Nancy Lanza

  

  Washington Post Her former sister-in law, Marsha Lanza, told the Chicago Sun-Times outside her home in Crystal Lake, Ill., that Nancy Lanza wanted guns for... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2012 DEBATE

• Five Police Officers Killed This Week

  SUPGV In the past week, five police officers have been shot and killed in the line of duty. In Clayton County, Georgia, 24-year-old Sean Callahan, who had only... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2012 DEBATE

• President Obama Responds to We the People Petitions Related to Gun Violence

  On account of petition asking the president to immediately address the issue of gun control getting nearly 200,000 signatures in less than a week,  The Presiden... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2012 DEBATE

• National Assault Weapon Registry

  Man with a Muckrake Yesterday I proposed that there ought to be a public, accessible registry of assault-type guns in the United States. Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2012 DEBATE

• Captain Beefheart Festival 2012 - 2013 - 5th Night of the Living Van Vliet

  Here's the explanation of the origin and the dates. Thanks to Microdot for the title of the Festival. Safe as Milk is the début album by Captain Beefheart his... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2012 DEBATE

• Zappadan 2012 - Final Day - Can't Afford No Shoes

  After a week's mourning for the Connecticut shooting victims, I'm back in the nick of time posting for Zappadan 2012. One Size Fits All is a 1975 rock album by... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2012 DEBATE

• Is It Necessary to Repeal the 2nd Amendment?

  BDN Opinion by Robert Klose Not long ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the so-called “right to bear arms” amendment to the Constitution is in fact a... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2012 DEBATE

• Gun Control Gains in Popular Interest

  

  Politico reports More Americans prioritize gun control above Second Amendment rights by the widest margin since President Barack Obama took office, according... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2012 DEBATE

• South Dakota Teen Dead After Shooting Incident

  

  (Dalton Williams Photo Courtesy: KELO-TV) Local news reports The alleged shooter, 16-year-old Braiden McCahren, has been charged as an adult, with first degree... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2012 DEBATE

• Trouble for the NRA

  Huffington Post I believe the country is fed up with the spree shootings and reasonable people blame the NRA to one degree or another. The result is their... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2012 DEBATE

• Why I'm for the Brady Bill...

  People seem to forget that there was a certain incident that led to the creation of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence: the attempted assassination of... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2012 DEBATE

• 4 Dead in Colorado Murder-Suicide

  via Reuters thanks to Grung_E_Gene Sergeant Tim Schwartz of the Weld County Sheriff's Office said police received a call from the home in a community about 35... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2012 DEBATE

• The Case Against John Lott

  from the Salon article The answer is not more guns No one has done more to advance the “More Guns, Less Crime” argument than Lott (that was the title of his... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2012 DEBATE

• The Case Against Gary Kleck

  from the Salon article The answer is not more guns If Lott’s work can be discarded, the other key evidence for the more guns, less crime camp comes... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2012 DEBATE

• South Carolina Accidental Shooting - No Charges

  Local news reports After deputies arrived, they learned that 51-year-old Wesley O’Shield was cleaning a .32-caliber revolver when the weapon accidentally... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2012 DEBATE

• The Truth About Australia's Gun Laws

  

  Slate At the heart of the push was a massive buyback of more than 600,000 semi-automatic shotguns and rifles, or about one-fifth of all firearms in circulation... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2012 DEBATE

• White House Petition on Gun-Owner Insurance

  Please sign a White House petition to President Obama cross posted from Penigma I did something useful this afternoon; I went to the white house gov petitions... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2012 DEBATE

• Oh, Wow..another One!

  There can be only so many massacres before people start getting pissed off and pushing back... O’BRIEN: Okay. I think with all due respect, are you not going... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2012 DEBATE