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• Bad Stand Your Ground Shooting 1

  As in the Trayvon Martin shooting, and as in any number of other 'shoot first' incidents, there is a strong vigilante,... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2012 DEBATE

• Mistaken Intruder Shooting 2

  Another bad stand-your-ground / shoot first premise firearms incident that demonstrates why shoot first laws are a bad idea. I would argue to MikeB readers... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2012 DEBATE

• Mistaken Intruder Shooting 1

  The mistaken intruder shootings, in view of the shoot first laws, seems worth tracking. From San Mateo, California: No charges for shooting mistaken intruder Ma... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2012 DEBATE

• School Shootings--A New Thing?

  Not in the good old USA, I just found this interesting page: History of School Shootings in the United States.It seems that School Shootings have been... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2012 DEBATE

• Why Fewer People Should Have Easy Access to Guns...

  Call the regular police, or the fashion / good taste police? Seriously -- clearly this is just one more instance where shooting made sense as a legitimate actio... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2012 DEBATE

• Accidental Shooting by Off-duty Policeman - His Son is Dead

  local news reports Retired Rochester Police Captain and current Perry Police Officer Michael Leach and his son Matthew, 37, were sharing room six of the... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2012 DEBATE

• The "Dancing in the Blood" Accusation

  via Philly.com First, the gun lobby goes straight to the exploitation argument — which is, of course, a big lie. We never allow an assertion of this kind to sto... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2012 DEBATE

• This Is How The Colorado Shooter Was Armed -- And Sadly It Was All Legal

  

  This is a cross-post with the New Trajectory blog, HERE. When you picture someone who is dressed and armed for self-defense and conceal carry, what do you... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2012 DEBATE

• Aurora, Colorado Shooting - Update 4

  Here is the latest press conference: Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economyAnd here from MSNBC. Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2012 DEBATE

• The One Year Anniversary of the Anders Breivik Massacre

  It will be one year ago tomorrow that Anders Breivik went on a mass shooting spree in Norway. He has been arrested, and tried; we are awaiting the decision of... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2012 DEBATE

• Gunloons When Confronted with the Truth About Where Illegal Guns Come from

  

  But it doesn't stop them from getting their hands on guns... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2012 DEBATE

• And While We're on the Topic of Lead Poisoning

  Note: I was going to not publish this, but it is different from the post that Baldr put up--so here goes! It seems that the endangered California Condor is... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2012 DEBATE

• Update 3 on Aurora Co Mass Shooting

  Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2012 DEBATE

• Update to the Colorado Shooting

  

  The number of injured has gone up, although some of the new totals differ; that will likely be finalized soon. While the number of dead has been listed as 12,... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2012 DEBATE

• Gohmert, Thoughts of a Drooling Idiot on the Colorado Mass Shooting

  Congressman Louis Gohmert rivals the worst of the right wing extremists who celebrate and exalt stupidity. He's in the running with any number of the extreme... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2012 DEBATE

• Update on Apparent Colorado Mass Shooting Suspect

  So this guy appears to have been a successful med student until recently, and a law abiding citizen, (contrary to the misinformation of a commenter who didn't... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2012 DEBATE

• Gun Show Sales

  While checking out the information about required gun show private sale background checks in Colorado, I came across this charming little paragraph. Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2012 DEBATE

• Update to Colorado Mass Shooting: Gunman Wore Gas Mask

  I'm not all that surprised a mass shooter would wear a gas mask. Part of the fetish relationship between gun nuts and their weapons is the degree to which the... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2012 DEBATE

• Second Mass Shooting This Week: 14 Dead 50+ Injured

  Did you happen to notice that we have more of these than other places? Yes, there was one in Canada this week, but those are very very very rare there. There... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2012 DEBATE

• Lead Poisoning--maybe That Explains the Gunloon Mentality

  I'm not talking about the slang for being shot, I am talking about lead's characteristic as a neurotoxin. Lead is a neurotoxin that is especially damaging to... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2012 DEBATE