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• The Glenn Beck Message Against Liberalism

  via Gawker Glenn Beck produced this pretty spot-on right-wing parody of those infamous spooky Anonymous video manifestos. Instead of overblown... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2012 DEBATE

• The Future of the Democratic Party

  via Towleroad Elizabeth Warren on the Issues says this under the Gun Control category: No issue stance yet recorded by OnTheIssues.org. Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2012 DEBATE

• For Our Colleague Laci, Best Wishes for Your Robert Burns Supper Celebration

  A long-held tradition, and an informal national celebration for the Scots. We wish him joy in his haggis, tatties and neeps, and most of all his nip of... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2012 DEBATE

• Real Freedom Has Nothing to Do with Guns

  

  Freedom isn't about guns. REAL freedom in a civilized society is about the press not being knocked around and respect for peaceful, lawful protesters... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2012 DEBATE

• Another Mass Shooting, This One in New Mexico

  Some of our gun nuts don't believe we should have any firearms restrictions. Clearly we do need restrictions, and better enforcement to prevent prohibited... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2012 DEBATE

• Why Lethal Weapons Are Not a Good Idea

  This is just one more example of the bad judgment of people with their firearms, of impulsive over-reaction, of abuse of lethal weapons. Gun nuts ask us to... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2012 DEBATE

• Mitt's Full o' Cash

  Real freedom is not being poor and carrying a gun everywhere. Real freedom is opportunity in a safer society that does not embrace the violence which... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2012 DEBATE

• The Pennsylvania Gun Shop That Gets Broken into Every Six Months

  

  The Times Leader, a small news outlet in Wilkes-Barre PA, reports on the incredible and reprehensible irresponsibility of a certain gun shop owner. Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2012 DEBATE

• Law Abiding Gun Owner Turns Himself in to Police AFTER Shooting the Mayor

  

  I would bet you that this man was absolutely certain at the time he used his gun to execute the Mayor that he was doing a GOOD THING, that he was using his... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2012 DEBATE

• More Racism

  When you mix guns with racism, there is a far greater probability, a greater risk, that a targeted group of people for the profiling will be damaged in some way. Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2012 DEBATE

• Gun Owners Messin' Around

  

  I got it from TTAG, but it's been making the rounds. The pro-gun guys pretend these types of characters are so rare that their effect is negligible. I disagree. Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2012 DEBATE

• NRA Membership Accurately Portrayed

  

  As we mentioned in another recent post, the deceptive propaganda is rampant in the gun-rights world. Get a load of these typical gun owners. Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2012 DEBATE

• More Propaganda About Women Buying Guns

  Local news in Tulsa OK reports that more women are getting into guns. The first bit of evidence for this claim is that in December, there were a record number o... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2012 DEBATE

• Why We Need Drug Testing Before Gun Possession, Not AFTER Someone with a Drug...

  

  Mandatory drug testing is like monitoring highways to stop speeders. It makes our world safer, it stops dangerous people from harming themselves and others by... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2012 DEBATE

• Ex-Marine from Indiana Takes Gun to New York

  via TTAG, where Farago blames the laws of NY rather than the stupid gun owners who break those laws. I find it hard to believe that none of the Armed... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2012 DEBATE

• Spartanburg SC Waffle House DGU

  

  Go Upstate.com reports suggested by one of our anonymous commenters, I suppose as an example of a legitimate DGU and to point out how much better off we are wit... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2012 DEBATE

• More Nuts with Guns Trying to Kill Themselves and Other People

  

  Where else? Gun crazy country. Arizona. Everybody with a gun sincerely believes THEY need it, that THEY know what they are doing, that THEY are doing something... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2012 DEBATE

• Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayit'sworldwouldfallapart

  Here you go--The Manic Street PreachersNext Thursday you're invited to watch Rising Tide's live coverage of a gala tribute in salute to Ronald Reagan. Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2012 DEBATE

• Bonnie and Clyde's Guns Fetch $210,000

  

  Reuters reports on the results of our recent story. Two guns believed seized from gangsters Bonnie and Clyde in 1933 after a deadly Missouri shootout with polic... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2012 DEBATE

• Hooray!

  I have been a huge fan of Bill Moyers for many years now. That he has returned to public television after retiring, with his quiet, gracious, and informative... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2012 DEBATE