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• Murder Suicide , This One in Fresno

  

  Another Mass Shooting, another Murder Suicide. The much vaunted constructive uses of guns for self-defense? Not so much. From the HuffPo: 4 Dead In... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2012 DEBATE

• Steven Hart on John Shirley's "Everything Is Broken"

  

  via Steven Hart John Scalzi once remarked that people who took Atlas Shrugged seriously tended to be people who (a) imagined that they would wind up on top of... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2012 DEBATE

• The Meaning of the Second Amendment

  via The Propaganda Professor, a post from a few months back, which includes one of the clearest explanations of the different ways to understand the 2A that I'v... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2012 DEBATE

• The Secret History of Gun Control

  

  via The Atlantic I love this story about the Black Panthers. The article contains much more though. What do you think? In February of 1967, Oakland police... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2012 DEBATE

• Bad Judgment..........But We ARM Them?

  

  "This is my rifle, this is my gun; One is for fighting, one is for fun."Rick Perry wants to minimize the disgraceful actions of marines caught on video urinatin... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2012 DEBATE

• New Orleans Mass Shooting, Complicated with Grenades

  

  Just to point out, this wouldn't have even made the radar of national news if it hadn't been for the novelty of ALSO involving grenades in addition to being a... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2012 DEBATE

• Philly Mass Shooting Update

  May I point out that we have had multiple mass shootings and we're less than 30 days into the new year. That is something that just doesn't happen nearly as... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2012 DEBATE

• Update on the Recent North Carolina Mass Shooting

  One more gun death in the 2012 gun violence tally. From MSNBC.com: Man dies a day after killing 3 co-workers at NC lumber companyBy msnbc.com staff and news... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2012 DEBATE

• Another Update on the NavalAviator Murder Suicide

  We hear so often about the murders in murder / suicides from other people who knew them that they were 'nice guys', 'helpful', 'kind', 'pillars of the... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2012 DEBATE

• Dustin Wesley Cook Arrested for the Texas School Shooting

  

  The Houston Chronicle reports on the amazingly irresponsible gun owner responsible for this tragedy. Dustin Wesley Cook, 36, was arraigned Friday on a charge... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2012 DEBATE

• A 'Goblin' in a Beanie and Fake Moustache

  Our gun lunatics, despite the empty and meaningless lip service they give to the inherent value of life --- well, SOME life, but not other people's life -- woul... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2012 DEBATE

• FPS Russia Demonstrates the AAC Honey Badger

  via Nick Leghorn at TTAG, where as usual the Armed Intelligentsia revile this guy. Actually I don't see what's so irresponsible in this video unless no ear... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2012 DEBATE

• Rare and Valuable Fetish Item - Bonnie and Clyde's Tommy Gun

  

  The Kansas City Star reports Bonnie and Clyde’s Tommy gun.Later this month, Mayo Auction Realty of Kansas City will sell a .45-caliber Thompson sub-machine gu... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2012 DEBATE

• Show and Tell;Another Avoidable Gun Death by One of Those 'I'm Safe! I'm Trained...

  It's been a rough week with firearms for the U.S. Navy elite. You'd think a Navy Seal of all people would know better than to do this. Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2012 DEBATE

• WHY Should We Drug Test Before We Allow Someone to Own Or Carry a Firearm?

  

  I believe that we should make pot legal, regulate it, and tax the hell out of it. Part of that regulation should address issues like driving safety while under... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2012 DEBATE

• Minnesota Follows a National Trend

  

  For some frustrating reason, I could not get the video that accompanied this to load for this post, and could not find at all the longer version of the... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2012 DEBATE

• Swiss Guns Under Attack.

  Switzerland is the best analogy to what the "gun culture" should be in that both were supposed to have universal amateur militaries (i.e. Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2012 DEBATE

• Gun Rights Advocate "Detained" at the Airport

  

  The Los Angeles Times reports on the latest incident of a pro-gun guy "forgetting" he has a gun at the airport. A California lawmaker who has been a vocal... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2012 DEBATE

• More Law Enforcement Deaths and Injuries from Gun Violence in Only the First Wee...

  

  Firearms: too many of them, harming too many of our law enforcement officers trying to protect civilized society. How many shootings have there been so far? Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2012 DEBATE

• Update on the Oklahoma Home Intrusion Shooting

  I continue to be impressed with the presence of mind, the judgment, and the composure and grace under pressure of this young woman who had gone through so much... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2012 DEBATE