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• Our Early Entries in the List of 2012 Gun Violence Incidents - Another MASS...

  

  This is another one; another mass shooting by one of the gun nuts, this time in Colorado. I would like to encourage our readers to consider the number of... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2012 DEBATE

• Glorifying the Guns...... Update

  

  This is the essence of a man worshiping his fetish object, his source of power - in his mind his source of power, if ONLY in his mind. Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2012 DEBATE

• Islamophobia Fire Bombing

  This is what ignorance, intolerance, bigotry ginned up by fear produces. Conservatives have far more people who personify these fears and other feelings; it is... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2012 DEBATE

• Looser Gun Laws in Iowa - One Year Later

  Local News 4 KTIV reports on one thing. Omaha.com reports on a slightly different story. Homicides are up from last year. Rapes have increased. Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2012 DEBATE

• Of Mice and Men, of Penises and Penis Substitutes

  What can one say about a story like this? To begin with, it is too bizarre for anyone to make up; that is the obvious comment. Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2011 DEBATE

• Drinking and Guns Don't Mix

  

  The Statesman Journal reports on the drunken shenanigans that led to one brother killing another. After initially pretending it was a suicide: Brandon then... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2011 DEBATE

• Bernhard Goetz' Victim Commits Suicide

  

  US News reports James Ramseur, one of four then-teenagers wounded in the notorious 1984 incident, was discovered dead in a Bronx motel room on Thursday, with tw... Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2011 DEBATE

• Hooray!

  I look forward to federal legislation that undoes these voter ID laws, excessive legislation that addresses a non-existent problem, a problem that is a right... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2011 DEBATE

• What If the 99% Carried Weapons, Like the Tea Partiers?

  Laci is off doing last minute holiday things with family, and starting celebrations for the holidays. But he suggested this post to share with MikeB readers. Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2011 DEBATE

• More Domestic Violence - Upstate New York Woman Kills Her Father, Her Daughter...

  Democrat and Chronicle reports In the finished basement of her family's home on Red Fox Run on Wednesday morning, police say, Penelope Luddy, 53, killed her... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2011 DEBATE

• Lake City Domestic Violence - 1 Dead, 1 Wounded

  

  The Star Tribune reports on the deranged 25-year-old man who tried to kill his 17-year-old ex-girlfriend. That's an old picture of a 2006 arrest. Alan J. Sylte... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2011 DEBATE

• Situational Awareness - A Gun Owner's Best Friend

  via Fat White Man from a wonderful article by an expert, Dave Spaulding. The phrase situational awareness is thrown about frequently these days. So much so... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2011 DEBATE

• Man Shoots Porsche Boxster

  BND.com reports on the O'Fallon man who turned out to be quite the misuser of a handgun. Craig P. Nance, 53 years old, didn't like that he estranged wife... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2011 DEBATE

• UPDATE: My Results So Far in Contacting the Queens County DA Re: Mark Meckler

  After being put on hold repeatedly, and hung up on once - very different from my communication with the Brooklyn DA, and finally speaking with someone who only... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2011 DEBATE

• Another Example of Domestic Terrorism

  

  As we look at the reasons we advocate limiting firearms, the possibility of domestic terrorism, particularly in the context of Norway's Anders Breivik or our ow... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2011 DEBATE

• American Racism and Guns, This Time in Our Military

  

  If anyone still doubts the existence of racism, here is another example. It is reminiscent of the days when our soldiers in Viet Nam referred to Asians as... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2011 DEBATE

• Who Owns All the Guns and Why They Need to Be Controlled

  We often hear there are 80 or 100 million gun owners in the United States. Some estimates say there are as many individual guns as there are people. Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2011 DEBATE

• Ian Garland, Owner of Chaparral Guns Tries to Wiggle Out of His Deal

  

  Las Cruces Sun-News reports Almost five months after 14 border residents entered into plea agreements in a case charging them with trafficking firearms to... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2011 DEBATE

• Crime is Down But Not in Toledo

  Local news reports on the spate of shootings suffered by Toledo Ohio in recent days. 2011 saw a major increase in homicides there, but the report said Toledo... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2011 DEBATE

• Terrorists Stockpiled Weapons for an Attack

  

  THIS is an example of why it makes sense to me to limit how many weapons someone can buy at one time, or own over a period of time, without special... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2011 DEBATE