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• Colorado Man Buys Gun and Uses It to Commit Murder the Same Day

  

  Williams Anderson Amaya Post Independent Williams Anderson Amaya made a legal purchase of a handgun from a retailer in Grand Junction on the day that authoritie... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2014 DEBATE

• In Chicago At Least 40 People Shot Over the Weekend - 4 Deaths

  Huffington Post An 11-year-girl was shot and killed during a slumber party as violence struck Chicago over the weekend, local media outlets reported on Sunday. Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2014 DEBATE

• Mental Illness and Gun Control

  CDN The National Institutes of Health estimates that over ¼ of persons 18 years and older in the US suffer from some type of mental health disorder. Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2014 DEBATE

• 14 States Can Now Boast of More Gun Deaths Than Car Deaths

  Local news reports Oregon was one of 14 states where gun deaths outpaced motor vehicle deaths in 2011, according to a study by the Violence Policy Center. Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2014 DEBATE

• Shameful, Disgraceful Decision by the Washington State Supreme Court

  

  Amina Kocer-Bowman, pictured in a 2012 photo from KOMO/4. Amina was shot in the stomach by a 9-year-old classmate who'd taken a gun from his mother's boyfriend. Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2014 DEBATE

• Stand Your Ground Laws Lead To More Homicides, Don't Deter Crime

  TPM Homicides increase under the "castle doctrine" or Stand Your Ground laws, according to two studies published since 2012, while the laws do not appear to... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2014 DEBATE

• Missouri Church Gives Away AR-15s

  

  Inquisitr According to the Joplin Globe, the AR-15 giveaway is intended to “get more people to follow Jesus” and Heath Mooneyham, lead pastor of Ignite Church,... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2014 DEBATE

• Domestic Violence, Women and Guns

  Huffington Post The statistics are horrifyingly real. From 2001 to 2012, the number of women murdered by intimate partners using guns (6,410) exceeded the numbe... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2014 DEBATE

• Kansas City Man Charged with 2nd Degree Assault for Shooting a 4-Year-old

  

  Delaney R. Singleton Local news reports Jackson County prosecutors on Tuesday charged a 22-year-old Kansas City man with assault in connection with the... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2014 DEBATE

• Mass Shooting Analysis Finds Strong Domestic Violence Connection - Need for...

  Huffington Post A recent analysis of U.S. gun deaths has found that a majority of mass shootings were related to domestic or family violence. Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2014 DEBATE

• South Carolina Concealed Carry Permit Holder Leaves His Gun in the WalMart...

  

  Huffington Post Walmart could be the next battleground in the fight over gun rights in retail chains after a loaded revolver was found in the bathroom of a Sout... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2014 DEBATE

• Is ‘Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes’ Anti-Gun?

  MTV dot com The critics and the people have spoken, and “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” is a bona fide summer success. The sequel to the 2011 James Franco... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2014 DEBATE

• Larry Pratt - True Extremist of the Gun Rights Movement

  

  Larry Pratt Rolling Stone "The Second Amendment is not for hunting, it's not even for self-defense," Pratt explained in his Leadership Institute talk. Rather, i... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2014 DEBATE

• Quote of the Day

  In the past, if someone knew nothing and talked nonsense, no one paid any attention to him. No more. Now such people are courted and flattered by conservative... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2014 DEBATE

• PA Concealed Carry Permit Holder Faces 3 Years After NJ Arrest

  

  Local news reports 27 year-old Shaneen Allen wanted to protect her family. She took a gun safety course, applied for and was granted a concealed carry permit an... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2014 DEBATE

• Conservative Groups Protest Central American Children By Marching With Guns

  

  Huffington Post Conservative groups protested the possible housing of Central American children in Vassar, Michigan, on Monday by marching through town, some... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2014 DEBATE

• So, Where's the Good Guy with a Gun When You Need Him????

  I know it's anecdotal, but I heard that thieves target cars with pro-gun stickers on them (you know the type).  Seriously, ever think that having a gun might... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2014 DEBATE

• Deleted Comments Of The Day

  Wonkette did a blog about the comments they deleted which they describe as "especially full of pure uncut dumb lately." I really don't find too much... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2014 DEBATE

• Missouri Governor Vetoes Bill Allowing Teachers To Carry Concealed Weapons

  

  Missouri Governor Jay Nixon Huffington Post Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon vetoed legislation Monday that would have allowed specially trained teachers to carry... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2014 DEBATE

• More on Archie's Death

  

  A while back, I wrote a post about the upcoming end of the Archie comic series. Rather than graduating or some other mundane ending, Archie will die from gun... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2014 DEBATE