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• Man Shoots Himself In The Head While Bragging About Gun Safety Feature On His Gun

  

  Freak Out Nation A Phoenix man bragged about the double-safety mechanism on his gun, then to demonstrate how effective the feature is, he aimed the firearm at... Read more

  Posted on 08 September 2015 DEBATE

• No Legal Standing

  #gunsense Philly judge rules NRA has no 'legal standing' to sue city over gun ordinances http://t.co/Be6M1epTog via @pennlive— Joan Peterson (@commongunsense)... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2015 DEBATE

• Who's Buying These Things? One Guess

  

  TYWIKIWDBI As reported by Ars Technica: Business is skyrocketing higher than ever due to the discussion on prohibition," Chris Byars, the CEO of the Ion... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2015 DEBATE

• What About That 3-Day Rule?

  Nola "The gunmen who committed the callous attacks in Charleston, Chattanooga and Lafayette should not have been able to acquire firearms," said Jim Johnson,... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2015 DEBATE

• The Big Shift in How 2016 Republican Candidates Talk About Their Personal Guns

  

  The Trace Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is whatever gun-policy advocate you need him to be. On Sunday, in the aftermath of the Lafayette movie-theater shooting... Read more

  Posted on 05 September 2015 DEBATE

• Kim Davis, The Kentucky Clerk Who Refused to Marry Gays

  

  Kim Davis, the clerk of Rowan County, Ky. NYT Kim Davis, a county clerk in Kentucky who has defied court rulings by denying marriage licenses to same-sex... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2015 DEBATE

• Sacramento Community College Shooting - 1 Dead, 2 Wounded

  Fox California law enforcement officers searched for a gunman early Friday after one man was killed and two others wounded in a parking lot near a Sacramento... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2015 DEBATE

• Study: Gun Control Leads to Fewer Suicides

  CNN State laws that restrict access to guns could reduce the rate of firearm-related suicide, according to new research. Researchers examined suicide rates in... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2015 DEBATE

• In Georgia (and 28 Other States), Gun Deaths Outnumber Car Deaths

  AJC for Kurt's edification Georgians are now more likely to be killed by a gun than a car crash — just like the majority of states in the country. Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2015 DEBATE

• Murder Rates Rising

  

  Quartz The rise was covered last month by USA Today, and recent reporting by the New York Times revealed more data behind the trend. Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2015 DEBATE

• Hawaii Police to Destroy $575,000 in Surplus Guns to Keep Them ‘off the Streets’

  Guns dot com After buying new sidearms for its officers, the Honolulu Police Department is moving to destroy its surplus pistols, some new, over the protests... Read more

  Posted on 02 September 2015 DEBATE

• This is the Best Paragraph I've Ever Read on Gun Control and Mass Shootings

  Vox Maybe something will change; maybe this time we will manage to act. But it's difficult to be anything but pessimistic, and when I think about why that is, m... Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2015 DEBATE

• Australian Suicides Are Down

  Vox However, the paper's findings about suicide were statistically significant — and astounding. Buying back 3,500 guns correlated with a 74 percent drop in... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2015 DEBATE

• Intential Fatal Shootings

  

  Politics that work Description: This pie chart shows the distribution of intentional shooting deaths between suicides, murders of acquaintances, murders of... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2015 DEBATE

• ‘Gun Family’ Head Gets 18 Years for Trafficking Weapons into New York

  

  Quick (upper right) was head of a six person “gun family” Guns dot com A Brooklyn judge handed down sentencing Thursday in the case of a man who sold 151 guns... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2015 DEBATE

• California Man Shoots and Kills Two Fleeing Robbers in Arizona and Gets Away Wit...

  

  Kamhen "Omar" Saleh Guns dot com Two years ago, a 20 year old California man withdrew $44,000 from the bank for the family business. He placed the money in a... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2015 DEBATE

• 3rd-Grader Brings Gun To School, Accidentally Shoots Classmate

  Huffington Post Officials in Georgia say a third-grader who accidentally shot a classmate at school found the weapon while exploring his family's kitchen. The... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2015 DEBATE

• George Zimmerman Calls President Obama An 'Ignorant Baboon'

  

  Huffington Post George Zimmerman, the Florida man who shot and killed an unarmed black teen in 2012 but was acquitted of second-degree murder charges, took to... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2015 DEBATE

• Gun Control Might Not Have Stopped The WDBJ Shooter. That's Not The Point.

  Huffington Post Would stricter gun laws have saved the lives of Alison Parker and Adam Ward? Probably not. Would stricter gun laws have saved the lives of many... Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2015 DEBATE

• Most Mass Shootings Are Domestic Not Random

  Huffington Post The untold story of mass shootings in America is one of domestic violence. It is one of men (yes, mostly men) targeting and killing their wives... Read more

  Posted on 27 August 2015 DEBATE