Reading “A Rifle Designed for Kids” at The Daily Banter made me wonder: Can the often used, “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people” line be reworded to reflect one subheading of such killing – “Guns don’t kill kids, kids kill kids”? That feels as if I may be going “too far,” that maybe it’s [...]
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Guns in the U.S.A.: The Public, the NRA, and Occupy’s Silent No More
A recent Pew Poll about guns in the U.S.A., or more specifically, about the recent Senate vote; and Occupy the NRA’s “Silent No More” actions, scheduled for tomorrow, provide two indications of how the public is thinking and feeling about the gun arguments. They don’t change much, those arguments. They fairly frequently become headline news, [...]
Queer Talk: The “Right” Regulation of Sodomy, Abortion and Guns
It’s about the “Right” Regulation. Anti-sodomy, anti-marriage equality, anti-abortion, and anti-gun-regulation conversations are active at state and federal levels. It isn’t all negative news, from the perspective of those who aren’t in agreement with this “anti” thinking. But there are efforts – even if often in the Right fringe territory – to enforce SCOTUS ruled [...]
First Global Conventional Arms Treaty Approved by U.S., Senate Republicans Oppose Ratification
At AllGovNews: (emphasis added), about the United Nations vote: The United States sided with more than 150 nations this week in approving the world’s first arms treaty governing conventional weapons—particularly notable in that it seeks to protect human rights. But U.S. participation in the agreement hinges on the Senate ratifying it, and that may not [...]
Connecticut Legislators Pass “Sweeping,” “Toughest” Gun Laws
A little over three months ago, the mass shooting at Sandy Hooks Elementary School captured the attention of public and Electeds, and demands and promises for strong and sensible gun regulation were daily voiced. Since then, federal gun measures have sputtered and stalled in DC. But in Connecticut, state legislators have acted, passing what are [...]
Guns: Our Choices Will Never Be Perfect
“Anyone who really wants a gun will always find a way to get one” is a familiar argument, and likely accurate. And in one specific, even if a ban on “assault weapons” passed, it wouldn’t eliminate all possibility of their use in murders. Of course, if perfection was the requirement for passing laws, we might [...]
Sen. Leahy Announces Bipartisan Gun Trafficking, Straw Purchasing Bill
Gun regulation mostly has been out of the headlines in the last few weeks. In part, that’s due to sequestration, and probably to the fact we’ve managed a few weeks without another mass shooting incident (though of course the “normal” murder by guns continues). Less coverage might also be related to the fact that the [...]
‘Mass’ Accidental Shootings at Gun Shows
There hasn’t been an actual accidental “mass shooting” at gun shows. But there has been another person accidentally shooting himself at such a show. I don’t know when “mass” can be legitimately used, but this seems fairly significant to me. The Des Moines Register reports: An Iowa gun dealer was hospitalized after he accidentally shot [...]
New Mexico Teen Gunman Kills 5 *Updated*
UPDATE at end. And the “guns in the USA” saga continues. From AP: A teenage boy fatally shot two adults and three children inside an Albuquerque home, authorities said Sunday. … Investigators also were seeking to determine who owned several guns that were found at the home, one of which was a semi-automatic military-style rifle. [...]
‘The Pentagon as a Global NRA’
A quick thought regarding gun ownership and regulation as related to the role of the U.S. in the global arms trade. This has long been a part of the national conversation (if what we usually do can be called something that thoughtful), but with all the familiar arguments about gun regulation being made again, it’s [...]
Daily Chart of Gun Deaths Since Sandy Hook
From Upworthy.com, the The Daily Chart Of Gun Deaths That Can’t Stop Growing. Check It Out Now While It Still Fits On Your Computer.
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