Slate and the Twitter feed @GunDeaths continue their project of collecting data to determine the number of U.S. deaths by guns since the Newtown shooting on December 14, 2012, and as of today, at about 2:30 Central, the total was at 4,236. You can see a graph, a “deaths by city” interactive map, and additional [...]
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Guns Don’t Kill Kids, Kids Kill Kids? [Video]
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 [...]
19 Wounded in Mother’s Day Shooting in New Orleans
IT’S unfathomable. A shooting during a Mother’s Day parade wounds 19 people, including children. You have to ask yourself what is it going to take before conservative senators in Congress send a message to people that America’s so-called “gun culture” doesn’t mean turn our cities into the wild west. From CNN: Abdul Aziz believes he [...]
Media Storm: Gosnell, Harpootlian, Mike Huckabee and Benghazi
IT’S happening everywhere in the media, anywhere you choose to read lately. Gosnell, Harpootlian, Mike Huckabee and Benghazi, all leading to the second term curse that’s lapping at the White House lawn. The media digging down to find an alternative narrative to balance just how whacky those right wing Republicans have gotten since Sarah Palin [...]
Zombie Industries Sells “Bleeding Obama” at NRA Convention
“Someone from the NRA came by and asked us to remove it” a Zombie Industries booth worker told BuzzFeed in hushed tones. “They thought it looked too much like President Obama.” When asked if the Obama likeness was intentional the worker said, “Let’s just say I gave my Republican father one for Christmas.” [Buzzfeed] BUZZFEED [...]
Jim Porter, New NRA President: Obama a “Fake President”
“We’re whipping their ass everywhere we can go, right and left, up and down.” – Jim Porter, new (unpaid) NRA president THE NEW president of the NRA, James “Jim” Porter II, is some piece of work as you’ll see in the video over at Gawker. But his claims of NRA’s wins may turn out to [...]
Heidi Heitcamp Under Fire for Gun Vote
THIS is one of those priceless moments where elite Democrats and progressives have united and it’s against Heidi Heitcamp for her vote against universal background checks. It’s a stupid vote for which she deserves to be held accountable, as do the other senators who blocked the legislation. Bill Daley’s Washington Post piece got the attention [...]
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, [...]
Obama on Senate Manchin-Toomey Bill Fail: “Shameful Day for Washington” [Video - Full Remarks]
WHEN Mark Barden stood in the White House Rose Garden after the Senate’s miserable failure to pass universal background checks, he was joined by President Obama, who had a very grim face. It was a humiliating day for the Obama administration, with the NRA, extremists and cowards allowed to hold America hostage, while senators of [...]
The 46 Senators Who Voted Against Manchin-Toomey
Taylor posted this earlier: Obama on Senate Manchin-Toomey Bill Fail: “Shameful Day for Washington”. This is just to name names, because it felt like the thing to do, to explicitly name the 46 U.S. Senators who voted against S.649, or Manchin-Toomey. The New Civil Rights Movement states: … Harry Reid’s ‘no’ vote was procedural so [...]
Joe Manchin: “We Will Not Get the Votes Today” [Video]
Perhaps helping explain Democrats’ problems, an AP-GfK poll this month showed that 49 percent of Americans support stricter gun laws. That was down from 58 percent who said so in January — a month after the December killings of 20 children and six aides at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school propelled gun violence into a [...]
NRA Poised to Defeat Manchin-Toomey and American Majority?
The National Rifle Association hasn’t budged, and it warned supporters of the compromise Senate bill — authored by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) — that the group would remember their vote when they are next up for reelection. – Gun control bill in peril THE AMERICAN majority want background checks on [...]
Manchin-Toomey Gun Safety Bill Still Needs More Senate Support to Pass [Clinton Video]
To pass Manchin-Toomey, at least five Republicans must back it. Fifty-five senators caucus with the Democrats, but not all are sure bets to embrace the background check legislation. Sens. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) and Mark Begich (D-Alaska) last week voted against the motion to proceed to the gun control debate. Both are up for reelection next [...]
How Blue Dog Democrat Joe Manchin Turned Into a Hero on Gun Safety
Sens. Joe Manchin and Pat Toomey will unveil a bipartisan deal to expand background checks for commercial gun sales at a press conference Wednesday morning. [...] The deal would close the so-called gun show loophole, requiring that background checks are conducted on all commercial gun sales in the country, according to a fact sheet of [...]
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 [...]
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