Headline: Group Wants To Give Tucson Residents Free Shotguns To Reduce Crime
Baby Steps
The Fourth Circuit today upheld a Maryland law requiring permits for public carrying of a gun.
Armed School Guards? Good Idea!
AP: HIGHLAND, N.Y. (AP) — A New York town that began assigning an armed police officer to guard a high school in the wake of the Connecticut massacre has suspended the program after an officer accidentally discharged his pistol in a hallway while classes were in session. Lt. James Janso of the Lloyd police department tells media outlets Officer Sean … Read More
Guns Needed To Protect Us From Sharia Law
Tea Party Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-TX) told a conservative radio show on Thursday that the GOP must oppose gun regulations to protect the country from the threat of “Sharia Law.” Appearing on The Voice of Freedom, Gohmert said he “hoped and prayed” that Congress rejects gun safety legislation, arguing that Americans may need to use the rights guaranteed by the Second … Read More
What Happens When You Take Away Background Checks? Not Surprisingly, More Gun Homicides
New research suggests that universal background check legislation of the sort currently being debated in Congress has had an enormous impact on gun violence in the past, according to testimony presented at Tuesday’s hearing before the Senate Judiciary committee. Daniel Webster, the Director Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research, studied the consequences of Missouri repealing its “permit-to-purchase” law … Read More
Optics
Many Democrats are bringing children and teachers from Newtown, as guests, to Obama's State of the Union speech tonight: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi announced on Friday that she will bring a fourth-grade child from Newtown who launched a petition to change gun laws after the shooting. Pelosi declined to name the child, but said she attends a school near … Read More
Today’s School Shooting
At Price Middle School in Atlanta. Two shot — one of them is a 14 year old student shot in the head; the other, a teacher. UPDATE: Suspect apprehended. Breaking now.
Five Things You Need To Know While Listening To Today’s Gun Control Hearings
1. America has a gun problem. Study after study after study has found that the spread of guns in the United States has led to more people being killed by guns. The old “more guns, less crime” theory has been conclusively debunked. The question now is how to limit the spread of guns, particularly by better mechanisms to prevent people who would commit murder and other gun … Read More
Our Gun Culture: Man Who Purchased Assault Rifles for Fear of Weapons Ban Aims Them at Daughter Over Disappointing Grades
From Gawker: Kirill Bartashevitch, 52, of St. Paul was arrested and charged with two counts of felony terroristic threats for allegedly threatening his daughter and wife with an assault rifle. Police say Bartashevitch recently purchased the weapons because he was concerned that President Obama was planning to ban them. The incident report states that on Sunday January 13th, Bartashevitch and his … Read More
Conservative Pundit Has a Theory About Why Obama Is Suddenly Pushing For Gun Control
So here's a columnist named Matthew Boyle. Writing at Dead Breitbart News, he finds it strangely curious that Obama has suddenly ramped up gun control efforts at the same time Media Matters starts writing about. Read the article (the full thing is below) and see if you can tell what is missing: The far left-wing, George Soros-backed Media Matters for … Read More
NRA Publishes List Of Gun Control Advocates
Now its followers know who to shoot. The list is long, so I place it below the fold.
The Infinitely Recursive Conspiracy Theory Conspiracy
So… I guess you know about the Sandy Hook school shooting conspiracy theories — the ones that opine that the government was behind the shootings and that the shoortings were staged by actors. Glenn Beck wants you to know that those conspiracy theories are bunk. AND he wants you to know who is BEHIND those conspiracy theories: the government. That's … Read More
Today’s Mass School Shooting
Multiple People Shot on College Campus in Texas. HOUSTON – Multiple people have been shot at a Harris County college, Harris County Precinct 4 deputy constables said. Investigators said the shooting happened at Lone Star College's North Harris campus, 2700 West W. W. Thorne Drive near Aldine Westfield shortly after noon. Officials have not said exactly how many people have … Read More
Not Feeding The Trolls
I wanted to badly to do an extensive take-down of this latest screed from The World's Dumbest Blogger™, but I'm mindful of Rachel's admonition about feeding the trolls. So my take-down will be less extensive. Basically, Aaron Walker Worthing, tackles Godwin's Law, which states that anyone who invokes Hitler in an online argument loses that argument merely by showing desparation. … Read More