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Terror Gap? WTF is a "Terror Gap"?
Not that I wish to drive traffic to their site, but there is a MASSIVE banner ad at the top of DailyKos as follows:
View ArticleIn Memory of the Fallen
No this isn't a story about those who have died in the wars initiated by George Bush and Dick Cheney. That can wait for a different date. No this is to remember the deaths of ten people who were...
View ArticleRKBA: Thursday Terseness
RKBA is a DKos group of second amendment supporters who also have progressive and liberal values. We don't think that being a liberal means one has to be anti-gun. Some of us are extreme in our second...
View ArticleA Gun-Friendly Liberal's Thoughts on The Armed Citizen
I was reading a diary that was posted earlier about concealed and public-carry laws, and was formulating a comment about that. While I mean no disrespect to that diarist, I think their entry misses...
View ArticleProposed: A Series of Roundtable Debates
Get past the talking and screaming points, get past the lobbyists, get past the special interests and hate speech. Twelve people around a table to hash out a topic at a time. A series of one to two...
View Article31 shots are too many. Are 10 shots enough?
After Saturday's hideous act of gun violence - after every hideous act of gun violence - two groups of political activists immediately began 'politicizing' the day's tragic events. This is not a 'both...
View ArticleMalice of the Absent
Posted by Bruce Bourgoine who blogs at Dirigo Blue and Kennebec Blues.
View ArticleGraceland
Graceland Lyrics "The Mississippi Delta was shining Like a National guitar, I am following the river Down the highway Through the cradle of the civil war, I'm going to Graceland Graceland In Memphis...
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RKBA: Open Thread Thursday
RKBA is a DKos group of second amendment supporters who also have progressive and liberal values. We don't think that being a liberal means one has to be anti-gun. Some of us are extreme in our second...
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Heller has Failed to Throw the Gates of Gun Control Wide Open
Being a Supreme Court Justice might seem like a relatively easy gig. You get to pick the cases you hear, you and a majority of your peers have the last say on any laws that come before you and you...
View ArticleHands Up
Cheer up. There is hope in the world. Who says so? The NRA. Yes, the National Rifle Association has a message for you besides the one about guns not killing people. I got it as an enclosure with a...
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Colorado Concealed Carry Class
Recently, my wife and I took the class to qualify for a handgun concealed carry license in Colorado, and I thought a report might be of interest and lead to valuable discussion. (Neither she or I are...
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Guns Should Be Holy
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View ArticleLA gun buyback gets 2,000 guns off the street, runs out of money!
Wait...What?...Runs out of money!Okay, a little background for those not familiar with this breaking story. Since 2009 the City Of Los Angeles has been operating a gun buyback program. According to...
View ArticleThe Bullet Bounced Off Me And Fell To The Floor: A Dumb Luck Story
My mother learned to shoot rifles in her youth, in Girl Scouts; according to family lore, my grandma was distressed at Mom's tomboyish qualities and was very pleased when she announced that she "loved...
View ArticleGuns, to register to not to register……………..
In my mind the answer is both.First off and to be absolutely clear; I am in favor of bans on the manufacture and sale of assault weapons and all high capacity clips.In contrast, however, I do not favor...
View ArticleOff-Target: Why 'assault weapons' are a distraction from the real problem of...
It seems that all we hear about these days when it comes to talks about gun control is 'assault weapons.' Talks of banning them, images of scary-looking AR-15 rifles, and descriptions of how fast they...
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Keep Those Happy Gun Stories A-Comin'
With all the recent media and popular reflection on the gun culture leviathan to which Americans are heir, I got to sifting through my own memories. Over my near-58 years, there have been times when...
View ArticlePink Gun Thoughts
Ever since Newtown, I've been thinking about what really drives "civilian" (non-law enforcement, non-hunter) gun ownership.I'm in a unique position to think about it. I was raised in a liberal family -...
View ArticleA proposed redo of the Second Amendment
The current version says:A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. I propose scrapping that...
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The 3 a.m phone call: A uniquely American Story
The juxtaposition of the gun violence debate and my sister’s birthday occurs this April 10th. That's her birthday. Well – it would have been her birthday, if she had lived longer than 27 years.
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Sandy Hook - Just Follow the Money
About 4 years ago P. James Debney, a Briton in his mid-40s, used to worked at an Alcoa subsidiary that made store-brand plastic wrap and other common household items. Mr. Debney was previously employed...
View Article3 People Are Dead and 17 Wounded in Chicago
This is going to be a short diary. I'm going to link you to the story in the Chicago Tribune after the Kospaghetti.While this certainly sounds like a mass shooting (and the results are exactly the...
View ArticleThe New American Exceptionalism
8 Shocking Ways America Leads the WorldCurrently at AlterNet, which sometimes causes me to wonder about them because half theor articles are focused on numbering things - is this article about 8 ways...
View ArticleIowa also allows Sex Offenders to buy guns
According to a recent article in the Des Moines Register, a "shall issue" gun law passed in 2010 has allowed more than 50 registered sex offenders permits to carry guns in public. This is in addition...
View ArticleRKBA: Are you an adult or not?
Recently, there was a diary about a father who wanted to have his two year old daughter shoot. Let's bring that to the other side of the child/adult spectrum: when you first turn into a legal adult @...
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[UPDATE] RKBA: Exploding the myth of gun toting in America
For the rather large white fellows pictured above, carrying around a handgun just isn't enough anymore. They want the right to lug around their assault-style weapons wherever they go, because,...
View ArticleThe answer, as always: "More guns!"
If only soldiers had been allowed to carry concealed weapons on base. If only more people had guns to defend themselves. If only those damn anti-gun chickenshits hadn't banned guns from [NAME/TYPE OF...
View ArticleAmericans have nothing to Fear but GOP's Fear
I don’t believe in playing other people’s rules when the rules are rigid. The gun culture that has been created and embraced by the GOP and the NRA is a phony culture. It is neither American nor is it...
View ArticleItalians Broke Into U.S. Army Base, Planted Pot Seeds, and gave me an idea to...
The seeds were scattered to “liberate our land from the foundations of war.”May 8, 2014 | Wearing the " V for Vendetta"-inspired Guy Fawkes masks of the Occupy movement, a group of 50 activists in...
View ArticleHey, buddy: That's a nice gun.
Give it to me.I don't own handguns so I honestly don't think about some of the issues too much.This would be an example: all that open carrying of guns...Georgia's new Guns Everywhere law...what could...
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Prototype Handgun May Just Help Reduce Systemic Police Brutality in the...
(Note: I realize this was written aptly about earlier today by kossack Walter Einenkel here. I just thought I'd add to the conversation on this very important subject.)That said...Combined with the...
View ArticleTwo NC lawmakers draft guns-for-teachers bill for one Christian school, not...
Well, this is a headscratcher. While doing some citizen lobbying today at the N.C. General Assembly with Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense, we spoke with legislators about a bill filed earlier this...
View ArticleI've lost my handgun virginity
Last week, I fired a handgun for the first time in my life. And for those of you hoping to learn that my experience transformed me from a gun-phobe to a gun-lover: Sorry. I never want to do that...
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Memorial Day: Honoring Soldiers Who Were Driven by Core American Values
On this Memorial Day, I'm grateful that Barack Obama is in the White House and that our great nation has not entered into another unnecessary, life-and-freedom-crushing war. Knowing that integrity is...
View ArticleConcealed Carry and Crime: The Relationship That Isn’t
One of the foundational ideas of the pro-gun extremists is the the simple idea that more guns means less crime. Recent analyses by The Violence Policy Center showed that the states with the most...
View Articlelosers... looosers... loooooosers... (reprise)
Here's something I wrote in 2012, after Sandy Hook... I've expanded it below the fold... read it and get angry, but not at me silly, at your fellow countrymen and women, and at the politicians that...
View ArticleSo sick of the sickness…
More dead young people. More carnage. More proof that no constitutional amendment should ever guarantee the right to slaughter the future wholesale as sacred. So tired of the press with their...
View ArticleDon't pretend the left wants to tackle gun violence
Here's a list of things that the left in the US wants to do to reduce gun violence in America:- get rid of armor piercing bullets - get rid of assault rifles - no large capacity magazines - close the...
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Gun nuts plan to disrupt Open Streets
I know gun owners hate the term "gun nuts", but this is exactly the sort of thing that makes the term a fair description of some gun owners. Minneapolis and St. Paul have events called "Open Streets",...
View ArticleWaiting for gun-toting Godot.
So as of January 1st, 2016, the new Open Carry Law went into effect in Texas, which permits current Concealed Carry Permit holders (full disclosure: I am one myself), if they should choose, to openly...
View ArticleSecond Amendment People?
How outrageous does corporate behavior have to become before common sense and moral decency take hold?The above advertisement was in our local newspaper this morning, The Everett (WA) Herald. What...
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50% of Guns owned by 3% of Americans
Who are those second Amendment People? Well a truly comprehensive study is being undertaken by Northeastern and Harvard with Publications being made by Trace and the Guardian.These individuals, termed...
View ArticleAn emergency physician tells us what bullets do
or more specifically, What Bullets Do to Bodies. Leana Wen, who authors that piece for today’s New York Times, is an emergency physician and the Health Commissioner of Baltimore City (a city in which...
View ArticleEven the Military mostly uses its small arms in semi-auto mode.
A long time ago, I was a JROTC cadet, just like 3 of the victims of our 21st Century St. Valentines Day Massacre in Parkland, Florida. The only difference being their unit was Army while mine, as you...
View ArticleCanada looks at nationwide ban on handguns and assault weapons
This post was written and reported by contributor Bryant Telfer through our new Daily Kos freelance program.After a particularly dangerous summer of gun violence in Canada and two mass shootings...
View ArticleCan a gun owner (handgun) explain why they own a gun? No judgements, just...
I have always had mixed opinions about gun ownership. Between those people who think all handguns should be outlawed and those who think all handguns should be ruled by only minimal laws, I find myself...
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Imagine living in a more rational, less violent, safer country Canada makes...
Canada isn’t without it’s problems, but gun violence isn’t nearly as big a problem in Canada as it is in the United States. And many of the guns that are used in crimes in Canada were smuggled in from...
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