Posts Tagged ‘gun control’
Jersey Shootings and the Endless American Arms Race
Yesterday in New Jersey, armed gunmen took part in what has fairly been described as a “battle” with police for several hours. After an initial confrontation in a cemetery in which the police were apparently fired upon with high powered rifles, the suspects fled in a van and barricaded themselves inside a Kosher supermarket, trading…
Read MoreBloody Bastards (literally)
Meme: Public Safety Is a Right
Abolish The Second Amendment!
Editor’s Note: Again, we have had senseless mass shootings. Again, the GOP has prevented any real reform of gun control laws. It seemed fitting, therefore, to rerun the following article by Michael E. Berumen. This appeared back in April of 2018. Alas, so little has changed. By Michael E. Berumen For some years…
Read MoreSecret Listing of the NRA Board of Directors, 2019-2020
By K. Thomas Ross “[The NRA’s] promotional and propaganda … constitute its major reasons for existence. It does not … relieve the government of its burden of [gun safety and military gun training] education. If [the NRA] should succeed to any large extent in teaching the youth of the nation to shoot, without at the…
Read MoreStudy on Gun Laws Shows that Stricter States Have Less Children Dying
By Anti Fascist A new study that was presented this week to the Pediatric Academic Society by the Children’s National Health System in Washington D.C., shows that throughout the US, the stricter a state’s gun laws the lower the amount of children dying from gun related deaths. I’m sure this shocks everyone as much as…
Read MoreThe NRA and Scary Monsters
When I was a little boy, I was very fond of giant monster movies. You know the sort. The ones with men in rubber suits pretending to be a hundred feet tall. Later, of course, I realized how ridiculous they were. But, at the time, they seemed genuinely terrifying. And I was always a sucker…
Read MoreA Father Risen, In His Fury
There is a fascinating article over on the Guardian site, Fred Guttenberg will not sit down: Florida father demands gun reform by Lois Beckett. Guttenberg was, alas, one of the parents who lost a child in the Parkland shooting. But, now, notes Ms. Beckett, he is after justice. He has thrown himself in the struggle…
Read MoreWhistling Past the Graveyard
We’re Just Whistling Past the Graveyard if We Don’t Focus on Defeating Republicans at Every Level By Michael E. Berumen In the wake of the most recent school shooting tragedy in Florida, there is the customary hue and cry of media cognoscenti, gun control activists, and many politicians professing outrage. Social media are abuzz with…
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