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…

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Virginia Beach et al: The following was my response to another friend: No simple answer to your question, Laurie. But five that come to mind are: 1) Not only simply effecting more gun control, but also taking steps to remove the proliferation of guns from our society. That means removing the profit incentive from gun…

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Following this past week’s tragic school shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas, Oliver North – the president of the National Rifle Association (NRA) decided to try and blame the school shootings that have been happening in the US on boys living in a “culture where violence is commonplace” and where they are all…

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As the NRA is fond of reminding us, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is, somehow, a school teacher with a gun. Not any old school teacher, of course. THAT would just be madness. Only specially trained teachers who were already combat hardened gunslingers. You can tell this was a…

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