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A two year old boy shot his three year old brother in the butt using daddy’s gun, which was left unlocked, with no safety, in the truck while daddy went into the house to get something. For the second time in a few years, a guy shot a bullet through through the walls separating him [...]
Posts Tagged ‘gun control’
Dismissed Student Executes Seven in California Christian College
April 3rd, 2012 
Greg Laden The former student … … walked into the single-story building housing Oikos University on Monday morning, took a receptionist hostage and went looking for a particular female administrator, Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan told CNN’s “Early Start.” The man walked into a classroom, lined up students against a wall and shot them one by one, [...]
Gun Control: “Know the facts”
March 21st, 2012 Greg Laden Some books get turned into movies, some books get turned into ads they put on side of busses. Facts and information from the book, “Private Guns, Public Health” will be used as the basis for a public ad campaign in the state of Washtington run by Washington Ceasefire: There are estimated to be about 6.5 [...]
The real impact of gun laws, and what that means
March 20th, 2012 Greg Laden A few years ago, Minnesota passed a concealed carry law that was strongly supported by the pro-gun lobby and strongly opposed by the anti-gun lobby. As an aside, I’ll note that this was a stupid law, as in, a law engineered stupidly by people who did not know what they were doing, and here I [...]
Democracy Now: Walking While Black
March 20th, 2012 Greg Laden A discussion of the cold blooded murder of 17 year old Trayvon Martin by self appointed executioner George Zimmerman, including a discussion of related Gun Control issues.
Posted in Race and racism, Trayvon Martin 
Tags: George Zimmerman, gun control, Trayvon Martin 
6 Comments »US Justice Department Will Investigate Murder of Trayvon Martin
March 20th, 2012 Greg Laden I’m sure you’ve heard by now, but the US Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have opened an official investigation into the killing of 17 year old Trayvon Martin by a vigilante “Neighborhood Watch” member George Zimmerman. Zimmerman pursued, confronted, then shot to death Trayvon Martin who was on his [...]
Posted in Gun Ownership, Race and racism, Trayvon Martin Tags: gun control, race and racism, Trayvon Martin 9 Comments »Stand Your Ground, Racism, and the Second Amendment
March 19th, 2012 Greg Laden I want you to do a little thought experiment. Don’t worry, if you have had a long day and your brain is tired, it won’t be too hard. If you’re a Teabagger and are not very smart, it won’t be too hard. If you’re a middle class white person with concerns about brown people moving [...]
Posted in Race and racism, Trayvon Martin Tags: Firearms, gun control, gun ownership, Racism, Trayvon Martin 28 Comments »Minnesota Governor Vetoes Castle Doctrine Bill
March 5th, 2012 Greg Laden In recent months, several states have seen the introduction, or at least discussion, of bills that would change the typical “Castle Doctrine” to have a broader scope, overturning the legal expectations of law abiding citizens on the street and elsewhere. In most jurisdictions, if someone forces their way into your house, points a gun at [...]
Armed Prosecutors
March 1st, 2012 Greg Laden We’ve talked before about how what the word “lower” in “lower house” if a bicameral system might mean. Here we have another example. The Minnesota House has passed a bill, almost unanimously, that would allow County Attorneys … that’s our phrase for prosecutors … to carry guns. Not in the courtroom, though. There was a [...]
School Shooting Chardon, Ohio, And Other Tragedy
February 27th, 2012 Greg Laden Did you hear about the death of the high school student? The young man was a friend of my daughter’s; they knew each other since Kindergarten. I use the term “friend” loosely because they did not hang out together a lot over the years, but when someone is a neighbor and a school mate for [...]
Interesting gun-related facts
February 24th, 2012 Greg Laden There are somewhere between about 200 and 2.5 millino “defensive gun uses” per year, depending on who you ask. The truth is closer to 200 (Estimating Defensive Gun Uses Reasonably) MILF does not mean Mothers Into Legal Firearms (but they’re not really legal) (ATF Busts Real Housewives Buying Guns for Cartels) There is a nationwide [...]
House vs. Senate: Where to find the tea?
February 23rd, 2012 Greg Laden Have you ever noticed that lower level of a bicameral legislature is often populated by out of control yahoos who aren’t very good lawmakers, while the upper level is more often populated by individuals who seem less willing to totally embarass themselves at every turn? A great example of this unfolded recently in New Hampshire, [...]
Is the gun permitting process a failure?
February 22nd, 2012 Greg Laden I suppose that depends on what we think the process is for. I would have hoped that gun permits serve the very important role of making sure that gun owners are more likely than they otherwise might be to know how to properly handle guns, and that guns are kept out of the hands of [...]
Bring Your Gun to the Florida State Fair
February 21st, 2012 Greg Laden First of all, how the heck to you have a State Fair in the middle of the winter time???? Second, … in case you needed to know, you can carry your firearms at the fair this year! Yahooo! Following complaints by a gun rights group, and a law passed by the Florida Legislature last year, [...]
Guns don’t shoot people; Stray bullets shoot people!
February 17th, 2012 Greg Laden Since we last discussed this about 17 days ago, Bill Adams and Charles Lake shot themselves while handling their handguns. They weren’t shottin’ intruders or varmints or nuthin’. Just holding or loading. Some guy in florida was “putting his gun away” when the 9mm went off. But bullet passed into his neighbor’s apartment and shot [...]
Obama’s Conspiracy Against Guns
February 11th, 2012 Greg Laden This is Wayne LaPierre of the NRA, the guy who thought up the idea that since Obama is leaving gun owners alone he must be planning to take away all the guns. This is one of the strangest things I’ve seen this election cycle so far:
NBC Report on Buying Firearms
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It’s important to have unrestricted access to guns so you can do:
January 14th, 2012 Greg Laden this: …The argument continued after they left the restaurant and went to one of the women’s homes. It was then that the other man jumped into the argument, standing up for his girlfriend. This angered Lloyd and the two men began arguing. Lloyd pulled out a gun, unintentionally discharging the firearm. The bullet grazed the [...]
Study: “Better medical care has kept gun deaths constant, but total number of people shot has risen dramatically in the United States”
January 11th, 2012 Greg Laden A study just out compiling data up to the year 2008 shows that the number of Americans killed by firearms has held stead or gone up slightly in recent years, but the total number shot has increased. The overall change in numbers is not especially dramatic, but the statistical effect is important. If this trend [...]
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