Category: Gun Control
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Wait- We Mandate Auto Insurance Because Cars Can Kill People But We DON’T Mandate Insurance For Guns – Which Are DESIGNED To Kill?
Fact: if every gun owner had to insure every gun in their possession (and the penalties for NOT insuring were crushingly astronomical), America would not have a gun problem today. The gun lobby has so bamboozled America that we’ve forgotten what guns are and what they aren’t. Forget what nonsense anyone uses to explain their…
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“Responsible Gun Ownership” Is Wishful Thinking At Best
I know and have known people who I believe are absolutely responsible in their approach to life. I know gun owners, too. Many. Now, I’m just talking about perception here – how a gun NON-owner perceives gun owners when those gun owners use the word “responsible” to describe themselves. I’m certain my gun-owning friends believe…
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“Responsible Gun Owners” Are Responsible Until They’re Not; THAT’S The Problem
Don’t get me wrong. I’m sure there are plenty of “responsible gun owners” who genuinely want to be responsible with their guns because they comprehend that guns kill people. And, up to this point, they can claim to have behaved responsibly (as far as we know) because their weapons haven’t hurt anyone. So, yeah —…
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America’s Love For Guns Is Directly Related To America’s Love for Racism
America isn’t the only country with a racist past. We are however the only (first world) country to have both a racist past and a deep, abiding love for guns and gun culture. America didn’t have to succumb to racism at its birth; that was a choice we made – an economic choice. But for…
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Texas + Zero Gun Laws = Death, Death & More Death
Perversely, one of the advantages of America’s students having to study from home during the pandemic was that it radically reduced the number of school shootings. There was plenty of gun violence outside those empty schools to make up for it though — a whole other problem — but, thankfully, school shootings were zero for…
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America’s Gun Laws Have Always Been Racist — By Design
America and Americans love guns like no other place on earth. That’s not a coincidence. On the surface, we argue that gun rights are personal freedoms but that’s not really what gun rights are about. The Constitution’s framers framed gun rights not as an absolute (“Hey, have all the guns ya want, ya crazy Americans!–…
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Things You Must Believe If You Want To Be A Practicing Conservative
For the longest time in this country, conservatives presented themselves as America’s perpetual adults in the room. That was the GOP’s wink to America at the end of the 2016 coup d’etat: “Don’t worry your pretty little selves about Donald Trump, America, whenever he tries to go too far, the “adults in the room” will…
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Why Do American Men Turn To Guns To Solve Their Emotional Problems?
Another mass shooting in America — Eight murdered at a Fed Ex facility in Indianapolis — and the news media needs to know: “What’s the motive?” As if the gunman’s particular issue with the world would explain why he reacted exactly as he did. Our news media is good at wringing their hands and gnashing…
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First, We Have To Admit To Ourselves: There Is No Such Thing As “Responsible Gun Ownership”
Ten people died yesterday in Boulder, CO after a guy his own family thought was intensely paranoid and delusional attempted to use a military assault weapon to assuage his symptoms. A few days before, eight people (six of them women of Asian descent) were shot to death by a white guy who was “having a…