Tag: Sandy Hook
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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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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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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…
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“Responsible Gun Ownership” Is A Myth
It seems the Robert Alan Long — the Atlanta shooter who claims his sex addiction, not his racism, motivated his killing spree — purchased the weapon he used to murder eight people, six of them Asian women, MERE HOURS BEFORE using it to commit murder. I’m not arguing the second amendment here. It exists. What…
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If You Arm People As Part Of Their Job, You’re Inviting Them To Shoot People
I’ve spent the bulk of my career in show biz. I’ve run TV shows. Written & produced feature films. I’ve cast thousands of actors. After hiring them, I wardrobed those actors. It’s amazing what happens when an actor goes into their trailer, takes off their street clothes and dons the outer layer of a person…
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“Responsible Gun Ownership” Is A Myth
Let me burp up a cliche first: “the road to hell is paved with good intentions”. I believe you, 99.99% of gun owners (I’m trying to be super generous here): you want to own and handle your firearm responsibly. The last thing on earth you want is an accident or a tragedy happening because of…
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The Gun Lobby Is Holding The Second Amendment Hostage
How big a pile of bodies does there need to be? I always wonder when another of these terrible tragedies — and we just had two (count em – TWO!) mass shootings within 12 hours (El Paso and Dayton, OH with 29 people dead so far) — how would one of the people resisting gun…