"What happened?" (Virginia Tech, Carolyn McCarthy, and gun control)
From the Amendment II Democrats blog:One question that I'd like to ask the Brady Campaign is, quite simply, "What happened?"Back in December 2005, Brady Campaign communications director Peter Hamm was...
View ArticleAmendment II Democrats: An open Mother's Day message to Sarah Brady
From the Amendment II Democrats blog:First of all, my best wishes to everyone for a happy and peaceful Mother's Day.Sarah Brady, Chair of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, has used the...
View ArticleCharlton Heston: A Mixed Legacy
Charlton Heston passed away this weekend leaving behind a mixed legacy when it comes to political agendas and activism.While not from Nebraska, he was a mid-westerner who grew up in Illinois which no...
View Article[Amendment II Democrats] 3 cops killed, one injured in state with "nation's...
Back on February 4, officials from the Brady Campaign as well as Women Against Gun Violence announced that California had the toughest gun laws in the nation. Ellen Boneparth, President of the...
View ArticleThirty-one thousand dead.
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Guns Don't Kill People; Pooties With Guns Do.
After this diary, which sparked a rather intense discussion today between pro- and anti-gun control advocates on DKos, I thought I should set the record straight about guns. Period. Point blank.Let...
View ArticleControlling for gun violence
Gun control is a touchy subject to say the least; you could almost say people have a hair trigger when it comes to talking about guns. Unfortunately there have been a few high profile incidents...
View ArticleControlling for gun violence (re-visited)
This diary is a repost from 11 April. I am reposting it now as a semi-response to a diary that has gotten some peoples dander up and to hopefully temper the conversation. The only changes I have made...
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Check Out These Oklahoma Guns!
The next time you hear some local Second Amendment distorter talk about the government’s efforts to put more restrictions on guns, remember this: Oklahoma has some of the least restrictive weapon laws...
View ArticleMore on the Way Gun Flow Works
The Brady Campaign published a report about the numbers of guns that go missing directly from the manufacturers. From 2009 to the middle of 2011, at least 16,485 firearms left gun manufacturer’s...
View ArticleRecent handgun survey doesn’t ask most important question
The Gallup poll found a new low of 26 percent of Americans who favor banning handguns in the U.S. other than law enforcement and other authorized users. This is compared to 60 percent back in 1959....
View ArticleGun control newspeak: "assault clip"
The 1994-2004 law on so-called "assault weapons" prevented the manufacture of new detachable magazines for firearms with a capacity of more than ten cartridges. This forced the redesign of magazines...
View ArticleNew York’s strong gun laws make state safer than weaker states of Arizona and...
The gun nuts, especially in Arizona, will argue with you until they are blue in the face that because the state’s gun laws allow just about anyone to own a gun and carry it around concealed to just...
View ArticleStarbucks position on open gun carry laws creates nightmare
If you are a Starbuck’s fan, and I am, and if you are an advocate of sane gun control, which I am, you might be looking for a place other than your local Starbuck’s store to get your daily coffee fix....
View ArticleVictory for the Second Amendment in Maryland
Maryland's firearm ownership laws laws are among the most oppressive in the United States, after California, New Jersey, and Massachusetts. In fact, a Maryland residend must provide a "good and...
View ArticleThank you, Dan Gross
On Mar 27, 2012, the Brady Campaign President Dan Gross testified at a briefing held by House Judiciary Committee Democrats, “Protecting a “Suspect” Community: Forum on Racial Profiling, Federal Hate...
View ArticleThe George Zimmerman Armed Vigilante Act
A new low for the Brady Campaign. Authoritarians, conservatives especially, have a time honored tactic of renaming legislation they don't like for people they don't like. Whether it be Hillarycare,...
View ArticleThe NRA claims 4.3 million members. The Brady Campaign might have under 29,000.
Although the NRA reportedly inflates its membership by giving away free or complimentary memberships, the organization claims around 4.3 million members.A couple of years ago, the Brady Campaign to...
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The Daily Show/The Colbert Report (The Unauthorized Edition)
Ms Tia Rachel continues to enjoy her summer holiday so it is my pleasure to provide a safe harbor away from the trials of thinking and tribulations from having your dKos diaries earn nothing but...
View ArticleGuns. Lots of Guns!
I'll admit it. I don't get America's obsession with guns. Not outside of the Matrix, anyway, which is still totally awesome. Where I grew up the only people who had guns were criminals and the police;...
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These Are 'Weapons of Mass Destruction'!!!!
These Are Acts Of Terror With WMD's, Criminal Terrorist ActsWMD's, Designed To Kill Others and with Ability to Kill Many In Short Time Frames:Connecticut shooter used heavy-duty weapons registered to...
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Can't pass a background check? No problem, you can still buy a gun online
Yesterday I published a diary about buying guns via an online gun marketplace website and how easy it seemed to be to join the site, sign up and buy guns without a background check or sell guns without...
View ArticleWhat Gun Control Advocates Can Learn from the Anti-Choice Movement
Both the current anti-choice movement and a potential gun control movement share the feature of wanting to limit something that is legal but contested. As Robin Marty put it in a recent post, how do we...
View ArticleI will not go to an inaugural ball
I have gone twice. My wife and I went to the Southern States Ball in 1993. Four years ago I was technically one of the hosts of the Bloggers Ball (which was a ton of fun).Given that Virginia will be...
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Capitol N.R.A. Protest
On Inaugural weekend I went to D.C. with a friend who is a school teacher and greatly troubled by Newtown. We gave out 500 free buttons with info to call the Capitol Hill Switchboard 1-202-224-3121 to...
View ArticleA once in lifetime moment
If you are like me, you are probably watched the Sunday morning news shows this week (and every week). This past Sunday, you may have noticed a new DFA TV ad telling the story of John Woods. John met...
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SD-Sen: Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D) Passes On U.S. Senate Race
Take this news however way you want to take it: http://www.washingtonpost.com/... Former congresswoman Stephanie Herseth Sandlin announced Monday that she will not run for South Dakota’s open Senate...
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RKBA: Brady Grades vs FBI UCR
The Brady group gives each state a points grade based on the gun control laws of said state. This PDF link shows the most recent results. Some examples include California with 81 points, Hawaii with...
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We Are All Newtown: Seeking Hope, Peace and Love
Winter on Maine Street, Newtown, Connecticut. I am leading Community Meeting in the Day Treatment Intensive Program. There are five children ranging in ages from five to nine sitting around me. They...
View ArticleGun Background Checks Work
If it needed any confirmation, the Brady Campaign released a report today detailing 20 years of Federal background checks since the Brady Bill became law in 1994. And guess what - turns out, background...
View Article'Florida's Lax Gun Laws Let Dangerous People Like George Zimmerman Buy and...
Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence President Dan Gross states, "Florida's law gun laws make it easy for dangerous people like George Zimmerman to buy and carry guns."A Florida judge set a $5,000...
View ArticleBoehner's Would-Be Assassin a 'Wake-Up Call' to Republican Congress
On January 7, a federal grand jury in Cincinnati indicted Michael Hoyt, a bartender who had told police in October that he believed he was Jesus Christ, and that he had a loaded .380 Beretta handgun,...
View ArticleI Have Good News -- There Was Not a Sandy Hook in Montana
After Columbine. After Aurora. After Sandy Hook. After whatever the latest mass murder may be, we ask ourselves, what went wrong? How could we have not seen what was coming? Why didn't somebody say or...
View ArticleGun Lobby Heads Explode Over 'CrimAdvisor' Video and Parody Website
The media are having fun in the spirit in which our new video and website are intended. People get it that criminals are benefitting from the gun laws or lack thereof in many states. And the criminals...
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing 5/15/15
Welcome to Kitchen Table Kibitzing! Tonight is Open Thread Night. Please make yourself at home and enjoy the company of our community!Very good news from my friends working on the Safe Storage Campaign...
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A Mass Shooting Hits Home — Again.
Two weeks ago today, my friend Dr. Roger Ray (a progressive Christian minister in Springfield, Missouri) and I went to deliver a monetary gift to Mother Emanuel church in Charleston. (side note: if...
View ArticleHillary News & Views 1.12: Racial Injustice, Immigration, Endorsements,...
For more coverage of Hillary Clinton at Daily Kos, visit the Hillary Writers Circle.Today’s Hillary News & Views begins with coverage of last night's candidate forum in Iowa and related policy...
View ArticleBrady Campaign to endorse Hillary Clinton
As the debate over which of the two serious Democratic nominee prospectives contniues, the Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Violence has made its choice:Intensifying her gun control argument against...
View Article21 ways to make a difference and promote commonsense gun reform right now
We have watched the Democrats in Congress fight for the demand of the American people—89% of the people who want common sense gun reform. The Democrats met up incredible obstruction by the NRA-owned...
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"Tell me with whom you walk, and I will tell you who you are" #CA17
“Tell me with whom you walk and I will tell you who you are” is the English translation of “Dime con quién andas y te diré quien eres,” a quote by Esmeralda Santiago. It was referred to in the 2012...
View ArticleTrump's pro gun argument about London attack is wrong - Sensible gun...
Trump said:Do you notice we are not having a gun debate right now? That's because they used knives and a truck!The “argument” seems to be that gun regulation had no effect upon this attack. This...
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