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...
View ArticleCan'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...
View ArticleCapitol 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...
View ArticleSD-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...
View ArticleRKBA: 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...
View ArticleWe 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...
View ArticleKitchen 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...
View ArticleA 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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