guns/gun control
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We don’t know much—but this we do know
We still have little information about yesterday’s assassination attempt. Nevertheless, a flood of ill-informed, fearful and angry speculation about the shooter and his motives is pouring onto social media. Please do not recirculate this speculation.…
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Dreadful numbers
Numbers don’t usually speak for themselves — but these come close: United States United Kingdom Ratio (US:UK) Population 319 million 64 million 4.98:1 Gun deaths (2011) 32,163 146 220.29:1 Gun homicides (2011) 8,855 38 233.03:1…
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Ignorance is bliss
Categories: guns/gun controlApparently, what you don’t know won’t hurt you. That seems to be the logic of the gun industry. Two recent stories (here and here) in the New York Times help explain why gun policy doesn’t make sense:…
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Do you feel lucky today?
A few years ago, some friends and I were celebrating a birthday at a bar down on San Pablo Avenue in Berkeley, California. As a friend and I left the bar, two men approached us…
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Have gun, will lobby
Categories: guns/gun controlThis week the Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade Show and Conference (SHOT Show) is meeting in Las Vegas. (See the Washington Post‘s story here.) This massive, glitzy show is sponsored by the National Shooting Sports Foundation,…
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Thirteen superfluous words
On December 15, 1791, Virginia became the eleventh state to ratify the Bill of Rights; with Virginia’s ratification, the Bill of Rights was adopted. Of the ten amendments that came into force that day, the…
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Home-grown terror
In 2001, according to the CDC, terrorism killed 2,926 people in America. Since then, the United States has spent $1.138 trillion dollars and thousands more lives prosecuting two bloody and ineffective wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. That…
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Why I love America: it’s not just Dick Cheney
Categories: guns/gun controlFirst reason, from the BBC: Man hurt using gun to change tyreSecond reason, also from the BBC: Dog shoots Iowa man during huntThank god for the Second Amendment, which, as we all know, gives us…