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Gun control reform: all but three ‘no’ senators received pro-gun cash

from Marylouise Sillman
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, April 25, 2013

Why Does America Lose Its Head Over ‘Terror’ But Ignore Its Daily Gun Deaths?

Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Ted Nugent Kills 455 Pigs With Machine Gun

Posted by Harry Sifton, Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Analysis of campaign disclosures shows 42 of 45 dissenting senators logged donations from firearms lobbyists

from marylouise sillman
Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Jon Stewart, Gun Control and Australia

Posted by Harry Sifton, Tuesday, April 23, 2013

How the NRA Impeded the Boston Bomber Investigation

Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, April 22, 2013

A Senate in the Gun Lobby’s Grip – NYTimes.com

Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, April 20, 2013

Gun Control: 45 Percent of the Senate Foils 90 Percent of America | Politics News | Rolling Stone

Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, April 20, 2013

Elizabeth Warren Slams Republicans and the NRA

Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, March 18, 2013

God Wants You to Have an Assault Rifle

Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, March 1, 2013

Ted Nugent to attend State of the Union. Will that backfire? ( video)

Posted by Harry Sifton, Tuesday, February 12, 2013

The Big House That Wayne LaPierre Built

Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, February 9, 2013

Rap News: The Great Gun Debate


Posted by Mike Blaxill, Friday, February 8, 2013

Gun control: Round up the guns! Or don’t | The Economist

Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, January 26, 2013

How Obsequious Media Coverage Perpetuates NRA Mythology | Common Dreams

Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, January 18, 2013

Overview: America’s Gun and Violence Crisis; And: How the 2nd Amendment Got Hijacked by the NRA and Antonin Scalia

Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, January 17, 2013

TomDispatch: Tomgram: Engelhardt, A Second Amendment World, Pentagon-Style

Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Ian Welsh: On Killing Sprees

Welsh ..
[in the US] More people are mentally ill [and medicated] .. People have to be medicated to function in American society because it requires unpleasant and unnatural behavior, virtually all the time. School and work both require people to act in ways that normal, healthy, unmedicated individuals find hard to sustain. Add to that the fact that social ties have, over the last 60 years, absolutely collapsed, leaving most people with almost no friend or close family, and people need to drug themselves to get through their day. They are sick, scared and lonely. And at the very edges of this, the occasional person cracks, goes ballistic and kills a lot of people
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Posted by Mike Blaxill, Saturday, January 5, 2013

The Deadly Fantasy of Assault Weapons – NYTimes.com

Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, December 30, 2012

The Economist makes the gun debate look absurd – Salon.com

Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, December 25, 2012

The Scourge of Concealed Weapons – NYTimes.com

Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, December 24, 2012

The N.R.A. Crawls From Its Hidey Hole – NYTimes.com

Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, December 23, 2012

National Rifle (Selling) Association – NYTimes.com

Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, December 22, 2012

Gun control: The gun control that works: no guns | The Economist

Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Guns have never saved us – Salon.com

Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, December 18, 2012