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30 Murders by Firearm in England 2012 vs. 8,855 in US
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, May 30, 2014Guns and coffee: The right to bear arms is not absolute | The Economist
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, September 25, 2013Smith & Wesson booked record sales as gun debate raged – Jun. 13, 2013
Posted by Harry Sifton, Friday, June 14, 2013Gun control reform: all but three ‘no’ senators received pro-gun cash
from Marylouise SillmanPosted 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, 2013Ted Nugent Kills 455 Pigs With Machine Gun
Posted by Harry Sifton, Tuesday, April 23, 2013Analysis of campaign disclosures shows 42 of 45 dissenting senators logged donations from firearms lobbyists
from marylouise sillmanPosted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Jon Stewart, Gun Control and Australia
Posted by Harry Sifton, Tuesday, April 23, 2013How the NRA Impeded the Boston Bomber Investigation
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, April 22, 2013A Senate in the Gun Lobby’s Grip – NYTimes.com
Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, April 20, 2013Gun Control: 45 Percent of the Senate Foils 90 Percent of America | Politics News | Rolling Stone
Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, April 20, 2013Elizabeth Warren Slams Republicans and the NRA
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, March 18, 2013God Wants You to Have an Assault Rifle
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, March 1, 2013Ted Nugent to attend State of the Union. Will that backfire? ( video)
Posted by Harry Sifton, Tuesday, February 12, 2013The Big House That Wayne LaPierre Built
Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, February 9, 2013Gun control: Round up the guns! Or don’t | The Economist
Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, January 26, 2013How Obsequious Media Coverage Perpetuates NRA Mythology | Common Dreams
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, January 18, 2013Overview: 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, 2013TomDispatch: Tomgram: Engelhardt, A Second Amendment World, Pentagon-Style
Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, January 15, 2013Ian 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.. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Saturday, January 5, 2013