Nate Silver examines last week’s failed gun control bill: Among the 26 incumbent senators who will face elections next year (this definition excludes those senators who have announced their retirements), there was a near perfect relationship between the states’ rates of gun ownership and their votes. Among the 12 senators running for re-election in states where the gun ownership rate …
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Now Viral On Facebook
The above image from Moms Demand Action (formerly One Million Moms For Gun Control) has been shared on Facebook over 150,000 times in three days.
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Press Release Of The Day
Just in via press release: Dear Joe, Aurora and Sandy Hook: False Flag Operations? Journey to a Brave New World, by author Dave Watts, looks at hidden evidence that suggest the two tragic shootings could be behind a government gun grab. “We find numerous reasons to believe that these were staged and deliberate events to create a reaction of hate …
Read More »Guns Have Changed, So Should Gun Laws
Whoa. One of the best gun control ads you’ll see.
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Details. Over on Michelle Malkin’s Twitchy, commenters are claiming that the dead man was “planted” by “gun-grabbing leftists.” Seriously. A sample: “No way was this guy an NRA member or NASCAR fan. He was a plant by the gun grabbers. Do you know how easy it is to find a liberal so miserable that they want to end their life?” …
Read More »From A Rick Perry Appointee
Salon reports that Rick Perry appointee Barry Smitherman, who runs the panel which regulates the oil industry in Texas, today tweeted an image which apparently calls for hanging the GOP Senators that helped advance the gun control bill. Smitherman is reportedly planning to run for Texas Attorney General in 2014. “Barry Smitherman’s reprehensible action is disturbing, disgusting, and has absolutely …
Read More »Warren: My Son Committed Suicide With An Unregistered Gun Bought On The Web
Ann Coulter: Kill Meghan McCain
Ann Coulter may have finally gone too far. In a column published on Thursday, conservative pundit Ann Coulter joked that the killing of politicians’ children should “start with Meghan McCain.” Earlier this week, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MA) told MSNBC host Martin Bashir that he was sensitive to the need for more gun control because his nephew had been shot and …
Read More »First Lady Tears Up Over Gun Violence
Obama Pitches Gun Control In Connecticut
Speaking before a Connecticut audience that included Newtown families, yesterday President Obama denounced the members of Congress who have said they won’t even allow a vote on gun control.
Read More »From Mayors Against Illegal Guns
To air this week in Connecticut.
Read More »NYDN Slams Congress On Guns Bill
Two days in a row now.
Read More »Richard Branson Tweets Against NRA
Virgin Atlantic billionaire Richard Branson appears to be echoing the Vietnam War era chant used against President Lyndon Johnson: “LBJ LBJ how many kids did you kill today?” Predictably, the wingnuts are already calling for a boycott of his companies.
Read More »Tweet Of The Day – Yoko Ono
Obama Is Creating A Secret Black Army To Massacre White Americans
According to Gun Owners of America president Larry Pratt and some crackpot teabagger radio host.
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Lesson learned. Never store ammo in the oven.
Read More »MISSOURI: State GOP Rep Literally Shoots Holes In Gun Control Bill
And you thought the Missouri pol in the last post was crazy. Via Ozarks First: House Bill 545, proposed by Rory Ellinger, prohibits any person, corporation, or other entity in the state from manufacturing, importing, possessing, purchasing, selling, or transferring any assault weapon or large capacity magazine, as specified in the bill. Any violation of these provisions is a class …
Read More »MO State GOP Rep Intro’s Bill Making It A Felony To Propose Gun Legislation
Missouri state GOP Rep. Mike Leara has introduced a bill that will make it a felony for a lawmaker to introduce legislation that regulates gun ownership. House Bill 633 is short: “Any member of the general assembly who proposes a piece of legislation that further restricts the right of an individual to bear arms, as set forth under the second …
Read More »Photo Of The Day
Remember that Virginia pizza joint that is offering a 15% discount to customers that bring a gun? That’s the owner’s mother posing with the Ruger semi-automatic carried in by a patron. Hit the link for a photo of another customer with a baby on one hip and a pistol on the other. According to the owner, response to the promotion …
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