Category Archives: gun lunacy

Making America hate again: Gun sales way up during the pandemic

May 28, 2020 – 12:15 pm

Romper is a magazine for parents about how to understand and take care of their kids, and yesterday’s article (click on screenshot) emphasizes the huge increase in American gun sales during the pandemic. There’s no doubt that that’s true. But they also argue that there’s been a huge increase in unintentional deaths and injuries caused […]

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Only in America: Paul Broun brandishes a semiautomatic rifle in his bid for Congress

April 13, 2020 – 1:15 pm

Paul Broun is a Tea Party Republican who was a state representative in Georgia until 2015; he lost in the Republican primary race for the U.S. Senate in 2014. He also lost in a 2016 Republican primary race for a seat in Congress. He’s now running for Congress again this year, and here’s one of […]

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The National Rifle Association uses the pandemic to promote the sale of guns

April 3, 2020 – 11:38 am

I’m just going to drop this here and leave, because it makes me sick. This NYT article shows the National Rifle Association, facing budgetary constraints and increasing calls for more gun controls, fighting to get gun stores classified as “essential services” that must stay open during the pandemic. Why? Because the NRA sees “the government’s […]

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Eighteen year old woman with AK-47 and shotgun threatens to shoot up her school

September 17, 2019 – 2:30 pm

From today’s Washington Post (click on screenshot), we have the story of Alexis Wilson, an 18 year old woman who was arrested because she told a friend she had guns, showed the friend a video of her firing the guns, said that she hated the people in her old high school, and then added that […]

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After two mass shootings, Texas loosens gun laws

September 2, 2019 – 9:00 am

Granted, the brand-new looser gun laws in Texas, which are almost ludicrous in how widely they permit the possession and carrying of firearms, are part of a series of bills passed before June. But in view of the two recent mass shootings in Texas—making it the state with 4 of the 10 deadliest mass shootings […]

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Biden in NYT: Ban assault weapons

August 12, 2019 – 8:00 am

Uncle Joe has a leading op-ed in today’s New York Times: A quote: In Dayton, where the police responded immediately and neutralized the shooter within about 30 seconds, he was still able to massacre nine people and injure more than two dozen others because he carried an AR-style weapon with a magazine capable of holding 100 rounds. […]

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Gun violence in Chicago spiked last weekend

August 7, 2019 – 9:30 am

If you live in Chicago, you’re constantly reminded of the huge number of homicides in the city, many of them gang-related, most gun-related, and the largest proportion of identified victims African-American. According to the Chicago Tribune, which tracks these data, in the last 365 days there were 547 homicides. Of these, 314 involved guns, 209 […]

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An unwise tweet by Neil deGrasse Tyson, and some statistics on gun deaths

August 5, 2019 – 9:00 am

I guess Tyson was trying to make a point about data and how we receive it when he issued the tweet below yesterday, but it was surely ill-timed—and also somewhat misleading. In the past 48hrs, the USA horrifically lost 34 people to mass shootings. On average, across any 48hrs, we also lose… 500 to Medical […]

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Another mass shooting, this time in Texas

August 3, 2019 – 2:21 pm

UPDATE: The news now says that at least 19 people are dead and 40 injured; the gunman, now in custody, is a 21-year-old man who used a semiautomatic, assault-style rifle. The motive is still unknown. ___________________ From CNN, a bulletin (click on screenshot). So far news is scanty. How many deaths will it take till […]

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Tempe cops kicked out of Starbucks because they made customer feel “unsafe” (and a note on disarming police)

July 7, 2019 – 11:30 am

It’s a sad day in America when cops (who run on coffee) are booted from a coffee shop because they make the customers feel “unsafe”. But’s that’s exactly what happened, according to this report from CBS News, in a Tempe, Arizona Starbucks (click on screenshot). To be sure, Starbucks issued an apology, but this shows […]

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