This is just a very good plan from the NRA to prevent further mass shootings.
The NRA held a press conference today detailing their plans to prevent more mass shootings in the United States. Mass shootings now happen with some regularity, and your standard run-of-the-mill shootings where only one or two or three people are hit happen daily. The NRA’s response? Put armed security guards in schools, and create a national database of mentally ill people (what this database will be used for is unclear). A few thoughts:
...read moreGun Proponents Take Aim at Domestic Violence Survivors
Let me start out by saying that I’m not totally unsympathetic to gun rights. I’m not opposed to people having guns. I’m not even opposed to people having lots of different kinds of guns. I get it that people go shooting for fun, or that they like to hunt, or that guns are part of [...]
...read moreWell this sounds safe.
Militia men will be carrying a bunch of guns into a public park a few miles from the Capitol and the White House today. Why? Because they can! Almond plans to have his pistol loaded and openly carried, his rifle unloaded and slung to the rear, a bandoleer of magazines containing ammunition draped over his [...]
...read moreGuns, Race and Abortion
William Saletan takes on the “abortion is genocide” campaign, pointing out that guns are really killing a lot of African-Americans, but the “pro-life” movement doesn’t seem too concerned — in fact, they’re unapologetically pro-gun. The numbers are provocative. But there’s something odd about the billboards. The child who appears beside the text is fully born. [...]
...read moreBad Idea:
Shooting an episode of “Kidnapped” in Washington Square Park, complete with FBI agents toting very large guns and roping off the fountain, without posting any information about what they’re doing. It makes your blogger go into a minor panic on the way to school.
...read moreWell. That’s…Nice?
Iocaste, guest-blogging over at Lawyers, Guns and Money while Scott swans around Paris, has a terrific post up about a recent 11th Circuit Court of Appeals decision affirming a lower-court opinion declining to extend trade-dress protection to the Hooters Girls because they’re functional, not symbolic. What that means, essentially, is that they’re the product. Hooters [...]
...read moreMore on the videotape:
Scott at Lawyers, Guns, and Money has more on the videotape case, and he links to a post by iocaste with a different take on the conflict between “vigorous defense” and “you want this woman to do what?!”
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