Guns

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun Chairman Mao
Violence is a time honored strategy for a minority seizing permanent rule.

Heller Skelter: How two Supreme Court decisions supercharged the nation's gun violence epidemic. (9/17/2024)


Let us make it perfectly clear: The Republican Party - who, at the NRAs behest, refuses to make a single effective change to our heartbreakingly stupid gun laws - is directly complicit in every massacre, gun suicide, dead wife, slain girlfriend, murdered family, slaughtered child killed by yet another clotted, gun-wielding male. And the National Rifle Association remains the truest terrorist organization in America, far more nefarious - and brutally effective - than ISIS could ever dream to be. Mark Morford.
"Even if Trump passes from the scene, the embrace of violence and intimidation as a political tactic by a faction of the GOP will cause violence of all types to rise - against all Americans." Rachel Kleinfeld
The issue isn't really the guns. The issue is armed political intimidation, and a drift toward insurgency. Letter to the NYT

The mass shootings will continue until well paid and unprincipled NRA supporting GOP politicians and SCOTUS justices are removed. Because Republicans are demonizing immigrants, other races, religions, gays, opposing politicians and others, they have drawn targets on their victims. Hence the mass shootings of Black people, Asian women, Jewish people, gays, and political violence. The culture war brings on the shooting war.

Many are startled to learn that the U.S. Supreme Court didn't rule that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual's right to own a gun until 2008, when District of Columbia v. Heller struck down the capital's law effectively banning handguns in the home. In fact, every other time the court had ruled previously, it had ruled otherwise. Why such a head-snapping turnaround? Don't look for answers in dusty law books or the arcane reaches of theory. How the NRA Rewrote the Second Amendment (5/2014)
For every U.S. soldier killed in Afghanistan during 11 years of war, at least 13 children were shot and killed in America. More than 450 kids didn't make it to kindergarten. Another 2,700 or more were killed by a firearm before they could sit behind the wheel of a car. Every day, on average, seven children were shot dead. At least 28,000 children and teens were killed by guns over an 11-year-period
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The NRA's role in the Trump-Russia scandal was substantial. Maria Butina, eventually convicted as a Russian spy, used "relationships within the NRA to build an informal channel of diplomatic relations with Russia”. Her efforts included a famous public exchange with Donald Trump during his first campaign, in which he expressed his affection for Vladimir Putin and promised to improve relations as president. Review of Misfire: Inside the Downfall of the NRA by Tim Mak (Guardian)
The insistence on unfettered gun ownership is a core tenet of white identity politics. Bryan Stevenson
In the 2019 Global Peace Ranking, the United States is listed [for safety] in 128th place. This represents a drop of four places from the previous year. The USA ranks lower than countries like Niger, Nicaragua, the Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Brazil, and El Salvador. The United States has fallen in rankings in every single report that the Global Peace Ranking has put out since 2016. Some of the reasons for this drop include a decrease in life satisfaction and a growing wealth gap.
The 25 Safest Countries In The World
2018 was a particularly active year for right-wing extremist murders: Every single extremist killing - from Pittsburgh to Parkland - had a link to right-wing extremism. Murder and Extremism in the United States in 2018

The best way to take action to reduce gun violence: throw out the NRA supporting Republicans.

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"U.S. movies, tv shows, video games, music, news, and schools are uniquely and increasingly violent. Primates' chief form of behavior is imitation. Humans are no exception to that rule. Human cultures that have not known stories of mass-murder have also not known mass-murder. Anthropologists have studied cultures in which people have had an absolute taboo on taking human life." David Swanson
...gun legislation requiring a background check before one could purchase a firearm... had as high as 90 percent public backing, but was voted down in a congress swimming in gun lobby money. Hayes concluded, "In fact, it sounds like the textbook definition of oligarchy, of government by the few." The wealthy few. Chris Hayes quoted in Fair Blog

NRA and Wayne LaPierre found liable in lawsuit over misspending of funds (2/23/2024)

A US governor tried to ban guns amid 'relentless' violence. The lawsuits followed swiftly (9/14/2023)

US on track to set record in 2023 for mass killings after series of shootings (5/9/2023)

Stand your ground: the US laws linked to rising deaths and racist violence (4/19/2023) Guardian

Chris Murphy: Republicans "don't give a crap" about children or gun violence (3/14/2023)

Inside the Decade-Long Russian Campaign to Infiltrate the NRA and Help Elect Trump (4/2/2018)

The Republican mantra is YOYO: your on your own. It is every man for himself, and you should be armed with automatic weapons for your own safety. Picture those old wild west movies enhanced with assault weapons. Check out Charles Derber's book, Wilding of America, for some of the consequences.

GOP policy is unpopular: sunset Social Security and Medicare, roll back women's rights , deny science, impose theocracy, claim climate warnings are a hoax, deny election results, use violent political intimidation, destroy democracy. The Supreme Court is their ally.

Guns Everywhere Means Democracy Nowhere (1/15/2023)

At Protests, Guns Are Doing the Talking (11/26/2022)

Why Canada Races on Gun Policy When America Crawls (6/2/202 2)

The Long Game of White-Power Activists Isn’t Just About Violence (5/17/2022)

The Leading Cause Of Death In Children And Youths Is Now Guns (4/18/2022)

Is the US really heading for a second civil war? (1/9/2022) Guardian

Review of Misfire: Inside the Downfall of the NRA by Tim Mak

Meet Trump's Pro-Insurrection "Intellectuals" (1/25/2021)

Firearm Mortality by State - See if you can guess which States are Republican.

Every mass shooting in the US - a visual database: 12/2021 back to 2014

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A long time ago, when movie admission was less than a dollar, Western movies played frequently. The typical story: lawless towns were unsafe for ordinary families because of rogue gangs and rampant gun violence.

At the climax, the hero would out draw the black hats, restoring peace to the community. Finally, guns would have to be checked with the sheriff or not be allowed in the town.

That story does not play much any more, gun industry tactics are from the tobacco industry playbook, media is playing with our heads, but the old story is from a wiser time when our national politics weren't so dysfunctional.

Guns are much more destructive now, and there are loud voices to allow them everywhere. It is disturbing that these loud voices want to achieve with guns what they cannot at the ballot box. There are examples. It is political.

The Supreme Court's 2008 Heller decision loosened gun laws and made the American shooting gallery possible. The Court ignored the first few words of the Second Amendment: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free state..."

Violence works. It produces a culture of fear. It has dramatically reduced access to abortion. It has limited speech. Its wide use has led to militarization of the police and to drastic shrinking of civil liberties. It is why we are on a fast path to a police state. It is the technique minority ideologues can take political power. That's why it is a natural strategy for religious fundamentalists or fascists to gain control. It's why Republicans love guns.

"Political power grows at the barrel of a gun." Mao Tse-tung

Although Sens. Murphy and Blumenthal are fighting for reform, there is paralysis at the federal level. Thank the Connecticut legislature and Gov. Malloy for passing a comprehensive gun violence prevention law. We owe it to the Sandy Hook families and all the other victims of violence to roll back the Dickey Amendment and restore the assault weapons ban.

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Considering Newtown, Aurora, Virginia Tech, Columbine, Tuscon (Gabby Giffords), and widespread mayhem on American streets, politicians should pass sensible gun control laws.

Sign the petition to urge Congress to pass sensible gun legislation.

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It's not too late to get even more signatures: let your people know.
You'll note you don't hear about many mass shootings in Australia, Japan or for the most part the United Kingdom, or other civilized countries whose politicians have not been bought by 10 major gun manufacturers. In fact, when a mass shooting was carried out, by a white nationalist terrorist at a mosque in New Zealand last March, 2019, the New Zealand government promptly banned semi-automatic assault weapons. It just took one (admittedly horrific) incident. In the US, hundreds of mass shootings a year don't soften the hearts of our bought-and-paid-for legislators even a little bit. Juan Cole

Public safety should trump gun rights.

Treatment for gun injuries costs more than $1 billion a year, federal watchdog says. (7/14/2021)

How the A.T.F., Key to Biden's Gun Plan, Became an N.R.A. 'Whipping Boy' (5/3/2021)

It doesn't have to be this Way: England has 33 gun Homicides per Year (equiv. 182); US has 10,258 Juan Cole 03/25/2021

How Armed Protests Are Creating a New Kind of Politics (1/27/2021)

New York AG sues to dissolve the NRA: "Top executives funneled millions into their own pockets" (8/7/2020)

How the NRA Rewrote the Second Amendment

Researchers on Atrocity Prevention Warn: US on Path to Widespread Political Violence (6/10/2020)

Gun violence costs US $229 billion per year: report (9/20/2019)

Brave Children

Here's why the federal government can't study gun violence (10/6/2017)

“If the Republican Party would rather work for the NRA than the American people and if they won’t do their jobs to keep our children safe, then somebody else has to step up,” Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).
"...the Second Amendment is not an important aspect of modern liberal democracy. It does not protect or defend the rights of citizens; to the contrary, it results in tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths every year. One might even be tempted to conclude the opposite: that the Second Amendment presents a challenge to liberal democracy because it enables "lone wolf" terror, mobilizes counterterror agents, necessitates heavily armed police, and perpetrates a level of violence and murder not found in an other democracy of the world" Democracy Betrayed : William W Keller
"The hidden agenda of right-wing militias, the Tea Party, the lunatic fringe of the Republican Party, the National Rifle Association, and the survivalist cults is the ensure that guns will keep the home and family from being overrun by the crazed black hordes that will escape from their colonies in our urban slums. The mother of Adam Lanza, who carried out the Newtown massacre after first killing her, was a survivalist; she had stockpiled weapons in her home for impending social and economic collapse. Scratch the surface of the survivalist cult in the United States and you expose terrified white supremacists." Chris Hedges, Wages of Rebellion pg 180
The assault weapons ban worked

5 ways Donald Trump has made gun violence worse (8/5/2019)

The NRA Is Trying to Block the Violence Against Women Act (3/27/2019)

House Democrats probing 'complex' links between NRA, Russia (2/18/2019)

Trump Retreats, Again, on Guns (8/20/2019)

How Slave Owners Dictated the Language of the 2nd Amendment, (8/18/2019)

Beyond 'Thoughts and Prayers': How the Christian Right's Politics of Providentialism Keeps America from Addressing Gun Violence (8/7/2019)

Parkland survivor Delaney Tarr on why they march: "Because we have to. We're afraid for our lives." (2/14/2019)

Why Maria Butinas Guilty Plea Should Make the N.R.A. Nervous (12/13/2018)

Annapolis Massacre: A moment to Consider Trump's Opposition to Gun Safety Laws, Hatred of Journalists (06/29/2018)

Russia and the NRA Is a Match Made in Trumpland (6/12/2018)

Medical professionals share images of gun violence, slam NRA's Stay in Your Lane nonsense (11/13/2018)

On an Average Day, 96 Americans Die By Firearms (6/10/2018)

2018 Global Week of Action Against Gun Violence (5/7/2018)

Why is the National Rifle Association so Powerful ? (5/11/2018)

New NRA President Has Just the Right Record: Shady Weapons Sales and Covering Up the Truth (5/7/2018)

It Isn’t Complicated: Trump Encourages Violence (3/17/2019)

NRA Money is Killing Democracy (4/2018))

Hey, remember that last gun massacre? The GOP did everything but pull the trigger (11/17/2017)

The heartbreaking stupidity of America's gun laws Richard Wolffe ()1/6/2017)

Guns were intended for a well ordered militia. See what happens when right wing judicial activists decide to ignore that phrase in the original Constitution.

SCOTUS, ignoring the original Second Amendment phrase "A well regulated militia", ruled that people have robust, personal gun rights, so why be surprised that police want protective gear. It's a new arms race between people and the police. Charles Derber had it right is his book: The Wilding of America.

Trump's racist, white nationalist rhetoric has provided momentum to right-wing violence and domestic terrorism. The NRA was used by Russians to recruit Republicans.

A consequence of SCOTUS wrong-headed, partisan decision, Republican disdain for a public health crisis, and President Trump's right-wing nationalism, has been an epidemic of hate crimes, mass shootings, a ratcheting up of security in many public settings, now including schools. High security is easy to tighten and difficult to unwind. Combined with weak privacy laws, the internet-enabled, universal surveillance that now extends into the home and to late model automobiles, the final result is a police state.

It would be prudent to Repeal 1996 Dickey Amendment preventing the Centers for Disease Control from researching the public health crisis that gun violence most definitely is.

Renew the lapsed 2004 assault weapons ban;

Confront the NRA's grip resulting in more guns than people (357 vs. 324 million).

Would Jesus Love Guns and be a Republican ?

Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Delaware have joined together to form "States for Gun Safety," which Republicans would likely dismantle if elected to govern.

There's been plenty of action: Accepting NRA contributions and shamelessly proposing the fake armed-teachers solution to a real school shooting problem Congressional candidates must face the gun safety issue that is a 2018 litmus test.

Thousands of kids protesting may make a difference in the next election. They will vote soon and it won't be for Republicans.

The GOP is committed to unlimited funding for the US world's largest military. Not coincidentally, the US is also the world's largest arms supplier. As a result, the arms industry is well funded and powerful. The NRA is its subsidiary. Of the 307 legislators receiving NRA support, 92% of them are Republicans.

The arms industry, recipient of the blank check from the US taxpayer, is the leading cheerleader for our endless war. It uses the same tactics that the tobacco industry developed to sell arms to the citizenry. The US by comparison to other countries has, as a result, become a shooting gallery. Safety is NOT improved.

In response, police have been militarized. We have a new arms race: police vs people armed with advanced weapons.

Republicans have opposed the most basic gun safety initiatives. Credit them and their NRA allies for the arms race between the police and the 'gun owners', for the new need for armed guards at our schools, for the wild shootouts on the streets, for the increased suicides, and the tragic increase in deadly domestic violence.

The gun nuts, The Tea Party subsidiary of the GOP, in their zeal, completely miss that they are working against their own self-interest and rapidly losing most of their actual civil liberties.

The loosening of the Second Amendment may lead to the loss of every other right. Increasing security is apparent everywhere. Schools shootings have had the effect of placing police in schools, locking them down. Security procedures have been put in place in many places including movie theatres, casinos, and even sports events, but especially airports. Police have been militarized and a vast national security apparatus has been created to surveil the citizenry. Anyone different, minorities or dissident, is suspect and probably at risk.

Yes, the US IS exceptional... in gun violence.

Violence as a Way of Life: An Analysis of Gun Control and State Power in the US (4/17/2018)

John Paul Stevens: Repeal the Second Amendment (3/27/2018)

The Case For Studying Gun Violence (3/12/2018)

Inside the US Military Recruitment Program That Trained Nikolas Cruz to Be "a Very Good Shot" (2/21/2018)

To Repeat: Repeal the Second Amendment (2/16/2018)

Trump, Who Made It Easier for Mentally Ill People to Buy Guns, Blames Mental Health Issues for Florida Shooting (2/15/2018)

Gun Nuttery is Religion

How to Reduce Shootings (2/15/2018)

FBI investigates whether Russia banker used NRA to fund Trump campaign (1/18/2018)

What it means that Russia may have donated to the NRA to help Trump (1/24/2018)

William D. Hartung, 2018 Looks Like an Arms Bonanza (1/11/2018)

No matter how they dress it up, the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act is really bad policy (12/6/2017)

Hey, remember that last gun massacre? The GOP did everything but pull the trigger (11/17/2017)

Are Australia's gun laws the solution for the US? (10/4/2017)

The Las Vegas Shooting: A Public Health Crisis (10/3/2017)

People Don't Kill People, Americans Kill People (10/4/2017)

Message to US Lawmakers: 'Quit Praying and Start Drafting Gun Control Legislation' (10/2/2017))

In the Wake of the Las Vegas Shooting, There Can Be No Truce with the Second Amendment (10/2/2017))

Right-to-Carry Laws Make Violent Crime Rates Worse, Law Professor Finds (6/23/2017)

Guns in the US: The statistics behind the violence (1/5/2016)

The Congressman Who Restricted Gun Violence Research Has Regrets (12/19/2016)

"Loaded recognizes the central truth about our 'gun culture': that the privileged place of guns in American law and society is the by-product of the racial and class violence that has marked our history from its beginnings." Richard Slotkin, author of Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America
So many people die annually from gunfire in the US that the death toll between 1968 and 2011 eclipses all wars ever fought by the country. According to research by Politifact, there were about 1.4 million firearm deaths in that period, compared with 1.2 million US deaths in every conflict from the War of Independence to Iraq. Source: Politifact.
"...the Second Amendment is not an important aspect of modern liberal democracy. It does not protect or defend the rights of citizens; to the contrary, it results in tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths every year. One might even be tempted to conclude the opposite: that the Second Amendment presents a challenge to liberal democracy because it enables "lone wolf" terror, mobilizes counterterror agents, necessitates heavily armed police, and perpetrates a level of violence and murder not found in an other democracy ot the world" Democracy Betrayed : William W Keller
Two years ago, a group of doctors wrote in the Annals of Internal Medicine: "It does not matter whether we believe that guns kill people or that people kill people with guns - the result is the same: a public health crisis." In the war zone of the E.R., we don't see partisanship or politics. We see the devastation that happens when our society normalizes tools of total bodily destruction." Leanna Wen NYT 6/17/2017
Since terrorists struck the U.S. on 9/11/2001, more than 300,000 Americans have lost their lives to guns—more than 100 times as many people as the number who died when the World Trade Center fell. We’ve spent well over a trillion dollars fighting terrorism, but we live with the threat of random terror in our schools and on our streets on any given day. That’s just the price we pay for “freedom,” I guess. Or so the NRA would have us believe, as they corrupt our politicians and subvert popular support for gun control sanity. Smirking Chimp: 12 Signs America Is Insane By Jaime O'Neill
"After a shoe bomb attempt in 2001, shoes often have to be removed at airports. A failed liquid bomb attempt meant restrictions on liquids being taken onto planes. Could the United States please explain why after almost daily mass shootings in your country, no action is taken? Are shoes and shampoos really more dangerous than guns?" MALCOLM BYRNE Gorey, Ireland (Letter to the New York Times 10/3/2015)
As someone who grew up in a place where guns designed to kill people are more or less banned and where no one feels that some essential freedom has been lost (on the contrary, freedom from fear is cherished) I often wonder what it will take for Americans to absolutely reject the groups like the NRA, all their ideas, and anyone who supports their morbid, necrophiliac love of an element of the constitution that is anachronistic, poorly written, unclear, and insanely stupid given modern weaponry. After which, we could actually start to do something to save the approximately 30,000 lives lost to gunshot wounds every year, many of them children. Mathew Chapman.
"As Jesus was arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane, one of his followers drew a sword and struck the servant of the High Priest. Jesus immediately said to him, "Put your sword back into its place; for all who take the sword will perish by the sword. (Mathew 26:52)"

Gun culture now rules U.S. values and has a powerful influence in shaping domestic policies. The National Rifle Association is the emerging symbol of what the United States has come to represent, perfectly captured in T-shirts worn by its followers that brazenly display the messages “I hate welfare” and the biblical-sounding message “If any would not work neither should they eat.” The celebration of guns and violence merges in this case with a culture of cruelty, hatred, and exclusion. The National Rifle Association begins to resemble a regime of terror as politics and violence become an inseparable part of its message and the most important mediating force in shaping its identity. The relationship Americans have to guns may be complicated, but the social costs are less nuanced and certainly more deadly. In a country with “90 guns for every 100 people,” it comes as no surprise, as Gary Younge points out, that “more than 85 people a day are killed with guns and more than twice that number are injured with them.” The merchants of death trade in a formative and material culture of violence that causes massive suffering and despair while detaching themselves from any sense of moral responsibility. Social costs are rarely considered, in spite of the endless trail of murders committed by the use of such weapons and largely inflicted on poor minorities and young people." Henry A Giroux
I was shocked, as everybody else was, of course. One has to ask oneself about these particular young people and their families. But as with all the other school shootings, it was a fact also that the young people who got involved in them almost all seemed to have a fascination for media violence. They also had access to guns. They obviously were troubled human beings, and this could be seen from the beginning." Sissela Bok

New York Attorney General Sues N.R.A. and Seeks Its Closure (8/6/2020)

Islamic State magazine steers followers to U.S. gun shows for 'easy' access to weapons (5/5/2017)

Trump Signs Bill Allowing Mentally Ill to Buy Guns (3/1/2017)

Data Shows You are More Likely to be Shot in a Republican State (2/23/2017)

Trump fears terrorists, but more Americans are shot dead by toddlers (2/8/2017)

How Many Children Were Shot Dead Today? An Interview with Gary Younge (12/18/2017)

12 Facts That Show How Guns Make Domestic Violence Even Deadlier (8/22/2016)

American Medical Association Declares Gun Violence a Public Health Crisis (6/14/2016)

The NRA has blocked gun violence research for 20 years. Let's end its stranglehold on science. (6/14/2016)

The macabre truth of gun control in the US is that toddlers kill more people than terrorists do (3/13/2016)

Majority of Americans Want Gun Control; Majority of Republicans Want Checks from the NRA (1/5/2016)

End The Gun Epidemic in America (12/5/2015)

How Americans Actually Feel About Stronger Gun Laws (8/30/2015)

More Americans killed by guns since 1968 than in all U.S. wars (8/27/2015)

The US is Number 1... in mass shootings. (8/23/2015)

Guns In Your Face (6/12/2015)

The Cost of Gun Violence (4/2015)

Answering for America (1/11/2015)

Guns and Public Health (11/3/2014)

Republicans won the Midterms. The NRA did not. (11/2014)

The United States does not have a surgeon general because Washington works--for the gun lobby. (10/20/2014)

Our Blind Spot About Guns (7/30/2014)

Study Ranks 50 States by Gun Sense and Gun Deaths (6/20/2014)

Guess which States are Republican.

8 Outrageous Right-Wing Statements This Week: Defending Gun Rights for Psychopaths Edition (5/31/2014)

The Gun Supremacist's Folly (4/28/2014)

U.S. Doctors’ Group Tackles Gun Deaths, Calling Them a 'Public Health Threat' (4/10/2014)

Repeal 'Stand Your Ground' Laws (2/19/2014)

NRA Campaigns Against the Plan to Save the World's Elephants (3/6/2014)

NRA Hides Behind Second Amendment So Kids Can Continue to Shoot Themselves Legally (1/12/2014)

CT Gun Laws...Now Second Best in Nation

Meaningful Progress on 23 Executive Actions to Reduce Gun Violence (12/2/2013)

The Promise: The Families of Sandy Hook and the Long Road to Gun Safety (7/15/2013)

Dozens of Armed Tea Party Terrorists Threaten Moms Against Gun Violence! (11/10/2013)

NRA: No Research Allowed (2/21/2013)

Law Enforcement Alliance Of America, NRA Front-Group, Spends Millions To Elect Pro-Gun Judges (2/14/2013)

The Nra vs America (1/31/2013) Mayors Against Illegal Guns

How the NRA hijacked the Republican Party (1/18/2013)

The nra vs America

Children and Guns: The Hidden Toll (9/30/2013)

What do All These Mass Shootings in America Have in Common ? (9/20/2013)

Rise of the (Armed) Conservative Revolutionaries (5/1/2013)

Governor Malloy Signs Gun Law: (4/4/2013)

How to Take On the Gun Industry (3/15/2013)

NRA: No Research Allowed (2/21/2013)

Arms Aid To Fragile States Can Backfire (1/2013)

The Ultimate Guide to the Gun Safety Debate (1/31/2013)

How Republicans and the NRA Kneecapped the ATF (1/17/2013)

Gun Violence Prevention 101 (1/15/2013)

More Second Amendment Madness (1/14/2012)

Preventing gun Deaths in Children (12/28/2012)

Concrete Ways to Turn Back The Gun Lobby's Agenda (12/17/2012)

Five Myths About Gun Control (12/21/2012)

9 Horrible Gun Laws Backed By The Right Wing (12/17/2012)

How the GOP Promoted Gun Madness (12/17/2012)

Best Reporting on Guns (12/14/2012)

Buying Bullets on-line is easier than you expect (9/12/2012)

US Sells three-Fourths of WorldWide Arms (8/27/2012)

Life in the American Slaughterhouse (7/29/2012)

Democrats Propose Ban On ON-Line Ammunition Sales (7/30/2012)

The NRA's war on Gun Science (7/25/2012)

Blessed Are Those Who Possess Colt Peacemakers

Stephen King Risks Wrath of the NRA With Pro Gun Control Essay (1/25/2013)


Justices Extend Firearm Rights in 5-to-4 Ruling (6/28/2010) NYT



Constitution: Second Amendment

58 Murders a year by Firearms in Britain, 8775 in the US (7/22/2012)

The NRA's Dark Gun Culture (7/21/2012)

What will it take for Americans to Reject the NRA ? (7/20/2012)

Five 'Stand your ground' Cases you should know about (6/8/2012)

Republicans and the Gun Lobby (4/14/2012)

About The NRA

ALEC, Guns, and Money (3/26/2012)

23 States With "Stand-Your-Ground" Laws (3/25/2012)

Florida Case: Re-Examine Stand-Your-Ground Laws (3/21/2012)

Mystery Company Buying Up US Gun Manufacturers (12/4/2011)

Ohio Signs Into Law a Bill That Allows Guns In Bars. What Could Go Wrong ? (7/1/2011)

Will The Gun Lobby Win Again ? (1/11/2011)

The Gun Lobby Asks You to Please Lay Off the Mass Killings While It's Trying to Influence Legislation

Blessed are those who Possess Colt Peacemakers

Guns Cost More Lives Than They Save (1/26/2011)

Dump Alec

Conservative Republicans Want to Deprive Terrorists of All Rights — Except Right to Buy Guns (5/6/2010)

The US Gun Lobby Holds Mexico Hostage.

Why the Gun Lobby Usually Wins

Gov. Jeb Bush told members of the NRA, ''if it were not for your active involvement, it is safe to say that my brother would not have been elected president.''

Just think: If Bush didn't become President, there would likely have been no war in Iraq. Thanks Republicans.

Extremist Christians Aim to Create Armed Militias Against "Godless" Federal Government

US dominated the Global Arms market in 2010




Obama Puts a Silencer on Assault Weapons Ban (5/21/2010)

Conservative Republicans Want to Deprive Terrorists of All Rights — Except Right to Buy Guns (5/6/2010)

Gail Collins: Have Gun, Will Travel

Norway Attacks: We Can No Longer Ignore The Far Right Threat (7/24/2011)

US Gun Debate Fires Up as States Allow Weapons in Bars
Ed Pilkington, The Guardian UK: "Up to 375,000 registered gun owners in Arizona and Tennessee were today given the right to carry concealed guns into bars and restaurants that serve alcohol, in the latest example of loosening gun laws in a country already renowned for its lax approach to firearms."

Jordan Klepper Will Solve America's Gun Problem (6/7/2017)

Links

Reducing Firearm-Related Harms: Time for Us to Study and Speak Out: Annals of Internal Medicine (4/17/2015)

Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act

Sandy Hook Promise

See the Right Wing page. Also Terrorism.

Right Wing Violence is very real and very dangerous.

Alan Zaleski

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Reducing Gun Violence in America: Informing Policy with Evidence and Analysis: Daniel W. Webster (Editor), Jon S. Vernick (Editor), Michael R. Bloomberg (Foreword) Free on-line

Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces: Radley Balko

Gun Fight: Adam Winkler

Outright Barbarous: How the Violent Language of the Right Poisons American Democracy by Jeffrey Feldman

The Shadow World, Inside the Global Arms Trade, Andrew Feinstein

Violence: Reflections on a National Epidemic: James Gilligan

"Political power grows at the barrel of a gun." Mao Tse-tung