Sadly today, as you have probably heard, a high school kid went ballistic with a knife in a Pennsylvania high school. Gun nuts are joyous--guns don't kill people, people kill people! Oh yeah, except that this kid didn't actually kill anyone (at time of writing,...
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In a world where we are all going to be armed, Boise State biology professor Greg Hampikian asks a key question in the face of an Idaho bill to allow.
In the wake of the George Zimmerman acquittal, Lisa Wade discussed some data which contrasted justifiable homicide rates in stand-your-ground states to those without. Not terribly shocking, "In SYG states, 13.6%.
Don't seem to be making much of a difference. In the year since Newton, CT, the states have been busy with gun legislation. On balance, they've relaxed restrictions, rather than making more sensible legislation that balances the rights and responsibilities of owning a firearm. 109...
Well, duh. Unfortunately, that's not what happened last week in northwestern Georgia, where a 72 year-old, with Alzheimer’s, Deanne Westbrook, wandered into a stranger's yard three miles from home. He.
Since the Newtown killings last December, at least 9900 Americans have died from guns. The total mass political movement from this has been the recall of two Colorado legislators who.
We know of the Red Scare. On campus, anticommunism during World War I and after World War II led to fired faculty and silenced opposition. Today we live in the Gun Scare. If professors speak out against the NRA, they are drummed out of their...
A solid rule is that the more one advocate guns in the public sphere, the less one should trust them with a gun: A Republican state senator from Arkansas who.
I found Alec MacGillis' discussion of the new gun politics quite interesting. I'm not sure that we are seeing the death of the NRA here, but there's no question that.
If there's one thing this country needs, it's "smart" rifles that almost never miss no matter how inexperienced the shooter. I know that the first time some crazy person takes one of these onto a college campus or into an elementary school, our national freedoms...
If there's one thing this country needs, it is more guns in our schools. Nothing bad will ever happen!! According to KMGH-TV, a school employee who also has a second.
Kutztown University in Pennsylvania has decided to allow guns on its campus. This is a terrible move, but this isn't the reason for the post. Rather, it's the vitriol anyone.