For years the argument has been made that regulations related to firearms are just a means for the government to subjugate the populace. However, I have never heard any of these same people object to the reality that the same government insists that they register their car, carry insurance on
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Alberta Diary: With friends like these… How much did gun lovers’ aid hurt Rob Anders’ candidacy?
Soon-to-be-former MP Rob Anders with would-be MP Melissa Mathieson. Did this photo help, or hurt, his unsuccessful candidacy? Below: Ron Liepert, the Conservative who beat Mr. Anders in the Calgary Signal Hill riding nomination battle. How big a role did the guns ’n’ ammo crowd play in the defeat Calgary
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: The prohibition of guns – and the violence it will create
Gerald Celente is right, as usual: he said, look at how the government handled the prohibition of alcohol – it was a disaster. They completely failed. All they managed to do, was to push organized crime through the roof. Alcohol didn’t disappear, but crime soared. Look at the so-called “war
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: NRA – Fighting for the Right to Slaughter Children in Schools
Unfair? Nah. Filed under: Education, Politics Tagged: Bill Moyers, DWR PSA, gun control, Gun Violence, NRA unreason
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Dr. Tundra versus the flashmob zombies
Dr. Maximilian Tundra had never felt so paranoid. Earlier that day he’d lost his medical license; luckily, he also had a PhD in biochemistry, so he would still get everyone call him “doctor”. But it was the loss of easy … Continue reading →
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: America Has Already Lost the Battle for Gun Control.
It’s just $750, less than the price of a good hunting rifle. For that you can get a brand new, never fired, AR-15 shown as manufactured in Tacoma, Washington. Private sale. This was the first item I found on visiting the website of armslist.com. And I was just perusing the
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: New Study Finds Guns Kill
A study published in the American Journal of Medicine refutes the common American myth that high levels of gun ownership make countries safer. Well, duh. Guns do not make a nation safer, say US doctors who have compared the rate of firearms-related deaths in countries where many people own guns
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Terror of terrorism and the Second Amendment: Whatever became of the indomitable American spirit?
The indomitable American spirit personified above. Whatever became of it? Below: Bogie as Philip Marlowe, with gun; the leader of another English-speaking country refusing to knuckle under to the Luftwaffe, also with gun. We have learned, courtesy the news media, that membership in the National Rifle Association has surged past
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Depraved Indifference – UPDATED
The term ‘cultural divide’ does not begin to explain this. Depraved indifference, on the part of both the company and the parents, perhaps does. UPDATE: This piece on Slate, which includes a ‘charming’ video on ‘My First Rifle,’ is well worth a look. Recommend this Post
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Let’s do Some Gun Control!
If we are all over regulating women’s bodies, I’m thinking guns should not be a frakking problem. What if gun rights were regulated like abortion rights? Here’s a list of just some of the hoops you’d have to jump through before you could own a gun: Only one store
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: What? And They Took His Stereo Too?
Clark Aposhian heads his state’s biggest gun lobby, the Utah Shooting Sports Council. Aposhian is a true believer in the right to bear arms, including the AR-15 assault rifle. He even believes in the right of a gunowner to leave an AR-15 unattended in his car overnight. And that’s how
Continue readingArt Threat: Bowling for Columbine turns ten
Editor’s note: Art Threat has launched a cultural archaeological project that involves digging up previously published but now inaccessible film reviews and cultural musings from Montreal-based writer and teacher Matthew Hays. We’re calling it The Hays Files, and to get things rolling, we’re republishing a review Hays wrote of Bowling
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Republicans are from Mars, Democrats are from Venus
Some days it feels like the different sides of the US political map really are different species. Today was one of those days. Controversial freshman Republican Senator Ted Cruz got into a bit of an exchange with a Dianne Feinstein, a stalwart of the Senate Democratic leadership, over gun rights.
Continue readingTrashy's World: Hit gun manufacturers’ cash flow…
… hmm… Not a bad idea. The Mayor of Chicago has sent a letter to the TD Bank, and other financial institutions to withdraw Smith and Wesson’s revolving line of credit. This request is intended to pressure Smith and Wesson and other gun makers to quit fighting against stricter automatic
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Gun Show Week Wraps Up – With Body Bags
It’s been a big week for the American gun show circuit. Five people were wounded from accidental gun discharges at three U.S. gun shows. The Shot Show gala, 2013, in Las Vegas set an all-time attendance record. Brownells reported it sold 3.5-years worth of large capacity assault rifle magazines in
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Freedom from gun terror: why understanding American history can help keep Canadians sane
An American militia in 1773 … before they were well regulated and illustrating why they needed to be. Most militia units, said Gen. George Washington, were “totally unacquainted with every kind of military skill.” Below: President Washington; President Thomas Jefferson. One of the effects of the horrific tragedy at Sandy
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: America the Not-So-Beautiful: God Shat His Grace On Thee
Close your eyes, and conjure up a mental image of the stereotype of the Ugly American. Loud. Large. Willfully ignorant of customs and countries that lie beyond the border of the US -of- A. Rabidly proselytizing the gospel of liberty, freedom and patriotism bestowed unto their nation via God and
Continue readingTrashy's World: So what now, NRA?
Arm firefighters? This is so tragic. But what can you expect when you allow its citizenry to arm itself to the teeth? I’m so glad that my family and I live in Canada. (0) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingTrashy's World: Everyone has heard of the “fiscal cliff”…
in America. But they are tumbling toward the precipices of other cliffs as well. How about the “sanity cliff” or maybe the “culture cliff”? Or the “society cliff”… After reading about how this news guy (rightfully) called a gun-toter and “unbelievably stupid man”. LONDON — More than 31,400 people have signed a petition
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Think Again
For those who believe Stephen Harper was showing uncommon common sense when he seemed to repudiate his Firearms Advisory Committee last month, think again. Recommend this Post
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