Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Lana Payne discusses the contrast between Theresa Spence’s selfless efforts to improve the lives of First Nations citizens, and Stephen Harper’s callous indifference: Is a hunger strike the answer? I honestly do not know, but then I have not known Chief Spence’s anguish.
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Accidental Deliberations: Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your Saturday reading. – Kate Heartfield worries that the NRA knows exactly what it’s doing with its jaw-dropping response to the Newtown shootings – and that it should be all too familiar based on the tactics of the Harper Cons: It’s ridiculous, but ridiculous works, time and
Continue readingLeDaro: The Huffington Post: Interesting Headline
TO LIVE AND DIE IN AMERICA 3 Shot And Killed In Mich… 18-Year-Old Shot Multiple Times, Dies… Man Kills Wife, Teen, Himself… Man Shoots, Kills Own Son… Cops Shoot Teen Dead… Man Gunned Down In Parking Lot… 5 Dead In Spate Of Shootings… 2 Murdered In Philly… 2 Kansas Cops
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Newtown Massacre
Well I see that the camera caught Stephen Harper in an unusually tender moment.Claiming that he had to turn off the TV when the sights and sounds of the Newtown Massacre became too much to bear. “I think once you’ve been a father, you’re affected by the deaths of children
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Tim Harper writes about Tom Mulcair’s success in building the NDP up as the leading alternative to the Cons for Canadian voters: Two-thirds of his questions since becoming leader have dealt with the economy as he attempts to build the case that
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Vic Toews and the Bushmaster Man Card
Uh oh. Zombie alert. As if the Newtown Massacre wasn't scary enough, here comes Vic Toews, the Minister of Public Insecurity.Stumbling out of his crypt to claim that the Cons are protecting Canadians from gun violence."We made (it) very clear that there are certain types of firearms that simply should
Continue readingAutonomy For All: Newtown: Another Expose on Conservative Ideological Bankruptcy
While liberals debate various forms of gun control, improvements to the psychiatric care system, and other actual measures to make slaughters like Newtown less likely, the abject bankruptcy of conservative thought is something to behold. The Tea Party suggests more George Zimmermans are the answer. Armed vigilante squads patrolling school
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Guns, God, Madness, and the Harper Cons
I was glad to see Obama visit the latest community in America to be shattered by gun violence. And I was happy to hear him say this. "We can't tolerate this any more. These tragedies must end. And to end them, we must change. So maybe all the poor little
Continue readingSong of the Watermelon: Mass Shootings by the Numbers
Over three-quarters of the firearms used to carry out mass shootings in the United States since 1982 were obtained legally. How on Earth can there not be a national discussion on gun control? And to those gun advocates who say that tragedy ought not to be politicized, that we need
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: A Land Without Guns: How Japan Has Virtually Eliminated Shooting Deaths
by Max Fisher for The Atlantic (reposted from July 23, 2012) I’ve heard it said that, if you take a walk around Waikiki, it’s only a matter of time until someone hands you a flyer of scantily clad women clutching handguns, overlaid with English and maybe Japanese text advertising one
Continue readingSong of the Watermelon: On the Latest School Shooting: Symptoms, Disease, and Gun Control
With every problem, there are symptoms and there is the disease. In the wake of yet another mass shooting in the United States today — this one leaving twenty-seven dead at a Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school — the disease, clearly, is the culture of violence that pervades the country, and
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Preservation of Life – AKA Gun Control.
The media is responsible for the people’s erroneous view about guns and violence in society. Good work by CNN to get some facts and information into the debate. “The good news is that as America becomes safer, fewer and fewer Americans feel the need for a weapon. The overall
Continue readingTrashy's World: Although I am pretty much as anti-gun as you can be…
… I think that concerns about a store that sells weapons a couple of doors down from a daycare is a little over the top. Parents of children who attend a daycare east of Ottawa are up in arms as a hunting store that features guns is set to move
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… summer doldrums edition… +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I hate guns. I really do. And I did long before all of this tragic shit that has gone down in Scarborough and now in Colorado. Don’t give me that crap about gun ownership being a right or not having to worry about lawful owners
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Vaughn Palmer discusses the unfortunate gap between the outrages that may lead to a government being pushed out of power, and a new government’s ability to actually reverse what’s been done. Which, a propos of nothing, makes it rather important to push
Continue readingthe woodshed: The vilest thing I’ve seen in a long time
Dear human race,I am very, very disappointed in you.Sincerely,Rev.Paperboy P.S. Is it something in the water in parts of the country? Does repeated exposure to loud bangs cause some kind of subtle brain damage? Is it blood poisoning from sucking on lead bullets? Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Hyer Ground
When Lise St. Denis decided last year to leave the Official Opposition to move down the opposition back benches, I noted that the most important issue was likely less her individual choice than whether it would lead to more MPs following suit. (Which of course it didn’t.) And to a
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Iran’s 2nd Amendment Right To Nuclear Weapons
If countries are like people and people, regardless of intelligence, have the right to bear arms, even though they can and have killed others, why can’t every country bear nuclear weapons? Either every individual actor, be they person or country, has the right to bear arms or they don’t. Guns
Continue readingThings Are Good: Green Spaces Can Reduce Gun Violence
Countries and regions with a lot of gun violence may want to note that the simple act of providing more green space in urban areas can reduce gun-related crime. In the USA (ranked ninth globally for gun deaths per capita) researchers have found that converting unused lots into parks has
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