It was a bad week, what with two judicial homicides of black men by police, followed by the killing of five white police officers in Dallas by a black sniper. I couldn’t deal with man’s inhumanity to man, or having my Facebook feed blow up with race and gun politics again, so I retreated into the blanket fort for the weekend ( Read more... )

When I went to the grocery store tonight, I noticed that the flag in front of the Wal-Mart was at half mast. I realized that I used to wonder why the flag was at half- mast when I noticed it. But I don't wonder anymore. I just assume it was another shooting somewhere ( Read more... )

OMG, this is the best news story I’ve read in WEEKS!

A “mock mass shooting” held adjacent to the campus of University of Texas at Austin was drowned out by a much larger group of counter-protesters armed with fart guns.

FART GUNS!

While just a handful of people attended the mock shooting, Dobbs counter-protest attracted about a hundred people ( Read more... )

And with the TWO mass shootings yesterday we're well up over a mass shooting a day for the year at 334 days in the year and 351 mass shootings (that’s using the metric where four or more people are shot, not the one that judges how many people are killed, because let's face it, being shot is bad enough ( Read more... )

We all joke about Mall Cops, but the sometimes the truth is much, much worse than you think it is.

While a manicurist in California must complete 400 hours of training to be licensed, an armed guard gets authorized after 54 hours, including just 14 hours of firearms training. source - CNN articleWTF? So a manicurist is required to get eight ( Read more... )

I am happy to engage in polite discussion, but I don’t like being talked down to based on imagined opinions that have been invented for me.

Source

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I can deal with either option, but please do not reduce me to a stereotype.

There is a tendency within [community] to demonize those who hold controversial opinions even when those opinions are ( Read more... )

I’ve read more than one article about how the NRA lobbied to get funding for gun violence banned because it might be “political” to know actual facts about how many people were getting shot with guns in the US every year. Banning research just means that we don't have any accurate data about what's really happening.

What we learned before the NRA ( Read more... )

It seems like every time there’s a shooting in a white neighborhood, TV news interviews the neighbors, and someone says something like, “You don’t expect this sort of thing in our neighborhood.” As if there are neighborhoods where you expect to get shot. Well yeah, there are. But read between the lines - white people don’t live there, blacks and ( Read more... )

Yesterday I read an article about A politician who left the Republican party over gun control. This is not the first article I’ve read about how the NRA bullies politicians who don’t 100% agree with their “Guns for everyone, NO restrictions” platform.

This is the WTF part:
In Arizona, it is legal for a person to walk up to another on a street ( Read more... )

Yesterday I read a story about a man who helped comfort and protect six children after the Sandy Hook shooting. They showed up on his doorstep with their bus driver, and he let them into the house and called their parents. And now he’s being targeted for harassment by people who claim that the school shooting didn’t happen. Didn't happen?!?! ( Read more... )