Gunnuttery category archive
They Can’t Handle the Truth 0
More properly, they fear the truth shall set us free–from them.
Bloomberg considers the NRA’s coverup tactics. A nugget:
The list goes on. The NRA-backed Tiahrt Amendment requires the Justice Department to destroy records after gun-purchase background checks, making it harder to identify and catch straw buyers who work for criminals. As part of its war on information, the gun lobby has blocked efforts to put sales records into an integrated database, making the data more difficult for law enforcement officers to retrieve and organize, and complicating efforts to analyze gun trafficking patterns.
The list does indeed go on. Follow the link for the rest.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
There has been another outbreak of politeness, this one in Pennsylvania.
Three state troopers were injured while tracking the suspect, but they have all been treated and released from a hospital.
It was perfectly timed to illustrate the cravenness of the NRA’s positions on everything.
Conflict Emotions 1
Mark Dillon examines our societal fascination with firearms. A nugget:
While millions and millions of guns are sold each year (10.8 million guns, generating $4 billion in revenue, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation), you see far less advertising for gun brands than for motorcycles, smart phones, breath mints, power tools or constipation cures. Look at the movie ads this weekend if you don’t believe that gun = cool, gun = power, gun = right.
Sellers’ Market 0
The fraidy cats and the fetishists are stocking up.
Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, said yesterday that it would continue to sell guns, including rifles like the one used at Newtown, where 26 people, most of them children, were killed on Dec. 14.
It would be simpler if all they needed were inflatable women, like normal nutcases.
A Picture Is Worth, American Exceptionalism Dept. 0
Click for a larger image and discussion.
Y = the number of firearms per 100 persons.
X = the homicide rate per 100,000 persons.
(Graph axes descriptions corrected. Algebra II was a long time ago.)
Rescued from a comment by George Smith.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Support your local sports franchise, politely.
While on the train, an argument erupted. Investigators say the victims were fans of the Chicago Bulls and were celebrating the team’s victory.
Lieutenant John Walker from West Detectives told Action News on Thursday, “It escalates when the young males began to use profanity. The [36]-year-old says, ‘listen man, this train is filled with people – there’s young kids, there’s ladies on here. You need to watch your mouth, young boy.'”
At about one minute into the surveillance video, the train stops at 46th and Market Street and the Early brothers exit onto the platform.
Surveillance cameras were rolling as one of the brothers, identified by police as Matthew Early, turned around, pulled out a gun, and fired.
Guess the shooter got his man card reissued.
Governor McGunnutcase 3
I can just imagine my first-grade teacher, a sixty-something lady who had taught my father when she was a young teacher, packing heat.
In the wake of Connecticut elementary school massacre that took the lives of 20 first-graders and six adults, some have advocated the idea of allowing adults to carry weapons inside schools to prevent school violence.
The way to prevent carnage is to turn everything into a battleground.
Yeah.
Right.
And our governor is that rare wingnut who usually knows how to behave in public.
Does this mean we have reached the fabled Peak Wingut?
Stray Thought 0
God forbid I should ever feel so weak as to have to pack heat to feel strong.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness spreads in the schools.
Granite School District spokesman Ben Horsley said Tuesday that the boy, a sixth-grader at West Kearns Elementary School, continued to insist he only brought the pistol to “protect himself and his friends from a Connecticut-style incident.”
